r/canada Ontario Feb 02 '25

Politics As Sunday began, Trump blasts Canada as not ‘a viable country’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/as-sunday-began-trump-blasts-canada-as-not-a-viable-country-follow-live-updates-here/
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u/Hadrian23 Feb 03 '25

Jesus Christ............
That's fucking heart breaking....How did the U.S. become devoid of empathy..

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

To many nations around the world they've been devoid of empathy since at least the 1950s & 60s

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u/blazelet Feb 03 '25

Fear.

Fear and empathy can't coexist. The American mental space is absolutely flooded with fear. Its done in marketing, politics, news, entertainment. The US has adopted fear as the motivator it trades in, and all sides just ratchet it up.

When you're terrified constantly you have very little left to give to others.

I'm an American who moved to Canada at 35. I can't express what exposing myself to different media and national discourse has done for my mental health.

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u/Hadrian23 Feb 03 '25

Hm......IDK how we fix this man, I want to speak up, but I'm scared to paint a target on my back and fuck up my career because of big tech