• Sunshine@piefed.ca
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    6 months ago

    They sure like taking advantage of our flags to avoid their personal responsibilities instead of properly protesting Washington’s antics for decades.

    Stop being imperialist!

    • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      It’s easy to tell. Just ask an american to say lieutenant. Spell it out and ask them to say it. I am not going to give it away so they start using it. You will know as we have a very unique way of saying it.

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      6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      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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        6 months ago

        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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          6 months ago

          A brave Congress would require an overhaul of the election system. It is pretty much a catch 22. Also, if there are going to be elections in the future, they will have been corrupted as hell, the 2024 one was definitely not legitimate. The Republicans are not going to voluntarily relinquish power anymore.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      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. 🇨🇦

  • Greenbird@lemmy.world
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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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      6 months ago

      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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      6 months ago

      The one silver lining to this whole fascist takeover of the US is that I’m not an odd one out in my hatred of the USA anymore. The exceptionalism and arrogance of Americans always weirded me out and I guess this is where that all that shit lead

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    6 months ago

    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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    6 months ago

    I’ve had beef with them ever since they dressed up in redface and threw a bunch of perfectly good tea into the Boston harbour. Quite rude, and they never apologized for it.

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        Ah yes. Native American. Famously for participating the the Boston tea… Hold on…

        Are you a bot?

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          6 months ago

          You know Canadians burn down the white house, right? And the first nation people were the one that led the atk? Right?

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      6 months ago

      Especially because they were doing it to protect their smuggling profits, not out of some great and noble cause.

      Ungrateful sods too, because a lot of the war debt that the tariffs were meant to pay off were the result of beating the French on the American continent so that it could be settled by English colonists. Ever wonder why so many places in the US have French names? Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, Lafayette, Reno (a.k.a. Renault), Arkansas, Illinois…

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          6 months ago

          Well, for that you’d have to talk to a certain English colonist named “George Washington”.

          During a time when the English and French were technically at peace, this “Washington” fellow, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia Regiment, ambushed a French detachment of 50 men, killing them all, including their commander who had been carrying a diplomatic message for the British.

          This “Washington” fellow was a real fuck-up. Not only did he kick off the French and Indian war (also known as the 7 years war) by ambushing and killing a diplomatic courier during a time of peace, he then holed up in a fort which the French attacked and then he surrendered. When he surrendered, he signed a surrender document in which he took responsibility for assassinating Jumonville, the diplomatic courier.

          This dude continued to fuck up too. He resigned his commission after this because as a colonial, he wasn’t allowed to have the rank he thought he deserved. A year later, he signed on as an aide to General Edward Braddock, who was planning to expel the French from Fort Duquesne. Washington came up with the master plan of splitting the army into a main column and a second smaller “flying column”. The French and their native allies ambushed the divided army and killed 2/3 of them, including General Braddock.

          After a series of mistakes like that, I can only assume this guy faded into obscurity, forgotten as yet another failed son of a rich aristocrat. History is full of rich children like that who think they can play at “army” but who just keep screwing up.

  • billwashere@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      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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        6 months ago

        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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    6 months ago

    From Mary Poppins:

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

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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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      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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    6 months ago

    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!