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u/ConsoleLogNoob24 6h ago
The smoke crossing the border without a passport again.
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u/ShortTop1487 7h ago
As a Canadian this is a silver lining around a cloud.
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u/that0neGuy65 6h ago
That our forest fire smoke is pissing off sensitive Americans down south?
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u/Gr8_Nobody What is TikTok? 4h ago
Do asthmatics mean nothing to you?
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u/TheJesseOfTheNorth 2h ago edited 2h ago
I am asthmatic and canadian, i still say specific states nd quite a few senators can go fuck themsleves
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u/StroopestOfWafel 1h ago
I'm neither asthmatic nor Canadian, nor American for that matter, but I think there's one politician at the moment that should go fuck himself extra hard
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u/Successful-Club-8743 24m ago
Every politician needs to fuck themselves into an early grave.
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u/Jax_Dandelion 21m ago
It’s not an early grave if they already have dementia and don’t know anything newer than the fax machine, there needs to be an upper age limit on politics, globally
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u/Successful-Club-8743 18m ago
Im talking about EVERY politician, not just the ancient ones.
Politics is beyond corrupt.
Completely agree on the age limit tho. Something like 45-50 max.
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u/Jax_Dandelion 13m ago
Democracy failed when politicians started seeing themselves as our leaders instead of our representatives
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u/Successful-Club-8743 10m ago
Exactly. Theyre publicly elected officials. They work for us.
Instead we're stuck slaving away day after day for them and their parasitic corporations.
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u/sauerkraut916 29m ago edited 23m ago
It is not Canada’s fault that you have asthma .
Yes, the air quality is terrible in some areas, and this affects everyone. Yes, this is much rougher on those with chromic illnesses or compromised immunity, and they will need to plan accordingly.
It is ridiculous to blame/punish a country’s citizens for forest fire smoke. American forest fire smoke has floated over to Canada. BTW - Canadian Fire teams have come to help US when our American fires grew out of control.
Sadly, these large fires 🔥 will become more frequent and more explosive as climate change continues to accelerate.
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u/Souvenir_Spices 3h ago
As someone with bad asthma, its like living in Covid era again, can't go outside at all till it passes.
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u/RedneckNerd23 2h ago
Most of you guys are most Canadians are south of some of us Midwesterners
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u/todayistrumpday 2h ago
Only in the great lakes region, 90% of the us/canada border is a pretty hard strait line along the 49th parallel
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u/Ok_Evening_8079 3h ago
I dont remember forrest fires causing smoke all the way in DC before 2019.... or did i not know that this happens
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u/rockyTron 55m ago
Heavy smoke in eastern cities from boreal wildfires is not new, but a rare atmospheric configuration.
I was watching a presentation (start watching here) that talked about the fire history of northern Ontario. Most of the forest has experienced fire in the last 60 years. The "coverage" map of historical fires basically covers the whole boreal forest region. Fire is not new nor uncommon. Wildfire is a very common, and natural part of the boreal forest. Based on the shape of the historical burn scars (they tend to elongate in the prevailing wind direction, as the fires are driven along by the wind), you can see that generally, about 75% of the time, the wind blows from southwest to northeast. The smoke from these fires generally blows out to the arctic ocean and over Greenland. But about 25% of the time the wind blows from northwest to southeast, as this week has been, and blows the smoke into the USA. The smoke is heavy from multiple fires and coincidentally the jet stream slammed it right into several US cities (from Detroit to the eastern seaboard).
HOWEVER, a warmer climate does generally cause the jet-stream to be more undulating, with more north-south variations. So over time, this particular wind pattern will become more prevalent, with higher chances for boreal wildfire smoke to be driven southward into lower latitudes (undulatory jet-stream) than remaining at high latitudes (smooth jet-stream). So while this phenomenon is not new, but rare, it will become more common with a warming climate.
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u/gizamo 4h ago
Hyjacking top comment to clarify, it annoys dumb MAGA Americans. It's like 30% of Americans.
That's still pathetic and embarrassing for us. But, let's just keep it real. Canada has its own shitty version of MAGA-lite dbags over in Alberta. Lol.
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u/spawndoorsupervisor 3h ago
Yeah, got to kill off the elderly and asthmatics to mildly inconvenience a few MAGAs.
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u/MaddogBC 2h ago
Yup just gotta jump in and do some whataboutism to make me feel better about my pants shitting kiddy diddler.
Go bomb some childrens schools.
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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 25m ago
It's only fair. We've been choking on the smoke from their dumpster fire for the last couple of years.
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u/DisplayName_isIndigo Lurker 7h ago
we just like rage baiting Americans...
sorry
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u/fth01 6h ago
It's okay, the Stanley Cup and all the Olympic hockey gold medals nullify any rage bait from up north. Elbows up, eh boys?
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u/Kronk_if_ur_horny 5h ago
"All the olympic gold hockey metals" holds up one in the last how many years and overall?
Also the Stanley cup argument is something only americans could be so obliviously self indulgent to think is relavent at all.
Suck my smokey balls.
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u/LOL_Gstar77 3h ago
Pretty much all the good NHL players are Canadian so it’s all good
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u/LisanAlGaben 1h ago
Elbows up?
You can bend over forward, put your elbows up, grab each cheek of your ass, spread them apart and fuck yourself.
The best part is you won't need a cigarette afterwards, you fucking chud.
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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now 6h ago
No, it just upsets stupid Americans and our stupid politicians. Thanks to the Canadian pilots who fly down here to help fight our fires and I’m sorry we can’t offer the same support because our country is run by imbecile children. I feel like actual toddlers would be more compassionate.
RIP Nicholas Dale, BC Helicopter Pilot who died in Colorado fighting an American wildfire.
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u/witcher252 5h ago
Yeah I’m in Wisconsin and it’s so smoky outside you have to stay inside and can’t do anything.
I don’t blame Canada at all, shit happens. I’m thankful they come down and help us with our wildfires when we have them.
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u/Yashema 5h ago
Which particular stupid politicians? Is there anything in common with politicians who are insulting Canada right now? Maybe some kind of group affiliation?
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u/Thunderclone_1 4h ago
I got it! The common factor appears to be people (and allies of people) who visited a particular carribean island prior to 2017!
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u/Hot_History1582 4h ago
Canada has experienced unprecedented, massive wildfire seasons in recent years (including 2023, 2025, and the ongoing 2026 season), the United States has sent significantly more personnel northward over the last few years than it has received.
The United States sent over 2,000 personnel to Canada during its record-breaking 2023 season, mobilized massive waves of federal teams in 2025, and is heavily deployed in Canada right now.
Quit lying to people about who helps who.
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u/hutch_man0 3h ago
Maybe because Canada has 1/10th the population of the US? In 2000 Canada sent 1,300, in 2020 600. Every year personnel go south to help. Yes the US sent 2,000 in 2023 and "214 resources" in 2025 everyone is grateful for that. But it's 2026...how many have been sent north so far?...zero. Instead all we hear is whining and desire for retribution from our once good neighbor.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11969816/canada-us-wildfire-support/
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 1h ago
Doug Ford cut $60 million for wildfire mitigation per the New York Times, stop acting like this is the US’ fault
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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 6h ago
I’m an American out of the loop apparently lol. Why would that upset us?
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u/MelancholicMinerva 6h ago
I live in northern NY, the air quality rn is dog shit. The sky hasn't been blue for several days now and everything smells like a shitty campfire. I'm not really upset about it though, just annoyed.
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u/ImTryingToHelpYouMF 2h ago
As a Canadian who lives in western Canada, this is hilarious to read.
"I'm not angry, just annoyed." 🤣
Every year in the summer we put up with California's wildfires haha.
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u/missgirlipop 2h ago
i understand not liking it but you must realize no one wants this or can control the wind direction, and that it’s even more horrible for canadians in the surrounding areas? in past years in BC i don’t think i’ve ever been mad or annoyed at WA/OR/CA wildfire smoke having the audacity to blow over my area. i mean it sucks, but your whole mentality is alien to me.
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u/frozen2665 1h ago edited 1h ago
“Air sucks, kind of annoying”
“You’re insane, we’re not airbenders”
??? Am I missing something, lmao? I know Reddit is very “America bad. Upvotes please” but this is particularly impressive
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u/craves_mineral 6h ago
They're saying this is the worst it's been since the wildfires started happening however many years now. I'm in Indianapolis and you can smell it when you go out.
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u/ShortTop1487 6h ago
Depends on where you’re living and the weather pattern. Ontario is burning hard right now. Typically it’s the region where I live. BC interior. We’ve had some doozies.
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u/MaddogBC 2h ago
Laying in bed watching lightning strikes at 3 am last night wondering if our rare good luck is over for the season <fingers crossed>
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u/Battlejesus 3h ago
Ohio here, southwest. It was smoky af today, it reminded me of being at Eustis 20 some odd years ago when the swamp caught fire but the last thing in my mind was "Fuckin Canadians, get your shit together"
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u/BHQC 6h ago
Drumpf threatened increased tarifs because the smoke of the wildfires in Canada reach the US.
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u/Polishbuddy704 4h ago
So because there's wildfires in Canada, he wants to increase the cost of import for Americans? Yeah sounds about right for him
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u/dantheplanman1986 6h ago
The smoke. Last year was terrible where I live in the midwest. I think right now it's in the new England area
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u/sadArtax 1h ago
Feel solace in the fact that your instinct was "why would that upset us?", because taking another country experiencing a natural disaster as a personal slight is absurd.
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u/intelex22 6h ago
“See? We told you about climate change. Who backed out of the Paris Climate Accord and believes in ‘drill baby drill’?”
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u/seanwd11 6h ago
I didn't 'rake the forest' that's larger than 5 States combined and for that I'll live in eternal shame.
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u/AI_moderated_failure 4h ago
It's okay we can't all be very stable geniuses. Don't beat yourself up. Too much. Dont beat yourself up too much. Some is fine.
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u/InvaderJoshua94 4h ago
I really don’t think Canada has a high road to walk when it comes to drilling for oil. It’s one of your main exports.
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u/TheJesseOfTheNorth 2h ago
yep and the worlds largest polluter and contributor to greenhouse gases is the US military
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u/crumplednuts 47m ago
The oil sands in Alberta are some of the most environmentally conscious operations involving the extraction of oil in the world, from what I understand.
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u/TelluricThread0 4h ago edited 4h ago
What do you think the Paris Climate Accord has to do with managing your forests? Better just throw up your hands and let all that underbrush sit there and pile up year after year huh? That should solve it.
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u/rurudolfan 1h ago
But man it’s simple. Whit the Global Warming when it’s to hot the wood dry up and it burn more easily and whit that the most of the wildfire are cause by the human.
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u/Aggressive_Fox222 5h ago
Now I have to drink beer in my air conditioned house while shooting guns and eating big macs all weekend thanks Canada
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u/UniversalExplorer11 Average r/memes enjoyer 6h ago
Why should canadians do what americans like
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u/Leosch03 https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ 3h ago
We shouldn't have America because it upsets the rest of the world
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u/knox902 4h ago
And where I am at we end up dealing with smoke from Washington state more than the fires in BC. So cool story. They are not Canadian or American beavers, they are just beavers, I mean smoke.
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u/MaddogBC 2h ago
Next the clouds will getting tarriffed for bringing Canadian lighting that starts fires across the border.
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u/todayistrumpday 2h ago
Next they'll catch some maga tourists on vacation setting fires in canadian forests to stoke the outrage.
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u/bennizap 3h ago
No, it's more akin to the fact we haven't dealt with the brush and fuel that caused the fires. And when I say we I mean the government has put up BIG roadblocks to actually deal with it, therefore, after years of neglect? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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u/rockyTron 44m ago
A great number of these fires are in roadless wilderness in Boreal forests of northern Ontario. There is no "managing" of that forest. It's a vast and mostly inaccessible forest with uneconomic timber. The fires are nature managing itself, properly. The fires are normal. The wind direction driving smoke southeast into the Eastern seaboard is a rare phenomenon, it usually blows east or northeast. Warming temperatures will increase the likelihood of a more undulatory jet-stream, making this wind direction more probable in the future... so there might be more smoky skies in the eastern US. But the fires themselves are normal and a healthy part of the forest. Drier and hotter this year with more critical fire activity, of course, but part of the normal cycle nonetheless. Most of the remote fires can't, and wont be fought due to the remoteness of the boreal forest.
The reaction of an idiot president blaming Canada for natural phenomenon is the absurd phenomenon here.
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u/alsatian01 4h ago
I don't understand why ppl acting like this is the first time this has ever happened
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u/TheLightDances 4h ago
It is the first time the POTUS went into a deranged, incoherent rage at Canada over it, as if Canada did this on purpose or through gross neglect.
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u/Duckroidvania 3h ago
I don't get it, why doesn't it just put tariffs on the smoke? -Actually, I checked before finishing the comment. Too late.
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u/minus_minus 4h ago
The #1 and #4 oil producing counties crying about the consequences of their own actions. 😭 😭
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u/Ok-Air-5056 3h ago
it's almost worth it to piss off the Americans down south... well minus the fact that people are having to evacuate thier homes and towns...
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u/ilyak_reddit 2h ago
Surely if we nuke all those trees up there it'll solve the problem. It stopped those pesky hurricanes it'll do it for fires. Maybe next we can stop volcanic eruptions if we send a nuke to the earths core? A project like that couldn't cost more than one hundred billion dollars
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u/Sad_Carry_7070 1h ago
Only one hundred billion dollars?!? Don't be ridiculous, a project that size is going to require atleast two hundred billion dollars.
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u/expatcanadaBC 2h ago
If we could just make some the smoke red, to reflect our flag that would be perfect.
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u/Legitimate-Manner814 2h ago
The smoke outside just gave me an excuse to stay inside. Whats everyone complaining about?
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u/External_Rhubarb3707 4h ago
To be honest though, there really does seem to be a lack of urgency around this issue as a long term problem. I mean fire control budgets are down in several provinces, when this is clearly getting worse and worse
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u/TomTheWaterChamp 2h ago
This is garbage. Base budgets are actually trending up year-over-year, and the feds just dropped $316+ million on Canada's national aerial firefighting fleet.
The real hurdle isn't a lack of money or urgency... climate change is forcing us to rewrite the playbook. For decades, the strategy was "fight every single fire immediately." Paradoxically, that just left forests packed with dead wood and debris, creating a giant tinderbox.
Fire managers are shifting away from playing endless whack-a-mole with water bombers and moving toward letting remote fires burn naturally, doing prescribed burns, and adapting to the new reality we're now facing with climate change.
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u/I3eforeLife 4h ago
Prescribed burning used to happen on a wider scale in America but we became stupid, greedy, and careless. Even more wildfires will break out because we don’t practice prescribed burning anymore
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u/The_Qui-Gon_Jinn 4h ago
The only Americans that are upset are the ones that never normally get wildfire smoke. In Minnesota, we get smoke at least once a summer from Canada and you just have to deal with it
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u/reply_b4_banned 4h ago
It's just so logical, once you accept the premise that global warming is fake.
Just that one simple scooping out of your brain.
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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 4h ago
No worries, our testosterone fueled, gender affirmed super soldiers can handle it
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u/Jac_benny 4h ago
Canada is just saging the US. THANK YOU. (But seriously, i hope Canadian fires stop asap and im sorry for everyone) ♥️
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u/dretepcan 3h ago
We had two years to learn how to deal with these and did nothing. So much for being carbon neutral, we've fucked the environment up to a whole other level that no carbon tax dollars will ever fix. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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u/Informal-Fig-6827 3h ago
American exceptionalism. The most butthurt. The best at being the worst neighbors. The best climate change deniers, and pollution contributors.
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u/Agreeable_One_5252 2h ago
PLEASE PLEASE let this ruin the world cup final so don cant have his moment
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u/Strange-Location4627 2h ago
😂😂😂 and in all seriousness we have a North American fire problem and have worked on it collaboratively for years. It’s obviously complicated and I hope somehow the leaders who know this will back the actual experts on this issue and give them funding and support.
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u/FragrantBox5428 1h ago
Next time they need help with their wildfire. Fill your canadairs with Canadian piss! And claim your new territories.
Every soil soaked by canadian's piss become canadian's territory Picture
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u/PNES1983 1h ago
Something a shade darker than white entering the US means we're only days away from a news report telling us that ICE shot at it.
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u/Competitive-Bee-3250 1h ago
The vitriol sent the way of Canadians for having the temerity to suffer a natural disaster makes me wonder if maybe Mexico should've done the same to America every time their wildfires send smoke out across the border.
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u/SelketTheOrphan 1h ago
That's like my mom being angry at me for being suicidal
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u/lumi1375 25m ago
Doesnt bother me. Just keep choking us poor mfs in Washington out. We have to deal with the California wild fire smoke, Canadian wild fire smoke, and our own wild fire smoke. Ill have lung cancer by the time im 30.
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u/LivingUseful5258 13m ago
The senile sack of Big Mac grease is gonna be big mad when he finds out we’ve been using our windmills to purposefully blow the smoke south
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u/Sir-Toaster- 6h ago
This is how they'll win a war with the US, they'll choke us out
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u/Ghastly_Regina 6h ago
We’ll choke ourselves out first living up north 😭
And we don’t gotta do shit California burns on its own
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u/elliot_alderson1426 4h ago
I don’t think we need to choke you out as much as wait you out at this point
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u/Gr8_Nobody What is TikTok? 4h ago
My dad has lived in the midwest for 50 years. 20 years ago this was unheard of, never happened. Now it happens every fucking year. We have enough heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere thank you very much.
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u/Dependent-Ride9625 2h ago
Canada (america's top hat) should be like "90% of us live up Americas ass or within 25 miles of the U.S. border buddy" And we are like "I am not your buddy Guy" ,so when the fuking tundra catches a blaze and we are like , hey hoser put that the fuk out eah!!!! you might be wantin to put that out then pal. Whats that ABOOT
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u/derpums can't meme 6h ago
no no
keep them around
they made my area have this really nostalgic campfire smell it was great
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u/Acheron98 6h ago
Brother, just go roast marshmallows on your stove and sing kumbayah.
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u/derpums can't meme 5h ago
are you dale gribble
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u/dorkychickenlips 5h ago
Man, look at how divided and against each other we all are. This is exactly what they want.
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u/ElephantCares 3h ago
God, please don’t judge us all. Many of us, (I might say most, but we’ve never investigated it) didn’t vote for him. Please don’t put us in the same category as that psychopath. We’re sorry on behalf of our fucked up country. You have no idea how sorry we are for this sorry ass POS country right now.
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u/xXx_RedReaper_xXx 3h ago
Go look at the Watch Duty page.
The fires and smoke is “definitely Canadas fault”
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u/DirtEnthusiast0_0 6h ago
California has wild fires all the time, and the canadians complain too
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u/XavDaMan 5h ago
Complain sure but nobody’s callin it the Americans fault cuz we got common sense
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u/leoofjdh 2h ago
Well, if it's for the same exact reason why California struggles with wildfires, a.k.a. they don't do their d*** job when it comes to maintaining the forests so that they don't burn the f*** down.
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u/TomTheWaterChamp 2h ago
Canada has 369 million hectares of forest. That is literally nine times the total landmass of the entire state of California.
Most of it is completely inaccessible boreal forest with no roads. The idea that you can just "maintain" or rake an area of wilderness larger than the entire country of India is fundamentally unhinged.
On top of that, climate change is bringing unprecedented heatwaves and droughts that turn these massive, remote ecosystems into literal powder kegs. When lightning strikes a forest 500 miles away from the nearest paved road during a record-shattering drought, no amount of "raking the leaves" is going to save it. It's a climate reality, not a landscaping failure.
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u/Acceptable_Egg4843 6h ago
I got my car shat on by a goose this morning so it's not just the fires that annoy me.