Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau taunted Donald Trump after Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in overtime in the 4 Nations ice hockey competition in Boston.
Trudeau’s viral post, “You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game,” came amid ongoing tensions between the leaders.
Trump, who previously mocked Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau” and floated annexing Canada, had earlier imposed tariffs on Canadian produce.
Amid boos of the American anthem and a surge in Canadian nationalism, the rivalry highlights both political and sporting divisions between the nations.
While this isn’t technically US internal news, it’s North American news which goes against the spirit of this sub.
Why? Because you think that in spirit Canada and the US are the same thing?
You’re on thin ice right now …
North America is part of the world
USA is also “part of the world”. Despite this, US internal news are disallowed according to the rules of the subreddit. The rules of a community is not defined by its name, it’s defined by the explicit rules.
It would only be internal US news if Trump actually annexed Canada.
If you seriously want to keep arguing this. Only us internal news is explicitly disallowed. This is not internal news, it is between two countries and is not against the spirit of this community. There is very little news that affects the entire world, if it was limited to that, this community would be very empty.
Didn’t say it was against the rules. Did you read my post at all?
I did, you are saying it is against the spirit of the community, I am saying it is not. It’s also clear that us internal news is not world news, hence why it is not allowed.
Canada is so tightly tied to US that it’s practically the same to anyone who isn’t from north America. I understand that it can be hard to accept for a yankee like you. People who want to follow world news that isn’t focused on US internal news isn’t going to care for NA internal news where the majority of the focus is put on US.
Rich of you to assume I’m a yank. I’m not. I’m Canadian. That’s why I’m saying this is not against the spirit of the community. Canada and the us are not practically the same. Even to people outside North America. Would you say Mexico and the US are practically the same? Probably not.
Of course you’re Canadian. That doesn’t make you the tiniest bit biased. You know there exists thriving Canadian communities where you can read news involving your country too? Lemmy and other English speaking communities are so heavily dominated by e.g. US and Canada that the news involving these countries naturally appear in normal “general” news communities. The entire point of communities such as these is to give attention to things that yankees and wannabe yankees wouldn’t ever dream to give a single shit about.
Does Mexico e.g. share the largest undefended border in the world with US?