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Hockey fans boo U.S. national anthem at Ottawa Senators game after Trump imposes tariffs

www.ctvnews.ca Hockey fans boo U.S. national anthem at Ottawa Senators game after Trump imposes tariffs

Ottawa Senators fans were quick to voice their displeasure with the United States on Saturday after U.S. president Donald Trump announced his plan to impose tariffs on Canadian goods.

We realize that most Americans didn't vote for Trump (only 49.8%) and that most of those who did probably didn't understand what tariffs are and how they work and we realize that Trump's action and our response are going to hurt poor Americans, and poor Americans in red states more than others, but we're not going to take illegal tariffs sitting down.

Just a reminder who Trump is pissing off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSaHRd4Q48

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That 49.8% is misleading - it implies that 49.8% of the country support him, but it counts only the votes that were actually cast. He only got votes from about 30% of eligible voters.
Of course we can't know who all those non-voters wanted to win, but I'd rather not imply that nearly half of all americans voted for him.
- Of course we can't know who all those non-voters wanted to win, but I'd rather not imply that nearly half of all americans voted for him.
  Who gives a shit? Those non-voters made an active choice to not matter. Makes sense to respect that choice and ignore their existence.
  People always bring this up as if it's some indication that things arent quite as bad as they seem. Why? Americans chose this in every way that matters.
  
  Keep in mind that quite a lot of those people are lower class citizens who can’t afford to take a day off work to vote. If you’re living paycheck to paycheck, not getting one day of pay can be crippling.
  Sure, it’s easy to say they should bear the cost to save the nation, but none of us are feeding their kids or paying their bills. And it isn’t us who go homeless because they voted.
  
  While I’m sure this is true for many, where I live early voting is super easy and convenient. I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people that did not vote could very easily have done so, they just didn’t for non logistical reasons.
  
  I wouldn't be so sure. It's a time honored tradition for red states to make it significantly more difficult to vote. Shutting down voting locations in busy (so blue) areas, not accepting mail in votes, etc.
  
  The red state I live in does not do this. Anecdotal of course
  
  You don’t think there’s any problem with using only your viewpoint and experience as a guide for judging the entire nation?
  
  Yep, which is why I pointed out that it’s anecdotal. But I’m also seeing a bunch of comments that are just generalizations with no actual sources. So my anecdote has some value at least.
  
  What was the point of making the comment in the first place then?
  
  To offer an alternative viewpoint to the other SOURCELESS comments. You want to provide sources that back up the comments, that’s fine. Otherwise my anecdotal perspective is equally valuable.
  
  Regardless of that; another shenanigan exists for those who did make it to the polls; Gerrymandering.
  Yes; it's horrid as it sounds and it limits the voting power of lower class people, as well as the power of people who are considered to be "ethnic minorities" by the party in power. If there's a neighborhood of blacks next to a poor neighborhood; well both find themselves districted together and their cumulative votes are diminished by how the votes are counted by district such that a 2-3 victory for Democrats; is actually counted as a 2-3 victory for the Republicans...all because the Republicans were already in power somehow and managed to re-district the place so that the vote result never changes anything...unless the unlikely event that all three neighborhoods choose to vote the same way occurs.
  Yet another shenanigan exists where voting rolls are frequently "purged" due to false assertions of fraud and onerous and routine registration becomes necessary, which isn't a problem if you don't work full-time in the USA; but good luck getting a day off work if you do work full-time and need to vote. (Hint: YOU DON'T; OR ELSE YOU GET FIRED WITH NO RECOURSE!)
  Even if that wasn't enough already; many times the voting times, locations, dates and even rules change from year-to-year, and sometimes even month-to-month.
  What worked this time might not work next time. From ID requirements to ballot order manipulation or even other flat out shady practices like misleading or leading poll questions on the ballot are all employed.
  The media is even worse; and frequently spouts simple and blatant lies. they could literally be absolutely passionate about their issue in particular and still end up being misled or lied to; as there's no accountability for this. This would result in mistakenly casting a vote for the wrong candidate who would then go on to not represent the will or needs of the citizens voting for them once they're in power.
  The average American, just simply can't always be on top of every one of these things 24/7. It's easy to get taken by any one of them by surprise.
  
  where i live, voting is not necessarily easy or convenient for folks relying on public transport. that much harder if they are, say, a working single parent living below the poverty level. and my work involves talking to people like this every day - there are millions like them.
  
  Do you think they would have voted if somebody drove them from their house to the polling place and back home? What would they need in order to convince them to vote? Mail in ballots? Polling places within X distance of their house? Anything else?
  I’m sure it’s the cynic in me, but I just think that the people staying home just don’t care enough to actually vote. If they did, they would figure out a way to do so.
  For instance, a working single parent below the poverty level probably knows that voting for the millionaire over the billionaire is not going to impact their life, so why bother wasting time voting?
  
  to your last point, you're not wrong. a lot of people are so fucked they know it doesn't really matter, and i won't blame them for the state of the nation.
  
  I would have early voted if I knew I could. I legitimately didn't know that was an option for myself until if was over. I thankfully was able to go on voting day, so it's ok. But for the first time in my voting life, I never received my voting pamphlet with all the usual info as well as my voting location. I had to look everything up and that really made me mad. So I could easily understand some people legitimately missing their opportunity to vote because they weren't provided the information to be able to get out there and do it.
  
  You got paid leave right?
  And even so why would you need to take a day of to vote? We have over a 100 people we can vote for here in NL and we often do it before or after work
  
  Paid leave is great, for people who work full time jobs that offer it. Not all full time jobs do, and no part time jobs offer it at all. Tell me, do you have the statistics of how many people in the US get paid leave? As for voting before work, how do you do that when you have to work multiple jobs to survive? Where I live, there’s only one voting location for a whole medium population city, and the wait was about four hours, and the line was several blocks long. You weren’t allowed to leave the line without losing your place, and you weren’t allowed to bring food or water to anyone in line.
  Republicans make it as hard as possible to vote. So while I’m glad you live in a state where voting is easy, it’s a bit selfish for you guys to imagine everyone has it as well as you do. We don’t. Not to mention, it’s a bit ableist to insist everyone is even capable for standing in line for the amount of time some people reported last November. And with Trump in power again, next election, if we even have one, is going to be that much harder. Mail in and early voting is probably going to be curtailed or abolished in many red states. New federal rules will likely be enacted, and I have no doubt that voting locations are going to get even scarcer. Fewer people will be able to vote next election, and it’s not because those people don’t care, it’s because that’s the whole point of everything fascists do.
  
  Excuse me for my ignorance, i keep forgetting the US only acts like it’s a first world country to the outside world, but it is basically a shit hole in the mean time.
  Most of these things I couldn’t know and we get a lot of news about the US here in NL.
  Voting here takes like 10 minutes and there are multiple voting locations available. A town with 2k people will have 2 or 3 voting locations and you can also vote in other cities.
  Edit: I was not talking about freelance work, but parttimes on contract, they get paid leave as well
  
  Oh, part time workers don’t get any benefits here at all. Not even health insurance. And contract workers aren’t even classified as employees, which is why a lot of corps like Uber classify their workers as contractors. It means they don’t have to provide any benefits, and they don’t get any protections regular works get, since they aren’t employees. They’re just workers.
  It makes sense to billionaires.
  
  That doesn’t sound like are actual parttime workers, but either freelancers or “small business owners” who get hired.
  I dislike billionaires just like the next person, but this also exists in other countries where billionaires either don’t exist or don’t gave the impact.
  Part of it is because people think it’s better (at least here in NL) because they earn more after taxes, but in the long term it’s more expensive and because it used to be better for businesses. Now we mainly see a lot of people who wish to work like that.
  
  Those non-voters matter a lot because Trump is acting like he has some kind of enormous overwhelming mandate, and there is no evidence to back that up.
  
  Trump is acting like Trump. Talk of a 'mandate' is piffle, like almost anything he says.
  
  Piffle
  to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way
  Thanks for the new to me word!
  
  So what? Play it out. What, the GOP Congress invoke the 25th and remove him ? They'll impeach him? He does need a mandate. He won the last election he'll ever need to. Media is controlled by a few billionaires who all support him. How people feel doesn't matter anymore.
  
  If the peole believe he has an overwhelming mandate, they will be a lot slower to kick him in the teeth. It will soon be too late.
  
  Half of voters are in his cult. They will literally eat shit before they abandon him in the way you're implying. Stop acting like you're dealing with rational actors.
  
  They're just trying to cope with the situation by playing games with statistics. You're absolutely right though, non-voters don't matter and there's no point in talking about them as much as we do.
  
  I agree that talking about non-voters in that context isn't useful but we definitely should talk about non-voters more in regards to why they didn't vote. Is it cause in a number of states voting access is really hard? Is it due to not liking either party and not feeling like there are good candidates? I think understanding that more could really give a better understanding of this block of people, is it really just people who don't care about politics and would never care enough to vote or is it people who just don't have the time to deal with navigating the system to be able to vote.
  
  This is the same percentage of the population it's been for 50 years. Any question you could want to ask has been asked many times already. How many more times do we need to ask them before we're satisfied with the answers?
  
  The reason? Electoral college. Why vote in the majority of states where the result is already predetermined?
  
  I think that's definitely a big reason for non-swing state voters but I do also think how hard it can be to vote in some states is a pretty bit barrier too. If you look at turnout data by state theres a reason a lot of the red states with the more strict laws have lower turnout compared to my home state of Oregon which isn't a swing state yet still can get 75% turnout in 2020 even though it's a solid blue state, cause we do full vote by mail.
  
  100 million people being armed with guns matter. Their families will die if they fight for or against another.
  "I didn't vote" doesn't protect your family from bullets, it makes them fodder for both sides. (I think the Democrats are shit, but by no means would I ever think ANY Republican has been better than the average Democrat
- People that didn't vote also supported him
  
  Life's more complicated then that, try not to alienate the people that need convincing.
  
  No, they have blood on their hands too. Sure they aren't covered in it like MAGA Carrie, but they didn't take 30 minutes out of their day to vote to stop this.
  
  I would add one big caveat to that: voter suppression. Voting day isn't a holiday, many MANY people have to work, and between Republicans doing all they can to make mail-in ballots inaccessible and closing polling stations to the point where people are standing out in the heat for upwards of 4 hours to get into a place to vote, let alone purging voting rolls so close to the election that there wasn't enough time for people to register again (and nonsense voter ID requirements), I can't blame some people for outright not having the ability to vote.
  Anybody who had the ability to and chose not to? Yeah, blood is on their hands. The time to push for the changes that everybody wants is not 3 months once every 4 years, but the time leading up to those 3 months.
  
  Voting isn't a holiday in Canada either but we make it work. Vote early, vote by mail. You can use whatever excuse makes you feel better but taking an hour or 2 out of your day once every 4 years is a small price to pay for democracy.
  
  To be fair, you guys have a parliamentary system. It's a bit different, and you don't have any one election that's equal in scale and importance to our Presidential election.
  Not making excuses, just saying that it's not a 1:1 comparison.
  
  I don't really understand what your point is. Do you mean our election campaigns don't last 4 years? Y'all could plan to book voting day off 20 years in advance because it's not a surprise, ours can pop up any time with a month's notice. And by importance do you mean our PM generally doesn't have the power to crater the world economy in a matter of days? Or are you saying ours are more important because we vote for the entire government on 1 day and you just pick one guy?
  
  And 100% of Canadians vote, right? And 2 million+ of those mail-in ballots get thrown out, right? And those are only available in certain provinces anyway, right? And people stand in line for 5 hours, right? And there are only 2 polling locations per city, right? And there's no issues with indigenous people being disenfranchised by the government, right?
  It's almost like Republicans actively make it as difficult as they possibly can for people to vote. And I sure as hell am not going to blame those people who had their ballots thrown out, or stood in line for 5 hours only to get turned away because they closed the polling locations early (illegally, I might add) or didn't have some esoteric form of ID that they didn't know they needed because Republicans had quietly passed a Voter ID law in the state without sending out any notification to anybody - and then largely only demanded it from people who "looked too Mexican."
  Again, those who actively chose to stay at home and not vote? Blood is on their hands, fuck 'em. But there's tons of people who actively voted and had their vote thrown out or were denied the right to vote, and I'm not gonna put them in the same boat. Voter suppression in the US is bad, and it was even worse this past election. To the point where there's questions about whether or not the election was tampered with. But go ahead and keep blaming the Jews for not voting against Hitler hard enough.
  
  I would argue the fault lies entirely with the political party that alienated their constituents to such an extent that some of them actually withhold their vote knowing 4 years of lunacy could be the consequence.
  Hard to pretend people that felt conflicted about genocide are the villains here, even if I wish they would have made the smart choice.
  
  I would argue that being a single issue voter who is willing to make everything worse, including that single issue they are so fixated on, is just as fucking stupid as being conned into voting for Trump directly.
  
  Yes, FFS. This.
  Not only that, but the Republicans are highly likely to be far, far worse on foreign policy in general, and about Gaza/Israel in particular. Demanding a pretty pony and when it doesn't show up, ceding the field to the likes of donvict is criminally stupid.
  
  Even if the single issue is being complicit with crimes against humanity?
  
  The choices available were "not doing enough to stop it" and "actively participating". In this instance, not voting was equivalent to choosing the latter.
  
  No the choices were "loudly support" or "quietly support" crimes against humanity.
  
  Fair. My use of the word entirely is a bit much. I guess I just see the dems as having more control over the situation with non-voters just reacting to their choices.
  It sucks we all have to suffer for it.
  
  Well, it wouldn't have been an issue if Biden and Harris hadn't supported it.
  They chose to continue their support for Israel's slaughter (and immigration crackdowns, and pro-corporate policies, and just about anything they could use to fuck over the average American) even though polling told them they were going to lose. They knowingly handed the government over to Donald Trump (a second time) and Elon Musk and you're sitting here telling people they're fucking stupid for not being on board with all that. That sounds pretty fucking stupid to me.
  You're just giving them cover to go even further right next election and who will you blame when they lose yet again with their watered down right-wing policy that appeals to no one?
  
  I've said it a thousand times but it's always worth repeating: the election is about damage control. You choose the least worst option available to you. If you don't like the choices you see, you have to get off your ass and do something about it before the election. Whining about after the fact will accomplish nothing.
  
  the election is about damage control. You choose the least worst option available to you.
  "Damage control" means both candidates are damaging to varying degrees, so what do you expect people to do once they realize that it doesn't make much difference who gets elected? Why do you think a majority of people don't even bother to vote anymore?
  How does the rubber meet the road with this strategy exactly? I'm guessing it just means you blindly support the Democratic party regardless of the candidate and their policies, no? They can force on us a geriatric candidate who can't even get through a single debate or make hard right shifts like they did this election and you just cheer them on and give a thumbs up, correct? Those that don't offer blind support get turned off by this and the Democrats lose yet another election and allow Trump back into office a second time and you still blindly support the direction of the party? That's insanity.
  If you don't like the choices you see, you have to get off your ass and do something about it before the election. Whining about after the fact will accomplish nothing
  Who exactly do you think is whining here? I knew this was coming. The polls showed it was coming. You guys are the ones whining and trying to blame everyone else except for the party and their candidates who keep losing. I've been preaching this same shit since 2016, while an army of sycophants have emboldened the DNC leadership into adopting worse and worse policy even though it backfires on them (and the rest of us by extension) every single time.
  Here we are before the next election and what are you doing to change things other than pledging unconditional loyalty to a nearly thrice losing strategy. What do you think you're accomplishing with this?
  
  Thank you for saying this. So many radlib Democrats on Lemmy still downplay the failure of the American Democratic party.
  
  You're not the first one to argue the fault lies (entirely or mostly) not with the candidate and party aligned with doing the bad things but with the candidate and party who didn't do enough to stop the ones aligned with doing the bad things.
  So, you're not alone in being wrong.
  
  I'm saying the election loss isn't the fault of people that boycotted the vote because of the genocide, but it's instead the fault of the party that is supposed to represent them but chose to represent genocide instead.
  I kind of feel like you are trying to twist my words here?
  
  Let me make myself more clear. The election is the fault of the people who voted for Donald Trump.
  
  I mean, you're right. Democrats went full Conservative-lite this year. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.
  Democrats need to give their constituents a carrot to chase, else it doesn't matter which party offers the stick. Feels the same.
  Lots of radlibs in these Lemmy communities
  
  Nah, that's a shit take. If you didn't vote, you're at least okay with the prospect of another Trump presidency, or you didn't care enough to vote against him. You're complicit either way.
  
  I don't know - in some parts of America, getting out and voting is made more difficult. On purpose.
  We all saw that voting by mail can work during Covid. The qons want to claw that back.
  
  Some things that are necessary are also hard. If you don't do something necessary because it wasn't as easy as you thought it should be then you're a piece of shit. Nothing will change until Americans collectively decide to make good choices in spite of the difficulty and you're making that take longer by helping people feel justified in taking the lazy way out.
  
  For my state, voting is as it should be - by mail, and it's been that way for years and years.
  I know in other states, they are doing everything possible to make it hard for people of certain races/classes to vote. I'm just showing some empathy for that, as my current system here in Colorado is fantastic - I have time to sit and leisurely and exhaustively review each item on the ballot and fill it out without any hurry or worry about rushing back to my job. I don't have to stand in line for hours and know that people can be fined for giving me water as I stand out in the hot sun.
  I would agree, given the stakes, that people should do everything possible to do their part to vote against someone like donvict. I also realize that, in practice, there are forces working to make that much more difficult for some people. Since I've not had to physically wait in line to vote for a very long time, I think I'd feel just a little bit hypocritical to demand that of others and not acknowledge the effort others have to put in that I now do not.
  
  Hard disagree. Those who didn't vote said exactly what they stood for. Dems had the power, and completely ignored it and didn't get voted in as a result.
  If you're blaming non-voters you're just causing unnecessary division amongst the left. The US has been fascist for a long time. And everything happening has been a long time coming. Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
  
  Also, in many states, the Republicans insist on making voting more difficult, especially for certain people.
  We should have vote by mail, everywhere, with ballots sent out well in advance. And people should be automatically registered to vote when they get something like a driver's license.
  
  Life's more complicated ~~then~~ than that ; try not to alienate the people that need convincing.
  
  Fuck you, you grammer nazi.
  
  Fuck you, you ~~grammer~~ grammar nazi.
  
  How is that alienating anyone?
  Also I don't think most of them can be convinced of anything that will improve tomorrow.
  
  Life’s more complicated then that, try not to alienate the people that need convincing.
  How about a modification to the statement like this: People that didn't vote for him let those that did decide to vote for them.
- Fair point.
- Those who could vote but chose not to are at the same level, they actively chose to not participate, which means they at best aggree with whatever is happening. At least trump cult is way out there mentally, and there is no more humanity in those creatures, so they couldn't do otherwise. Non-participators had something in them to prevent the worst, but they chose not to. That's agency, that's responsibility.
- Regardless, the words "only 49.8%" in this context, is so beyond absurd, that it must be comedy.
- And only 22% of the total US population, including children etc., but still the people of the nation. Very few people voted (or abstained) to make this terrible thing happen.
- About 99 percent of the people I speak to voted for him. Loud and proud.

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