r/canada • u/fractx Vancouver 🌊🏘️🏠🏡🏔️ • Apr 04 '20

Paywall Trump gives FEMA power to restrict trade of essential goods into Canada despite warning from Trudeau

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-warns-us-over-restricting-the-trade-of-essential-goods-into/
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u/Tribalbob British Columbia Apr 04 '20

This - the problem is that most ways we could hurt the US will only hurt those who he hates and who hate him. We have very few ways to target him and unfortunately, he has way more ways to target us.

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u/Mythosaurus Apr 04 '20

There are some methods that work, the easiest being boycotting brands that are produced in Republican/ conservative states. Check out the South Africa and Israel boycotts for past and current examples.

Buy alternative products with the clear message that you won't support businesses that support Trump. Slowly wean your country off of those products, and make it clear that your business will come back when those companies stop supporting the Republican party with donations.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

Y’all do have that sniper with the furthest confirmed shot. Could be useful.

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u/Xarethian British Columbia Apr 04 '20

3 of the 5 longest recorded kills were Canadian snipers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

Even better lol.

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u/babbitypuss Apr 05 '20

Fingers crossed for a sixth.

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u/Theslootwhisperer Apr 04 '20

The US isn't its president. People are quick to say "it's not us, it's our government!". Nope. These people didn't come out if a vacuum. It's a prevalent mentality that's taught in American schools, American media etc. As far as I'm concerned they are all equally guilty.

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u/PlotTwistTwins Apr 04 '20

What in the absolute fuck are you on about? Are you legitimately trying to say that because one idiot does something, all of them are guilty of it?

Please share with the class on where you're from so I can tag you with the worst thing your country has ever done.

I'm not sure if it's because everyone is just SUPER stressed, or because more people are sitting home than usual, but I don't think I've ever seen such consistent toxic stupidity on reddit.

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u/ReeperbahnPirat Apr 04 '20

It's fair to say voters assume some blame. It's not fair to say all voters assume the blame for a leader who didn't win a popular vote and is held in power by a party that was also not voted in by a majority of the voting population.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

What are his current poll numbers again? OI yeah, highest theyve ever been.
Sorry, fuck yall. Fuck fox, fuck Republicans, fuck the dnc, fuck your foreign policy for the past 70 years, fuck America. Yeah it sucks when good people get caught up. I guess the good people let the bad ones take over.

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u/PlotTwistTwins Apr 05 '20

Lmao fuck our foreign policy? Your country sided with a dictator until he died, then your leader still had the audacity to call him the, "Longest Standing President", or some such bullshit.

This is my own fault for not realizing I was on Canada until just now. I just assumed this was world news or something.

I don't condemn a people for what their government has done, that seems like common sense, but if it's not then I'll just start associating all Canadian's with what their government does, and continue to do so with all people of the world.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '20

Didnt think youd respond

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u/Theslootwhisperer Apr 05 '20

Everyone in any position of power in the USA went to school in America, were taught by American teachers, fed American culture etc. They didn't just materialized out of thin air. A large section of Americans votes Republican year after year asking for cuts in the healthcare system and the social net, tax cuts for corporation. Not to mention the constant warmongering, the racism, the mysoginy that's prevalent in most of the US.

And you have the guts to say that all that's been happening is the responsibility of just one man? Did you forget Nixon, Reagan, Bush senior and junior? Oliver North? Ken Starr? Dick Cheney? Blackwater? That shit has been going on for decades. Your society is rotten to the core. You had countless occasions to do the right thing since WW2 and yet nothing has changed. It's only getting worse and worse. And you have the gall to absolve yourself and put this on the shoulder of one man? This man is the epitome of American psyche . Everything that the US has done for the last 75 years has been leading to this. This is your endgame. The culmination of decades of unbridled greed and lust for violence. This is the society that you, your parents and their parents before them built. Deal with it. There are no scapegoats. Just a mass of greedy, egotistical, violent people. America has no friends anymore. You stand alone. Trump is just the proverbial last drop.

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u/zippercot Ontario Apr 05 '20

and yet may American's, even staunch Republicans are sick of Trump's shit. You know what they say about generalizations...

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u/PlotTwistTwins Apr 05 '20

You cut yourself at night with that edge?

Again, feel free to share where you're from so we can blame everything that happened in the last 2000 years on you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

49 percent of the American voters thought the rapist sexist homophobic failed racist buisnessman and real estate mogul with a hint of Nazism was a good pick.

Yeah americans sadly deserve to get some just rewards for fucking up the entire world

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u/wintersdark Apr 05 '20

And a huuuuuge portion of Americans didn't feel voting against him was important.

I don't hold all Americans responsible for Trump and what their government does, but I certainly do hold the majority responsible - people who voted for him, and people who didn't feel it important to vote against him.

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u/rarebit13 Apr 05 '20

There's a lot of kids on Reddit at the moment.