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

https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/lend-hand-do-what-you-can-remembering-generosity-gander

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    I don’t think non-Canadians know how angry we have to be to boo a national anthem. We’d cheer for the North Korean anthem if they sent a hockey team for us to play against.

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      I don’t think you know how embarrassed Americans, who didn’t vote for this twit, are about how he is treating our closest and most important ally.

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        I’m one of those embarrassed Americans who voted against this. Canadians have every right to be angry.

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        I won’t give a pass to americans just because they didn’t vote for him. There’s a lot of americans who just didn’t vote, period. Anyone who didn’t actively cast a ballot in opposition to that fuck stain of a president is just a guilty of him being there as the ones who did vote for him. Considering only 152,320,193 people voted in the 2024 US election from a population or 340,110,988, where 268,687,680 of them are over 18, that leaves roughly some 100 million people who could have voted against this but chose not to. More people just didn’t vote than voted for either the Democrats or republicans. As far as I’m concerned, those people really didn’t care if a fascist government was elected and really don’t care about anyone but themselves. So I won’t accept apologies from americans trying to wash their hand of this. Their government has threatened Canada’s sovereignty, has thrown the first attack, and I blame every single american person that voted for trump, or couldn’t be bothered to go out and vote against him, whatever their reason may be.

        As the great Canadian band Rush once sang: “If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.”

        They don’t get to wash their hands of the fascist government just because they chose to ignore the problem rather than cast a vote. They decided the prospect of fascism was just as bad as having a black woman as president.

        IMHO Embarrassing doesn’t even begin to describe the situation.

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          Maybe it’s just me, but I assume they’re talking about Americans who didn’t vote for Trump here, not folks who didn’t vote.

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            And if they are an American using Lemmy it’s probable that they did vote, and didn’t vote for Trump. If they were lazy they would be using Reddit.

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      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.

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    As an American that didn’t vote for this clusterfuck, I totally support this. Apparently we need our allies, who we are trying to alienate, to stand up for us.

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      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.

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    No worries, eh! May you come out on the other side of this insanity better than going into it. Until then, can you help a bro out and change the laws to let descendants of Canadians claim citizenship?

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

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    The video description says something entirely different than the title.

    November 18, 2014, leafs vs nashville predators. The mic cut out partway through the us national anthem and the Canadian fans took it from there!

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      Yes. The video is an example of how hockey fans generally react to the national anthem of their rivals. Booing the national anthem is not done. It shows the extreme contrast between the respect that fans normally give and the atypical reaction of the fans following the ridiculous and self-destructive Trump tariffs.

      Sorry you missed that.

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    As an American, this warms my heart. I’d do the same if I wasn’t worried about being violently assaulted for doing so.

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    I look forward to apologizing that my fellow citizens, who likely don’t even have a passport, voted for this troll every time I travel overseas now. “Travel Cringe”

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      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

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    didn’t understand what tariffs are and how they work

    I really hope people to make into consideration than one point to make a vote.

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      MAGA is all about hurting people. MAGA voters voted to turn the country over to the billionaires because they said that they were going to hurt brown people, women, LGBTQ, etc. They would allow the country to be bankrupted as long as people get hurt in the process.

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      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.

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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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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                You don’t think there’s any problem with using only your viewpoint and experience as a guide for judging the entire nation?

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                  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.

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            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.

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              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?

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                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.

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            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.

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          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

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            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.

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              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

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                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.

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                  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.

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        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.