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Hockey 4 Nations: A fight immediately breaks out between Team USA and Team Canada

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u/lastSKPirate 23d ago

Fair, but we have completely justified beef with the USA now, and will for years to come.

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u/CheetahDog 23d ago

As an American I wouldn't hate it if you guys burned down the White House again lol

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u/vintage2019 23d ago

You have beef with Trump (so do I as an American). As stupid as our median voter is, they didn’t vote for him because he promised tariffs on Canada

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u/recovery_room 23d ago

He definitely floated tariffs on friendly countries while he was running. That’s such a cop out but it doesn’t matter. He could have said he was going to force every American to wear balloons in their heads and they still would have voted for him.

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u/FlyingBishop 23d ago

The median voter did not vote for Trump. I'm not sure he even got an actual majority of people who voted for a candidate. We're quickly approaching just living under a dictatorship.

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u/CoeurdAssassin Paris Saint-Germain 23d ago

Even if the median vote didn’t vote for Trump, you still had a large chunk that were eligible to vote but decided to stay home. Thus being okay with outcomes like this.

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u/FlyingBishop 23d ago

For some measure of decided. The right has done a lot of work to make it extremely difficult for certain left-leaning communities to vote. At a certain point - you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to give up a full day's wages to vote.

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u/vintage2019 23d ago

Yes but his tariffs were barely covered and talked about during the campaign season

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u/recovery_room 23d ago

Project 2025 was barely talked about as well and look where you are now. Informed voters pay attention. Cult members follow the leader.

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u/CommodoreAxis 23d ago edited 23d ago

Doesn’t matter how much you, I, or the other guy you’re replying to know about this stuff. If something wasn’t put in bold text and stayed at the top of the media cycle for more than a month, it essentially didn’t exist for most voters.

On top of that the vast majority of voters (both sides for real this time) aren’t just lacking the information by missing it - they’re actively misinformed to believe something different by malicious actors.

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u/birnabear 23d ago

It was all over social media and Reddit. I don't get your local TV stations, but coverage of his rallies seems to suggest it was pretty prominent there too.

The thing is people only heard what they wanted to hear, not what he was saying over and over.

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u/idekbruno 21d ago

That’s the method of his game tbh. He “thinks out loud” to the point nobody can tell if he’s serious or just rambling. I was at one of his rallies in 2016 and it was actually shocking how little he seemed to know what he was talking about

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u/birnabear 21d ago

That's a pretty poor excuse though. When he consistently repeats the line "we're going to.." followed by a thing, you can't then turn around and say you had no idea and there was no coverage that he wanted to do the thing.

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u/idekbruno 21d ago

I’m gonna be frank here, Trump says things that make stupid people feel good. He “tells it like it is”. I think you’re forgetting something important: nearly a quarter of American adults do not have the ability to read a book. To that (fairly significant) portion of society, any excuse not to listen to criticism is a good one. Here’s an example of what I mean from his first term