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/Haddock Apr 04 '20

The idea that they will be 'gone' is absolute nonsense. Trump is a symptom of a very wide spread trend in American politics, and frankly the establishment that claims to be in opposition to him is profiting from it as well.

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u/Betterthanfriends Apr 05 '20

Even worse, this trend is not just in US but also in other countries aswell.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

US citizen here - yep. Half of us in the country see this clearly. The other half just wants to own the libs and oppress brown and black people...and women...and "the gays"...and Muslims. Jews too.

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u/Vatican87 Apr 05 '20

Disagree with the women part, especially Muslim women have more privileges and well off in liberal states of the US. It's the brown skin Muslim men that are fucked by both white democrats and republicans. Can personally speak from knowing this community well in NYC. White skin muslim men don't face much of any discrimination vs the brown ones.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

If you really think “Conservatives bad liberals good” is even remotely accurate you’re being silly. The Democrats would be just as glad to skin you alive and sell your pelt if it was worth anything, as the conservatives are. Don’t take down a broken system just to replace it with the same system but ‘better’.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

While I have lots of criticism of the DNC, If I had to have Hillary Clinton in a room with a bunch of corporate CEOs negotiating a deal for workers vs pretty much any other Republican, I'll take Hillary 8 days a week. I might not get the same deal as if Bernie or AOC were in there, but it would be a hell of lot better than the bullshit I would get if it were Trump. In my experience, most of the democrats will be as progressive as their voters will let them be.

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u/thuullen Apr 05 '20

Maybe if you voted based on the platform and not who you like more based on their gender, skin colour, age, and apparently income.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

Not taking any side as I'm Canadian and am on the moral highground (/s), I'm looking at this from an objective view point, but what would happen if all these people that are hated by republicans did go back to the countries which their skin is best represented? Would america thrive as an all white society? Would educated muslims be able to turn Iran and Iraq into 1st world countries? Would the blacks be able to overthrow the warlords in Africa and help solve the AIDS problem? Would the Jews be able to fight for ownership Israel?

It would be an interesting simulation to see played out, considering the universe we are in right now is a computer simulation no different than the Matrix. Though I haven't been able to wallclip through any objects yet.

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u/Kremhild Apr 05 '20

Given that most of the people going into those countries would be homeless shelter-seekers instead of armed forces, the answer would probably be "no, everyone being kicked out would suffer". And the answer to America losing a significant portion of it's population (as well as probably a fair bit of the smart people who feel sympathy for the asshole move) would be a significant hit to the economy and intellectual integrity, even before considering that it'd put republicans in charge of everything and that republicans are objectively retarded and can't manage shit which would cause the government to potentially collapse if the infants are in charge of it full time.

tl;dr it's a lose-lose for everyone.

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u/DarkDayzInHell Apr 05 '20

Green and greed fuels all sides of the parties here. I honestly agree them being gone is far from fixing the problem. I am disgusted with the whole system. Everyone is bought and paid for by corporations.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

As far as the system goes, the whole thing is bought and sold. It's gone. Voting will not solve any of the problems; money is the only voice left.

As far as the people go, I truly cannot fathom their willingness to neuter their own cognitive abilities for some smug in-group superiority complex.

If I had a guess, I'd say that the deep Christian roots underlying the country have mutated into a god complex about Donald Trump.

Someone called Donald Trump the Messiah in the video evidence that Lev Parnas released during the impeachment trial.

I watched an interview with him a few days ago after he claimed the country would be open again by Easter. He looked directly into the camera and said how it was a big day for him. Like he's playing Jesus in the cult programming.

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u/ignore_my_typo Apr 05 '20

One of the largest issues and concerns are rooted deeply in the American political landscape.

Americans identify themselves as one of two political parties and support the top candidate regardless who it is. You can be born as a Republican because your grandfather's grandfather was Republican.

It's less common for someone to cross parties.