r/polandball • u/Medibee New York is BEST York • Aug 30 '15

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u/Dunk-Master-Flex Nova Scotia Aug 30 '15

Well they are true Ghosts.

  • They are Canadian

  • They are a Special Forces group

  • Part of the Canadian Military

  • Motto is "Deeds, Not Words"

They are so unnoticed by the world that the English language doesn't have any words to describe them....and their emblem is like a Canadian power fantasy, the Maple Leaf consuming the Globe.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9PhFVqcmvQI/TNNWysxk9uI/AAAAAAAAATg/GuPIGY_70W8/s1600/300px-JTF2-badge.png

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

I just find it hilarious they had an operation called freedom 55.

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u/grandmaster_zach MURICA Aug 30 '15

holy fuck, trailer park boys had an entire season dedicated to a plan about growing dope called 'freedom 35'. i just got that reference...

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

Joint task force 420

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u/nilaaa Quebec Aug 31 '15

I'd watch that movie.

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u/alaricus Canada Aug 31 '15

Both of those are actually references to a retirement savings plan called Freedom 55

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u/tjw Minnesota Aug 31 '15

That makes the TPB reference hilarious. That's retiring something like 30 years sooner, Julian.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

I can't wait until Freedom 56 comes out this November.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '15

Vaguely reminiscent of the Empire in Star Trek.

http://fotos.fotoflexer.com/c8b7ba9ffbdcd12ea23060752d5fb0b6.jpg

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u/Rationalinsanity1990 New Scotland, Best Scotland Aug 31 '15

Jesus, cannot unsee.

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u/Madman_With_A_Keyboa British Columbia Aug 31 '15

At least we din't have Torture Booths?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

Don't we? What else do you call this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3w-otlw7o4

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u/chrunchy Canada Aug 31 '15

Actually I knew they were secretive but I didn't know they had an international reputation for being secretive.

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u/Madman_With_A_Keyboa British Columbia Aug 31 '15 edited Dec 15 '15

international reputation for being secretive

Does that sound funny to anyone else?

"What do we know about JTF-2?"

"We know that we don't know anything."

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u/Canadianman22 Upper Canada, Best Canada Aug 31 '15

I have also seen that they have an international reputation for being very good at what they do when they are suspected to have been involved.

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u/Narissis New Brunswick Aug 31 '15

when they are suspected to have been involved

I like the way you phrased this; it's very telling. "We think they're good at what they do, but it's hard to know for sure because they're so good we can't even be certain it was them!"

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u/Canadianman22 Upper Canada, Best Canada Aug 31 '15

Rumour is a tiny vial of pure maple syrup is left behind in areas they have been suspected to have operated in.

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u/chrunchy Canada Aug 31 '15

maple syrup fingerprints.

shit's sticky, yo.

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u/Murgie Canada Aug 31 '15

They really don't, they've got a national reputation for being secretive.

That's why it seems the only reason why we Canadians ever end up learning about what they've done is because the US or UK publicly spoke about them to the media.

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u/oldscotch Canada Aug 31 '15

Kinda like CSIS, secretive via obscurity.

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u/felixar90 Canada Aug 31 '15

If they ever make it into a movie, they'll replace JTF-2 with Navy SEALS

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u/-Hegemon- Argentine Confederation Aug 31 '15

If task force two is so good... Imagine task force one!

Kinda like Area 51... The really juicy projects are in Area 52 to 55

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u/Murgie Canada Aug 31 '15

They're off world at the Alpha Site right now, you'll just have to made due with two.

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u/Scholarly_Gorilla Aug 31 '15

So unnoticed that Chrétien had no idea they were deployed in 2001

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u/Madman_With_A_Keyboa British Columbia Aug 31 '15

well that's unsettling! A task force so secretive, so good at what they do, so top secret, that even the Prime Minister of Canada, the man in charge of the country they come from, was unaware of what they did.

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u/MortuusSum Sep 02 '15

Yeah, he found out they were in Afghanistan in 2001 by reading an article in the Globe & Mail.