Canada Day Twitter sure is filled with apologies from people in the U.S.

Can't imagine what we'd have to be sorry for.
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Adam Rosenberg
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Canada Day Twitter sure is filled with apologies from people in the U.S.
Oh, Canada... we're so, so sorry. Credit: Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images

This is such a perfectly 2018 thing to happen on the internet.

July 1 is Canada Day, the Canadian equivalent of Independence Day in the United States (basically). And because Canada's neighbor to the south has become an out-of-control tire fire of political and social unrest, folks in the U.S. are feeling some remorse.

So they're using the occasion of Canada Day to apologize. The holiday's celebratory Twitter hashtag is currently overrun with various flavors of "I'm sorry" from U.S. residents who are very much aware of and embarrassed by our shared racist uncle who's been charged with running the country.

Some of the utterances are vague "this situation sucks" acknowledgments. Others address The Current State of Things with more specificity. A few try to defuse the obvious tension with stabs at humor. But the common thread is, simply: "I am so so sorry about this."

Happy Canada Day! We're sorry for everything!

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Adam Rosenberg

Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.

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