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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just shows how much money we "give" to America. We could be boosting our own economy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

American here. Hurt MAGA more if possible.

EDIT:

, and sacrificing free will along the way.

Is this a typo?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As an American I just wanted to say;

Thank you SO so much, Canada. And please, keep up the good work and if and when you can, boycott even harder! You are all very loved and envied by someone in Seattle!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I don't think it's just Canada either. I get the feeling that a whole lot of countries are reevaluating their relationship with the US and US made goods. And the way ICE and border patrol are behaving, I think it's likely that overseas tourism is going to completely dry up in less than a year. Hell, even interstate tourism is likely to take a significant hit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed! Also, "O Canada" is way, way, better than "The Star-Spangled Banner."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a songwriting musician of over thirty years, I wholeheartedly agree. But then again, the Star Spangled Banner is a cover song.

The original was much better.

Personally, I think the only thing America ever did better then the Brits is The Office.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What you linked is a cover, the US national anthem is a parody

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Generally, I prefer the original version of things, but I do like the US version of Ghosts better than the British one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think we are doing enough. There are many businesses with american ownership. Many attractions in Banff are owned by americans. We need to target them as well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

If you’re still letting in the profiteers who financialized every aspect of US life, you’re still going to turn into the US. While you need to keep an eye on Trump, you also need to take care of the healthcare profiteers elbow deep in destroying your healthcare system for privatization.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Oh yea, really "crushing" MAGA. Every morning, MAGA supporters wake up in tears going "oh why won't the mean Canadians buy our stuff? I'm now really regretting my vote and my support of Trump!"

Oh wait. They don't do any of that. They're still frothing at the mouth in support of Trump and are happier than pigs in shit that their side is "winning".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t think you understand how this works. This isn’t to turn the eyes of his mindless minion loyalists to the light of reasoning Nope. Not at all.

In fact, all the evidence one needs to prove that they are completely fine to just sit in the dark and have others tell them what they are supposed to think, lies soundly in their inability to know how not to elect a fascist dictator that will ruin their lives.

So no, it’s not about trump’s loyalist goons.

Boycotting American businesses causes those businesses to put pressure on trump’s gremlin-hive of an administration. It sends a very clear message that his idiot-coated actions have real world consequences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oh please. Maga business owners in Kentucky are definitely feeling the pinch. Its doing its part.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They may be too ignorant to notice but once their country is in the toilet, they'll feel that

And no, it is not Canadians doing that. The clown they chose for President is taking care of it all himself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure not everything is about you bud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

These fuckin yanks are so exhausting these days.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dean Blundell is a former radio shock jockey who has been publishing pro-left disinformation and conspiracy theories lately.

He has an article stating Carney orchestrated a bonds sell off with Europe and Japan which would be cool as fuck if it were real.. the story is widely discredited.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/11/canada-mark-carney-treasurys-sell-off/

He has another false article stating Carney kicked the US out of NORAD.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-announces-earth-shaking

I love reading his stories because they're well written and designed to make leftists feel good. If you treat them as fiction you won't be likely to spread the misinformation they contain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that the bonds story is true or not, and neither is Snopes. The article you linked said they don't know if it's true or not, and no one will tell them. Hardly a smoking gun. Really all Snopes does is attempt to discredit Blundell.

Under normal circumstances, and with someone else (not Carney) I would say it's bullshit, but Carney is one of the few people in the world that I think could pull it off, if it's true. Believe me, I am still skeptical about it's truth, but it's not far fetched.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the bonds story, I love how it's tied to many actual true events. I want it to be true in my heart.

But there isn't any evidence that it's true, and I don't think Blundell is the guy who would have the "inside scoop" and leak it when no one else does. He just doesn't have the credentials or the connections. This combined with the verifiably false and misleading statements on his site like were excluding the US from NORAD means he's simply not a credible source.

This kind of thing is exactly how the right wing conspiracy mindset started gaining broad acceptance and I just don't want to see us on the left fall for the same trap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I would tend to agree. We don't need to be using the same tools the lunatics do, it's what makes them lunatics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Bravo! Make yourselves stronger and more independent.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So thanks for that, but...that's not really the point.

We're not trying to hurt Trump and MAGA. We're not trying to either destroy the US or get it back to where we were a year ago.

Trump - and more to the point, his re-election - was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Canada finally has said "enough is enough."

We're not doing this anymore. We're not tying our country's fate to ANY other nation - not the US, not England, not China or Eritrea.

Canada cannot afford to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of convenience and harmony.

Canada has one direction: Forward. We are reclaiming our sovereignty, our culture, and our place as a progressive leader in the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

We need to, it remains to be seen whether or not we will. Don't forget, a huge number of us are still shopping american. If this situation goes away, the convenience of trading with the US could easily take over again. People lack conviction, integrity and have short memories. It will take a long-term, concerted effort by the majority of the populace and multiple governments to maintain our trajectory away from US dependence. I'd love to see it happen, but I have little faith our fellow citizens have the constitution to stay the course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I really wish so many people didn't miss this point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Canada is a relatively small country. Strategic partnerships are going to be critical moving forward but creating some distance with the US is a crucial first step as it is no longer a reliable trading partner.

The US was by far the greatest financial benefactor of WW2, in part due to geographic isolation, allowing it to sell weapons to its allies without having its factories destroyed by warplanes, which in turn allowed it to collect 80% of the world's gold supply and set its currency as the global standard. As a nation, it played its hand / leveraged its newfound wealth exceptionally well in the post WW2 period.

It made sense to have a strong trading relationship at the time, given the proximity and that the war allowed the US to amass a disproportionate amount of purchasing power.

It seems that the US has decided it does not want to lead the world any longer, despite its economic might. Hopefully there is good that can come of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Did you really mean the US as greatest "benefactor" of WW2 (as in, helping others) or as greatest "beneficiary" of WW2 (as in, gaining from it).

Because it looks a lot like the latter since in helping others the US was mainly helping itself and that help didn't come for free (for example, the UK only finished paying the debt to the US from that "help" in, if I'm not mistaken, 2012), plus the US gained its superpower status exactly from, as you pointed out, still having their factories and selling weapons to its allies.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What are you saying, that you care more about doing right by your own countrymen than you do about harming your perceived enemies??

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It takes a ton of effort to piss off Canada

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