• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    As a Canadian in Japan, McDonald’s is one brand I had a difficult time saying goodbye to after your Shit president threatened our sovereignty, because I genuinely used to have a good experience everytime I went. Clean store, polite staff, decently cheap food, and cool collabs with Japanese IP like Pokemon and Mario.

    I’m sad my kids don’t get to enjoy a treat there every now and then, but fuck the USA right now and anybody who supports the shitty administration.

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah if you’re cool with torturing and murdering animals, supporting genocide, destroying the planet… McD’s is pretty sweet! Especially for the kids!

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        9 hours ago

        Our very existence tortures the planet. Every bit of convenience and joy we feel is based on someone else’s hardship and sadness to some degree. So do you just live every day of your life feeling guilty?

        What device did you use to make your stupid comment? I hope it was posted using a device powered by renewables; used no rare earths; built by fairly paid, of-age, and vegan workers. Oh no? If you’re cool with that, your comment is pretty sweet!

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        13 hours ago

        Do you ever worry that by calling everything genocide you’re going to undermine the seriousness of the term?

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      1 day ago

      Why would you subject yourself to living in Japan as a Canadian with kids though?

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        21 hours ago

        Because I have Japanese heritage and it’s awesome here. Wtf kind of question is that?

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          18 hours ago

          Every Japanese I have met in Canada (mostly in Toronto and Montreal), that had young children, say that it’s very unwelcoming in Japan. And if you or your children are mixed, you face racism too. Again anecdotal, the number of these people I have talked to was only three, but they all had the same opinion. This included a couple that went back to try again a second time but then ended up in Montreal again.

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            9 hours ago

            Wow three whole anecdotes? I must be wrong and having a shitty time here too without realising, then.