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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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    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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          I am Canadian, so what is this we?

          If he invades Canada, that will start WW3, he won’t do it. He is too busy destabilising his own country, and deporting people. Also, we have no nukes, compared to the u.s. having over +5,000.

          I think we should up security checks for guns and drugs coming into Canada, but not search phones unless we have probable cause. We don’t have to stoop down to Donald Trump’s level.

          Make them feel welcomed coming into our country, and hated going back into their own country. We don’t need a wall, or nukes. You silly Goober.

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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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      You’re telling me that people like Steve Bannon don’t go to Europe to spread their hateful shitty rhetoric all around the world? Or that 77 million that voted for Trump have nothing to do with his election?

      I know it’s not “all of them”, but it’s a good chunk. It lowers the trust level in general, want it or not.

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      The American people control who is elected at the voting booth. THEY did this.

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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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    6 in 10 Canadians had too much trust in US citizens

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    Many of my friends are American trans people desperate to be able to stay here, terrified of going back.

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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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      American here and I agree.

      Even within the borders of this asylum, the “6 in 10 don’t trust the US and/or the average American” feels like it would be in the ballpark for the locals. For the people living next to this shit, yeah more like your numbers.

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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 chud 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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      I never understood this stereotype (aboot vs about). I’m Canadian, lived here all my life, my family is all Canadian and all have lived here all their lives. I’ve got family all across the country, from the western coast of BC to the eastern coast of Newfoundland, from the northern stretches of Nunavut to the most southern tip of Ontario, and very rarely have I ever heard it pronounced that way. It’s actually really funny as a Canadian to look up “how to speak like a Canadian” and watch how awful most of the “tips” are. I’d recommend it.

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        A lot of people in the us will misinterpret a rural Ontario accent as Californian because way back in the day a bunch of people from Ontario moved to California and apparently the accent kind of caught on.

        There’s a town called Ontario in California even.

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        I think “oot” emphasises the difference from US accents for parody reasons, and also it’s just not that simple to describe that difference by substituting a single letter of the alphabet. The best way I can think of to describe it (based on experience with friends from BC) is like a combination of “oht” and “oat”

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          I’m in the US and I have to support this analysis. I dated someone from Canada when I was younger, and at first he expressed the same thought as the poster above - he didn’t hear the difference, so he didn’t get it.

          Until he came to visit me in the states. The difference between how his dad and my dad talked was so apparent, the stereotype just “clicked.” To say “aboot” is definitely an exaggeration, but in all fairness, it’s really hard to repeat a sound that isn’t in your native dialect. There is no US-English equivalent for the “ou” sound in Canadian English “about.”

          It’s like when a Japanese speaker uses a Z sound instead of English TH - it’s not because Z is exactly what they hear when an English person says TH, but because the TH sound doesn’t exist in Japanese at all. In both cases (and so many more across the world), speakers substitute non-standard sounds with ones they already know.

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        One time I was having a conversation with a woman that I had never met before. About 5 minutes into the conversation, she used a word with the “ou” vowel sound and I asked her if she was Canadian. She was caught off guard and didn’t understand how I correctly assumed she was Canadian.

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        Afaik, the aboot thing is a regional dialect thing in parts of Ontario.

        And, as we know, Toronto represents all Canadians… (or at least thinks they do)

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        its more like “a-boat”. I’ve never even been to Canada, but I can often spot a Canadian on TV within moments based on how they speak.

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          How does an American pronounce it?

          A vast majority of the Canadians I know pronounce it the same way as “out”, “sprout”, “trout” etc.

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            To me a standard American accent sounds like they’re replacing the OU with AW, “abawt”. Or maybe “abowt” if they pronounced it like the bow of a ship (not like a fancy knot or the weapon).

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        Same, never heard ‘aboot’ in my life. However, I do tend to say ‘-eh’ all the time, especially at the end of sentences as emphasis.

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          I definitely use “eh” a lot, that stereotype is pretty accurate, though I feel like a lot of Americans don’t quite understand the usage of the word.

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        It’s because everyone’s accents have gotten less distinct/strong due to TV. I know people from the US south with barely an accent because of this.

        Also, some of the accent stereotype comes from your own movie productions, especially older ones when the accents were more like that:

        https://youtu.be/EojzfxXGxtE

        Granted they are playing this up for their characters

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          I absolutely love Bob and Doug McKenzie but they’re definitely not representative of the average Canadian. Like you said, they’re playing it up for their characters. They play an exaggerated stereotype of a dim-witted drunken Canadian. They’re kind of like Canadian Homer Simpsons in a way. A great comedy duo, truly one of the best, but most Canadians don’t sound like that.

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        It’s exaggerated. I’m from Newfoundland and have little to no regional accent, but still have very slight grammatical and phonetic tells that are apparently obvious to people from elsewhere.

        I use more long “O” sounds than people in the US which is apparently obvious almost immediately, and I have some odd grammar whitch apparently singles me out as from NL very quickly to anyone in Canada.

        Also, apparently the way I say “thirteen” has a stronger hint of Newfoundland in it than the rest of my speech, at least according to one of my co-workers from Ontario.

        It’s quite possible that having such a wide ranging family same social circle has simple acclimated you to the various regional differences in dialect.

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          It’s exaggerated.

          I watch a lot of Canadian Youtube, it’s totally a mix.

          80% of the time it’s identical to US about

          19% of the time it’s aboawt.

          1% of the time it’s totally a-boot.

          With a US English ear, it’s jarring. (not in a bad way) but we totally notice it.

          Not eveyone does it. Linus from Linus tech tips drops one every few shows, but then Electro Boom never does. Bobsdecline does it a little less often.

          It’s kind of like the US and Brittish people saying Idear instead of idea. it happens once in a while

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            I think Linus does it as a meme, more than as part of his natural speech.

            And Bobsdecline is from the opposite coast.

            The aboot thing is mostly a southern Ontario thing, but since that is where a lot of traditional media comes from, it is the most commonly exported Canadian regional accent.

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              Linus might be meaming it, but I have heard others say it. The aboat version of it is even common across the northern border in central US.

              I also just ran across a video of two Canadian English teachers talking about it, but they too were almost in the aboat class.

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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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    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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    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

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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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          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?

        • 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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      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.