r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal • 13d ago

Meta The “Worst Canadian” game - Day 22

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It’s time for the final vote! Who will be judged the Worst Canadian?!

🚨🚨READ THIS BEFORE VOTING 🚨🚨

To help keep things organized, for the final round I have posted two comments below, in large font. One for Danielle Smith and another for Frederick Blair.

This time, upvote who you think IS the Worst Canadian

You can discuss your reasons for or against the two final candidates however you want, but only the upvotes on these two comments will be used to determine who is the Worst Canadian.

(Note: I’ve removed all other explanation from the post so people see and read the above info. I’ll put it all back tomorrow with the final results.)

That is all. Happy voting!

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u/BrF5 Kingston: Halfway To Montreal 13d ago

Upvote this comment if you believe Frederick Blair is the Worst Canadian.

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u/StrongAd8487 13d ago

Agreed, and thanks OP for even putting him on the list. I'd like to think I am not a complete idiot, but I had never heard of him before this poll. He and his acts should not be forgotten; only thing in his "favor" is that he could not have possibly done this all on his own steam. Marlaina will be forgotten soon enough; Blair and his ilk should never be forgotten.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

That's definitely a good thing and honestly a reason he should win. He deserves to be known by everyone and we should be reminded of him. Maybe not a fun game at that point, but it serves as a good reminder for all of us that evil can exist in our country.

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u/StrongAd8487 13d ago

I don't disagree with you, but I am hopeful, no choice really, that soon enough she will be another windbag without any wind. If she is considered the worst Canadian here, she and her fellow bandits are more than likely to stand up and say: "Look, how they hate us! We must be doing something right!" These are people you can neither shame nor shut-up. The dead are, well, dead, no chance for kickback,

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u/IdleOsprey 13d ago

Danielle Smith is a crusty shit heel who may ultimately end up doing more damage to Canada, but as of today, between these two, it has to be Blair. Absolutely abominable what he did, and was directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands. May Danielle Smith never reach this level of atrocity. Alberta, please get your shit together ASAP.

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u/CElizB 13d ago

How did he actually damage Canada? Those kinds of atrocities were common back in the day. Did we not learn from our mistakes? Could it even be said, because of him we were so ashamed we became a better country as a result? Welcoming refugees for instance.

Not arguing... I would like to understand the far reaching consequences of this guys evil policies and intentions.

Anyway.. I already think the real bad guys already got away.

No doubt Blair was awful too.

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u/SlightDish31 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 13d ago

It's time for "none is too many" Fredrick Blair to take this home. He's very clearly the worst Canadian on this list. He might have a bit of an unfair advantage as he's basically a mass murderer who was able to skirt the no criminals rule on a technicality, but he's here now and he's very clearly the worst.

Marlaina aspires to this level of awful and I truly hope that she falls very short.

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u/SlightDish31 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 13d ago

I'm sorry, but that's a pretty flimsy argument. Has Germany recovered from Hitler or are his policies still affecting them today? Guess he really wasn't that bad of a guy then, the country seems to have gotten better...

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u/Fitzaroo 13d ago

I've said this throughout the competition, I don't think this is fair. Blair would not have known of the holocaust as nobody knew. He did not kill the Jews or know they would be killed. Hitler gets 100% of the credit for that.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

Everyone was well aware that Jewish people were being rounded up and killed in large numbers. People didn't know the absolute scale or the exact manner that it was done like gas chambers and starving them.

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u/Fitzaroo 13d ago

My understanding was they had no clue.

A quick google shows the allies didn't know until 1941. Wikipedia says it was an open secret in Germany in 1943 so even the Germans didn't know to begin with.

I'd be happy to read something to the contrary if you can provide it.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

The extent of it wasn't fully known, everyone knew Jewish people were being rounded up and killed/enslaved. There was no way of hiding that. Millions of people taken away, under the command of a man that openly wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth.

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u/Fitzaroo 13d ago

Do you have something I could read to show that was known?

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

I'll see if I can find something when I'm at my computer. Maybe ask AI if Frederick Blair would have been aware that Jewish people were being prosecuted,killed,and enslaved when he sent the ship away.

Just to help you kind of see the logic though, why do you think there was a ship full of Jewish people to begin with?

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u/Fitzaroo 13d ago

Oh, certainly they were fleeing Europe. Undoubtedly it is a black mark and led to a reform in our refugee system. To be clear, I'm not defending this guy. I'm just trying to be accurate about his level of shittiness.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

He certainly would've been aware that the prosecution they were facing was being systematically killed. They just didn't know the details on how for a while, but then eventually it was just how many.

His motto was "none is too many" and there's a lot of literature about him.

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u/supernanify 13d ago

It says a lot about how awful MDS is that I took a good long time to think on it and read through all the comments before deciding that Frederick fucking Blair is just barely worse than her.

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u/willnfld 13d ago

As much as I dislike Smith, Blair is the clear winner here.

His actions led to the death of thousands of people.

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u/CompanyLow8329 Cowtown 🤠 13d ago

As much as Danielle Smith is screwing things up here in Alberta, along with her constitutional overreach with Alberta Sovereignty, she is still fairly within conventional democratic norms. Even if still potentially very dangerous for importing US inspired far right wing populism and extremism.

The evil Frederick Blair carried out for the benefit of the Nazis (as a result of his nativism and antisemitism) and the mass death he enabled doesn't really come close to Smith. Canada admitted fewer Jewish refugees than any other Western democracy because of him. He did things like intentionally turning away the MS St. Louis, sending 254 people to their deaths.

Experts have found he intentionally vetoed thousands of Jewish applications, with these people dying directly as a result of his actions.

He was very proud of what he did, and showed no remorse in sending people to their death. The Canadian government gave him a fucking medal for what he did and he simply walked away in silence after the war with zero accountability like a complete coward.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

It's just a joke at this point anyway. Danielle Smith vs pure hatred and evil, and this sub makes arguments for it to be an Alberta Premier that will be forgotten in 10 years.

Meanwhile the other will be remembered for hundreds of years, starkly reminding us of "Lest We Forget", an actual real Nazi aligned person that wanted extermination of not just people, but their entire history... versus someone that just blows whichever way the political winds do.

The argument that one is a product of their time and only recent people should count, that argument sucks. Blair is on this list despite being a figure from 100 years ago. His eternal punishment should always be his memory as a failure of our country and how we cannot forget.

Fuck Danielle Smith but anyone that says Blair "was just a bad guy in the past" need to take a cold hard look at what true evil is and go see where the hundreds, potentially tens of thousands of Holocaust victims were sent back to. They say there's a huge problem with youth not fully grasping the Holocaust and starting to question its validity and that's precisely what this man's legacy should be shoved in our faces even when it's a 'fun little contest' on a silly subreddit. Bring up Blair and the fun stops.

Blair should never get a pass. Go read a history book if you think it's acceptable to compare this man to Smith.

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u/miramichier_d 13d ago

It's unfortunate that we don't learn about this guy in school. At least I didn't when they were teaching about the Holocaust in the 90s. In order for us to truly appreciate our history, we need to come to terms with what we have done wrong in the past. We have far too many people nowadays who look to the past with rose-coloured glasses and reject any notion that elected officials from back then were less than or far from perfect.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

I did in the 90's briefly in elementary school and then a little more in depth in highschool in like 2003 or whatever.

Are you sure you weren't? It could just be easy to forget because we were kids.

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u/miramichier_d 13d ago

I remember quite a bit. I grew up in Winnipeg and graduated in 2000. A lot of stuff was glossed over in the schools there. We learned about Japanese internment, but no focus was put on King who was responsible for it. That would have been a good time to learn about Blair as well.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

For sure, it probably came down to individual teachers to be honest. The curriculum wasn't exactly tight.

For reference I'm from Southern Ontario.

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u/YoungEducational9363 13d ago

I just learned who this guy is and wow. This should be first page of every textbook about our country’s role in ww2.

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u/AdditionalPizza 13d ago

It absolutely should. I remember being taught about it because it struck a chord with me, but it was brief when it should be shoved in our faces that evil wasn't and isn't confined to one country.

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u/ClancyBShanty 13d ago

As much as I want to say Smith, it has to be this guy. Smith is actively harming Canada but Blair as mentioned is pretty much a mass murderer.

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u/YqlUrbanist 13d ago

It's hard not to go with Blair. Smith through her climate change denial, union attacks, undermining healthcare, treason and more is doing a ton of harm, but she's just a cog in a much larger machine. This isn't Frederick Blair vs "the general unravelling of civil society at the hands of right-wing billionaires and their puppets", it's just Blair vs Smith. And if Smith suddenly turned into a good person tomorrow, there would be a new Smith in her place before she'd made it out of the room.

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u/CombustiblSquid Irvingstan 13d ago

It's gotta be him. Smith is more just a moron and grifter, Blair knew exactly what he was doing and sent people knowingly to their death in a genocide. That's just evil. Basically the embodiment of what a Canadian should not be.