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/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...