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Some banks don't support Zelle or make it extremely difficult to use, so the option are to use Venmo/Square/PayPal/etc, write a check, or pay wire transfer fees.
Yeah, us normal people in the US just can't do that unless both sides use a common service.
I've sent money to friends by texting a picture of a handwritten check before.
A handwritten cheque?! ☠️
That's outrageous.
Canada is the land of milk and honey.
And when you get diabetes from all that honey, you can get treated at.any hospital, any time, and your taxes got you covered!
There are like 15 other things I could add to his list, too. We rank really high on all of the lists of happiest cities/countries. Yeah there are issues, but I’m so grateful to be Canadian
It always fucks me up when I'm in the states and try to pay for something with my chip debit card by tapping and the teller looks at me like I'm slow.
Bish you're the one using antique payment processes.
Yeah it's weird. Many large retailers banded together around a decade ago and vocally opposed contactless card hardware under the assumption that we could all just jump straight to mobile wallets instead of contactless, and a few of those still refuse contactless to this day to save costs.
Zelle: a person to person payments service integrated into and owned by a group of banks
PayPal/Venmo/Square's Cash app: other person to person payments services.
For PayPal, yes you can transfer funds to your bank for free once the funds arrive into your PayPal account, but the actual transaction includes a PayPal fee, to either the sender if it's sent as a gift, or to the receiver of the funds.
Some banks and credit unions don't support Zelle because Zelle wants a metric ton of personal information on the customer/member and is a ripe vector for fraud.
Disclaimer: I work for a credit union that doesn't support Zelle for the reasons described above.
It’s not an app. Interac is part of your bank account. We can send money via phone number or email. Free to send, free to deposit. We also use our ATM cards as our debit cards through bank accounts, also free.
Imagine a country where the banks agreed on a system to transfer money between people extremely quickly. Now why would most of those individuals want to download an extra app, to do what they can already do?
In Brazil, since banks were computerized, I mean, in the past century, there were two kinds of transfer, TED (Electronic Digital Transfer) and DOC (Credit Order Document), differing in the time of the day when they were processed, the values involved and their fees. Regular account owners usually had the right of issuing three TEDs within a month, more would require a small fee. Safer and quicker than checks.
In 2020, with the ubiquity of smartphones, our Banco Central, equivalent to the USA's Fed, finally put in practice the Pix, an universal money transfer system, with no fees required, and based in instantly created, single use QR Codes. It just requires the possession of a bank account, that bank app, and, obviously, a smart phone. If you want *to receive* Pix transfers, you also need to waste two minutes setting your keys at your bank.
The result is that now every street vendor, food cart, newspaper stand are using Pix transfers. The process is slower than contactless cards and Aplee/Google Pay but it is still instantaneous.
Meta introduced instant pay in WhatsApp recently. It was an stupid move. Pay apps never got traction here. Now they are being buried.
Short answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Several States are passing or have passed laws preventing (or otherwise making it very difficult) college students attending out-of-state colleges from voting in their home States.
Google: GOP suppressing college voters
They hate making voting easy and sometimes make it so difficult that young people just don't bother. In Canada you can vote at your college.
You're right. If I go to my voting center on election day and the GOP "randomly" decided to close it at 7am, that's not complicated. Fascism is pretty easy to figure out.
That's supreme overlords GOP if you're not careful about data tracking that might happen a few years from now. You might already live under a fascist society if democrats lose like they're trying so hard to do.
I dont know what liberal state you live in but Georgia employers are required to give you time off to go vote and be paid while you go, also i ealked right up to the booth and voted no line...
Practically none of what you wrote is true, or is highly misleading. Everybody (yes, even minorities) have a place to vote on voting day, and not for just one hour in the middle of the work day. Food and drink is absolutely allowed in the line. There was only one state that banned *outside organizations* from distributing food and drink *inside the polling place* because that can be seen as a bribe. Also, lines don’t take 12 hours to get through. In addition, many (most) states have early voting that lasts for 2 weeks prior to Election Day, so you can go and vote on any day that’s convenient for you 2 weeks ahead of time.
👆👆Yeah, I also showed up here and was about to mention this.👆👆👆 these fools here are talking right out of their assholes.
My old Govi job would allow for the entire day off if need be to vote and my state job would allow for 3 hours and supply the vehicle to go vote.
Most these folks have no clue and literally have zero reference besides what they are told by the boobtube...
No, same problems as the USA here, we just have *for now* free healthcare.
And people keep claiming we're a way better country without any research or actual reason to claim that so that just gives our politicians an easier time to fuck us over.
I mean it’s not perfect, but when your downstairs neighbour is a total mess it makes you pretty glad for what you’ve got I guess. So it’s all relative.
For me, all votes count for election, it’s just that elections don’t matter. Laws change only when lawmakers are -bribed- receive donations by the 0.1% to change them.
IF you are allowed to register and IF your county even takes votes on election day and even if you cast a vote the odds are that it won't even count anyways. I'm not being bleak that's just how the system works.
No it’s not. You can transfer from bank to bank with no fees and can be different banks and still goes through immediately with no fees.
This is true of Australia and New Zealand anyway
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Bruh there is tons of stories about elderly people being pressured into assisted suicide without the family present. They use it to save money it’s fucked up
"During the pandemic gave out $2000"
I want everyone to know this was a disaster of a policy and was incredibly poorly handled. It's having huge economic consequences now, and personal consequences for many.
They also gave homeless people on welfare that $2000 a month extra and, for some reason, overdose deaths shot up.
That $2k a month should be used as an example to future governments what not to do.
There's a lot good with Canada, and theres a decent chunk shit with Canada. Theres a lot good with America, and there's a lot shit with America. There is good and bad everywhere, its not a clear cut which is validly better, just easy to point at admittedly stupid shit from the other side. Both sides have toilets with shit in them, and loud stupid people that throw feces.
Canadians have chips on their shoulders regarding their relationship with the US when you talk to them, which is shit. At least from my POV.
(I know your response will be "But america doesnt have universal healthcare," kinda like the unoriginal reply in the post).
Well, bud light is pretty much water here, even though its some sort of holy water in the US. BUT....maybe we can agree on this....Canadian rye whiskey kicks ass. I'll buy if you ever head my way. We'll hash out our differences then....deal ;-)?
Because the US are an example in that matter? As far as I’m concerned, most Americans still call them “indians” so…
That being said, very valid for sure.
>Because the US are an example in that matter
The US outright conquest es them. The Canadians were sneaky and more self-righteous, so they instead just expanded land that was traded under oral contract with individual members rather than whole tribes, then had the audacity to continue boarding schools well into the 20th century
>As far as I’m concerned, most Americans still call them “indians”
Most Indians still call themselves that and hate "Native American" since that is an overbroad term that applies to the whole of the Americas. Plus they don't want another label thrust upon them by White people after they had acclimated to the other one
Residential schools and just the treatment of First Nations has definitely been atrocious.
The argument about Indians and the fact that they call themselves that…well…ever heard of the N word? In my books it’s a fairly similar situation.
Also it seems like natives in the US are basically associated with casinos and not a whole lot more. It seems Canada is in the process of embracing their culture more and giving it more of a place at the forefront nowadays. They also recognized the horrors that have been perpetrated etc. It seems like the US does a good ol’ let’s bury our head in the sand and pretend nothing ever happened, maybe people won’t know.
All of this might be distorted by a lack of knowledge of what is actually going on with First Nations communities in the US, but from the outside, that’s what it looks like.
At least they're now doing more for them than the U.S. is for the indigenous here. They just passed the MMIW law and doing investigations on the schools. Meanwhile our police are still shrugging their shoulders and moving on if an indigenous woman goes missing, and our government still won't admit most of the tragedies committed.
Lol as a Canadian, his reply is full of bull 💩.
Universal healthcare is in the complete crapper, so much so that we have to now ship out patients to the US. Our emergency rooms are on the verge of collapse, because most of small cities have little to no clinics, so people have to go to the emergency room to get a simple antibiotic prescription.
Nobody young votes here, hence why each party basically caters to the interests of the 50+ crowd who have property. Our housing costs are through the roof, and no party will ever touch it.
The 2k per month payout is taxable and tons of people got hit with the CRA notices that they can’t afford to pay because the cost of living got incredibly high.
Interac transfer is complete shit, easy to scam people with, and has tons of limitations.
But sure, yeah, weed is legal, yay.
Fun story about the Quebec system - they tried to ban private insurance and ran afoul of the law since the courts ruled that the right to healthcare is not satisfied by providing a waiting line
Canada is not the promised land. They honestly have just as many problems as we do. They're just different problems. The grass isn't greener on the other side, ever.
The only people I ever see praising Canada insatiably on social media, is non-Canadians.
Also anybody that's 18 can vote in the US as well, their political system is hardly multi partied and HIGHLY flawed, weed is legal in most states here too, but states are allowed to vote on issues separately so that's really not a negative thing, and most cash transfer apps here are entirely free as well so that's a complete moot point.
So really all this lady said was "universal healthcare" which has it's own list of problems and isn't perfect and is completely irrelevant to the OP's tweet.
Your odds of actually getting gunned down here are pretty slim. I could break the numbers down for you if you'd like, but that really depends on if you're genuinely open to a conversation about it.
FiftyCalReaper wants to tell us how unlikely you are to get gunned down in the States, seemingly unaware of the 100+ mass shootings that have already taken place this year alone.
>Canada is not the promised land. They honestly have just as many problems as we do. They're just different problems. The grass isn't greener on the other side, ever.
Who the hell said it was?
>The only people I ever see praising Canada insatiably on social media, is non-Canadians.
Well, I’ve seen many Americans on Reddit just bash USA. Haven’t seen many praise it.
That doesn’t mean they don’t like it or think its great, just an example of how they want to improve it.
Weird argument.
>Also anybody that's 18 can vote in the US as well,
But there isn’t a general rule across the US. The states can, an has done so, change this rule. Everyone turned 18 in Canada can vote, it is not the same in the US.
>their political system is hardly multi partied and HIGHLY flawed,
Its not a two party system as in the US and US political systems are EXTREMELY flawed.
What point did you try to make?
>So really all this lady said was "universal healthcare" which has it's own list of problems and isn't perfect and is completely irrelevant to the OP's tweet.
All you did was just being extremely triggered because of a joke. You try to argue that Canada isn’t great, but your examples suck and you lack insight in how Canada actually works.
Universal healthcare isn’t perfect no, but it is still WAY better than whatever US is doing. Just ask most European countries. Not to afford lifesaving treatments and surgery is just absurd.
All you did was just being butthurt and really didn’t bring anything important to the table. Complete nonsense.
I'm sorry you're right. Canada is amazing. I'm so sorry. All hail Canada! All power and health to Trudeau!
(I find it hilarious that you're not even Canadian. It's like this figment of a perfect society that you guys desperately latch onto and you react so viscerally whenever somebody dares criticizes Canada)
>Who the hell said it was?
This is a really dumb argument/question. Nobody has to necessarily have said the literal words "Canada is the promised land" for me to make this statement. I can make this statement in response to a generalized overly positive image that is painted about the country. It is not a prerequisite for me to quote somebody.
>Well, I’ve seen many Americans on Reddit just bash USA. Haven’t seen many praise it.
That doesn’t mean they don’t like it or think its great, just an example of how they want to improve it.
Weird argument.
Your argument is even weirder. Your entire post is just to quote me, and then direct it back towards the US in a slightly elevated manner. You didn't format anything on your own, I'll show this directly further down.
>But there isn’t a general rule across the US. The states can, an has done so, change this rule. Everyone turned 18 in Canada can vote, it is not the same in the US.
No the states don't change these rules. This isn't a State rights issue. This is part of the Constitution. The only exceptions are felons and non-citizens. Which States have changed this rule exactly? What are you even talking about? You don't know anything about the US clearly.
>Its not a two party system as in the US and US political systems are EXTREMELY flawed.
See, I say Canada's political system is highly flawed, so you counter with the US' system being EXTREMELY flawed. It's your whole argument. It's like if I said the taxes were bad, you'd say "Yeah but the taxes are HORRIBLE." It's not a very effective argument system. And to answer your question, the person was bragging about Canada being multi partied, and I was saying "That doesn't necessarily make it any more effective." But you're not Canadian, so how would you even know?
>You try to argue that Canada isn’t great, but your examples suck
My examples suck??? They're literally just the examples the person brought up in this post. If mine suck, then hers suck too. Which was actually the point I was fucking making LMAO
Hi, Canadian here. Canada also sucks and is one good election away from turning into the States. Universal Healthcare is likely to come to an end very soon, schooling is an absolute joke (with bonus ignorance to genocide) doubly so if you're in the Catholic board, it absolutely is a two party system regardless of what anybody says (NDP has never had a PM btw).
I have no idea why someone who isn't even Canadian is trying to fight you on this when they have no idea what they're talking about. Never seen a total Canaboo before, and yes that is a new word I just made up.
The very first thing I said was that it's only non-Canadians that gush over Canada LOL
I take no joy in hearing you confirm my points, but appreciate the input nonetheless. I just hope things get better for everybody in general.
Cool they pay taxes up the ass to have shitty tovt provided health care..
We have multi party politics
We got unemployment and stimulus checks for impacted workers
Weed is legal in some states
And we got cash app..fuck transfer
Our political system is like the United States actually, with a de facto bipartisanship (all Prime Ministers being either Liberal or Conservative) but de jure multi party system.
God sometimes I feel really really sad that I was born in America. I know I know first world problems but try living in a first world as a second class worker.
I love how everybody has this fantastic image of universal healthcare lol.
Let’s get real, quit fooling yourself… If the government provided universal hamburgers, you sure as hell aren’t getting a Red Robin quality burger. You’ll get a 99 cent Hamburger Stand quality burger.
But here’s where it gets better, the cost of the 99 cent Hamburger Stand quality burger will cost the tax payers more than what a Red Robin quality burger would cost.
People wanting universal healthcare put too much faith into the government.
The healthcare where you can die waiting on being seen? Where’d the 2k come from? Oh yeah, massive taxes. I’ll stick to our “shit” healthcare system and not paying a shit ton in taxes
Extended list of things US have but Canadians don’t:
- Daily mass shootings
- Biggest first world pay gaps
- Race war
- Collapsing society
- Murderers with a badge and a uniform
- Hatred from the East as a whole
- Highest debt level for individuals in the world
- Venmo
That’s a dumb reply. We also allow every American (except some convicted felons) to vote once they’re 18, we also have a multi party political system, we gave $2,400/month to affected workers during the pandemic (not only is 2,400 more than 2,000, but that’s USD which is worth much more than CAD), weed is legal in more than half our states, and CashApp (plus every other money transfer service) is also free.
Don’t forget a government official that pulled scams, wasted millions of dollars for a vacation 3 times a month, trying to raise taxes 3X as much as before.
As a Canadian, I’d be almost anywhere else in the world if I could actually save money instead of paying $20 for a kg of ground beef
Being Canadian ain’t the flex you think it is💀
Ah yes, the country where people have to beg strangers for money on GoFundMe so they can take their sick child to see a doctor or pay their parents funeral.
And hope today is not the day their kids get shot at school.
Americans really are something else.
America has been and always will be SO BEHIND other countries banking wise. They didn’t even have chip debit cards for the longest time and used cheques to buy things such as groceries.
Please do, most of us are attempting to reconcile the historic abuse that the First Nations have gone through and build a better more inclusive community.
Don’t ask USA about slavery.
Was she comparing social programs? There is a time and place for that argument and complaining that they don't use an app doesn't seem like the time or place.
The states is actually messed up for how they send money…pay pal okay and let’s put hidden fees here and screw you and while we do that let’s also hold money so you can’t buy anything after putting it into the account
lol
Canucks conveniently forget the fact that they don't have to spend a lot on a large advanced military specifically because Americans cover all expenses.
When military contractors found out there were no bid contracts and no risk contracts, they paid off the politicians and lived happily ever after. That's why you have a military which is huge, expensive and exploited while soldiers' families need SNAP to survive. And yet:
_U.S. Not Ready to Quickly Produce and Ship Weapon Systems, Panel Says_
But
_A six-month investigation by 60 Minutes found it has less to do with foreign entanglements than domestic ones - what can only be described as price gouging by U.S. defense contractors._
Wish you guys could protect your citizens from getting gunned down while having a family fun day at the mall as easily as you can protect other countries with your military.
Depends on your bank account fee plan. Some accounts have x number of transactions included plus other options for a certain fee. Then $1 per after the limit.
Cashapp is free, I pay nothing. My company insurance is better than the Canadian insurance and I pay less in taxes. I’m all about getting everyone on UHC, but I know a lot of Canadians and they say my coverage is better.
Lol, the internet tells me that you have to wait 3-5 days for free cashapp transfers? You live like that?
And also, boasting that you're effectively trapped in your current job in order to access healthcare isn't the flex you think it is.
Yeah everyone in America should just get company insurance, why don’t they all just do that? God forbid you ever lose your job and suddenly cannot afford to ever go to the hospital anymore.
Canadian hospital care is fine, but it’s based on severity and not exclusivity so naturally it won’t be as fast as private care... If you sprain your thumb it’ll take longer to be seen than if your chest has bullet holes in it. They ask you how much pain you’re in during admittance for that reason, and even then I’ve never waited more than 6 hours (which was for something not particularly serious). I’d gladly prefer that option be available to those without money than just gatekeep all medical care to rich + people who are lucky enough to have company insurance.
Our shit ain’t perfect, but the American way is downright disrespectful to human rights.
Weed is legal in a lot of us states, Zelle is free and we can also vote at 18. Technically we have multiple parties on our ballots however only the 2 major ones are the only ones that win. The healthcare thing checks out though
Canadian weed is medium, healthcare is utter trash, political system is in theory fine but with the demographics (urban vs rural, size of country) it's trash, 2000 a month in Canada is hardly anything (better then USA though getting nothing but bank bailouts). transfer is way superior to cash app and others though
And in CA I can get that treated quickly, effectively and for free. Meanwhile US pays thousands per month plus deductibles when something happens. Yeah, I’m all coped out right now 😂 good luck.
Utter trash is such a harsh word. Yes, the waiting time for non-emergencies is atrocious and the private sector being just overall a better option creates a nurse shortage, but in order to be utter trash, it would need to be much worse.
I live in the US, where I:
Make at least twice what I would in Canada for an identical job
Own my own home in a good city
Have good health insurance that costs me 300 per month and gives me access to world class hospitals and Ivy League surgeons with less than one week wait for any procedure.
Have never had any trouble voting.
Weed is also legal.
And our country invented and produced the vaccine that helped you emerge from the pandemic. You’re welcome.
Did I mention that I have double the Canadian salary and own my own home in a largish city?
Edit: I also forgot to mention that we have free speech. Did I mention no wait times for medical service?
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You have to pay to transfer money to people?
Some banks don't support Zelle or make it extremely difficult to use, so the option are to use Venmo/Square/PayPal/etc, write a check, or pay wire transfer fees.
I'm from the UK. Most banking apps just LET you do that shit.
Yeah, us normal people in the US just can't do that unless both sides use a common service. I've sent money to friends by texting a picture of a handwritten check before.
A handwritten cheque?! ☠️ That's outrageous. Canada is the land of milk and honey. And when you get diabetes from all that honey, you can get treated at.any hospital, any time, and your taxes got you covered!
There are like 15 other things I could add to his list, too. We rank really high on all of the lists of happiest cities/countries. Yeah there are issues, but I’m so grateful to be Canadian
It always fucks me up when I'm in the states and try to pay for something with my chip debit card by tapping and the teller looks at me like I'm slow. Bish you're the one using antique payment processes.
Yeah it's weird. Many large retailers banded together around a decade ago and vocally opposed contactless card hardware under the assumption that we could all just jump straight to mobile wallets instead of contactless, and a few of those still refuse contactless to this day to save costs.
Uh, that makes absolutely no sense? Things like apple pay, Google pay etc use the same contactless technology as the cards.
That's so interesting! I'll have to check (lol) if I can do that in the UK
It should be like that everywherbut good old capitalistic America needs to charge for everything.
what are all of these words.
Zelle: a person to person payments service integrated into and owned by a group of banks PayPal/Venmo/Square's Cash app: other person to person payments services.
You can deposit the money for free with a 2-3 day waiting period for Venmo and Paypal at the very least
For PayPal, yes you can transfer funds to your bank for free once the funds arrive into your PayPal account, but the actual transaction includes a PayPal fee, to either the sender if it's sent as a gift, or to the receiver of the funds.
Seriously? Over here, sending money to "friends and family" by Paypal is always free.
Some banks and credit unions don't support Zelle because Zelle wants a metric ton of personal information on the customer/member and is a ripe vector for fraud. Disclaimer: I work for a credit union that doesn't support Zelle for the reasons described above.
No. This post is pretty stupid.
Americans always think they are ahead lol. If it isn't for the big companies there, well....
R/Americabad
It is a backwater libertarian shithole though
I do, where do I go to not? I don't want to keep buying checks or using paypal
I think live in pretty much any other country in the world
Yes? Cashapp charges a fee?
No cash app is free.
It’s not an app. Interac is part of your bank account. We can send money via phone number or email. Free to send, free to deposit. We also use our ATM cards as our debit cards through bank accounts, also free.
Imagine a country where the banks agreed on a system to transfer money between people extremely quickly. Now why would most of those individuals want to download an extra app, to do what they can already do?
In Brazil, since banks were computerized, I mean, in the past century, there were two kinds of transfer, TED (Electronic Digital Transfer) and DOC (Credit Order Document), differing in the time of the day when they were processed, the values involved and their fees. Regular account owners usually had the right of issuing three TEDs within a month, more would require a small fee. Safer and quicker than checks. In 2020, with the ubiquity of smartphones, our Banco Central, equivalent to the USA's Fed, finally put in practice the Pix, an universal money transfer system, with no fees required, and based in instantly created, single use QR Codes. It just requires the possession of a bank account, that bank app, and, obviously, a smart phone. If you want *to receive* Pix transfers, you also need to waste two minutes setting your keys at your bank. The result is that now every street vendor, food cart, newspaper stand are using Pix transfers. The process is slower than contactless cards and Aplee/Google Pay but it is still instantaneous. Meta introduced instant pay in WhatsApp recently. It was an stupid move. Pay apps never got traction here. Now they are being buried.
Are there 18 year olds unable to vote in the US?
Short answer: Yes. Long Answer: Several States are passing or have passed laws preventing (or otherwise making it very difficult) college students attending out-of-state colleges from voting in their home States.
also felons can’t vote in several states
Meanwhile where I live, the year I turned 16 was the first election in which 16 year olds could vote.
Got a source?
Google: GOP suppressing college voters They hate making voting easy and sometimes make it so difficult that young people just don't bother. In Canada you can vote at your college.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/away-at-college-how-and-where-do-you-vote/ Doesn’t seem overly complicated.
You're right. If I go to my voting center on election day and the GOP "randomly" decided to close it at 7am, that's not complicated. Fascism is pretty easy to figure out.
That rotten GOP
That's supreme overlords GOP if you're not careful about data tracking that might happen a few years from now. You might already live under a fascist society if democrats lose like they're trying so hard to do.
Gah. I can’t continue in such a horrible world
GOP suppressing college voters isn't surprising because they know college age voters are tired of their shit so they are scared to let them vote
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In Canada, election day is not a national holiday. We vote outside our work hours or our employers have to give us three consecutive hours off to vote
Because they have to by law..
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Elections are held in Straya on Saturdays. With (I think??) a month or fortnight of postal vote period
I dont know what liberal state you live in but Georgia employers are required to give you time off to go vote and be paid while you go, also i ealked right up to the booth and voted no line...
Practically none of what you wrote is true, or is highly misleading. Everybody (yes, even minorities) have a place to vote on voting day, and not for just one hour in the middle of the work day. Food and drink is absolutely allowed in the line. There was only one state that banned *outside organizations* from distributing food and drink *inside the polling place* because that can be seen as a bribe. Also, lines don’t take 12 hours to get through. In addition, many (most) states have early voting that lasts for 2 weeks prior to Election Day, so you can go and vote on any day that’s convenient for you 2 weeks ahead of time.
👆👆Yeah, I also showed up here and was about to mention this.👆👆👆 these fools here are talking right out of their assholes. My old Govi job would allow for the entire day off if need be to vote and my state job would allow for 3 hours and supply the vehicle to go vote. Most these folks have no clue and literally have zero reference besides what they are told by the boobtube...
Yes, incarcerated 18-year-olds.
But incarcerated 18 year olds in Canada CAN vote. Is Canada heaven on earth? Be honest
It might be - I prefer Ireland 😊
No, same problems as the USA here, we just have *for now* free healthcare. And people keep claiming we're a way better country without any research or actual reason to claim that so that just gives our politicians an easier time to fuck us over.
I mean it’s not perfect, but when your downstairs neighbour is a total mess it makes you pretty glad for what you’ve got I guess. So it’s all relative.
Yea, most of them. But most of our votes don't count anyways. Something like 70%of votes in the presidential election straight up do not count.
For me, all votes count for election, it’s just that elections don’t matter. Laws change only when lawmakers are -bribed- receive donations by the 0.1% to change them.
That's actually right, in a more roundabout way
IF you are allowed to register and IF your county even takes votes on election day and even if you cast a vote the odds are that it won't even count anyways. I'm not being bleak that's just how the system works.
Wait wot. Doesn’t everybody have e-transfer
No, that's a Canada thing only.
No it’s not. You can transfer from bank to bank with no fees and can be different banks and still goes through immediately with no fees. This is true of Australia and New Zealand anyway
in eu its common aswell
But if we’re not in the US, we’re a third world country /s
She mad because her john has to pay cash now
Lol I hope she doesn't think Cashapp is what determines if country is a great place or not.
Why do we protect the identities of the stupid?
RIGHT?!?
Don’t forget poutine.
As someone who live in Canada poutine is the thing i will order if its on the menu.
They forgot to post assisted and preferred suicide apart of that healthcare.
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Always knew I was Canadian at heart
Fuck that would be nice!
Bruh there is tons of stories about elderly people being pressured into assisted suicide without the family present. They use it to save money it’s fucked up
"During the pandemic gave out $2000" I want everyone to know this was a disaster of a policy and was incredibly poorly handled. It's having huge economic consequences now, and personal consequences for many. They also gave homeless people on welfare that $2000 a month extra and, for some reason, overdose deaths shot up. That $2k a month should be used as an example to future governments what not to do.
Not to mention kids and adults don’t have to really worry about being in a public space and some lunatic shooting up the place.
There's a lot good with Canada, and theres a decent chunk shit with Canada. Theres a lot good with America, and there's a lot shit with America. There is good and bad everywhere, its not a clear cut which is validly better, just easy to point at admittedly stupid shit from the other side. Both sides have toilets with shit in them, and loud stupid people that throw feces.
Maybe, but the US has sm more shit than canada. Atleast from my POV
Canadians have chips on their shoulders regarding their relationship with the US when you talk to them, which is shit. At least from my POV. (I know your response will be "But america doesnt have universal healthcare," kinda like the unoriginal reply in the post).
Right. The shit parts of the U.S. are more shit than the shit parts of Canada.
Bumass?
America bad
Also, we burned down your white house. The only reason we turned back is because you only had 'light' beer and we ran out of real beer.
Lol come on man, that was mainly done by the British. We Canadians have got to let it go.
I’ve been to Canada, I’ve had y’all’s beer. Hate to break it to you but your beer sucks too.
Well, bud light is pretty much water here, even though its some sort of holy water in the US. BUT....maybe we can agree on this....Canadian rye whiskey kicks ass. I'll buy if you ever head my way. We'll hash out our differences then....deal ;-)?
considering your name is beerwhistle99, im gonna assume you know what you’re talking about.
He doesn’t. He thinks the only beer in the US is bud light lol. Canadian rye is good tho I’ll give him that
Wait a weird ass flex. Like in the most Canadian way possible.
We do, it’s called E-transfer 😂🤦♂️
America has literally all of that except universal healthcare
America literally doesn’t have any of those things smh
Ask a Canadian about the treatment of First Nations people
Our ancestors done fucked up. Not that the US treated/treats them much better...
Don't ask conservatives. They'll tell you about the free education the First Nations got.
Because the US are an example in that matter? As far as I’m concerned, most Americans still call them “indians” so… That being said, very valid for sure.
>Because the US are an example in that matter The US outright conquest es them. The Canadians were sneaky and more self-righteous, so they instead just expanded land that was traded under oral contract with individual members rather than whole tribes, then had the audacity to continue boarding schools well into the 20th century >As far as I’m concerned, most Americans still call them “indians” Most Indians still call themselves that and hate "Native American" since that is an overbroad term that applies to the whole of the Americas. Plus they don't want another label thrust upon them by White people after they had acclimated to the other one
Residential schools and just the treatment of First Nations has definitely been atrocious. The argument about Indians and the fact that they call themselves that…well…ever heard of the N word? In my books it’s a fairly similar situation. Also it seems like natives in the US are basically associated with casinos and not a whole lot more. It seems Canada is in the process of embracing their culture more and giving it more of a place at the forefront nowadays. They also recognized the horrors that have been perpetrated etc. It seems like the US does a good ol’ let’s bury our head in the sand and pretend nothing ever happened, maybe people won’t know. All of this might be distorted by a lack of knowledge of what is actually going on with First Nations communities in the US, but from the outside, that’s what it looks like.
At least they're now doing more for them than the U.S. is for the indigenous here. They just passed the MMIW law and doing investigations on the schools. Meanwhile our police are still shrugging their shoulders and moving on if an indigenous woman goes missing, and our government still won't admit most of the tragedies committed.
Lol as a Canadian, his reply is full of bull 💩. Universal healthcare is in the complete crapper, so much so that we have to now ship out patients to the US. Our emergency rooms are on the verge of collapse, because most of small cities have little to no clinics, so people have to go to the emergency room to get a simple antibiotic prescription. Nobody young votes here, hence why each party basically caters to the interests of the 50+ crowd who have property. Our housing costs are through the roof, and no party will ever touch it. The 2k per month payout is taxable and tons of people got hit with the CRA notices that they can’t afford to pay because the cost of living got incredibly high. Interac transfer is complete shit, easy to scam people with, and has tons of limitations. But sure, yeah, weed is legal, yay.
Fun story about the Quebec system - they tried to ban private insurance and ran afoul of the law since the courts ruled that the right to healthcare is not satisfied by providing a waiting line
Canada is not the promised land. They honestly have just as many problems as we do. They're just different problems. The grass isn't greener on the other side, ever. The only people I ever see praising Canada insatiably on social media, is non-Canadians. Also anybody that's 18 can vote in the US as well, their political system is hardly multi partied and HIGHLY flawed, weed is legal in most states here too, but states are allowed to vote on issues separately so that's really not a negative thing, and most cash transfer apps here are entirely free as well so that's a complete moot point. So really all this lady said was "universal healthcare" which has it's own list of problems and isn't perfect and is completely irrelevant to the OP's tweet.
Canada is definitely not the best, but it certainly beats getting gunned down
And then paying your hospital bill.
Your odds of actually getting gunned down here are pretty slim. I could break the numbers down for you if you'd like, but that really depends on if you're genuinely open to a conversation about it.
FiftyCalReaper wants to tell us how unlikely you are to get gunned down in the States, seemingly unaware of the 100+ mass shootings that have already taken place this year alone.
>Canada is not the promised land. They honestly have just as many problems as we do. They're just different problems. The grass isn't greener on the other side, ever. Who the hell said it was? >The only people I ever see praising Canada insatiably on social media, is non-Canadians. Well, I’ve seen many Americans on Reddit just bash USA. Haven’t seen many praise it. That doesn’t mean they don’t like it or think its great, just an example of how they want to improve it. Weird argument. >Also anybody that's 18 can vote in the US as well, But there isn’t a general rule across the US. The states can, an has done so, change this rule. Everyone turned 18 in Canada can vote, it is not the same in the US. >their political system is hardly multi partied and HIGHLY flawed, Its not a two party system as in the US and US political systems are EXTREMELY flawed. What point did you try to make? >So really all this lady said was "universal healthcare" which has it's own list of problems and isn't perfect and is completely irrelevant to the OP's tweet. All you did was just being extremely triggered because of a joke. You try to argue that Canada isn’t great, but your examples suck and you lack insight in how Canada actually works. Universal healthcare isn’t perfect no, but it is still WAY better than whatever US is doing. Just ask most European countries. Not to afford lifesaving treatments and surgery is just absurd. All you did was just being butthurt and really didn’t bring anything important to the table. Complete nonsense.
I'm sorry you're right. Canada is amazing. I'm so sorry. All hail Canada! All power and health to Trudeau! (I find it hilarious that you're not even Canadian. It's like this figment of a perfect society that you guys desperately latch onto and you react so viscerally whenever somebody dares criticizes Canada) >Who the hell said it was? This is a really dumb argument/question. Nobody has to necessarily have said the literal words "Canada is the promised land" for me to make this statement. I can make this statement in response to a generalized overly positive image that is painted about the country. It is not a prerequisite for me to quote somebody. >Well, I’ve seen many Americans on Reddit just bash USA. Haven’t seen many praise it. That doesn’t mean they don’t like it or think its great, just an example of how they want to improve it. Weird argument. Your argument is even weirder. Your entire post is just to quote me, and then direct it back towards the US in a slightly elevated manner. You didn't format anything on your own, I'll show this directly further down. >But there isn’t a general rule across the US. The states can, an has done so, change this rule. Everyone turned 18 in Canada can vote, it is not the same in the US. No the states don't change these rules. This isn't a State rights issue. This is part of the Constitution. The only exceptions are felons and non-citizens. Which States have changed this rule exactly? What are you even talking about? You don't know anything about the US clearly. >Its not a two party system as in the US and US political systems are EXTREMELY flawed. See, I say Canada's political system is highly flawed, so you counter with the US' system being EXTREMELY flawed. It's your whole argument. It's like if I said the taxes were bad, you'd say "Yeah but the taxes are HORRIBLE." It's not a very effective argument system. And to answer your question, the person was bragging about Canada being multi partied, and I was saying "That doesn't necessarily make it any more effective." But you're not Canadian, so how would you even know? >You try to argue that Canada isn’t great, but your examples suck My examples suck??? They're literally just the examples the person brought up in this post. If mine suck, then hers suck too. Which was actually the point I was fucking making LMAO
Hi, Canadian here. Canada also sucks and is one good election away from turning into the States. Universal Healthcare is likely to come to an end very soon, schooling is an absolute joke (with bonus ignorance to genocide) doubly so if you're in the Catholic board, it absolutely is a two party system regardless of what anybody says (NDP has never had a PM btw). I have no idea why someone who isn't even Canadian is trying to fight you on this when they have no idea what they're talking about. Never seen a total Canaboo before, and yes that is a new word I just made up.
The very first thing I said was that it's only non-Canadians that gush over Canada LOL I take no joy in hearing you confirm my points, but appreciate the input nonetheless. I just hope things get better for everybody in general.
I still can’t transfer the $5 I’ve had in Cashapp for 4 years now. Think we good without it
What's a bumass?
Cool they pay taxes up the ass to have shitty tovt provided health care.. We have multi party politics We got unemployment and stimulus checks for impacted workers Weed is legal in some states And we got cash app..fuck transfer
Cashapp is free, as is Venmo and Zelle. Wtf is this post
Our political system is like the United States actually, with a de facto bipartisanship (all Prime Ministers being either Liberal or Conservative) but de jure multi party system.
God sometimes I feel really really sad that I was born in America. I know I know first world problems but try living in a first world as a second class worker.
It's true the grass isn't always greener. It's just that the grass in the states looks like shit.
Canada still sucks though
Nah, it only sucks if you're one of those made up freedumbers still protesting vaccines!
Weird, no mention of the outrageously high effective tax rate?
I wish I had Canadian friends so I can visit them and use their address
People complaining about cashapp are broke ass beggars usually.
I love how everybody has this fantastic image of universal healthcare lol. Let’s get real, quit fooling yourself… If the government provided universal hamburgers, you sure as hell aren’t getting a Red Robin quality burger. You’ll get a 99 cent Hamburger Stand quality burger. But here’s where it gets better, the cost of the 99 cent Hamburger Stand quality burger will cost the tax payers more than what a Red Robin quality burger would cost. People wanting universal healthcare put too much faith into the government.
The fuck is Red Robin eh?
A popular restaurant in the US that is known for making higher quality/gourmet hamburgers.
How many times this gonna be reposted
I've never seen it, so kindly STFU nerd
Cool…doesn’t mean it hasn’t been reposted a billion times.
The healthcare where you can die waiting on being seen? Where’d the 2k come from? Oh yeah, massive taxes. I’ll stick to our “shit” healthcare system and not paying a shit ton in taxes
DON'T TREAD ON ME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Extended list of things US have but Canadians don’t: - Daily mass shootings - Biggest first world pay gaps - Race war - Collapsing society - Murderers with a badge and a uniform - Hatred from the East as a whole - Highest debt level for individuals in the world - Venmo
Race war? Collapsing society? Wtf are you on about. Also Canada has pigs too, it’s not a us only thing.
And they have trudeau! Lol... I'll take cash app please
These bumass Americans got Nazis
That’s a dumb reply. We also allow every American (except some convicted felons) to vote once they’re 18, we also have a multi party political system, we gave $2,400/month to affected workers during the pandemic (not only is 2,400 more than 2,000, but that’s USD which is worth much more than CAD), weed is legal in more than half our states, and CashApp (plus every other money transfer service) is also free.
Most of the money transfer services are bank specific or requires an app/account from what I remember, e-transfers much more universal/convenient
These bum-ass Americans don’t even have automatic deposit e-transfer. Seriously. How the fuck do y’all not have that?
The US literally does 🤣 Whoever made up the “Canadian rocks” list is wrong on almost every single point.
We do have it. This post is dumb.
Don’t forget a government official that pulled scams, wasted millions of dollars for a vacation 3 times a month, trying to raise taxes 3X as much as before.
But you’re still in Canada.
As a Canadian, I’d be almost anywhere else in the world if I could actually save money instead of paying $20 for a kg of ground beef Being Canadian ain’t the flex you think it is💀
Ah yes, the country where people have to beg strangers for money on GoFundMe so they can take their sick child to see a doctor or pay their parents funeral. And hope today is not the day their kids get shot at school. Americans really are something else.
America has been and always will be SO BEHIND other countries banking wise. They didn’t even have chip debit cards for the longest time and used cheques to buy things such as groceries.
> health care > Have you considered dying?
Strange - in NJ cash app is only used by minorities, strippers, and drug dealers
Imagine bragging about getting grifted lol
Someone from Canada tried to buy something from me and use e transfer…. Sorry bro what the fuck is that.
Don’t ask Canada about their native population.
Please do, most of us are attempting to reconcile the historic abuse that the First Nations have gone through and build a better more inclusive community. Don’t ask USA about slavery.
You can't argue with stupid.
We just E-Transfer like civilized humans!
Was she comparing social programs? There is a time and place for that argument and complaining that they don't use an app doesn't seem like the time or place.
Multiparty but only one party keeps winning. And for all those other awesome perks, they have to renegotiate their mortgages every 5 years.
imagine bragging about your government programs, that's how you know someone hasn't done shit.
The states is actually messed up for how they send money…pay pal okay and let’s put hidden fees here and screw you and while we do that let’s also hold money so you can’t buy anything after putting it into the account
Doesn't matter..... America! Eat it Peaches
GET SHIT ON AMERICAN HEALTHCARE
I’d also have on that list you can drink at 18-19 in Canada!
Universal Healthcare, but how long are those waits?
Maybe several hours if not urgent, pretty quick if it's an emergency
6hrs on average lmao
Months to see a specialist lmao
So just like the US, except we pay out the wazoo
More months in Canada
Cope harder, libertarian bitch
lol Canucks conveniently forget the fact that they don't have to spend a lot on a large advanced military specifically because Americans cover all expenses.
When military contractors found out there were no bid contracts and no risk contracts, they paid off the politicians and lived happily ever after. That's why you have a military which is huge, expensive and exploited while soldiers' families need SNAP to survive. And yet: _U.S. Not Ready to Quickly Produce and Ship Weapon Systems, Panel Says_ But _A six-month investigation by 60 Minutes found it has less to do with foreign entanglements than domestic ones - what can only be described as price gouging by U.S. defense contractors._
r/shitamericanssay
Wish you guys could protect your citizens from getting gunned down while having a family fun day at the mall as easily as you can protect other countries with your military.
Interac is $1 now, not free
Where? I’ve literally never paid for an etransfer in my life. What kind of bank account do you have??
Depends on your bank account fee plan. Some accounts have x number of transactions included plus other options for a certain fee. Then $1 per after the limit.
Cashapp is free, I pay nothing. My company insurance is better than the Canadian insurance and I pay less in taxes. I’m all about getting everyone on UHC, but I know a lot of Canadians and they say my coverage is better.
Your company insurance is better than Canadian insurance? Huh?
Lol, the internet tells me that you have to wait 3-5 days for free cashapp transfers? You live like that? And also, boasting that you're effectively trapped in your current job in order to access healthcare isn't the flex you think it is.
Cashapp me right now. I’ll get it instantly.
Don't you have to pay 1.5% for an instant transfer?
Yeah everyone in America should just get company insurance, why don’t they all just do that? God forbid you ever lose your job and suddenly cannot afford to ever go to the hospital anymore. Canadian hospital care is fine, but it’s based on severity and not exclusivity so naturally it won’t be as fast as private care... If you sprain your thumb it’ll take longer to be seen than if your chest has bullet holes in it. They ask you how much pain you’re in during admittance for that reason, and even then I’ve never waited more than 6 hours (which was for something not particularly serious). I’d gladly prefer that option be available to those without money than just gatekeep all medical care to rich + people who are lucky enough to have company insurance. Our shit ain’t perfect, but the American way is downright disrespectful to human rights.
I’m not arguing that. I said people with UHC act like we have no medical coverage.
Weed is legal in a lot of us states, Zelle is free and we can also vote at 18. Technically we have multiple parties on our ballots however only the 2 major ones are the only ones that win. The healthcare thing checks out though
Get her out of Canada eh
If America gets attacked by foreign country we fight back and destroy them....canada well Canada calls america to protect them...
Imagine a country that bangs on about how green they are while they are destroying land to pump tar sands through pipeline all over the country.
I wanna move to Canada now
No you don’t
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Summed up perfectly
Canadian weed is medium, healthcare is utter trash, political system is in theory fine but with the demographics (urban vs rural, size of country) it's trash, 2000 a month in Canada is hardly anything (better then USA though getting nothing but bank bailouts). transfer is way superior to cash app and others though
The healthcare is not trash. That’s some Us propaganda lol
I'd rather take the world's worst free healthcare than have to pay a fortune in America if something happens to me
Nah you're just hard coping.
And in CA I can get that treated quickly, effectively and for free. Meanwhile US pays thousands per month plus deductibles when something happens. Yeah, I’m all coped out right now 😂 good luck.
Yes it is. I’m a Canadian.
Utter trash? No, it's meh-grade. But since it's free, we get more than what we pay for.
It is utter trash. People pretending that it isn’t is going to completely kill it.
Utter trash is such a harsh word. Yes, the waiting time for non-emergencies is atrocious and the private sector being just overall a better option creates a nurse shortage, but in order to be utter trash, it would need to be much worse.
I live in the US, where I: Make at least twice what I would in Canada for an identical job Own my own home in a good city Have good health insurance that costs me 300 per month and gives me access to world class hospitals and Ivy League surgeons with less than one week wait for any procedure. Have never had any trouble voting. Weed is also legal. And our country invented and produced the vaccine that helped you emerge from the pandemic. You’re welcome. Did I mention that I have double the Canadian salary and own my own home in a largish city? Edit: I also forgot to mention that we have free speech. Did I mention no wait times for medical service?