They make a lot of fucking cool guns though. But the Belgians are no slouches either.
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6 in 10 canadians were fucking stupid to trust the US in the first place
As an American, same.
And they shouldn't.
Trust them to do what exactly? Were y'all asleep during covid? You can't trust humans to put a mask on during a pandemic. But I don't go into every interaction assuming the worst of the other person. Now if we're talking about the American government? Yeah that's a valid sentiment.
Or any time during NAFTA.
Too many lemmy conservatives left onguardforthee now it’s full of pro US posters.
Trust them to have basic human decency, trust them to not invade Canada, trust them to rigorously oppose a criminal regime?
As George Carlin said: "Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders."
They were calling to invade Canada before Trump.
Not impossible but likely very marginal since I've never heard of it.
The other four need to wake up.
It is time for a US and Canadian citizenship exchange program. There are plenty of US citizens that would enjoy life in Canada and the racist neo-Nazi Canadians would relish life in a deregulated red run Oblast.
racist neo-Nazi Canadians would relish life in a deregulated red run Oblast.
...you do know who defeated the Nazis, right? Like in history books for real, not video games. Like, how did that world salad make any sense to you?
Hey I've got a great idea: Let's transfer pro-democracy folks to the country with a weak global standing and military, and transfer all the fascists to the world's sole superpower, operator of the largest navy, two largest air forces and the largest functional reserve of nuclear weapons on the planet.
Your schools aren't great either, huh?
America lost in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and lost against the Taliban, which at their peak was 100k insurgents.
If you think America has a strong military you need to stop drinking the kool-aid.
Canada is part of NATO and the commonwealth. America has almost no allies anymore and Canada has the most allies of any country.
Canada is more powerful than the USA.
America won in all those wars. However those wars show that winning the war isnt the end and if you want things to hold you need significant follow up and american support is fickle.
Say what now? Please explain how the US won any of those wars? Last I checked, North Korea is still a thing; Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh and the Taliban rule Afghanistan. But ya it was a "support" problem. They never won those wars because no one wants US imperialism.
Sure.
As a Leftist, I could never consider Canada as a viable place to live unless they repealed their repressive laws on firearms. UNDER NO PRETEXT.
Wtf are you talking about? I'm Canadian and I own several rifles and shotguns.
I just bought a 6.5 creedmoor rifle and I own an AR-15.
Keep your bullshit fox news propoganda to yourself.
I assume you are referring to how we dont allow mentally ill people such as yourself from owning firearms. Good. This is why we don't have school shootings
I'm on the far left, i don't watch fox news. And according to this Canadian source, you own a prohibited weapon https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/frrms/paf-afa-en.aspx
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/frrms/index-en.aspx
"On May 1, 2020 the Government of Canada prohibited over 1,500 models of assault-style firearms and certain components of some prohibited firearms (the upper receivers of M16, AR-10, AR-15, and M4 patterns of firearms). "
It's a restricted weapon not prohibited. Mine is grandfathered in.
Good thing people like you are never allowed to move here.
Keep chugging that americant propoganda and watching those mass shootings everyday.
The American propaganda I got off the Canadian website? Or by American are you referring to when I quoted Karl Marx?
As European leftist: weirdest exchange to read 😅
But your firearms sure help you tremendously rn, while tyrants take over your country. All those upright citizens everywhere who defend liberal democracy with their muskets.
6/10 Americans won't trust America again also.
Came here to say this. The last decade has truly flipped my perception of the rest of america on its head. Well, my perception of conservatives, at least. I always knew that people are people and there's a spectrum of good to bad. I've come to realize that Republicans literally do not care about trying to help anyone else unless they see some sort of personal return of either money or power. I've seen so many people that I thought were "a good, slightly dumb person misguided by politics" fully throw themselves behind Trump. Everything that they say they believe in is apparently a lie, since they so readily line up to worship a person so antithetical to what they pretend to believe. I can not and do not trust anyone that identifies with Republicans or even conservatism at this point.
I don't blame y'all
that's completely fair
for all the terrible things both political parties wrought globally from the end of WWII until a Jan 20, 2017, they were united (more or less) in a commitment to being a rules and laws based main even if it hurt "their side" from time to time.
Even Reagan's "11th Amendment" would be set aside from time to time to preserve America's standing in the world.
Not so any more. And i don't actually know if it's possible to get that reputation back.
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