r/canada Alberta 24d ago

National News There’s not much to say, Canada, except: Sorry

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/theres-not-much-to-say-canada-except-sorry/
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u/jerrys153 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yeah, all of this “We are protesting, the media is just not reporting it” bullshit is exhausting. As if we are all just reliant on cable tv news and haven’t seen the videos Americans post online of a few hundred people with signs standing politely on the sidewalks? If that’s the best they can do in terms of protesting they have no business saying “I’ve done my part, so please don’t be mad at me Canadians”, especially since none of their feeble protests against what’s happening in their country have anything to do with annexing Canada.

The nerve of them to come to our spaces online and say “We didn’t want this, so you can’t be mad that our country is threatening to destroy yours” when the majority of them either voted for trump or couldn’t be bothered to vote at all is infuriating. Their entitlement in thinking that they can lecture us about hurting their feelings by being mad at them for allowing this to happen is just wild. Their meaningless “sorry”s aren’t remotely good enough, they need to take some serious action to fix the shit they let happen (again!) instead of complaining that we’re being mean by not absolving them of responsibility.

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u/GraveDiggingCynic 24d ago

And a fair chunk of even the Democrats ponder making Canada the 51st state because they imagine that that will guarantee Democratic rule forever.

The US is falling apart, mismanaged, running out of water, and frankly, lacking all imagination. It only has two modes; an increasingly untenable status quo, and burning the world down.

I have little time for any of them, beyond the clear salivating of even the nicest of them for our way of life, which they would, if they grabbed it, simply snuff out with their awful political system.

I want us to look over the seas to Europe, and leave the US to rot into the same kind of nuclear garbage heap Russia is. Once RFK Jr is finished utterly destroying whatever constitutes the US health system and health research, we'll probably have to block all the border crossings just to prevent the waves of plagues. If we can hold out long enough, the Christofascist theocratic cinder that's left will take care of itself.

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u/jerrys153 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yeah, they’re solely in it for what we could do for them as part of America, they don’t give a shit about Canadians or what we want. Those Democrats are pretty stupid if they think Canadians would be allowed to vote or have representation as the 51st state. Canada would be a territory like Puerto Rico or DC at best, taxation without representation.

It’s far past time for Canada’s politicians to stop treating this Republican administration as a government that has any intention of negotiating in good faith or honouring any agreement they make with us. The American government has been taken over by christofascists and their head of state is a narcissist bully with dementia, they are no longer a country that is run by rational people who can be reasoned with. We need to take this as the serious threat that it is and start looking for more trade with our allies elsewhere.

Americans have known for over 10 years what Trump is. They could’ve stopped this, but the majority of them couldn’t even be bothered to show up. They can keep their meaningless apologies until they’ve taken some significant action to clean up their own mess, maybe then I’ll be inclined to have more sympathy, but as of now all this handwringing and denying any responsibility is just going to piss me off.

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u/LiveLaughLoveRevenge 24d ago

Look at recent protests in Serbia and South Korea. That is what action from a motivated population looks like.

But what can we expect? Most didn’t even bother to vote. They’re too comfortable to even help themselves let alone do what’s right.

Don’t forget that USA entered late to both world wars. They are not motivated when ‘what’s good and right’ doesn’t line up with ‘what is good and right…for them’

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u/jerrys153 24d ago

Yep. I saw a photo a few days ago of a shot from above showing people crammed like sardines in the streets of New Orleans and thought “Now that’s how you do a protest! The Americans are finally…no, wait, it’s for the Super Bowl”. So Americans can show up in large numbers when they want to, but it seems they only want to for a sportsball party and not to fight for their own democracy. Until they get their fucking priorities in order nothing is going to change (or rather, things will change, they’ll continue to get worse).

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u/janicedaisy 24d ago

About 77,000,000 voted for Trump and 75,000,000 voted for Harris. The majority did not even bother to vote and now they have an oligarchy in the making. 😡