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[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 110 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

This American Putin wanna be is going burn it all down isn't he.

I like Americans (to a point), but FAFO, we burnt the Whitehouse down before.

[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I'm actually thinking of buying a gun, which is crazy because I've been opposed to them my whole life.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Me too. I don’t think guns are usually necessary but it seems like the US is swiftly moving towards violence against the exact demographics of people who are my friends.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I were the government, as a contingency plan I'd have a shipping container full of weapons in every census block in the country.

Sure, we'd lose the battle, but that would make holding Canada impossible.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

There's already roughly ¼ of the Canadian population that has a registered firearm. That's like. Nearly 10 million people. If half of them decided to actually go guerrilla, and a good portion of the rest of the population decided to run support. It could easily be an un-unfuckable situation for the US.

[–] thehowlingnorth@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm right there with you. Never thought it would happen, but here we are.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

The most effective weapon in Iraq was IEDs. I would never advocate anyone learning how to make one, but if you wanted to defend yourself from an American invasion this is how the Iraqi resistance did it

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Drone. Buy a drone and learn to use it well. Join a club. Learn how to navigate. Lots of us have guns. Multiple guns. You can have one of mine.

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[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just now starting the process of getting a PAL. We're going to buy a shotgun and some sort of rifle and a good scope. I don't know anything about rifles and best calibers so that's going to take some research.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't have to worry too much about calibers, it's basically splitting hairs. 12gauge for the shotgun, and for the rifle go with what can be found everywhere: 308, 30-06

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 2 weeks ago

Trump became President and that’s when I decided to become a gun owner.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Gonna need you to do it again. It's the only way to get the orange stank and Russian bugs out.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

we burnt the Whitehouse down before.

We need your help.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

I think most Americans would actually let us, honestly.

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[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Two different situations. That was before the us had sunk trillions of dollars into its military.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

They sank a lot of money into Vietnam and Afghanistan too.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (27 children)

Dear Canada. This isn't us. This is the new asshole in power. Americans don't hate you. We love you. And I can't speak for every American, but I'd rather defect and fight WITH you than fight a war against you over this petty shit.

Actually, can I defect even if we don't go to war? I'd just LOVE to not be here the next 4 years, but I'm pretty sure I'd stay after that too. You'll have to teach me which Canadian hockey team I should root for. And if anything, we'll fight a war to get the Expos back.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Cool story but that is what Americans chose, yes. It’s your representative. Americans might not hate Canadians, but Americans only love themselves and will eventually learn that this leads you to behave selfishly and be hated.

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[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

This may not be you specifically, but more than two-thirds of Americans directly or indirectly chose this clown as your president.

The fight you want to join? It's already started. The people best positioned to stop this are being fired. The checks and balances are being removed or taken over.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't it, though? Isn't this how the USA has treated most countries smaller than it? Less wealthy than it? Less white than it?

Growing up outside of the US, this behaviour seems completely in line with how the country has always behaved on the international stage, just pointed at one of the "good" countries.

Trump is the average Murica, Fuck Yeah type that we meet online all of the time, and have for the past 30+ years. He's the Yankee tourist that comes into our towns and expects us to accept their foreign currency, weather their patronizing questions, and cater to their idiosyncratic demands.

Trump doesn't seem like a surprise to us. He seems like the natural outcome of a country that has tooted its own horn on the world stage for 80 years, that has glorified its military and its military might, that has waved the phrase "American Exceptionalism" at its own population without irony, and that long mythologized its history. Remember, fascism was popular in the US 90 years ago. The only problem y'all had with the Nazis was that they were German. I mean, if you use Ur-Fascism as a checklist, the USA checks off most of the boxes on a good year.

You might not be cognizant of that, but many of us living outside your borders very much are.

I don't like what I see in the mirror most days, either. But I don't get to deny the grey hairs and aging face. I sure as hell don't go out in public shouting to the world "I'm not getting old; this greying, overweight man isn't me!"

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I like the energy but we need Americans to clean up their own yard while it’s still safe to do so.

Nut jobs think that they’re the majority because they are behaving boorishly in public and nobody is holding them to account. The quiet majority needs to organize and show them that undesirable actions have proportional and consistently negative consequences.

That could mean a lot of things. Big things like being a trans ally and showing up for demonstrations. Small things like not inviting your MAGA uncle to family occasions. But things they must be. The jackboots are winning because people are typing anger into a box then staying home to shop and watch Netflix reality TV.

[–] Aconite@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 weeks ago

Americans go to war with less powered countries over resources quite often, actually. This is absolutely you.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No. Good people let this happen on their watch. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and the people of the US were caught napping. You must take responsibility and act.

This is not the time to look for our forgiveness to make yourselves feel better. It is time to act. We will forgive later.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Are you not supposed to have guns and have a bunch of people in the same situation to supposedly defend your people in case of government tyranny, instead of just letting this happen and apologize?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

I'm in the process of emigrating to Canada. I recently spent 5 weeks there and already miss it. So much stuff just feels so much more human.

One of my favorite small details is that Canadian bills have scientific achievements on them. A spaceship arm, a research vessel, and the creator of insulin are all on them. We get fucking Illuminati symbols instead.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

No it is you. You voted for this. And are frankly doing nothing to stop this guy.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 weeks ago

Oh lovely. More threats of war.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who needs enemies with allies like this

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Peter Navarro is a piece of shit

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago

The dude just got out of jail a couple of months ago.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am confused by this article.

The headline says they want to change the borders, but I didn't see any details in the article about redrawing the border. They say they're interested in doing so, but there aren't any details. They say that Trump wants control of the Keystone XL pipeline, but the details they give simply say that he wants it built. It's like they shoved all the Canada-US relations stuff into one article, but didn't bother editing it or making it coherent.

On another note, Trump himself is confused:

"We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.

Uh, no, Canada has protected our northern border. If we'd had to protect that on our own, we'd be a much more closed, paranoid and militaristic place. [Isn't that a scary thought!]

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

Don't stress yourself out too much. It's the Telegraph, whose journalistic standards are on par with the Toronto Sun.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"We protect Canada, but it’s not fair."

The idea that any military attack on Canada is most likely to come from directly across the southern border is not a new one. It's one of the main reasons we need an army at all. Many years ago I mentioned this theory to some people in the military and was slightly surprised that they all took it seriously and said yeah, we do have plans for that possibility of course. I don't know to what extent they were serious about it then or whether they've all gone soft and forgotten about it in the decades that have since passed, but unlikely as we thought it that an invasion would come from the USA it's even more unlikely that it'd come from anywhere else.

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We certainly had plans for it when I was an infantry officer in the nineties. I see no reason why those plans would not have been kept current.

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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

The USA has had dreams of this forever.

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

Not to fear, we also made similar plans. (Should have done it when we had the chance)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1

Defence Scheme No. 1 was a war plan created by Canadian Director of Military Operations and Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel James "Buster" Sutherland Brown, for a Canadian pre-emptive attack against the United States in the (hypothetical) case of a conflict between the United States and the British Empire.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is literally an act of war if they do that.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

MAGAs don't care. They may actually hate us for our freedoms.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

He barfs out these demented ramblings that get slurped up by corporate news sewers and now it's in the headlines like it was ever anything more than a misfiring syphilitic group of neurons in front of a microphone.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

And the political raping continues. They're turning out to be that really bad neighbor no one wants, on steroids.

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