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American here. Hurt MAGA more if possible.
EDIT:
, and sacrificing free will along the way.
Is this a typo?
As an American I just wanted to say;
Thank you SO so much, Canada. And please, keep up the good work and if and when you can, boycott even harder! You are all very loved and envied by someone in Seattle!
I don't think it's just Canada either. I get the feeling that a whole lot of countries are reevaluating their relationship with the US and US made goods. And the way ICE and border patrol are behaving, I think it's likely that overseas tourism is going to completely dry up in less than a year. Hell, even interstate tourism is likely to take a significant hit.
Agreed! Also, "O Canada" is way, way, better than "The Star-Spangled Banner."
As a songwriting musician of over thirty years, I wholeheartedly agree. But then again, the Star Spangled Banner is a cover song.
The original was much better.
Personally, I think the only thing America ever did better then the Brits is The Office.
What you linked is a cover, the US national anthem is a parody
Generally, I prefer the original version of things, but I do like the US version of Ghosts better than the British one.
If you’re still letting in the profiteers who financialized every aspect of US life, you’re still going to turn into the US. While you need to keep an eye on Trump, you also need to take care of the healthcare profiteers elbow deep in destroying your healthcare system for privatization.
This isn't even our final form.
We need to get out there and destroy Little trump jr (Pierre Poilievre's conservatives) and stop them from selling us out.
If any Canadians need a voting kit you can go to https://elections.ca/ and sign up for one there. Takes less than 15 minutes. (Deadline is April 22 but I'd suggest to get it done ASAP!)
All you need is a pic of your I.D. to confirm and they will mail you your kit. I got mine within a week and I already filled it out and it's on its way back.
Thank you Canadians, this is how a true friends reacts, they dont normalize bad behavior.
Mexico is on board reach out to them and just have a MC agreement! Work with the UN to prevent this from happening again, because clearly the USA can't be trusted
I think a lot comes down to the propaganda machines. Our conservatives pay millions of dollars to things like "Canada proud" to spread bullshit and divide us. We need to drag this crap out of the shadows and beat them down relentlessly in the light of day.
I don't know if we will win the fight, but we sure as fuck are NOT going to give up.
Canada's conservatives are completely off script currently focusing on cutting carbon taxes, defunding public broadcasting and increasing contribution limits to tax free savings accounts while an existential threat is looming. Almost as tone deaf as the Democrats in the US.
Conservatives are still leading slightly among men who seem to respond more positively to "anti-woke" rhetoric and sloganeering vs women who seem to have a strong preference for Liberals (and even NDP) at the moment.
I don't think we are doing enough. There are many businesses with american ownership. Many attractions in Banff are owned by americans. We need to target them as well.
Not just Banff...imagine Toronto.
Yup that too.
So thanks for that, but...that's not really the point.
We're not trying to hurt Trump and MAGA. We're not trying to either destroy the US or get it back to where we were a year ago.
Trump - and more to the point, his re-election - was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Canada finally has said "enough is enough."
We're not doing this anymore. We're not tying our country's fate to ANY other nation - not the US, not England, not China or Eritrea.
Canada cannot afford to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of convenience and harmony.
Canada has one direction: Forward. We are reclaiming our sovereignty, our culture, and our place as a progressive leader in the modern world.
What are you saying, that you care more about doing right by your own countrymen than you do about harming your perceived enemies??
We need to, it remains to be seen whether or not we will. Don't forget, a huge number of us are still shopping american. If this situation goes away, the convenience of trading with the US could easily take over again. People lack conviction, integrity and have short memories. It will take a long-term, concerted effort by the majority of the populace and multiple governments to maintain our trajectory away from US dependence. I'd love to see it happen, but I have little faith our fellow citizens have the constitution to stay the course.
Canada is a relatively small country. Strategic partnerships are going to be critical moving forward but creating some distance with the US is a crucial first step as it is no longer a reliable trading partner.
The US was by far the greatest financial benefactor of WW2, in part due to geographic isolation, allowing it to sell weapons to its allies without having its factories destroyed by warplanes, which in turn allowed it to collect 80% of the world's gold supply and set its currency as the global standard. As a nation, it played its hand / leveraged its newfound wealth exceptionally well in the post WW2 period.
It made sense to have a strong trading relationship at the time, given the proximity and that the war allowed the US to amass a disproportionate amount of purchasing power.
It seems that the US has decided it does not want to lead the world any longer, despite its economic might. Hopefully there is good that can come of that.
Did you really mean the US as greatest "benefactor" of WW2 (as in, helping others) or as greatest "beneficiary" of WW2 (as in, gaining from it).
Because it looks a lot like the latter since in helping others the US was mainly helping itself and that help didn't come for free (for example, the UK only finished paying the debt to the US from that "help" in, if I'm not mistaken, 2012), plus the US gained its superpower status exactly from, as you pointed out, still having their factories and selling weapons to its allies.
I really wish so many people didn't miss this point.
Canadian shoppers are starting a new habit. After checking an item if it is a US product they return it to the shelf upside down and turn several more of the same item upside down so the next shopper knows to skip that product.
Haha omg, I thought I was the only one childishly doing that. My grocery store must be really on top of re-facing their shelves, because I’ve never come across any upside down US products.
The biggest hint something is American is when the shelf is fully stocked and there’s lots of items missing from the nearby brands.
That’s so true - empty sections of cranberry sauce, tomato paste, pasta, etc adjacent to fully stocked American items are such a telltale sign lately.
I fucking love you guys for this. Hit us in the wallet until the fascist trash is gone.
We got that habit from Europe. I think it was Denmark who did this first, and it's so easy.
Donald Trump does not understand Canadian values of compassion and politeness.
Donald Trump never watched Due South.
BTW the entire series is available on YouTube.
Thank you kindly.
Dean Blundell is a former radio shock jockey who has been publishing pro-left disinformation and conspiracy theories lately.
He has an article stating Carney orchestrated a bonds sell off with Europe and Japan which would be cool as fuck if it were real.. the story is widely discredited.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/11/canada-mark-carney-treasurys-sell-off/
He has another false article stating Carney kicked the US out of NORAD.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-announces-earth-shaking
I love reading his stories because they're well written and designed to make leftists feel good. If you treat them as fiction you won't be likely to spread the misinformation they contain.
Don’t let baby Trump with his small PP and his illiterate maple magas win.
Canada needs to be strong, the conservatives are pathetically weak. All they know how to do is bash Canada and say we’re broken.
Let’s prove them wrong. VOTE! VOTE!! VOTE!!!
I needed a shot of pride and enthusiasm today. Thanks for posting.
Oh yea, really "crushing" MAGA. Every morning, MAGA supporters wake up in tears going "oh why won't the mean Canadians buy our stuff? I'm now really regretting my vote and my support of Trump!"
Oh wait. They don't do any of that. They're still frothing at the mouth in support of Trump and are happier than pigs in shit that their side is "winning".
I don’t think you understand how this works. This isn’t to turn the eyes of his mindless minion loyalists to the light of reasoning Nope. Not at all.
In fact, all the evidence one needs to prove that they are completely fine to just sit in the dark and have others tell them what they are supposed to think, lies soundly in their inability to know how not to elect a fascist dictator that will ruin their lives.
So no, it’s not about trump’s loyalist goons.
Boycotting American businesses causes those businesses to put pressure on trump’s gremlin-hive of an administration. It sends a very clear message that his idiot-coated actions have real world consequences.
Oh please. Maga business owners in Kentucky are definitely feeling the pinch. Its doing its part.
They may be too ignorant to notice but once their country is in the toilet, they'll feel that
And no, it is not Canadians doing that. The clown they chose for President is taking care of it all himself
when America comes to its senses and Canadians return to the US
So like, in 60 years or so?
Trust is hard-earned, easily lost, and difficult to reestablish.
It will be in a few decades as a best case scenario. It's not even about Trump specifically. The world will have lost its trust in the US public to not vote in chaos, now that they've done it twice, for the forseeable future.
Depends on the path they take. If they just "wait it out" we'll all be dead before Canadians go back to the way things were. If they hit some kind of breaking point and drag that rapist prick and his sycophants out of their White House in leg irons- I would be willing to negotiate an expedited process.
It takes a ton of effort to piss off Canada
Bravo! Make yourselves stronger and more independent.
How do I leave here and join you guys? Y'all aren't very far away