… and it wasn’t our fault either. They literally betrayed us. We helped them with the forest fires and they stabbed us in the back. The fact that there aren’t widespread revolts and mass demonstrations and labour strikes going on in that country right now tells us a lot about the people there and their values.
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It’s pretty wild that the median income before tax in the USA is less than the median income in Denmark after tax (based solely on income tax). Just to put things into perspective.
With that said, it will only get worse for the American people if they don’t get rid of this administatrion, and everything that has made it possible for this administration to do as it does. You think it’s hard to make ends meet now? What about when you don’t have any tradepartners anymore? Or when all your worker rights are stripped away?
While I can’t fault your feelings, a lot of us are unable to do much without going homeless/hungry.
So you are waiting for your personal turn on the DOGE chopping block?.. bit of advice, by the time they come for YOU specifically, it will be too late
I don’t like this rhetoric. Mainly the last part where folks not demonstrating means we have bunk values. From my perspective we are an anti social bunch who generally suck at organizing. I don’t have an easy way to just join up in a mass protest and I barely know where to start. I am depressed and anxious. I am trying to do what I can. Want me to just not work?? Me and who??? How will I eat?? I’d love to demonstrate.
Being anti-social and not organizing are bunk values. America will never get better until we admit the ways in which it sucks.
Unionize! Start by just talking to your coworkers about pay. You can make a difference, but it will take a long time to unfuck.
I don’t value being disorganized and antisocial. It’s just where I am at the moment.
I appricate your tone. I feel like advice and support are needed. The person earlier wanted to condemn us for having not done massive organizations at the pace they felt we should.
I get that folks are angry. Fair. It’s sad to see the anger so misplaced though. To blame the citizens we’d have to have much freer and fairer elections IMO. Not that many people vote, and the president won by like 3%. America is know for having poor work-life balance.
Lots of folks are trying. I’d much rather solidarity in the working class, and punishment for those that actually made this happen. (That being the doner class, political establishment, heritage foundation etc)
You would be a fool to be close with America right now. The Nazi take over is in full swing.
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”…unless your enemy is the fascist US government. Stay far, far away from them!
Elbows up, buddy!
And the thing i don’t think Americans have accepted yet… there’s no going back. They can vote the democrats back in next year. But we - their traditional allies will never be there for them again.
America will forever be isolated as untrustworthy.
If a proper revolution happens US will be taken back for sure. The problem is that Americans are way too comfortable for any major change and have been for a long time.
They’re in for a lot of discomfort though. Like generations of it.
I’ve been seeing “comfortable” a lot, but I think honestly it’s less comfort and more confusion. I know it’s popular to portray us all as lazy, drinking our Big Gulp slushies and watching sportsball, but that’s not the whole picture.
We all know it sucks, we might call our reps, our friends might go wave some signs…but ultimately we’re culturally unaccustomed to organization, and that part cripples meaningful resistance. As the commenter below me stated, “lack of civic culture” and “hyper individualism” nails it.
Okay, we all want different things, we all struggle at wildly different randomized shifts because most of us are one missed paycheck away from disaster, how do we know who our friends are? No no, not the “Yeah man, that sucks lol idk.” friends, the ones who will actually fight with you?
Consequently, we’re suffering a massive lonliness epidemic where a lot of people not only have very little civic ties, they don’t even have a network of reliable companionship! A lot of this is simply thanks to suburban dominance and nowhere left to meet that’s not charging admission.
I don’t think that’s particularly a take on americans being lazy but a general issue where developed world populations tend to be more obedient because of they’re stuck in the zone of comfortable compliance.
China is by far the most extreme example of this. It’s a complete autocracy but also the economy is great and consumerism rampant.
Even the MAGA crowd are aware of this, they just think it’s a good thing. The only thing americans can all agree on is that we have some serious housecleaning to do.
I don’t think that’s true. I think the MAGAs have lived in such a comfortable bubble of American privilege that they don’t understand the implications of all this. They’re used to making jokes about Canada, “basically being the U.S.,” and having free and easy travel on the border that they don’t think about the fact that it’s a sovereign nation with it’s own culture and interests. I think they see this as politicians arguing, not America becoming a hostile foreign power.
Even the administration doesn’t seem to get this. They just had to cancel a, “cultural,” visit from the Second Lady to Greenland because both the government and public told them they were unwelcome. Apparently, they’re so steeped in American privilege (and probably used to people dismissing Trump ramblings as, “bluster,” or, “hot air,”) that it didn’t occur to them that you can’t just make a fun, friendly visit to a country the President threatened to invade.
They need a constitutional reform, limiting the power of the president to do shit like this unilaterally
Along with abolishing the electoral college and gerrymandering
The so called president doesn’t care about the constitution, judges or laws. He gets away with it.
We’re supposed to have a new constitution every generation.
“There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.”
— Thomas Paine
I don’t know why Canada and Mexico haven’t done a press conference where they rip up the USMCA agreement.
MEXI-CAN trade agreement?
Donald Trump is the enemy of the state…welp…guess WW3 is getting closer and closer…
Just wait until the US and Russia team up to form the new Axis.
I vote we all change the name officially to the United States of Mexico.
I’ve got a sign up sheet going for New England secession if anyone wants in
Northeast South Canada, checking in here! My people moved into this land just a few generations ago. The motherland calls…
I am reminded of Winston Churchill saying that Americans will do the right thing after they have exhausted all other options.
I just didn’t quite realize how far “all other options“ could really go.
I think we’ve proven ol’ Churchill wrong this time.
This goes for every country, except maybe Russia. Arrogant prick thinks the US doesn’t need anybody else. Those who aren’t rich who think that way will be doing the finding out as a result of his fucking around.
Our era of close ties with Russia has been over for a damn hot minute. Trump thinks he’s friends with Putin, but Putin just wants to cripple the US.
Regardless of motivations, if the US government is friendly with Russia’s, it’s a close relationship.
I guess if you’re just looking at one side. To me a close relationship requires mutual commitment, like we used to have with Canada. Our appeasement of Russia isn’t closeness, it’s obsequiousness.
This really sucks for the still sane Americans
I want to leave but cant even imagine any country that would take me.
True but honestly we kind of deserve it.
We deserve to no longer be able to boss everyone around with our “soft power,” but it shouldn’t have taken a fascist takeover to get there.
I guess but a lot of us have been fighting against this rise of Nazis but we’re up against a multibillion dollar brainwashing machine and billion dollar facist think tanks. I don’t think a lot of us deserve this because we have been trying. I don’t see this ending without violence and unfortunately our side is losing so we better get our shit together.
Sucks for us Canadians, too.
Border states, snowbird states, and dual citizens are going through it. This is likely the worst diplomatic move in recent American history.
Well, yeah, what else would the US expect? Sincerely, a pissed off hoser
Trump had permanently altered relations with the United States and that, regardless of any future trade deals, there would be “no turning back.”
“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over,” Carney said.
that sounds pretty bad, but it’s not very specific
As well it should be. Even if we get our act together and elect another sane president, we’ve demonstrated that we’re happy to burn every single bridge we’ve spent so long building, and that it isn’t some one-off fuckup either
The US will have to crawl through the door on the right if they ever want to have any kind of decent relationship with other countries again. And we will NOT be getting our favored status that we’ve enjoyed since the end of WWII back. As the British Empire went, so too does the American Empire.
The USA can gargle my balls.
The government and its supporters, anyway.
That’s over 75 million people.
Which means 265 million people remain who don’t.
You’d trust them to?
Chomp
Well this got me off the toilet.
