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Hey 'murican here, the other day I punched my friend in the face and started bragging about maybe taking their home from them with violent force and now they are ravaging our friendship by refusing to hang out with me.
What can I do? Threaten my friend with more violence and intolerance?
Thnx ahead of time for any advice.
I’m in B.C., and near the Washington border. It was a “right of passage” when we turned 21 and were legal to drink in Washington, USA. I think there was a lot of eye-rolling when we Canadian hooligans came over the border. But, you were always welcoming and hospitable. I miss you, neighbours 🥺.
It's your friend's fault, they are brainwashed by the woke trans globalist agenda and can't understand you're doing it for their own good. Keep draining the swamp and they will eventually see you were right all along!
Have you tried deporting your friend to a death camp in El Salvidor?
Do you know where your friend is from? They might actually be from the US. Always ask for ID before you swing. Gotta hoard those calories since food got more expensive.
How about a 90-day moratorium on face punching, after which their will definitely be more face punching?
I do want to feel bad, especially when hearing Canadians say, "go back to the US" like in that article. Then I hear stories about my Canadian friends going to Arizona for business and people making jokes about being a 51st state to their faces and my compassion dips.
I mean, I and others friends have made jokes about the 51st state thing with a Canadian friend in our group. But everyone in that group knows how fucking absurd the idea is, and everyone in the group knows that no one in the group is in favor of it. Sort of gallows humor.
I have to hope that’s what those others were trying with their jokes, trying to relieve tension by mocking the absurdity. But obviously if that backfires, it’s certainly not the fault of the receiver of the joke. Intention matters but it isn’t everything.
Yeah, my friends and I have made jokes that could be construed as the worse things you've ever heard unless you understood that that's the point. Out of context they'd be terrible, so I know what you mean.
The way my friend described it was quite unpleasant. They could have been joking with him but I think a few of us are more on edge about this so that can be in play. I've also seen news reports about Canadian's in Florida and Floridians joking about taking over Canada and Canadians being quite upset about it too.
I would hope that the Americans were not being intentionally provocative and that it's us Canadians that are not getting their jokes. However, I think most of us just don't take Trump's threats lightly. He's caused so much damage and he's only getting started.
Don’t ever feel bad for giving exactly what is being asked for.
The shitty part is that the people suffering aren't the people making decisions, but then that's what needs to happen for voters to vote for someone else.
I can confirm Points Roberts is really losing out from this trade war. It's a little tiny piece of the USA easy to get to from Vancouver but hard from mainland USA since you either have to take a boat or go through 2 international border controls.
Point Roberts gets the water electricity and telephone from our lines, throws their trash in our landfills, gets most of their business from Canada, and have a bunch of shipping/forwarding services because the rates are often cheaper to a US address.
Many Americans are great and I like them, but we're boycotting because starting from the Republican regime and its supporters, a lot of people there have gotten too casual about how much they think they don't need us so we're reminding them at large of our value.
I'm glad this Bloomberg article finally lists the many reasons that factor into this because for a few months the only reasons given were the tariffs and bad exchange rate. On its own, those haven't stopped Canadians crossing to the US to this level in the past.
As an American, I do not take it personally that Canadians and other countries are boycotting the US. it's understandable, appropriate even, and I'm fully supportive of it.
The only thing I ask is that when the resistance comes that you find ways to support us, covertly if necessary, but public if able.
Our tourists won't come back until we abolish ICE and stop detaining random people at our borders.
And the tariffs.
And threatening to annex us.
It's not just ICE.
I don't understand why so many Americans don't get that. I hear, Canadians are upset at tariffs. I hear, Canadians are worried about border issues.
Both are true.
But that's not why we're enraged. It's because an unhinged, racist, sexist, authoritarian, mentally challenged dictator has threatened to destroy our country and everyone there is doing fuck all about it.
Honestly? It might be too late. Even if we did those things, no one is coming back for decades. We just proved it's not safe.
As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!
The only thing that will change the US trajectory towards fascism is an economic crisis. A major one.
Sadly there will be collateral damage. I'm sorry for them.
You say that, but in Nazi Germany (whose playbook we’re following) economic crisis was part of the rise of fascism. Not its fall.
That's true.
Surely in this case however a direct line could be drawn between fascist policies and the coming recession.
As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?
It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.
Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.
We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.
I've seen plenty of those same "love Canada" Americans using the "it's just a joke, bro" defense, though. So they still don't get it.
If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.
Wait...
We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better
I realize some of these are merely collateral damage.
Id rather it wasn't necessary, but in the meantime, may it start hurting enough that y'all rise up to your bullshit king.
Not yet. People are still in denial that their choice, or their choice to sit it out, us responsible for his installation.
Keep it up. We need to feel the pain to fully awaken to the reality of Trumpism.
Just commented in another post about Canadians stopped going to the USA. NY border towns like Plattsburgh, small one like Rouses Points, or even big one like Lake George are suffering big times because there is no more Canadians.
Only significant pain will transform the US unfortunately. And it'll either be economic or combative. Most MAGA voters are gone, but the "nothing will change" non-voters can be woken up from the delusion that nothing matters and helped to recognize that voting at its most basic is harm reduction.
As a border state that sees a bunch of Canadian tourists and shoppers it'll suck, but the only way out is through.
I'm sad to comprehend that you are saying they are a lost cause and not that they had disappeared.
Other countries need to hammer republican states with tariffs and boycotts. Since they control the government, it's the only way they will relent on economic sanctions and ICE nonsense.
Or...
The West Coast needs to form its own trading bloc and reform ICE, as the former rules don't seem to apply to anything anymore. We'll continue to uphold traditional American values from 1776-2015, values held before all of this New Right horseshit.
Uhh, we definitely don't want to uphold traditional American values from before the 1960s or so.