and those were just the soft power tactics

not even our direct invasion attempts in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812

or the fact that the Union during the Civil War straight up added a verse to Yankee Doodle that went "Secession first he would put down / Wholly and forever / Then aftewards from Britain's crown / He Canada would sever"

https://youtu.be/qDO6HV6xTmI

The UK outright feared the prospect of a victorious union spinning its guns around 180 degrees to point north immediately after the war

We needed to manifest that destiny boyo

Someone tell Justin Trudeau that Manifest Destiny is an annexation of peace

lol

WHO THE FUCK PUT SWEDEN UP THERE

excuse me

WHOMST'VE

canada is just a runaway state
change my mind

Canada's historically filled to the brim with former British loyalists

which gave rise to a distinctly anti-American culture

And a distinctly anti-republican culture that put it at odds with most of the rest of the Americas

along with the human garbage known as the quebecois

There's a reason they were never invited to the Rio Pact

woke

Dude are you a history buff or something?

And a reason they weren't among the founding members of the OAS

my god I always learn something when you talk about this

me_irl

https://reddit.com/r/SargonofAkkad/comments/8tjj6d/people_are_protesting_ice_by_marching_outside_of/

r/nottheonion?

I'm actually a major reason the /r/AskAnAmerican Discord server had a moderator announcement to tone down the anti-Canadian sentiment

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This sounds like a fun story

goodshit

what the hell?

🤣

@RMS_Gigantic gib story

gib

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Basically, I started posting those memes about annexing Canada, and it turns out that it was a really fun bandwagon for people to jump onto

and it actually became a really frequent direction for conversations on the server to go

Manifest Destiny memes and whatnot

lol

Throw in some IRL politics talking about strained US/Canadian trade relationships, and the anti-Canadianism reached a point that some Canadians on the server ended up uncomfortable

Which is fair

so the moderators put an announcement in the rules section that read, in part, ```Alright guys, it has been decided that we are going to cut down on the "Annex Canada" jokes/memes for a bit. We have been told repeatedly by many users that it tends to be spammed quite a bit, derailing channels and making new users uncomfortable.```