3d ago

Said a lot of shit, but.

So ive said a lot of shit about America since their dive into insanity. But I've ran into relatively normal people that now view America as a pure enemy. Like really calm people that have told Americans to their face that if they step into canada, with the intention of invasion, they will be met with a bullet to the head. And more then a few that legitimately know how to cause mass destruction. I don't think our neighbors to the south really understand just how fucked they made this relationship. I'm just understanding that my hot head position isn't too far from the norm.

I forgot to make this interactive, really what I'm saying is have other people ran into this? Where your gut reaction of let's end them as a country has now bled into the people around you that you wouldn't think thought like that?

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Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada's inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He's right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.

I'm American, let me tell you, if one of us steps foot into Canada intending to invade, you should put a bullet in their skull. Fascism must be met overwhelmingly. Never give it an inch.

What's happening in Ameristan is too dangerous to treat them as anything but an enemy to the stability and prosperity of the rest of the world. As soon as people started getting disappeared for political views, I flipped like a switch, I doubt there's a regime in history that started behaviour like that and didnt keep going until they were stopped.
Ameristan is quickly becoming authoritarian and fascist, this isn't going to fizzle out, it will need to be stopped.

I live in a border city, and everyone here is just waiting for the day that it happens. But we're not okay with it and everyone I know has been making an effort to buy Canadian and show solidarity for one another. I've seen a few signs for our local Conservative MPP who is a nutjob though, likely seniors who don't know any better. However, at least my formerly Trump-loving boss has finally shut up about how great he is now that his shit is directly affecting her. We now openly shit talk Trump in front of her and she just says nothing.

Blowing the faces off foreign invaders is a normal step. If you let them pass, suddenly you don't have a country.
- As an American, I feel pretty confident that for at least this round of 4-year political theater, Trump and is minority voting-base are not going to do any military actions towards Canada, although i expect that yes, our country's most mentally challenged individuals are now hook-line-and-sinker onboard with thinking of your guys as the enemy and you should in fact blow them up if they think they have entitlement to play army-boi and cross north to do mischief.
  What we have going on right now is someone who learned that human beings embrace and live in a state of cognitive dissonance and he learned people actually like it, people enjoy believing one thing while knowing another. This is why we have reality TV, social media and why we all had to argue with our friends for decades that no, the WWE isn't a real sporting organization, as evident by the fact that they routinely use weapons and necromancy in the ring. The didn't care then, they don't care now, they are just the dumbest fucks on Earth and so bored and emotionally unwell that they rather live in this roleplay world where you can just write a new narrative with new enemies for no fucking reason.
  
  It's not about this term, it's about his magical 3rd term. That's when shit really goes down.

Absolutely.
Seemingly "everyone" is into it. Worker at the beer store even pointed out to buddy in front of me that he was buying american.
Buddy immediately switched it up.

It's so dumb that the threat of a financial recession is what finally brought out the no-more-mister-nice-guy attitude. Not the democratic backsliding, not the open disdain for human rights.
- None of those affect Canadians directly. At the end of the day we're all just monkies fighting for resources.
  When America says 'we own you now and if you fight it, we'll make sure you starve' it's a different conversation.
  People don't (nor should they) take it likely when he says he's going to use economic force. Canada already has an affordability crisis with its social services under incredible strain. If he proceeds full throttle, Canadians will die.
  
  None of those affect Canadians directly. At the end of the day we’re all just monkies fighting for resources.
  Sort of. We sure do talk big shit about caring, though, and most people believe they do themselves. Not to mention, there's no universe where the American Reich wouldn't end poorly for us.
  If he proceeds full throttle, Canadians will die.
  Some of the ones that are already very poor "only". Anyone else has enough political and economic resources that it won't come to that. It definitely won't come to that for politicians and buisinesspeople who set the tone the most.

That's good. Godlessspeed. I just hope hypothetical American refugees can avoid getting shot.
- i hope the american antifa partisans who stay behind also avoid getting shot
  
  There will be ways to make yourselves known I am sure. Like shooting fascists in the face. That will gain you a lot of Canadian friends.
- hope hypothetical American refugees
  Canada has a really hushed history about internment. Yank fugees will be fine, but they may be held collectively for a while, in a remote place, healthy but not landed.

Yes. I was at an event yesterday in my small east coast town. So many folks I didn't think would even care are ready to go to war. Literally. I've been quietly watching for a decade or more and slowly building our ability to be self sustainable. They called us crazy at first though we didn't speak of why we were doing what we were doing. Now they come to us and ask for help.

Yup, I've talked to quite a few normies who are mostly on the gun control side of things who are now considering getting a PAL to go practice at the range so they "know how to handle a weapon in case the need ever arise".
- Suggest shotguns and rifles. Handguns are the thing you use while you get your real gun. Shotguns are for home defense. Rifles are for country defense. Take the firearms safety courses that are offered, and train with the thing. I sincerely hope you never have to use it, but my fellow countrymen are being idiots again. I'll be down here defending Mexico if it comes to it, but I know that some of us will join in a defence of Canada. Most fucked up civil war in history.
  
  Yes, that's what PALs get you. For handguns you needed an RPAL, but that is no longer possible. Mostly because the PLC couldn't be arsed to blame the US for the illegal guns coming across the border.
  The safety classes aren't "offered", they are mandatory.
- normies [...] who are now considering getting a PAL
  The repeated threat of invasion creates an exception to the norm. This shouldn't be hard to understand. People can be for gun control AND want to prepare for duty.

nothing like this, but normal folks doing their best not to buy american products and produce.
- Divesting in fascism is the only way forward.

I’ve ran
I've run
- Simple and not rude, thank you for pointing it out despite people feeling hurt downvoting you.

I thought Canadians can't own guns
- Estimates suggest there are around 12.7 million firearms in civilian possession in Canada
  Plenty of guns
  
  So that's why they want to take them away. Way more than I thought.
- Handguns are tightly controlled. But Long Guns are literally everywhere. If 'murica is counting on us being unarmed...hoo boy...
- I've got plenty, if the Americans invade, I'll share.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country
- I have 10 close friends, and between us we have over a hundred i believe. A couple are black powder rifles though, so not useful since it's not 1812 anymore.
  
  Canadian’s are resourceful we can make those 1812 guns work!

- @PriorityMotif @Nemeanlion Off to El Salvador Prison!

You do realize that not all US citizens are responsible for this. Only 30% support these Nazis.
If you want to hate me, that's fine, but then you're not much different than the bigots you despise.
- And the 70% who don't are doing... what exactly?
  
  Holding up little round signs. Colour-coordinating their outfits. Getting outraged whenever someone criticises the latest Disney movie.
  
  Busy consooooming
  
  Staring at Instagram and TikTok updooting anti fascist content and whining about the Democrats.
- You do realize not all germans are responsible for ww2. Only like 37 percent were literal Nazis. Not sure why everyone hated them so much /s
  
  As a German I'm so sick of "but only a third voted for Trump". Nobody cares, fix your country!
- your complacency and acceptance of the situation without fighting for change speaks volumes. In the 90s there were riots for days because cops beat a black man. Now people are being disappeared and officals are blatently lying on TV and ignoring the laws, and the public does nothing. A few tiny protests at some car dealerships. The american public's actions speak volumes.
- You and others like you were asleep at the wheel. You're still complicit.
- Only 30% support these Nazis.
  Only 30% voted against it.
  The rest didn't give enough fucks to try and stop it.
- You have the collective power and the responsibility to fix your country's shit and yet nobody has even tried. We're fully aware not all of you voted for this, but the inaction speaks volumes as to how docile and apathetic your people have become. We don't hate you, but we're very, very disappointed in you all.
  
  I have heard of their 50501 day or whatever it is coming up or in the past but it is obviously not doing much seeing as how I cannot tell you if it has happened or not. I do know that there have been rallies around the states but I do not know if that is because Musk has shut down their department or if they are mad at the government.
- Plus the 190million who didn’t bother voting. Plus the 75 million who did vote for orange fash. That’s a lot of Americans who are on board with this shit. Nah Canada hates all those who voted for him And those who stayed home on voting day - plus the admin. Yep we hate you. Also, we’re getting divorced. So fuck off, we’ve moved on. Forever.
  
  Trump was democratically elected, which means both those who voted and those who did not vote are to blame, which happens to be somewhere over 50% of Americans.
  
  If voting made any significant changes (ie hurting the elite and helping the common people) they wouldn't let us do it. Instead we get to choose from one of their puppets.
- False equivalency. Own your own country's bigotry instead of shaming people for protecting their sovereignty.
- I don't hate you. I don't hate Americans that feel afraid of where the country is going and who are opposed to it. If anything, I empathize. I also think international networks to oppose what's happening in America are important. That includes working with and supporting Americans who are actively working against the movement taking over the country.
  That said, Americans bear direct responsibility for standing against this if they're not part of it. Being a passive commentator is not enough. It's time for those of you who stand against what's happening to actually get organized and form an active resistance. Be part of that, and you'll have my support. Don't resist, and you might as well be part of it.
- Nah your complacent in it. Until you've removed the problem, you're the problem. The french used the guillentene. A strongly worded letter isn't doing anything.
  
  Every day those of us who voted against this shit are horrified reading the news. Before the election we warned everyone who would listen that a second Trump administration would be the end of this country as we know it. MAGA is well on their way to realizing Project 2025 and our institutions and leaders that were supposed to protect us have completely failed us.
  MAGA will continue destroying our institutions, they'll start disappearing more political opponents and they'll keep threatening the countries that were once our closest friends. Things will only get worse and a lot more violent. Most Americans won't fully realize what's happening because our media is controlled by MAGA billionaires and over the past half century conservatives have successfully dismantled public education to the point where half of Americans are too stupid to be able to distinguish between facts and opinions.
  And yet so far nothing has really changed for the vast majority of Americans, their day-to-day lives remain the same and things more or less function as they always have. They're comfortable enough that they're not going to risk their life or imprisonment to rise up against this fascist regime, if they're even aware of what's happening. The ones that are informed and care will attend rallies, listen to NPR and write their representatives.
  So I completely understand you want to see Americans go French Revolution on MAGA, but this is the reality of the situation here. Americans are too comfortable, stupid and whipped to mount any substantial resistance to MAGA.
- Regardless of how you voted, as OP put it, if you cross into our country with the intent of invading, it's a round through the brain, or a blade to the femoral or carotid arteries, or, optimally, an axe to your achilles, forcing you to waste manpower on treating the wounded. And we won't be providing your wounded with free health care.
  The way it looks, though, soon the US military will be primarily racist white men on the combat front, so it will be a service to humanity to correct that evolutionary cul de sac of attitudes.
  Of course, we'll have to infiltrate and sabotage your country as well, taking out your supply chains, messing up your comms, and disrupting your mechanization. We'll probably burn down a white house or something like that, too, just for tradition's sake.
  Ideally, what I'd much rather see is you guys fight it out, take out your oligarchs, and split into more manageable, less fanatical subgroups of states. Maybe some of them can even eventually join us as Canadian territories.
  
  Burn down the White House of something like that, too, just for tradition’s sake.
  Chef's kiss
  
  Ideally, what I'd much rather see is you guys fight it out, take out your oligarchs,
  That's my answer every time I see an American claiming they would fight on Canada's side if an invasion happens.
  Get off your star spangled asses and fix your own damn country.
  Fixing America's problems will prevent Trump's stupid trade war from escalating into a shooting war.
- Thank you for your service holding up your phone and recording the events for us 🙏 bless you and your efforts. You are making a real change.
- How many of you did not even bother voting? Or because your government is a two party system without a parliament where other parties can gain seats how many of you wasted your votes on third parties?
  You did not get out and rally up support to get people to not vote for this clown show running your government now, so that is on you.

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