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Canada is so furious at the US right now (www.vox.com)

submitted 6 months ago by imvii@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Problem is, tens of millions of ignorant people elected him to do whatever. They just liked that he hated educated people, brown people, trans people, women, gays, foreigners, and so on. Apart from that they didn't really care about the details.

[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

But that’s the thing, they elected him based on his campaign and he never mentioned anything like this during his campaign. If what you say is the case, why did he talk nonstop about grocery prices right up to the election? Did they like the hate? Very much, conservatives are hateful people. It just doesn’t pass the smell test. Invade Mexico? That kind of matches all his other hateful rhetoric for everyone south of the US, but a country full of white people? We only do that if your asian ally bombs us first usually.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago

If you're going to judge his plans based on his campaign speeches, then you deserve nothing but ridicule.

It was a full fucking YEAR before the election that he was invited to say he wouldn't be a dictator, and he declined.

“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’"

That was from December of 2023.

Oh, and how about his faithful?

“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” said Kash Patel (gain, from late 2023)

Here's an article from a month earlier: "A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and "Freedom cities" built on federal land.

Every single person who voted for Trump in 2024 or didn't bother to vote at all has explicitly said they support a violent, expansionist, nazi regime. Nearly every person who voted against him did not enough to keep him from gaining power, and ARE STILL NOT DOING ENOUGH. Instead of taking up arms (literally or figuratively) against him, you are defending his voters.

Take some ownership of your problems.

[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Well it’s not so much a problem of my personal making, I was saying all the same things you’re saying. I talked and talked to people, which I hate doing, going down the list for why this guy sucked and why Kamala was way better than Trump, no matter how you slice it. He scammed stupid people (we have a lot of stupid people) and stupid people also tend to be bigots. He also had a billionaire buy votes in crucial areas and our courts didn’t see a problem. We’re fighting the same billionaires you’re going to be fighting when the same fucking thing happens to you. We’re all on this spaceship Earth together. If it gets nuked, that fucks you too.

[-] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I'd have less trouble believing this if there was any meaningful backlash from his supporters. Currently there isn't even meaningful backlash from his opposition, so colour me doubtful.