They need to do this and make it absolutely clear that it is 100% Trump's fault. They cannot be allowed to make the claim that canada did it unprovoked or for the lulz.
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Trudeau got in front of the cameras today and spelled this out. Our government chose to take this action, and Canada is having an entirely reasonable response. Once the tarrifs end, we can go back to where we were, but in the meantime, Americans need to learn how much they rely on Canadian trade and need to understand that this is entirely our government's fault.
As an American, fucking do it, and make sure DC and Red states feel the most pain. And don't have some qwar ass back door conversation/deal to end the tariffs. Refuse to end them until he goes on live television and reads the following
"To all my fellow Americans, the best Americans from the best America, in hind sight, as it concerns tariffs with our closest geographical allies, I was wrong. The decision I made was stupid, and it was made by an idiot, me. Unfortunately I don't have the intellectual or business aptitude to actually determine what a good decision would be, as opposed to a bad decision. In fact, I am as stupid as the idiots who voted for me. This was the idea that I thought I would be fantastic and I was completely wrong and it's the only idea I had. I apologize to Canada and Mexico, both their leaders and citizens"
It would crush him to make a sincere public apology and backtrack. And he'll still get lynched before the end of year. Because he fucking deserves it.
Do it Canada. The dumber half of our country needs to learn the hard way. And, unfortunately, the smarter half has to go along for the ride.
Exactly. The entire reason Trump is President again is because we did not take the serious extreme and required actions after the 2020 elections to ensure that him, his supporters, and enablers could never participate in American society again.
The same mistake we made after the civil war we decided that we would be generous and go easy on those who betrayed us. We are still paying for that mistake we are still paying for the mistake with Trump. The only thing fascist understand is violence in the only way fascism ends is through violence.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Glad that Canadians are standing up for themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump threatened military action in return, should Canada go forward with it. I mean, it sounds crazy to write it, but is it really too crazy for Trump?
On the slim bright side maybe just maybe this might make the US think of renewable energy, it’s why China invests so much into it to prevent relying on countries for oil.
Ehh who am I kidding, that’s not going to happen at all.
Fracking was our answer to energy independence.
More likely they'll reopen coal plants
The children, they yearn for the mines
Drill baby drill!
Cancer baby cancer!!
Do it unilaterally without discussing with US.
Or even better: Discuss it with Ukraine, US gets no say in the deal. And if drumpf disagrees, the reply will be "you don't want electricity."
I actually had a good laugh at this... Then I had to login to my second account to up vote this twice.
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Can't wait to see this happening. It's a language A bully like Trump might understand. might.
Unless HIS power goes out, I’m not sure he’ll care. But I hope the people affected know where to lodge their complaints…
Why is the fairness meter of the article "unfair left leaning", when it just reports on something someone said?
I don't see any opinion piece there, but pretty much just direct quoting
How can this be even left or right leaning? Oo
In the US, reporting on simple facts makes you “radical left” while obvious propaganda makes you “right leaning”.
Why is the fairness meter of the article "unfair left leaning"
It isn't; that article is rated neutral/fair. You need to vote on the fairness rating yourself first, then it'll show you the average score
Ah, ok!
Thanks!
Still a weird thing to show for an unvoted state
Yeah, I don't know why it just doesn't show the needle at all until you vote
We Americans have a serious problem labeling anything we disagree with as "those other guys". I might even say it's our main problem. We wouldn't be where we're at today without the divisiveness and team mentality.
Sadly it's not just Americans...
Seeing the same we-they pattern here in Austrian right wing communities/parties
Sadly it’s not just Americans…
But they're the best at it. Tremendous at it. Everyone says it. People say it. You know it
Sometimes I go look at r/conservative just to take temperature, and on returning to political communities on lemmy I find the same ad hominem insults and dehumanizing efforts as over there, certainly less of it and less virulent, but just as spiteful and aggressive.
I'm all for being upset when it's appropriate, but I am afraid that political affiliations are no guarantee of sanity or reasoning.
I'm just fed up with the constant sensational shock fake news (usually of right wing parties), which only aim for fear, anger and hatred
Yeah, we all have problems and we need to work on that. That's pretty much life - especially social life and much more (geo-) political life.
But I can't stand the rhetoric anymore. From highschool bullies playbook to imitating Hitler's rhetoric. I'm just too fed up with it.
I want fact based politics and crowd sourced solutions - from the people that are actually affected.
And not some idiot calling a whole group of people degenerates and worth shit.
In the late 90s with the "real" Internet still alive and all of the people starting to face global problems, I was really optimistic, that this would bring us all together.
To work on a global solution.
But nah, we need to have populistic simple "solutions" for complex problems, where seemingly every time it's just the fault of some minority group or some foreigners.
This now just isn't the world I wanted to live in and I naively hoped for so much better and more...
Edit: to make extend on that:
Society doesn't need a rigid framework of rules to live in. So fuck social control - doesn't matter if it comes from religion or from state.
The laws we live in should reflect the society we currently are. And not try to pressure society into some form of ideological picture.
And with that, fuck ideology as well.
Society is always changing and our rules to live by need to be as flexible as that.
But somehow people still long for a wannabe strongman leader, who only cares for himself.
We could just build our own society, with basic democracy, no real leaders, but maybe just elected representatives.
We don't need anyone to tell us, how we should behave.
We hopefully are grown up enough to see the ethical correct way.
But people seem to prefer to be childs and just hand over responsibility...
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I like Cory Doctorow’s plan.
The reason Canada got tariff-free access to sell to the US in the first place? Canada agreed to enforce penalties for tampering with digital locks, following the premise of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act.
If the US is going back on the deal, then Canada should too. Make it legal to jailbreak all US tech.
Doctorow advocating for this plan:
- On Democracy Now
- On his blog
- On his podcast
- In the Ursula Franklin lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College (I especially enjoyed this one, but it is the longest)
Thanks for sharing this info mate...It's a eye opener....Just fuck the technocrats.
On the other hand, our formerly quasi-municipal energy company is now owned by a Canadian conglomerate. I'd not mind unwinding that.
Like it or not, we are all connected across North America.
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