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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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[-] Someone@lemmy.ca 126 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] awsum_mcpossum@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

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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