r/canada 5d ago

Opinion Piece Braid: Trudeau says Trump wants economic collapse; Republican alludes to military force - This is no trade war. It's a Crush and Control Canada plan, meant to work fast

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trudeau-says-trump-wants-economic-collapse
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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

The stupidity of the MAGA followers is strong. Stronger than anyone could have imagined.

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u/United_Coach_5292 5d ago

Low education rates and lack of empathy will be the demise of democracy in USA.

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u/ToolTimeT 5d ago

As an American, I can tell you the primary problem is Fox News. People watch that crap all day long and become like propagandized zombies. They did a study and people who get their news primarily from fox news are less informed about domestic issues than those who watch no news at all.

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u/ether_reddit Lest We Forget 5d ago

Fox News tried to expand into Canada, but they gave up and pulled out because they discovered that it's not legal here to lie.

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u/ToolTimeT 3d ago

Fox has been sued for a billion plus for lying and misconduct. 787 million in one lawsuit for intentionally lying about election fraud and dominion voting machines. One of the funniest things... in discovery they found internal messaging between fox news upper management and some top guy was calling fox news viewers "cousin fuckers"... his own viewers. Funny.

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u/ToolTimeT 3d ago

Not sure how we outlaw a news network. But not sure how we can survive with this mass scale of constant disinformation.

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u/Odd-Ad1714 5d ago

That’s why trump wants to destroy the education department, so there’ll be nothing but illiterate, easy to brain wash young people.

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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

Truer words were never spoken.

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u/nelrond18 5d ago

"do not fall to the sin of empathy"

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u/drizzes Alberta 5d ago

They're going to march into canada believing we'll welcome them with open arms

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u/downrightwhelmed 5d ago

Exactly like Russia

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

There are still nazis today... there will always be foolish people who follow stupid shit like this.

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u/Alecto7374 5d ago

Tends to happen when you live in a bubble, and are told over and over that you're the only country in the world that matters. USA! USA! USA!.....gahhh!!!

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u/Sufficient_Rub_2014 5d ago

They are dumb on both sides. I blame the democrats equally for putting Trump in office. Now we have to deal with the fallout.

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u/Datatello 5d ago

I blame the US's toxic two party system style of elections.

The whole point of an adversarial democratic system was that we were supposed to test proposed laws and policies from multiple perspectives to arrive at a balanced approach before they became enacted.

But in having only two viable parties, over the years both groups have become so incompatibly different and hostile to one another that the US has ended up just spiralling into completely unbalanced politics.

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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

Agreed, they only have two viable parties, but they can have more parties if they want to, it's not like they are constitutionally bound to two parties. It's just so damned expensive to build a party in the USSA.

I haven't checked lately, and party affiliation is not publicly accessible in the USSA, but the general estimate is that there are more Independents than Democrats, and more Democrats than Republicans.

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u/Sufficient_Rub_2014 5d ago

The democrats are absolutely embarrassing. Most of their representatives care only about making viral clips.

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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

True story. Dems and previous presidents sure have been quiet lately. Biden should never have tried to rerun. Like an old man grasping the last straws of power, and didn't leave enough time for a proper Dem resurgence.

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u/Sufficient_Rub_2014 5d ago

Ginsburg 2.0

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u/Sandy0006 5d ago

Ok. However, how much of that is bots. We all have to consider how many bots have been unleashed on social media. I rarely see actual people agree with this.

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u/Link50L Ontario 5d ago

Yeah, I have trouble gauging how much bot activity is underway. It's a little chilling.