Apparently a Canadian didn't like me referring to Canada as a puppet of the United States, when I mentioned that it was a U.S. jet that shot down the latest uber-scary-flying-object -- this time over Canada. So he informed me that he unfollowed me. I rejoice in his newfound freedom from my posts.

@lauren
Americans really don't understand how it feels to be politically and culturally dominated. American soft colonialism has had a huge impact on the anglophone world.

I haven't worked out how to explain this to my American wife. It's (literally) a foreign experience...

@ian @lauren The closest I've gotten is having a good international friend explain to me how much he despises the fact that he has to care, from half a world away, about any opinion Donald Trump has on anything, and he feels like we *did* that to him.

I can't disagree with that feeling.

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