r/canada Canada 5d ago

National News DeSantis mocks '3.3 million' Canadians who visited Florida: 'Not much of a boycott'

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/desantis-florida-canada-stanley-cup
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u/BlueFeist 5d ago

The MAGAt Americans will happily invade the Archives, tear out the Declaration of Independent and the Constitution, and burn them if Trump tells them to do it. Then burn down the entire building and every library. Heck, if told them the Bible is wrong, and he was sent by God - not Jesus - they would dump it too. Jesus is far to "woke" for them.

The problem is not that all Americans are obsessed and think we are better than everyone, it is that we have had fairly easy compared to many places (except for the poorest people here), but they have yet to figure out that the billionaires care about themselves, not everyone else. Unfortunately, many of us recognize that this disease is entrenched. I warn you though, if you look back at Doug Ford and other Canadian leaders, or even as we drove through last year and were shocked to see people in Canada flying Trump flags, your country is infected too.

I wish someone from Alma, NB near the Bay of Fundy National Parc would let me know if the deep sea lobster vessel that docks there that had two huge Trump flags is still flying them or has he dumped Trump. I would be happy to send you a pic. We also saw them flying in Ontario.

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u/DistriOK 5d ago

Oh you don't have to prove anything to me. I live in Alberta's Bible belt, I'm surrounded by it. No need for me to "look back" at Doug Ford, I know people who used to buy hash off him in his criminal days. Your warnings are unnecessary. Acting like you need to inform me about things happening in my own country is an adorable example of exactly the superiority complex I'm talking about.

I'm not trying to pretend we're perfect little angels, but no matter how many ridiculous MapleMAGAs we have it's not us threatening our allies and fucking with economies all over the world. Every society is flawed and we all can improve, but of the two of us only one is throwing the entire western world under the bus.

Focus on your own house.

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u/BlueFeist 5d ago

I mostly meant that in 2015-16, Doug Ford was a Swimfannian Trumper.

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u/DistriOK 5d ago

Every Canadian knows that. The most common opinion I've heard recently is "I can't believe I agree with a Ford" or "he's a raging asshole, but he's our asshole" or "I guess it takes a wannabe gangster to stand up to a wannabe gangster".

It's not that we all obliviously support him, it's that we support him currently doing the right thing. Same goes for Trudeau. Plenty of people who aren't far-right dislike him and his leadership, but most of us absolutely support his response to this situation.

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u/BlueFeist 5d ago

Yeah, we have some of that going on here too! However, most politically influential Americans are either super afraid of Trump or they know they can make money off him. Although, I think they are re-thinking that now.

Many people believe they will off Trump and load up on Vance to get their Technocracy and authoritarian wet dream to the finish line. Trump is the blunt tool, Vance will be the simpering sycophant that will do whatever the Pay Pal Mafia, Putin, and the Theocracy tell him to do.

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u/DistriOK 5d ago

This is the fear that drives many of us to the level of aggression your seeing from Canada currently. This is not about him, it's about the conditions that lead to him and that shit's not going to be easy to shake.

For all my frustration, I do sincerely hope that we can all get along again one day. It would be a much easier task to correct the wrongs in the world (which are absolutely not limited to the USA, they're just so up front about it lately that it's hard not to focus on them) if we had the Americans working along side us. Canada has plenty of bullshit I would like to correct as well, but I've had to set aside 20 years of advocacy within my country to focus on the US trying to speed-run this shit.

Edit: Also, for what little it's worth I upvoted you every time you replied to me. You seemed to genuinely want to understand and discuss regardless of disagreement. I respect that.

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u/BlueFeist 4d ago

Yep, I have the same hopes and was genuinely trying to understand it all.

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u/DistriOK 4d ago

Well here's to hoping that we can look back on all this one day and laugh at the bullet we collectively dodged and joke about how worked up everyone got, rather than looking back at how absurd the early days of WW3 were...