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    I get it, but like, this isn’t something the American people did. This has been orchestrated over decades by the wealthiest evilest mfers on earth. Definitely dont trust our government and dont trust the red-hatted folks, but do realize that if this plays out how they want, all of the regular peiple of the world are going to need to set aside that distrust. It has spread to England and Germany. Canada wont be immune.

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      Absolutely. Americans, Israeli, Russians are all regular people caught in the crossfire. There are some shitheads in support of their governments, and there are plenty more of those who reject it and will happily join the opposing forces, uniting internationally over the same goal.

      And outside of political lens, people are still the same as they were a year or two or three ago. It’s just that different political circumstances highlight particular kinds of people.

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    This Canadian has been avoiding all US products I can and has zero plans to ever cross into the US border.

    Americans are fucking stupid can’t be trusted.

    Canada should fortify it’s southern border and get nukes.

    I would even be into an American style vetting on Americans wanting into Canada. Lets check their phones. Sorry, MAGAt. You support Nazi’s and Trump. Fuck off!

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      You sound like Kim Jung Un, or that orange guy, when talking about nukes, and securing the southern border.

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        Canada has a serious problem with a long term ally attacking our trade and saying we’re going to become their 51st state. Trump mocks and attacks our leaders and makes threats against us.

        You can try to belittle my comments, but we have a valid reason to feel threatened.

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    As an American, the other 4 out of 10 must be idiots. GOP is on a mission to destroy everything that makes America a superpower.

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    From Mary Poppins:

    Though we adore them individually, we agree that as a group they’re rather stupid.

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    Canada needs a nuke now more than ever. Build it. And any time the orange fuckhead threatens annexation load it up in the silo.

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    I don’t blame them. I am (sadly) American, and I certainly don’t trust most Americans right now.

    Edit to add: and don’t know that I ever will again.

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      This is exactly what they want to happen… most people are not actually bad people, they want better standards of living just like you and everyone else.

      Some people are terrible and racists… but most people are tired of struggling and the rich getting richer… they just want their jobs back and to do what they are used to doing… they want to be okay because everything is fucked up…

      They are being lied to, you are being lied to… everyone is being lied to…

      Not everyone has forgotten their humanity, the people in control who want you to believe so, are the ones that keep telling you that they have

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        No matter how good a person could be, I wouldn’t trust them if they are easily manipulated in believing BS. I won’t hate them, but I won’t trust them.

        Anyone with an bit of judgement could see what Trump was. And yet he was elected. Twice!

        So all these “good people” have cpntributed to elect a fascist twice already. You want me to trust they won’t elect another one after him? That this is a two times mistake and Canadians can rely on the US after that?

        Nope.

        Maybe they were lied to about Trump. They will be lied to again by others about other fascists.

        You can blame education, oligarchs propaganda, whatever. Point is: Canada can’t rely on the USA, even if Trump goes away.

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            And you’ve been graceully and entirely missing the point of my comment. So maybe you should wonder what state of mind you’re in right now?

            It looks to me that you’re more here to push a narrative about manipulation than discussing the topic.

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        Brecht:

        “When the last [war] came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.”

        No one can trust an oligarch. If they live in your country, they are not your countrymen. If they don’t, they are not the common people who live where they happen to.

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    Personally, my trust in any specific individual is entirely based on that individual, regardless of their nationality or any other factor… Because I’m not bigoted like that.

    However, my trust in the American government and my willingness to use American brands has been permanently altered.

    Given how much surveillance most major tech companies do on their users, I’m just about ready to break out the tin foil. Shit is getting wild.

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      This. I live in a bubble in California. We still have decent folks here. When I travel the country I tend to encounter the chuds at airport bars. The key child indicator is to respond that you’re from San Francisco when they ask. They won’t be able to contain the fox news eulogy for San Francisco and how it used to be a great state before it got "ruined "

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      Individuals are to be assessed and judged individually based on their own merit; but trust in the collective, particularly of those in a position of power has eroded so enormously that the ‘benefit of the doubt’ is lost.

      There’s no choice but to assume the worst will happen; because of this, I will NEVER live in America. It will be a long long time before I even consider visiting, and for the foreseeable future I will continue to make an effort to not buy American products.

      I’ve been removing American tech companies from my life over the last 5-10years, but I’ve been stepping up those efforts more recently and this is only more encouragement.

      I’m lumped in with these people

      Maybe at first glance, but first impressions aren’t everything. Everyone deserves a chance; keep your chin up m8. I wish you the best of luck in this crazy world. 🇨🇦

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    That’s okay, I haven’t trusted America in decades, and I’m American. Canadians are wise to be mistrustful of our GOVERNMENT. Most of the people are mostly cool. It’s just the MAGAs you have to hide your kids from.

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        No, they don’t. Every poll for the last decade puts the total MAGA support in the mid- to high 30s. MAGA is a very small minority of the world, but the difference is that they are sociopaths, so they have no problems violating legal and social norms to get what they want, while everybody else wants to play by the rules. Bad Faith players always get a big lead near the beginning, but eventually the treason, corruption, and incompetence that is inherent in EVERY authoritarian regime, destroys them from within.

        If we give them enough rope, they will eventually hang themselves with their own virtuosic incompetence. The problem is the massive damage they will do to America and the word before they get there.

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      As someone who has MAGA relatives in the US, most of the people are definitely not mostly cool. His die-hard supporters may only be about 35% of the population (which is huge) but there’s at least another 15% who are sympathetic to the whole movement. At most, 50% of the population is mostly cool, the other half is mostly very uncool.

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      Balkanisation might honestly be the only solution; but that would involve the US giving up its current position as the only remaining global superpower.

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      It’s not ending any time soon. The US supreme court will remain a theocratic conservative majority for most of our lives. Regardless of how old you are. You will be quite old by the time that changes.

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        A brave-enough Congress could overhaul the Supreme Court, as they had in the past.

        Unfortunately that level of courage is missing from most current politicians.

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      A complete overhaul is the prerequisite for this nightmare to be over.

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        And that overhaul is both far away and likely to be extremely painful.

        I always tell Americans to just try to get out. Failing that, it’s about surviving and not making the situation even worse in the process.

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      Not that I’m trying to pawn off our responsibilities, but I think part of that change needs to come from the rest of the world putting us in our place. Quit bending the knee and letting us get away with murder. Sanction our asses.

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        Cuba is illegal in the Untied States. All other countries should outlaw the Untied States, make it illegal to go there and illegal to possess anything made there, until the Untied States behaves itself.

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    Can’t trust Americans or can’t trust the United States because those are two inherently different groups.

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      both… after electing a convicted felon and rapist to the presidency for a SECOND time, Americans cannot escape responsability in my books

        • Ah, Threads and some other lower quality social media are full of people making snarky comments to users from the States, saying something to the effect of “we are also in the Americas, so we’re Americans, you’re a US-ian”.

          It all basically stems from the fact that in Spanish, the demonym for people from the US is “estadounidense” (United-Statesian) whereas “America” is used to refer to all of North and South America as a regions. People are too dumb to realise “America” has a different connotation in the two languages and it devolves into flame wars.

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        Sorta… But only about 65% of us voted in the last election and of that only 50% voted for these douchebags. And of those, most of them voted that way because of a single R. So I’d guess around 75% of the people don’t agree with what is going on.

        So as a concrete example, I’m an American and I’d go out of my way to help most anyone but I am not the United States.

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          Sorry but the 35% who didn’t vote, knowing the threat of Trump becoming president again was looming, are no different than those who voted Republican.

          The whole world remember his first presidential term. And we all saw the Project 2025 playbook. The US is in a mess of its own creation.

          As a Brit, I too have lost trust in Americans unless proved otherwise.

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            Oh I know, I don’t blame you in the least. I’m losing trust in my fellow Americans. The whole process was just a major fustercluck. I woke up the morning after with a serious case of dread of what was about to happen. The apathy in this country is a major issue no doubt. I’m hopeful that as shit gets worse and worse, the apathy goes away. If it doesn’t, then Handmaid’s Tale becomes more of a playbook and less a work of fiction.

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          Americans always tell themselves these lies. Yes, only 65% voted, but the ones who didn’t vote weren’t all non-voting democrats. About half would have voted Trump if they’d voted. It’s not some small minority that supported Trump, it was a majority.

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              The ones who preferred Harris, sure. The ones who preferred Trump got what they wanted without having to vote.

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          okay so you’re saying that we should be safe and play the odds and not trust any americans since the grand majority did nothing to stop this

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          Sure not everyone is on board, especially how it’s going lately, but you do spell it out kind of. Only 65% voted, that’s 35% who just decided to like give up or something. A third of you. Then a third voted MAGA, a thorn other.

          That’s the danger of the stupid third.

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            Right now, they are a danger for more than just Canadians.

            I’m not trying to be an apologist. I’m just saying most of us aren’t that stupid, xenophobic, and racist. But some of us definitely are.

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              I disagree. Drive out to rural Ontario, read the literal Trump and PPC signs, we’re no better than any Red State.

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              Look, you may be a wonderful person. I know very little about you individually.

              But, by your own numbers, the best we can say about almost 3/4 of Americans is that they are complicit in what is happening. The last election proved that they are at least “ok” with a second Trump administration even after everything that was said and done before election day.

              Given that, I hope you can understand why the rest of the world needs to take a different view than “most of us aren’t that stupid, xenophobic, and racist”.

              Your own evidence (that you presented) does not support your conclusion.

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                My only conclusion is that the pain numbers haven’t reached a point that requires action. Most people can’t see the forest for the trees and are painfully oblivious to what is going on because of whatever reason. Stupidity, willfully ignorance, it’s hurting the”right” people more, etc.

                And by “my numbers” it’s more like 50%-60%. I just want you to understand that just because the government is doing it, doesn’t mean a plurality of the citizens feel the same way. Hell even some of the most ardent GOPers are starting to balk at the shit that’s happening.

                Now, with that said, I would not come to the US as a foreigner for any reason right now whatsoever. It’s just not worth it.

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                  By your numbers, 30% of Americans voted to keep Trump away from the Presidency. The other 70% did nothing to keep him out of office.

                  70% of Americans were happy enough with a Trump presidency that they at the very least did not lift a finger to prevent it. And 50% of the 70% actively supported him.

                  Was there a car show on that day?

                  Why now do we want to say that the 70% that enabled Trump “do not feel the same way”?

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          only about 65% of us voted in the last election and of that only 50% voted for these douchebags

          So what you are saying is that the overwhelming majority of you participated in the election of Donald Trump.

          Got it.

          What was your other point again?

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      Can’t trust Americans or can’t trust the United States because those are two inherently different groups.

      Did I miss the violent military coup?

      I mean, there was that one guy that riled up his supporters to attack the capital. But then 70% of “Americans” participated in his democratic election as President just a few months ago.

      Are you suggesting we trust those guys?

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        There may have been thousands of guns there on Jan 6th but they only found like three in the hands of civilians. You’ll know if Americans get riled up enough to attack the capital.

        And no, 70% of the population didn’t vote for him, he got just under 50% of the votes, but that was only about 23% of Americans.