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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

probably for the best

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

pls take new england as a new province daddy 👉 👈 🥺

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

And Cascadia too, please.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 149 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Decades of history burned by one asshole.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

It's not one, at least half of our federal government is behind this and is signing off/agreeing with this.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 129 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

...and also thousands of enablers in every branch of government, every boardroom, and every newsroom.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't forget the millions of voters as well

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the important part.

The whole world suffered trump's first term as a sort of scam that many confused, struggling Americans fell for.

But then y'all go and do it a second time? Fuck you.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 36 points 1 week ago (14 children)

And millions who didn't vote for him but also didn't protest his actions.

Imagine how Canadians may feel upon seeing their "friends" go along with Trump's actions.

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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 30 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is the worst part (for US), it tooks them decades to build a solid and trusted relationship with the western world, and within 3 month, all of that is gone.

It's not Canada or Denmark which will suffer the most from-it, but US themselves

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Destroying is much, much easier than building, any idiot can do it.

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not Canada or Denmark which will suffer the most from-it, but US themselves

I get what you are saying but at the same time as a Canadian that comes across as more American-centric myopia.

We are a small country in terms of people with only nominally more people than the state of California spread out over a landmass 1.6% larger than the US. Our energy infrastructure doesn't fully connect through our own country and due to American strong arming a lot of our manufacturing industry is not super robust. It's the Goose next to the Eagle. We're tough enough to defend ourselves and make it hurt to attack us but we aren't getting anything out of this fight. For us it's a fight for our lives not a fight we can profit off of. Whatever wounds we take in this fight will soften us up for the regular problems we fight. The forest fires that have become exponentially worse through climate change that have erased entire cities off our map. The healthcare crisis of a mass of retiring boomers needing more care in a system that has constantly under fire from Americanizing rhetoric that has caused disinvestment from an ethically better system. The protectionist rhetoric that comes with conflict which will erode the systems of government and create legal precedent for more autocratic means of operation that will need to be later undone. The pausing of reconciliation efforts with indigenous nations. This conflict, even as it is now, will cause real trackable losses of life and livelihood some of which will not come back.

Our existence and future as a sovereign nation is threatened but nope "The US will be the real victims of this"? Bloody fucking tonedeaf mate.

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

To be fair, it really started in 2015 when trump started his first run. His first term definitely brought attention to the rest of the world to ask if we were really this stupid. A second term is just a confirmation.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Damn bros. This makes me sad on a Friday. We used to be besties.

Eh fuck governments, I'll always love my Canadian bros.

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