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As a regular reminder: If you come in here and tell me I don't know anything about hockey, you just straight-up get muted and can eff all the way off.
Leah Angstman
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Leah Angstman
@leahangstman
DWHL hockey defenseman. 🏒 #GoAvsGo fangirl. Your average Artturi Lehkonen enjoyer. Historian, editor. Author of 3 books. Interns: German Shepherds.
A Michigander in Boulder
Joined May 2008
- If you're offended by Canada booing the U.S. anthem but you're NOT offended by your own government *threatening to invade and make Canada a 51st state,* you're a gross hypocrite. Canada has every right to boo us. We're being a piece of sh*t country to our good neighbors.
- Replying to @leahangstmanTo comments that say, "No one has threatened to invade": Telling a country you're going to make them a 51st state when they don't want to be a 51st state is a threat & isn't going to be peaceful. It will not happen without bloodshed, so stop pretending you can have both things.
- The gov't censored @BadlandsNPS for stating scientific #ClimateChange facts. Here they are. Keep RTing them. #Badlands
- Replying to @PrestonWengertEnlighten me on how you're going to make a country become a 51st state that doesn't want to be a 51st state? Tell me how you envision that being peaceful, and I'll show you a dozen history books.
- Replying to @IanMitchellGillIf you don't want to boo the (only majestic because it's ripped off from a popular British song of the era) anthem, that's fine, but you don't need to apologize to me or any of us for doing it. I'm certainly not cheering for the U.S. to come out ahead here. We're being jerks.
- Replying to @medsci_yb3rIt's a perfect place. It made America notice. No one got hurt, but the point got across. And the athletes aren't stupid; they know what the booing is. Furthermore, half those athletes voted for a dictator. If you aren't booing Eichel, you aren't paying attention. 🤣
- No one in France will speak French with me. As soon as I open my mouth, they all respond to me in English. And two separate people told me my French is "adorable." Let this be a lesson that Duolingo will not save you.
- Replying to @lilbernadetteI'm American, first of all, not Canadian, and the post was in response to the TONS of outraged American posts I saw throughout the evening in the hockey community about Canadians booing our anthem. If you didn't see them, you're in your own bubble.
- Everyone always craps on Amazon when it comes to buying books from small presses & indie authors (I know, I know, I get it), but where is the accountability and transparency for Ingram: Spark/Book Company/Content Group, the largest monopoly in distribution?
- Replying to @leahangstmanTo the "Just leave, then, if you don't like it" comments: That's a non-argument. I was born & raised here; I live here; I can use my freedom of speech the same as you without having to leave. Just as you didn't leave under Obama or Biden, I'm not leaving, but I can still be mad.
- Replying to @OleBeezerI'm not Canadian, but good job on the reading comprehension skills.
- Replying to @CaseyAPratt and @summerbrennanAdd Denver to the list! We held our own! Estimates of 200k marchers.
- Replying to @leahangstmanTo "it's still not OK to boo anthems": If your takeaway from my post is that booing anthems is good, then you're reading what you want to read. This is about America's "for me, but not for thee" hypocrisy where we think we can dish sh*t but shouldn't have to take it in return.