U.S. “We demand Canada stop this alcohol boycott that isn’t working and also we don’t even care”
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It should be obvious that The Beaverton is satire, but a lot of people seem to miss the obvious, so here's the warning.
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https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/u-s-we-demand-canada-stops-this-alcohol-boycott-that-isnt-working-and-we-dont-even-care/Open linkView original on lazysoci.al
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Satire or not, boycott the fuck out of my shitty country wherever possible! I would if I didn't live here!
I did not even realize this was a Beaverton article, because are they not doing it already?
Canada should be able to make their own good whisky as they have places at least as desolate and depressing as the Scottish Highlands and islands.
We do, we drink Rye.
Or we could make other kinds of liquor. Whisky isn't the only (nor even necessarily the best) liquor in the world.
You know whiskey is several types of drink, right?
No. No I didn't know that. I had no idea that scotch, bourbon, rye, etc. etc. etc. were different.
Here's a thought, Sparky, in the future don't be an insulting jackass, K? Buy-bye.
Projection is a bad look, my dude. See where the guy wasn't stepping on your dick even a little bit and you responded like he cut off your Camaro.
Why does lemmy.ca, of all instances, have so many fucking dickheads on it?
If you leave there would be one less
Scotch, rye, bourbon, vodka etc are all whisky.
Vodka is not whisky. Unless you use a bizarre definition of "whisky" that says "any distilled spirit".
Isn’t their whiskey spelled ‘maple syrup’?
We do indeed have maple flavoured whisky.
You mean sortilege and it's all mine, thanks.
There's some good stuff coming out of shelter point and a good bourbon from near Vernon, but the latter especially is hard to get even in the same region.
We have a distro problem even when the trade barrier problem is fixed.
Bowen Islay
do they have the right kind of oak trees up there? i thought the white oak was a crucial source of flavor and basically the thing that makes it whisky at all. theres already been a shortage in the states for a while that forced manufactures to stop making full oak barrels and be more efficient with the wood we have.
There are seven types of whiskey, not just bourbon, but Canada makes Bourbon style whisky that actually wins awards over that shit from Kentucky.
https://okanaganspirits.com/products/brbn?srsltid=AfmBOopDg-udxXAGzphXcQbET4kAFzHHTZG4MGmdMUXWrqIYpVrak483
Yeah we can't even get that here in the v3l. And that's a bit of a shame.
Canada makes rye, not that moldy shit from Scotland.
boycott kentucky alcohol, which is home to LICH mcconnel and rand paul.
You mean the Kentucky bourbon boycott that damaged bourbon producers so badly that one of them is basically out of business while two more have shut down production? That boycott of Kentucky alcohol?
No, we're boycotting it all 🖕
Bwahahahhahahh...no.
Honhonhomhong...non.
Americans just placed Tariffs on Canadian mushrooms. Folks need to boycott Mastercard and Visa in response.
We need our own "Nationalized" version of the service, or maybe we can grass roots croudfund it. Frankly any basic middle man services should be in the hands of the gov. This shit isn't rocket sciance and those service funds should go to them and not some POS stakeholder
Maybe we can name this nationalized service something like "Interac"
Do they do credit and similar services? Honestly I straight up forgot it was a Canada only thing
Well you could hook it up to your bank line of credit and get all of the benefits of a credit card without the high interest rate and fees
Hmmmm, that's a neat idea
A few institutions do but it is interact mastercard hybrid.
Yes this, Interac works very well and should be expanded to include credit, or as described by another person, link it to a line of credit.
Screw the Americans, we need to continue the push to decouple our economies.
There is no use waiting till the Orange Turd is gone, the elite working behind him is the real ruin of the U.S.
Nope. We can't afford the dev and maintenance of our own setup, clown-funding or no. Go with whatever Europe is using, as it's like 50 countries already.
Dev costs?? Bro the groundwork is already known this shit won't cost billions (assuming fuckery doesn't happen) , it provides us jobs and funds our gov, Fuck giving other people this money, it should pay back into the country. I like the EU but I see no reason we can't just copy existing systems and pay Back into ourselves.
I think we could even join the EU’s new system that replaces Mastercard/Visa
This is what Australia needs to do as well, with our eftpos system.
The only difference between it and the American two structurally is that it hasn’t been verified or implemented for credit payments, only debit.
The tip is in Canada. Now shove the rest in. Hard.
Would have eaten the onion.
Not working? For who? Because Canadians buy their own alcohol+foreign and it's a win for them.
Man, it sure would be funny to drive around Lynchburg, TN in one of those billboard trucks that says "DRINK CANADIAN WHISKEY."
He is shit at poker.
I am pushing my 9th week without alcohol. I won't be drinking any time soon, but if I do it won't be American piss beer or liquor.
Canada was our greatest ally. You don’t threaten your friends. This is the consequences of our own actions. Centrist democrats should have had this moron in prison it wasn’t a game and now the entire world is cutting ties.
Canada was your greatest patsy.
The USA doesn't have allies. It has tools and patsies. And this is the lesson the world learned the hard way this year.
I hate living in the timeline where I have to read half the article before making up my mind on whether this is satire.
Edit: Oh, there's a warning. Good call.
At least on mobile, there's no header that says this is the beaverton. And it wasn't until I got a third of the way through the article that I started to realize that this had to be satire of some sort and then had to look at the website name in the address bar.
Edit: I just took another look and there is a header but it is incredibly hard to see. And I'm not entirely sure that that's not on purpose. I'm beginning to really fucking hate these satire sites.
And perhaps you could have read the text underneath that told you it was a satire site?
I mean come the fuck on! Basic due diligence here! I FUCKING TOLD YOU IT WAS A SATIRE SITE! And yet somehow, in what passes for your mind, you blame the satire site for you not reading the thing that told you it was a satire site.
Not to mention the headline is so obviously satire you have to have the reading ability of a tin of sardines to miss it.
Chill dude