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

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.

Fair point.

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.

the ignorance is by design. our entire society has been programmed for consumption not critical thought - and this has been done from all sides at the behest of the corporate oligarchy.

as angry and disappointed and depressed as I am with the outcome, its a deep structural failure and I have a hard time placing the blame on those that simply decided to check out and not participate in their own civic education. every pressure on the american plebian has been to keep your head down, ignore the growing deficiencies and consume.

Yeah, but a lot of people have outsourced their brain to the likes of Faux and donvict.

Yes. See the link in the original post that includes a Canadian hockey audience finishing the US national anthem when the PA system went out.

Hockey fans booing another team's anthem is not done.

Some of us do and were ashamed at how hateful and destructive our fellow Americans can be. And it sucks that they continuously refuse to listen to reason despite the facts laid before them. Most of the supporters I know of have their head firmly in the sand with no idea what's coming.

Normally I see something like this when a xitter link is embedded, by the way.

I suggest installing something like libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to automatically sub in xitter links for a Nitter instance of your choosing. Manually, replace twitter with xcancel and VIOLA, bob's yer uncle:

https://xcancel.com/SunGarrioch/status/1885844148563099971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

People still sometimes send me FB links; not sure if there is something for that yet.

Life in Canada is about to get so insanely difficult that you might want to reconsider this plan

America hasn't really stood for Freedom (in the pure sense and deserving of a capital F) from when it's "Democracy" 'for male landowners only' was formed, followed by a couple of centuries of taking all the land of the territory it claimed away from the Commons (and the various Indian Tribes who were its main users) and making all of it have owners (i.e. with its use by others controlled by said owners rather than Free).

In its territory, America has had somewhat better periods in that regard, but even the end of Slavery didn't really end it, just restricted it to be only for prisioners, whilst outside its territory America always acted to make other people's lives and possessions serve the best interests of a powerful subsection of the American society rather than be free (hence how most of those interventions involved replacing one dictator by a different pro-America dictator, or setting up semi-Democratic regimes whose hands were tied by a web of obligations to America and some of it's allies, such as how the US and UK basically gave themselves oil exploitation contracts for most of Iraq's oil wealth and "security" contracts at the end of the 2nd Iraq War and then set up a "Democratic" government there).

However unlike with regimes were the web of laws and property that curtails most people's freedom is much thinner and more direct, and hence more obvious, American Propaganda on "Freedom" has always been top-notch.

As a Russian escaped Russia, in my experience people all over the world are incredibly good at differentiating between a shit country and it's unfortunate citizens who got unlucky to be born there. I had to have my fair share of embarrassment about what those fucks back in Russia are doing, but people are usually understanding enough

We can't. We're way too small. There are only marginally more Canadians than there are Californians spread out over a country 1.6% larger than the entire US.

We're gunna try to land some lawsuits against the administration and accept refugees from the States like we did last time but it's unfortunately asking a mouse to take on a cat.