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I believe the American side has severely underestimated the rupture they’ve caused with Canada. Canada has done everything the US has wanted for decades and gets this as a reward. There’s no repairing this, there’s a full blown consumer boycott of American goods going on right now.

Doug Ford is a known crank weirdo and this is entirely expected from him. While I'm sure Canada is gonna throw Mexico under the bus and kick American boot, taking Doug Ford's word as future policy is also a bad call.

They did try to do that last time and the US decided to ditch them instead until AMLO demanded to have Canada in the negotiations for the creation of the TMEC

Canadians think they are far more important than they actually are

One last warning for you: late last week, we indicted an economist who worked at the Fed for economic espionage for the Communist Chinese.

A Syrian told me that his parents used to perform the salute in school to honor the state or something similar.

Fascists use the salute, and if you see a white guy doing it he's pretty much certainly a Nazi, but there are other contexts for the salute. It's just that when Nazis say "oh no, this is just a roman salute, they are fucking lying.

According to a random guy on Quora several years ago commenting on Syrian troops performing this style of salute:

Why are these Syrians giving a Heil Hitler salute to Bashar al-Assad?

"it has nothing to do with Hitler, they are putting their hands on top of imaginary Quran or Bible and bledge (sic) to protect the country against all Enemies; I watched the video and heard them say in Arabic to bledge (sic) to protect Syria from all enemies."

I am not Muslim nor am I from a non-western culture; I cannot confirm nor deny this rationale.

If it is true, I'm guessing that the specific angle is used so that they aren't prodding their comrades in the back when saluting in phalanx formation.

Other commenters suggest that the fascist-style salute is less sensationalized/provocative in global south nations which were further removed from the Nazi atrocities in both geographic proximity and media influence regarding the topic.

At the end of the day, context does matter. This is a very simple salute style that is probably commonly used due to its utility in a mass formation context. Performing this salute outside of a military context, at a publicity event in a nation where there has just been a drastic change in leadership style, after decades of sensational coverage of Nazi mannerisms in media...is categorically different than performing it due to utility in a different historic context.

That said - it is still jarring to see. Feels like "culture shock". In light of recent events with Elon, having to play the "context" card really does feel like an impotent explanation. It really is starting to feel like this salute style is just ubiquitous, though.

Lmao Mexico gets no tariffs and they get to move troops up to the border in response to the US putting troops there, along with the US government actually agreeing to curb weapons trafficking. Trump got played like a fiddle

I guess I called it lmao

This is way faster than I expected though I thought he would let the tariffs run at the very least a full day or two before chickening out.

There’s still a non zero chance I will be partially wrong and trump will decide to just let the tariffs on Canada stay in place but it’s really just up to Canada now to make trump feel like a big special boy now.

This tells Trudeau that all he needs to do is come up with some BS to offer trump and the tariffs will go away. President Claudia was even able to get trump to say he would do something about the weapons coming into Mexico so on paper she is literally coming out of this on top which is absolutely hilarious (even though I highly doubt the US will do much of anything about it but it’s still a bigger deal than Claudia putting some troops on the border.)

On the other hand trump might just be really petty and make them permanent for Canada and not Mexico and might just be petty about it because he hates Trudeau. ALSO there’s a possibility that at the end of this one month delay the tariffs on Mexico will just get reimplemented anyway because… idk? Fuck it? That would really make no sense but none of this makes sense in the first place soo….

This is getting even funnier.

It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are. "Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"

https://subium.com/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3lhbvctpc6k2h

It's a Bluesky post by a journalist.