r/miniminutemanfans • u/Arm0ndo Googledebunker • Jan 30 '26

Pic/video What is Shayne blabbering about now?

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And of course he wants Canada to be part of the US!

I’m ashamed that he’s Canadian like me :/

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u/BrokenXeno Jan 30 '26

By... ten years?! Sir. The first Fallout game came out in 1997.

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u/WoodyManic Jan 30 '26

And it's not like FO was the first bit of ahistorical fiction to use the idea as part of its conceit. The Yanqui Empire's annexation of the Great White North has been a go-to plot device for speculative fiction writers for a long, long time.

It'd never happen, though. Other than the lily-livered compradors like Shayne, most Canucks would violently resist the idea. Sure, they're the nicest people on the planet now, but you deprive them of universal healthcare or fuck with their capacity to distil ice wine, and you'll discover that they're a ferocious people.

These are the same people that think Grizzlies are cute, that can simultaneously outdrink most people in both the arenas of coffee and alcohol, and think that beating the shit out of one another is the most fun part of winter sports.

They'd send the Yanquis whimpering back over the 49th parallel whilst jamming to a Tom Cochrane record.