Maybe I’m being a bit dramatic, yeah, but we’re living in really dramatic times.

we’re never annexing Canada or your minerals

I mean, a lot of people didn’t expect Trump to tear down the American government within months of getting into power either. With Trump stating that he wants to annex Canada “through economic means” and then immediately attacking us with ridiculous tariffs, it seems like he’s following through on that. I don’t think he’ll hurt us as bad economically as he’s hoping though, so I don’t think him declaring actual war on us out of the picture. It honestly seems like he’s already trying to warm his base up to the idea with us being “a national security threat” and “overrun by cartels”.

Idk, just try to picture the POTUS repeatedly saying he’s going to annex your home for months on end, and then try not to get a little bit on edge.

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America having a civil war [will] make your life as a Canadian objectively worse

Yeah I admit you’re most definitely right about this. It really wouldn’t be a good time

I don’t know if you understand the pettiness and absolute disdain of the idea of being American that Canadians have. I live in Ottawa so I would be in the city that gets nuked if it came to that

I think I’d rather be nuked than be lead by the orange man ngl

Better than the current situation honestly. Both being preoccupied is better than Trump’s admirations of Canadian minerals

Secede and then we can trade :)

I live close to Parliament and I’ve already seen idiots with “F🍁CK CARNEY” flags waving them out front. Theres a few people who never really left after the convoy and I gotta wonder how they have the free time to spend every day out there.

and the rest of the world wants to see: Is there any way they can make a deal?

Naaaah, I’d rather just not deal with the USA at all

If the rest of the world can reconfigure its trade (which it’s in the process of doing), it’s going to impact the US a lot more than anywhere else.

Looking at that archived Tweet, I forgot what it was like for Twitter responses to not be unhinged

SmartTube is the best. There was a small period of time recently where it stopped working and it was so bad going back to regular YT that I just stopped watching entirely.

Or the USA in general (if they have the means to escape)

Oh fair enough! I didn’t know the dual citizenship part

Palaye Royale seems to be an American band. According to their Wikipedia, they’re from Las Vegas, NV. I think they should be removed :/

I moved all my domains over to FullHost.ca from NameCheap and they’ve been pretty good so far. As far as I can tell, they’re just a reseller but their support has been really good.

the centrists are the Republicans who left the party over Trump, and the right-leqning Democrats

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Not really directed at you specifically, it’s just that it seems like the top response to Trump doing anything is that it’s just a distraction. I can’t really put my finger on exactly what it is about it that bugs me, but I think it just comes across as dismissive

Edit: I think it bothers me the most when it’s something in relation to a country other than the USA. Like fine, write off the stuff that only affects the US, but to hear things just shrugged off as “it’s only a distraction” from a citizen of the country where said things are really screwing us over is just irritating.

It’s like if someone just threw a handful of shit at you and someone else says “oh yeah that’s just a distraction 🤷”

For sure and I wouldn’t call 1980s centrists fascists but at this point the US Overton window has shifted so far to the right that it’s hard to forgive anyone still in the middle. Like you have one party that’s brought on a billionaire to dismantle the government, threatening annexation of a number of sovereign nations, detaining people (not even convicted of any crimes) in brutal, torturous ways, and a million other horrid things; and then you have the other party that just kind of wants to keep things the status-quo.

If the former party is fascism and the latter is (sane) liberal conservatism, what would you call someone in the centre of that? Looking in from outside the US, I don’t see much of a difference between proponents of the fascism and the centrists. Like if I hear someone “in the centre” say “hmm well maybe Trump is right, we should invade Canada/Greenland/Panama”, I’m going to rightfully call them a fascist.

Important note: I wouldn’t say this applies to other countries where the Overton window isn’t so insanely far to the right

Not everything is a distraction and your country needs to stop dismissing everything as one

Man what? Your Democrat party is basically right wing for the rest of the west. Are you saying every other countries’ left leaning parties are authoritarian? Canada’s Liberal party would be more progressive than the Democratic Party and they’re not even our most progressive party…

What you’re saying is the most ignorant, America-brained political take I’ve seen recently

Honestly, it just makes Carney seem even better at handling Trump so if that was his intention, I’d say it backfired