From an American-
I’m sure by now you all have seen our government’s ‘official response’ to your wildfires. I saw that, and as an American I am beyond appalled. Please know that the public statements made by our government do not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the American people.
When the US had wildfires, Canada sent us significant support including numerous firefighting aircraft, air crews, and support equipment. This was not a small token contribution, it made a real difference. It saved lives and property and forest. That is how neighbors and friends are supposed to help each other out, and we appreciated the hell out of it. It is not forgotten.
To hear that our ‘official response’ to your wildfires is to threaten… I have no words to describe the feeling. I am proud to be American, I love my country, but today I am ashamed. That these things are being said as representative of me and my countrymen… it is beyond shameful. We are supposed to be better than this. Better allies, better neighbors, better humans. I am ashamed and angry that my government is representing me and my fellow Americans in this manner.
I can only say that the majority of Americans do not feel this way. Forget the propaganda you see on the news (and it is mostly propaganda). The people of this country love our northern friends, we feel for you. We don’t want to annex Canada or punish you for a natural disaster or any of this crap. We want you all to be safe. We want to help.
THAT is who we are, even if we suck at electing politicians that represent that belief.
Stay safe. Be well. We love you.
Je passe ce texte par Google Traduction car mon français est médiocre…
De la part d’un Américain…
Je suis certain que vous avez tous vu, à présent, la « réponse officielle » de notre gouvernement face à vos incendies de forêt. En tant qu’Américain, j’en suis profondément indigné. Sachez que les déclarations publiques de notre gouvernement ne reflètent ni les pensées ni les convictions de la majorité du peuple américain.
Lorsque les États-Unis ont été touchés par des incendies, le Canada nous a apporté un soutien considérable, notamment en envoyant de nombreux avions de lutte contre les incendies, des équipages aériens et du matériel de soutien. Il ne s’agissait pas d’un simple geste symbolique ; cette aide a fait une réelle différence. Elle a permis de sauver des vies, des biens et des forêts. C’est ainsi que les voisins et les amis sont censés s’entraider, et nous avons énormément apprécié ce geste. Nous ne l’avons pas oublié.
Apprendre que la « réponse officielle » de notre pays face à vos incendies consiste à proférer des menaces… les mots me manquent pour décrire ce que je ressens. Je suis fier d’être Américain et j’aime mon pays, mais aujourd’hui, j’ai honte. Que de tels propos soient tenus en mon nom et en celui de mes compatriotes… c’est tout simplement honteux. Nous sommes censés valoir mieux que cela. Être de meilleurs alliés, de meilleurs voisins, de meilleurs êtres humains. J’éprouve de la honte et de la colère de voir mon gouvernement nous représenter, mes compatriotes et moi, de cette manière.
Je tiens à dire que la majorité des Américains ne partagent pas ce point de vue. Oubliez la propagande que vous voyez aux informations (car il s’agit bien, pour l’essentiel, de propagande). La population de ce pays aime ses amis du Nord ; nous sommes de tout cœur avec vous. Nous ne voulons ni annexer le Canada, ni vous punir pour une catastrophe naturelle, ni rien de tout ce non-sens. Nous voulons que vous soyez en sécurité. Nous voulons vous aider.
C’est cela, notre véritable nature, même si nous sommes incapables d’élire des responsables politiques qui incarnent ces valeurs.
Prenez soin de vous. Portez-vous bien. Nous vous aimons.
Your governments response is consistent with previous years.
The biggest lies Americans are told is that the current government is somehow an outlier and that Canada was ever amicable with them.
Dont play innocent in your own democracy. You arent.
Go fuck yourself. You’re not “one of the good ones,” you’re a fascist enabling coward more interested in virtue signaling than going on the offense against Nazis. You’re a pants-pissing, craven (probably white) milquetoast liberal who cares more about their own relative comfort than about democracy.
… says the guy also just posting on the internet.
When they start doing their proud boy shit up here, check back with me.
The whole “I’ll start tomorrow” thing isn’t ever very convincing.
Like, to be fair, I don’t know you, and that was a guess. 98% of shitposters are just that, though, and >50% of people being told off for it is hypocritical, as a result. So, let’s not.
It “isn’t convincing” in the same way that projecting insincerity onto someone on the internet is a lazy, cheap attack.
And no, let’s- but let’s start with the country that’s sleepwalking through their Nazi problem AND at the same time insisting that they’re “fighting.” If someone is too scared/comfortable to get off their asses and put fascists down, fine- but pretending they’re doing all they can and coming into a Canadian community trying to get credit for simply being ideologically opposed while doing nothing is fucking disingenuous as hell.
It “isn’t convincing” in the same way that projecting insincerity onto someone on the internet is a lazy, cheap attack.
Oooh, sick burn. That phrase definitely makes sense. /s
My comfort is irrelevant. I’m just another idiot on the internet.
But genuine question, you say I am a fascist enabling coward who cares little about democracy.
So what would you have me do? Like, you have a single American who has never voted for or supported Trump, for such a person what does ‘caring about democracy’ look like? What might that single American say or do that would make you say ‘that person right there is no coward, that is a stand-up human being who values democracy’?
I’m asking because you say I do it wrong, I am curious what doing it right looks like?
Just fucking go take a nap, dude.
You’re not asking what to do. You’re asking what you can do that will make other people think you’re a good guy but that doesn’t require any risk or sacrifice on your part. Then I can A) spoonfeed you an answer so you can duck responsibility by way of the “fedposting!” or “keyboard warrior” thought-stopping cliches, or I can B) be as dismissive as you deserve and listen to you get shitty and defensive. This game is so tired, kids.
I am proud to be American, I love my country, but today I am ashamed.
Can almost hear that stupid redneck song being sung in that inbred southern drawl.
You’re either proud of your country or ashamed, not both. Pick one.
Haha I didn’t even realize that what I wrote fit that song…
I am proud to be an American. I am not proud of my country’s current actions. As a nation, we are far from perfect. We’ve done a lot of stupid shit and continue to do even more stupid shit. Doesn’t mean I don’t love my country.
What exactly are you proud of?
I’m proud of my country’s history and what those who founded it stood for- freedom, independence, liberty, and self determination both as an individual and as a society. I’m proud of what those who followed accomplished- civil rights, technology, the Internet, art, music, science, and of course aviation.
We are not perfect. From the day Columbus set foot on the continent and killed natives, we have had a checkered history. Slavery, racism, sexism, interventionist wars in other countries, the internment of Japanese citizens during WWII, imperialism in the 1900s, the ‘global war on terror’ in the 2000s, and the majority of how the USA has conducted itself on the world stage over the Trump years, especially how we have treated our allies and friends.
I guess the analogy I would make is think of your child, even if they are badly behaved you still love them and are glad to be their parent. And even if they sneak out and smoke weed you’re still the proudest person in the room when they win the science fair.
Make sense?
Sounds like you love what your country was supposed to be, not what it is.
No country is just one thing. I love the good parts of what my country is and I will work to fix the bad parts. Are you saying I should reject my entire country because some of it is bad?
No. Im asking what are the active good parts happening right now that you’re proud of .
Great question.
One of the biggest things I am proud of is how many people stand up against MAGA and continue to even come out in protests such as the no kings rally. It makes me happy that people are still willing to stand up and be counted for what they believe in.
More broadly, anytime I see someone fighting to make the country a better place it warms my heart. And there is a lot of that, even if it isn’t obvious from the outside.I am proud of what we have accomplished, and continue to accomplish, in the area of civil rights and personal liberties. That is not a completely solved problem, but Americans stand up everyday to fight for it and I am proud of that.
I am proud of space related activity in the US. We have multiple private companies actively launching things on a regular basis, One of which has the largest satellite constellation in the world by far providing internet and cell phone service anywhere on the globe.
And on the government side, I am proud of our participation in ISS, in our missions to bring humans back to the Moon, and to build newer space stations.I am proud of our work with electric vehicles and electric transportation. I wish we were doing more, wish we were doing it faster, but we are still doing it.
I am proud of the vibrant aviation world that is present in the US, more so than almost any other country. I’m not just talking about airliners, I am talking about small planes, and our pilot culture here. It’s easier to become a pilot in the US than most other countries and we have many more small private aircraft to fly. Or build yourself.
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You’re in the minority. 2/3rds of the USA is MAGA or non-voters who don’t care.
Apology not accepted.
False. Only 30% supported Trump at his peak.
If the US was a democracy, he never would have been able to steal the office despite not having support of the people.
You have every right not to accept my or anyone else’s apology and I sure as fuck don’t blame you for it. If after the CA wildfires someone had said the same thing to us as our neighborhoods were burning we sure as shit wouldn’t smile and pat them on the back and say ‘its all good’ even if one random idiot from that country apologized. In general, it’s not up to the person apologizing to dictate how the wronged party feel or react.
That said, I would point out that ‘2/3 of the USA is MAGA or non-voters’ is not accurate.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker See here
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin and here
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/politics/trump-maga-base-shrinking and here Overall only 4 states currently approve of Trump. And overall every single gender/race/ethnic group disapproves of him.If the Presidential election was held today he’d lose to a moldy sandwich.
If the Presidential election was held today he’d lose to a moldy sandwich.
He - a 34-times elitist felon with no clue about anything - won, over a career prosecutor and community leader with experience in the job, who was unfortunately a woman with the wrong pigmentation and unable to disagree with the policies of her current boss until she was in a position to change them.
I strongly doubt he’d lose to even the best candidate. If they could or can, foreign money making bank on this halfwit’s whims would bankroll another sketchy victory time and time again.
Tbf kamala is a fucking war criminal who should be hanged along with Biden for crimes against humanity.
That’s pretty much all US past presidents and by default the Americans who keep supporting them. Anyone who thinks this is just Biden and Kamala is dismissive of what exactly the US is and had been since WW II. But most leftists would like to pretend that this is only about Israel when it was just as much about racism and misogyny.
Yes.
Kamala Harris was the correct choice, even over abstention, in my opinion, but she is deeply uncharismatic and ran a terrible campaign that was totally divorced from the lives of everyday Americans.
They’re tired of our shit. Either we fucking stand up this election in November or we shut up or preferably both. Even if we fight back against the regime, we’re going to just be the idiots misbehaving again.
“nOt AlL oF uS!” Sure. Too late. We elected a fucking maniac, twice. A third of the population still side with him, another 20% still vote that way.
Anyhow. Your message is kind and as a Seattleite and neighbor, I too sympathize.
Thank you for saying this. I’m glad that the realization is finally permeating.
Vote when you can. But the chance of a center-left democrat half of the time is nowhere near enough to restore the generational trust lost. People who care deeply must organize, protest, and dismantle these systems so they cannot be used again in the future of coexistence we hope to achieve.
Show us with actions. Stand up for your own people at risk, and for those US expansionist politicians and their sycophants are targeting around the world.
We’ve done it. We’ve tried. Most of the south 30% just doesn’t want to hear it, they’re tricked forever. We’re gerrymandered and rigged and cheated and they’re trying to cheat harder. I’d love to hear what I can do besides what I’ve already done - call, write, vote. What else?
Send help
You’re wrong. We haven’t done shit. We just talk about it.
Words will not fix this - written, spoken, or otherwise.
Then what will fix this? Everyone’s so quick to tell me what won’t work. I’d love to hear what will work, and what others are doing that’s effective such that I can multiply those efforts
You’ll figure it out. You’re so close.
I’ll put this in the “vague nonsense” pile
Or the, “it’s better not to record shit for posterity and prying eyes on the internet” category.
Cheers.
You’re not getting out of this by voting every 2-4 years and behaving in an orderly fashion in the in-between.
Organize. Find out how you can hurt red state money and go out and do it. Money is the only thing that they care about protecting.
You haven’t tried very hard.
I’ll be blunt: This is nobody else’s fight but yours. Nobody else needs to help, and nobody else is going to help until you stand up for yourselves first. How hard did people have to try to declare independence from the King of England? How hard did people have to try to end slavery? How hard did people have to try to get women the vote? How hard did people have to try to end segregation? Did you need help with those things? Did you wait for someone else to tell you it had to happen before you acted?
Nobody in the US is mad enough yet. Baffling, perhaps, but true. You’re getting there, but it’s time to start withdrawing from the systems that are oppressing you and starving them of everything you can while building a new more supportive and humane system. Rebuild your local communities and organizations into something capable of fighting back. Stop participating in things that aren’t contributing to that goal. Stop letting your money go to billionaires. They are not your friends, they are not your people, and they are not making things better for any of us. Convenience is not worth the cost. Find more inconvenient ways to live, and that will also make things inconvenient for billionaires and bureaucrats. Buy local. Do business in person, with real people. Reconnect to the world around you. Spend more time touching grass. I know it sounds trite and you might not understand how that is going to change anything, but the beauty is you don’t have to understand it, it has complex systemic effects and it will start to move the needle. Will it move the needle fast enough? I don’t know, I don’t have a crystal ball, I don’t know if the world is going to burn down around us in 20 years. I don’t have all the answers, but I know what has worked in the past, and I know what they don’t want us to do. So I recommend doing that. If the government is becoming unjust, become ungovernable, do everything you can to avoid participating in their systems, maybe it’s too late already I don’t know, but I do know it’s worth trying anyway even if it is too late, there is no better option than to try anyway.
Read “The State and Revolution” and then find your local socialist organization to help build mutual aid and alternative infrastructure so we can create a dual-power struggle to replace the gerrymandered rigged cheating bullshit system where your phone calls and letters are ignored. The next time they throw a No Kings parade, instead of marching in a circle and then going home, go talk to one of the organizations with a booth or table set up. If there’s not organizing in your town, then they’re in the nearest big city to you.
Send help
Nobody is riding in on white horses to save the USA from itself.
Your country caused this, it’s up to you to work together with your fellow citizens and fix your own damn country.
The rest of the world will do what we can to protect ourselves from the harms the USA is inflicting on us, and that may weaken the bastards and help you in your efforts, but we’re doing that primarily for our own defence.
They’re tired of our shit? I’m tired of our shit.
Thank you for being one of the blindingly small number of Americans to recognize this.
You’re absolutely correct. These performative “Please tell me I’m a good person” apologies ring hollow. It’s just #notallmen all over again.
I’m sure OP is a lovely person. But we don’t want to hear it. We are not Catholic priests waiting to absolve left-wing Americans of their sins, and quite frankly, we’re too busy shovelling our way out of all your shit to give a damn if any of you are good people or not.
While it broods over China’s economic, military and technical advance, the Trump administration is accelerating Beijing’s diplomatic progress, as striking new polling by the Pew Research Center shows. For the first time, China and Xi Jinping are seen more favourably than the US and its president in most of the 36 major countries surveyed – including Canada, Mexico and Australia.
Only in six countries did people rate the US more highly. While Beijing has seen significant improvements in some places, the slump in Washington’s standing is more dramatic. Across 20 countries, the median percentage with a favourable view of China rose from 32% to 46% between 2023 and this year; for the US, it fell from 58% to 36%.
“best country in the world” rhetoric is a paper tiger. Maybe there was a moment, but it’s riding on fumes and inertia downhill. Collapse is a lot less sexy than I had hoped.
THAT is who we are, even if we suck at electing politicians that represent that belief.
No. You’re a bunch of fucking bloodthirsty treatlerites, who kill, rape, murder and pillage the rest of the world, so that you can live like kings.
Since WWII, you’ve couped dozens of countries, killed millions of innocent civilians, and contributed to the climate crisis more than any other country in the history of the planet.
In a just world, we would have Nuremberg style trials for your leaders and military.
I pray for the collapse, dissolution, and balkanization of your country, so that the rest of the world can continue to function.
Death to America.
I’m sad that .ml has infiltrated this post.
I pray for the collapse, dissolution, and balkanization of your country, so that the rest of the world can continue to function.
Do you realize that a balkanization of the US entails horrible conditions for the civilian population? For people who had NOTHING to do with anything? Little children?
Can’t you “pray” that the US instead, move towards being a peaceful, progressive society? A society that helps itself and the world?
Also, what exactly do you think you’re achieving by saying stuff like this? Nothing that you are wishing for is likely going to pass. The people you want punished aren’t going to be punished. All that it does is make you insufferable, and poison the entire discussion for everyone participating.
“do not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the American people.”
Bullshit. The majority of people who cared enough to vote, voted for this outcome. The rest of your country doesn’t give a shit.
You elected a fucking convicted felon, rapist, child molester and known con man to lead your country. He started a party of MAGA filled with the most deplorable cunts your country can offer. This fat fuck and MAGA members attacks and insult long time allies and partners.
When the US had wildfires, we sent our people to help. Our people have died doing this. This is what allies and friends do.
Next time you’re on fire, I really hope Canada turns our back on you and says “Burn, bitch.” I know we won’t because we still collectively think of you as allies that might get their shit figured out. But the US can eat a big fucking sack of dicks as far as I’m concerned. I fucking tired of this shit.
Quit asking for forgiveness and fix your fucking house. Until then, I don’t care what you have to say.
Remember that Canada only avoided PP because America got to the election first
And Carney gonna have a hard time winning another election if he keeps on his currently strategy so we might end up with PP anyway
As an American who despises the administration and how we’re treating our allies, I agree with you. There’s no point in apologizing or trying to save face or whatever. This country needs to eat bags of dicks until they finally suffer enough to quit doing the same stupid ass shit.
Please stop sending help. Please stop acting like we’re still normal. Until Trump and enough of his supporters get beaten in the face with the consequences of their actions, they will not stop.
We stopped educating everyone with less money than the average middle class. You cannot reason with them because 1) they struggle with logic, and 2) they accept wholesale, without question, the utter lies and propaganda of the monied right-wing. They will simply have to learn the hard way, by suffering.
We don’t want words. We want actions. Use your 2nd amendment.
What, start violent action against the state? Do you understand what that means? Like, really REALLY understand what that means?
It means your house gets bombed to bits. You die, along with your friends. Civilians die, little children die.
“Use your 2nd amendment” does sound really cool. That’s until you truly understand the consequences of this.
Isn’t the US threatening us with annexation?
Yes it is. But military action hasn’t happened. There’s no intelligence that the US is preparing for something like that. Hence, you asking someone to “use the second amendment”, is you asking someone else to die for you, because you perceive their state to be a threat to you.
Not cool.
What’s the point of the 2nd amendment it you refuse to use it.
Go read Howard Zinns book that was mentioned in good will hunting
Yes it’s bloody and people will die, but that’s the price you pay if you let things get to this point.
Remember you are already being killed. You’re being kidnapped from your homes. Your children are being separated from their parents.
What more needs to happen for you to think the 2nd amendment is supposed to be used?
Here’s the thing. American citizens had the chance to “fix” (well kinda…better than this crap at least) their issues at the ballot box…they failed…and failed HARD. A 2nd Amendment solution (and I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this) is what you’re likely left with. “Not Cool”…yup I’d say the situation you put yourselves into is pretty “Not cool”.
There’s no lasting change that can be effected by a one person act of terrorism. It takes mass organization, and people will have to be desperate. In this case, it might take civil war.
Hell yeah, break that removed up!
Why don’t YOU do it? Why don’t you travel to the US and use the second amendment? Or hell, just steal a gun and commit an act of random stochastic terrorism like you’re encouraging folks to do. You’re just as capable of any American citizen of this. In the US, guns are easy to acquire if you’re willing to steal them. And the second amendment is entirely irrelevant, as is your nationality and assumed lack of US citizenship, as the law isn’t really relevant in these scenarios. You’re talking about committing some sort of mass shooting against politicians or other political figures. If you’re not walking away from that alive; the law is completely irrelevant for you. You’re just as capable of doing this as any American citizen.
In the end, you’ll be just as dead and have accomplished just as much as the Americans you are encouraging to pointlessly throw their lives away.
You betta call Tyrone
Call him
Ask him “come on, help you get your shit”
You need to call Tyrone
Tell him I said “come on”
…….but you can’t use my phone.
Thanks for the kind words, but I’ll be frank. Wanna help? Stop making everything about yourself (individually and as a nation), go fix your country’s broken-ass system, and come visit us and buy our stuff if you like in the meantime. If you want our trust back, figure out how the worst living caricature of America achieved the highest political office a second time, and how will you collectively prevent that from happening again? Personally, I’ll come celebrate when it happens, but that will only be the start of a generation’s worth of work to rebuild what was lost.
Yours truly,
Canadian fed up with the constant BS from the states.
All 100% valid.
Our problem is a lot deeper than politics. Painting with somewhat broad strokes- our education system does a shit job of teaching critical thinking and analytics, but does a great job of teaching kids that learning and research are boring and not fun and should be avoided when possible. Then we bathe these kids in a fire hose of short form videos (which we’ve exported worldwide- sorry :( ) and the result is generations of kids who don’t research anything and can’t pay attention to anything for more than 90 seconds.
The result of that is that overwhelmingly Americans get election-related information by ‘push’ channels- TV, news, advertisements. Independent research into candidates is not common. And the crap we have now is the result- not just Trump but a Congress that’s too focused on re-elections and thus has no idea how to wield power or when it should be wielded.
We’re in a bad state. It took multiple generations to get into this crap and it will take multiple generations to dig ourselves out- assuming we as a nation even have the wherewithal to realize that digging out is necessary let alone the willpower to do it. I love my country, but I’m fearful of our future, especially over the next few decades.
Honestly I worry that USA will end up like the film Idiocracy and the rest of the world will just build a giant wall around USA to keep us from screwing anything else up :(
What is your goal? What is it you think your words are going to accomplish? Canada isn’t the problem here, you are. Go talk to other Americans with this sentiment because they are the ones that need to hear this emotion from you.
I believe that in every group, outsiders will see the group as represented by its loudest and most visible subgroup, unless other members of the group take steps to distance themselves from that subgroup.
Fact is, we elected the dude. We regret it (according to the latest approval polls at least) but we still elected him. And Trump / MAGA are by far the loudest and most visible subgroup of Americans, at least I assume they are to the outside. Thus, someone on the outside could reasonably assume that Trump speaks for all of the country, myself included, unless some of the rest of us stand up and say ‘he doesn’t speak for us, that isn’t our message’.
So my goal here is to do just that- even as one person, to stand up and say Trump doesn’t speak for me, his hate filled comments are NOT my message and not the message of a great many Americans. We love our northern neighbors and we have a lot more respect for you all than our leadership is showing.
You can do with that what you will. What I hope you take from it is an understanding that we do not all speak with one voice, that there are decent people in the US and we’re not just MAGA idiots and racist hicks.
This is much better than an apology. Just start saying stuff like this instead of apologizing maybe? Might be better received ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fair enough 🙂
Buddy, USA is already in full Idiocracy mode. Everyone has been watching it happen with horror for decades. Now it’s gotten so bad it’s affecting your country’s relationships with other countries. Stop posting apologies and learn how to do political activism to vote out the current fascists before it’s too late.
It’s a nice thought. I hope you feel better now.
Assuage your guilt with the least amount of effort, using AI no less.
Thanks so much for this.
No AI here. Why do you call this AI?
If you think my writing style is AI-like please look up my user profile on Reddit. I’ve been writing the same way since long before ChatGPT was a thing.And no I don’t feel better. My ‘guilt’ is irrelevant. My country isn’t on fire. I just see something being said in my name that I strongly disagree with so I say nope that’s not me.
I strongly believe that any group will be judged by the actions of the loudest and most visible subgroup, unless the rest of the group distances themselves from that subgroup. So this is my small act to distance myself.
Ill accept your apology when you march that pedofile down the street in chains
You elected him twice. This is America now.
Boo Hoo. I’m really sick of reading how sorry you are when you repeatedly elect scumbags like Bush Jr. or Trumpenfuhrer and then think everything is OK when you elect a Weimarcrat. Read a few history books (if capable) and find out what to do when confronted with an authoritarian or unresponsive government. A lot of the rest of the world understands that as bad as Trump is, he is merely a symptom of a deeply sick and diseased society. Yourself , like a lot of Americans, think a strongly worded tweet somehow absolves them of blame. It does not. Fix your s**t and stop whining online.
So are you getting rid of your own Weimarcrat or just whining online
Thing is Weimarcrats are actually tolerable when their society doesn’t crap up a fascist movement. And it’s not whining. It’s an attempt to motivate (probably futile tbh) a bunch of sad sacks who don’t have enough sense to come in out of rain.
Exactly. We aren’t.
I think folks who comment unhinged (and rude) stuff like this just do so to sound “cool” or whatever.
I really fail to comprehend their end goal when they say shit like this. It just needlessly makes everything toxic and hostile.
It IS the majority of americans stop lying to yourself. Go out to any business whats on the tv? Fox news. We’re a bunch of amoral greedy assholes just like the chomo-in-chief that the majority voted for. Our country is fucked.
Small business owners aren’t people.
Talking to most of my neighbors, family members, and coworkers, the significant majority do not support trump, and I would say at least half are very vocally anti-Trump.
I won’t pretend there aren’t way too many shitheel Americans. But it’s wrong to imply that the majority of Americans support Trump. And to do it so confidently just makes you lose all credibility to whatever point you are making. Look at this approval rating which is literally a measure of how many Americans approve of him. Tell me what you find
How many didn’t vote?
41% of eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2024, which is too many, but was actually better than many previous elections.
For comparison, about 31% of eligible Canadians didn’t vote in 2025. So there’s about a 10% difference between what’s considered acceptable vs. not, by you.
So I’d ask you back, of that extra 10% Americans that don’t vote, how much of that do you think is based on personal choice, and how much is based on things like voter disenfranchisement, misinformation, and making it nearly impossible for poor people and people of color to vote in red states?
If you ask me, that 10% difference between our countries’ voting behaviors is probably more due to the government than the population. So maybe that’s where we should direct our ire? But again if you just want to hate all Americans, I’m probably not going to change your perspective.
It’s not fun to live in the US right now, nor to be lumped in with the bad apples when many of us are doing what we can to resist them.
The 30 or 40 percent thag didn’t vote are not the problem. The problem is the 80 million that did vote affirmatively for trump.
A whole half are anti-trump? Wow. Fuck off, leave Canada alone you parasites.
We don’t trust any of you anymore.
I said half are VOCALLY anti-Trump. And I also said it’s not enough. So you and I are on the same side, other than you implying I’m a parasite because of the country I was born in. Which is pretty fucked up.
But my point was it harms their credibility to claim more than half of Americans support trump when they clearly don’t. And it hurts YOUR credibility to call all Americans parasites. But if you’re just here to stir shit up and be divisive, have at me.
Go out to any business whats on the tv? Fox news
Not in my state
Well idk what state but like 45/50 that’s the case even in blue states.
Which blue states have you visited where you’re consistently seeing Fox News played in all businesses? I’m asking because your experience doesn’t seem to match mine.
There are no blue States. Their are blue cities.
Well, Washington and California come to mind… the reason they’re blue is that the cities hold a majority of the population and are blue. Step outside the cities and it’s Fox News everywhere. So by land area instead of population, the US west is overwhelmingly Republican.
Interesting thing is, in red states, there are a lot of blue cities too.
Looks like you’re falling right into their trap. Yes, there are absolutely far too many right-wing fascist shitbirds, but it is nowhere near the majority. The fascists want everyone to think that they are the majority though, to embolden racist idiots and to demoralize good people, but it isn’t true.
Don’t let them win by giving up
No, you’re falling into the “centrist” NYT trap that if we just vote for the right billionaires, they’ll take care of us. Actually the same lie maga voters fell for.
No America is a selfish country who consumes to much and that is almost way American whether right or left leaning. Or is it just a coincidence that the people have more credit card debt and consume more then any other country.
Well since trump won the popular vote in 2024, it is fair to say it’s the majority of them.
You’d think so, but you’d be wrong
You can wish as hard as you might for your world view to be true there little guy, I hope it comes to be.
