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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I am an American and very concerned about where we are headed as a country. We treat all of our allies terribly and now Russia is our friend? Don’t come here-things are too unstable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

We'll miss you, but believe me, we totally understand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm American and I don't even wanna be here. Honestly I'd love to be in Canada but for the weather. If Canada were to annex where I live (DC) I'd be 100% in favor of it, America treats us like its bitch anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Fascism or cold winters? It's a toughie, all right!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The only reason I would go to the USA would be to piss on trump's grave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

The day that all the soggy burger-lettuce that's holding him together finally gives out will go down in history as the 2nd time that 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' reaches number 1 in the UK music charts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I am not from Canada but I work with client all over the world and have raised my rates for US clients by 25% + 5% buffer due to instability. I also raised prices on digital products I sell on US owned marketplaces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I don't blame you. Right now I wish I'd been born in New Zealand.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Because of my husbands work, we would often have to go out to NYC. I always considered it my second home. I also enjoyed travelling out to the west coast, specifically Manhattan Beach in California.

But theres always Paris to replace that void of NYC and pretty much anywhere else in the Mediterranean to replace cali. A definite upgrade. My husband had left the company a couple years back to start a new company — one based in Canada with some former execs. So we no longer need to go to NYC.

We will never be returning back. And on behalf of all my friends who faught in Afghanistan, America can get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

After he’s dead and gone I STILL won’t be returning. Never again giving them a dime if I can help it.😡🇨🇦

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

While not Canadian - I’m currently rooting out all US services and products I’ve happily been paying for, cancelling outright or finding other alternatives.

I don’t see myself ever going back to happily buying US again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

I am currently trying to convince my employer to ditch Google and all associated services, as well as the US-based cyber security suites that are currently tanking the performance of all of our workstations. It would be nice if there was an easy replacement for Windows. Linux is a no-go for our IT people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Never going back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

There are many other countries worth visiting who contain a lot less people who are voting to walk over me to take my stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Don't come back. Not because you're not swell or anything, but because we truly won't be better just because Trump is gone. The disease runs deep here, he's just a symptom - an entire party stands firm behind him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Last time I was in the US I was in Hawaii in January 2009. Obama was being inaugurated and because of time zones I had to get up early to watch it. Figured it was worth getting up for because it was kinda historical. So I was in the common area of the hostel where the TV was and there were four other people in the room, two women sitting up front, close to the TV, excited about the Obama being inaugurated. And there was a dude at the back of the room cursing and swearing because the stock market was dropping.

When the speech was done, we got to talking. The two women excited about the inauguration were Canadian. The guy at the back of the room angry at Obama because of the stock market (he's literally being inaugurated, he hadn't done anything yet) was American.

Just felt like there was something wrong with that country then and just didn't feel like going back there again. Then Trump came along and he did nothing but reinforce that feeling. Had some small hope they might be able to get past their greed, ignorance, and racism when Biden got in, but that just didn't happen.

Haven't gone there in 16 years, and sure as hell not going there now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I don’t blame any non-Americans for avoiding our shit show. Just give us till the midterms to turn it around or at least bottle it better. Peaceful resistance is the only direction for now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I wont go to the US unless im going as a part of a military operation. Every single magat needs to be gone before the US can be redeemed.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm Canadian, and I plan to never visit the USA again.

Ever.

There is no "...until" for me. The world without the US is easily big enough for me.

Two places I always wanted to see were New Orleans and Hawaii. The latter might end up breaking away, but New Orleans is probably off my list forever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Honestly, same. I already cancelled Florida and Arizona trips for later in the year and told friends in Phoenix that I'll likely never be back. We'll probably make plans to meet up elsewhere.

This is the republican party now. And Trump may not even be the worst to come. We already see his goons waiting in the wings. Political whiplash is the new normal in the US, and i feel like we will see the division continue to exacerbate over the next few decades for them domestically until something gives.

I hope we in Canada take this new reality seriously and prepare ourselves appropriately as we enter the 30's.

/doomer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

I am with you on that. My regret is not visiting Yellowstone earlier…

Even with the orange turd gone, the people who elected him and empowered the republicans to do this mess are still there…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, New Orleans was also on my bucket list of places I wanted to visit. I had originally planned to go last year but then opted to go to Spain instead.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even though Trump has now paused tariffs on some products until April, we’re still not about to spend a nickel to prop up the U.S. economy when its president has pledged to destroy ours. We don’t want to be doing any of this, and we know so many Americans who also wish none of this were happening. But this is our reality now.

Yep, that's about it. But it's not just our economy Trump has vowed to destroy, it's our country.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

He’s trying to destroy yours, but he’s actively destroying the US already.

Make sure your fellow countrymen know that, and don’t allow a wannabe dictator to come to power. It’s still not too late for you guys.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

I’m American, and don’t blame you one bit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't suppose I, an American, could convince y'all to come down to DC for a Burning of Washington "reenactment" could I?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We don't so much advertise when we're coming. Also, as per tradition, we're usually drunk the whole time. It's a whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

If you would be so kind to pick some of us up along the way, I'll make sure I have a bag packed with booze and other necessities here in Wisconsin. I want to get drunk and burn things with my Canadian friends. I love hanging out with you guys.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

This is gonna last longer then Trnup is in power. This is a real, tangible, long lasting shift in Canada-US relations. That’s not going to be fixed or restored whenever Trump is out of office. There will be a successor to this US isolationist ideology. The faster we decouple, disassociate and diversify from the US in every way, the better.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I wasn't comfortable going to the US ever since Trump got elected the first time. This is just another reason to never visit that place again. Would rather vacation somewhere in Canada, or if there's a great travel deal, visit Europe.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was planning on visiting this year, but now my US travel plans are filed away alongside the Trans-Siberian Railway trip I should have done in the 00s. As much as there are places I’d like to visit, it’d be like going for a city-break to Munich in 1935.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I wont go until we can piss on his grave as part of a tourist attraction.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yes please. This is a time when things need to be corrected, and as long as Trump and his fascist party are in charge that will nene happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Not just gone from government, but dead. And none of his spawn in any government positions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm honestly too fucking scared to as a foreigner

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A German tourist took their tatoo pen/equipment on a trip to US. They were accused of trying to work illegally and jailed until the time of their prebooked return trip home.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a programmer and i take my laptop everywhere... i'd be fucked!

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