• TomMasz@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The alone part is the intention. The fact that we don’t have the industrial capacity to replace all those imports doesn’t seem to have been taken into account. It’s going to get ugly.

    • Thrillhouse@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      From a Canadian… I like American people. I don’t want anyone to suffer. It’s been hard enough.

      I’m sad that this is happening. As they said on our news network - Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan for the US, we harboured stranded Americans after 9/11, we helped to fight the fires in California, and many other things.

      I don’t want to fight with our neighbours to the south. At the same time, this is incredibly disrespectful and offensive, especially since we’ve always had America’s back. We don’t believe for a second this is about fentanyl or immigration so the President can drop the bullshit on that.

      I’m disappointed that America was so blind this election and voted for Trump. I’m incredulous that your elected representatives are so spineless and money-driven. I’m shocked that there’s not more public outrage related to Citizens United, Roe, and what’s just happened with the FBI.

      The best outcomes for this as a Canadian are basically that we’re going to have to ramp up our own manufacturing, and that it damages the ambitions of our own little Canadian Trumpler.

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        21 days ago

        As an American yeah that’s how this feels. Like y’all’re our sibling country. We ain’t quite the same but we watch your Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys and we listen to your Rush and Barenaked Ladies. We slip up as 18 year olds to get a drink just like yall slip down to get something with less taxes. Hell I used to date a lady in Ontario. Im about to stay with a Canadian-American friend for a month or so when I move. Canada isn’t my enemy, it’s my neighbor. Now, some Canadians are my enemy, but that’s because my enemy was propagandizing in Canada too.

        I used to dream of an American Union like Europe’s because of course we should have a bond like that with our northerly neighbor. I’m so mad at so much about Trump, and like I can see why he’s pissing off Denmark, they’re mostly allied to our better half. But Canada, Canada was our ride or die. When we did the right thing Canada joined us, but same for the wrong thing.

        You don’t fuck with the Canucks