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A Shadenfreude Morning (media.piefed.social)

Usually I am sympathetic towards people losing their jobs. However, that goes out the window when their government is hostile and I am watching family struggle due to the trade war.

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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] malle_yeno@pawb.social 74 points 1 week ago

To the Americans crying about how unfair we're being by celebrating their economic loss and how "what are we supposed to do about our administration?"

Now you know a fraction of how every person in a country under US sanctions feels. The exact logic you're railing against is the same logic your country applies to Cuba.

The difference being those people have to deal with the immiserstion of brutal poverty and you just have to deal with having to find a new job and some mean Canadians online poking fun at you. Cry me a river.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You can dress it up any way you like, delighting in innocent people's suffering makes you unequivocally a huge asshole and always will.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

YOU VOTED FOR YOUR MISSERY AND IT AFFECTED THE WORLD AND NOW YOU ARE SURPRISED PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPORTING YOU.

YOUR COUNTRY IS THE WORLD TERRORIST AND THE FACT THAT ONE MAN CAN AFFECT THE WORLD ECONOMY LIKE YOUR ORANGE MUSSOLINI HAS IS PROOF OF IT.

YES, PEOPLE ARE HAPPY THAT YOUR COUNTRY IS FEELING A SLIGHT SLIVER OF WHAT IT HAS DISHED OUT TO OTHERS IN OVER 250 YEARS.

YOUR IGNORANCE IS WHAT FUELS YOUR COMMENTS AND YOUR "EXCEPTIONALISM" IS ALL YOU KNOW.

IMAGINE THINKING YOU ARE THE BEST NATION ON EARTH ALL WHILE TERRORIZING MOST OTHER NATIONS FOR OVER 100 YEARS.

THIS IS WHY WE ARE PISSED.

NOW FUCK OFF AND GET RID OF YOUR FASCISTS.

[-] prole 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah I agree, we suck.

However, don't you ever fucking tell me that I voted for this ever again.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Didn't read it, but like I said, dress it up any way you like, bigot.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

That's not what bigot means lol

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[-] sen@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe those innocent people should haul a guillotine down to DC and loudly complain to those responsible for this mess instead of pointing fingers at other countries.

Y'all get no sympathy from me. Take care of your fucking fascism problem. The second amendment is useful for more than shooting children in classrooms.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Take care of your fuckong fascism problem. The second amendment is useful for more than shooting children in classrooms.

What a useful thing to say. Because all Americans are murderers or at least delight in school shootings, all we have to do is violently overthrow the most powerful government in history. This is totally not the thinking of a brain damaged child.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh wow! The exact same sentiment that USians were repeating time and again for the past four years about Russians, is verboten when it comes to USians themselves. What a surprise!

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[-] binux@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ever heard of realpolitik? Being righteous doesn’t matter on a geopolitical scale, especially not when it comes to an imperial superpower currently in the midst of its death throes. I’m afraid you’ll have to come to terms with billions of people understandably revelling in hundreds of years of a country’s utter nonsense finally returning itself to sender. Might be irrational, but it’s definitely not without precedent.

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[-] SaintNectar@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

You are paying the price of stupidity and it is just the beginning. It is not about being Happy or Sad, it is just how life corrects itself and show people how stupid they have been.

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Sometimes the baby gets thrown out with the bath water. It sucks, but that's life (at least, that's what people say).

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[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

So all the USians celebrating that Russia is cut off from Western trade and SWIFT, and that its economy is failing, are huge assholes?

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Did you actually think I wouldn't say yes to that? "No, it's fine to do it when I hate an entire people" /s

Literally the entire point I'm making is that it is horrendous to blindly cast hatred upon thousands/millions of strangers.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

But yet you have no words for your own country only others.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOUR WORDS ARE MEANINGLESS AT THIS POINT FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD.

[-] prole 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I do not always agree with the person you're replying to, but to suggest that they don't ever have criticism for the US is extremely disingenuous.

What they're arguing is that there are over seventy-five million of us that actively voted against this, and those people do not deserve the blame here.

Do you know how many people that actually is? I mean truly?

According to a quick Google search, the amount of people who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 is larger than the entire populations of every country after Germany on the list of nations by population. That's from number 20 to number 234.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

That's the amount of people who voted. For Kamala. People who were eligible, registered, and showed up even after Dems pulled their candidate last minute.

More people than in all of Thailand. More people than in all of France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Turkey, South Korea... I will stop because it would literally be easier to just list the 19 nations with a higher population than total Kamala Harris voters.

Now spread that over a land mass the size of China, and maybe you'll start to understand why people in Washington State aren't "making a day of it" to bring a guillotine to the white house (and do what, exactly? I mean talk about empty fucking gestures) in DC. A literal continent away. A literal physical impossibility for a working person to do.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Just like Germans in 1945.

American exceptionalism right here folks.

They are now too afraid to fight fascists because they are the fascists.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Well, then I don't see any shortage of USian assholes on social media, specifically Lemmy and especially Reddit.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I literally haven't seen that come up. My eyes have been opened about this "Canadians are so nice" thing though. Total bullshit.

Edit: The fact that you bring up Russians out of the blue like this on Lemmy is interesting for me personally too because my go-to example, on this topic, of what I wouldn't do is wish ill on the Russian people as a whole because of Putin's misdeeds. The reason it is my go-to example is that I know Putin has a lot of public support there.

It will never be okay to wish death and despair on large groups of innocent people because of what oligarchs do. It just makes you seem like a thoughtless and heartless bigoted piece of shit if you do it.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

All of them? What about the "innocent" ones?

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[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

50+% of the US is not innocent, so fuck off

edit: sorry, 50+% of eligible voters. not of the whole population

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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

American Voters: "Republicans are better for Job Creation! We heard it on The News."

[-] HertzDentalBar 28 points 1 week ago

How about you Americans let the rest of us enjoy a little bit of what you've been doing to all of us for the entire existence of the US.

You don't gotta do shit, just don't be a bitch about people laughing at you for the same shit y'all laughed at everyone else for.

And yea I know it's not YOU it's your country.

This is exactly the same behavior as when men come out of the wood work and say "I'm not like that" when people start taking about toxic masculinity and shit.

It's not all Americans but it's always an American.

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[-] Juice@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago

Shedding jobs is literally what our administration has set out to do. Its what the Fed has been aiming for. They recently voted to hold interest rates, with some members voting to raise them. Idk who these "analysts" are, but they're fucking morons. Even if interest rates were cut, it would take like 6 months to a year to see wages and employment bounce back.

I'm def not saying it is good to be losing jobs, but it is intentional.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'll join the Americans in the thread in reminding that this is less of Canada vs US and more of the 99% vs the 1%. A struggle that exist on each side of the border with the 1% cooperating across the border. I say this as someone who actively dislikes plenty of American culture. 😅

I too enjoyed this juicy bit of schadenfreude tho.

[-] dudesss@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Canadian here, and I agree. Sadly global products tend to lead directly to the 1%, and its best if most people buy from local and small businesses -- for the environment too. And to donate / help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.

So so many problems would be solved by this. Help at macro country-to-country level, not on individual level.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

To me, an American, here's how this reads: In past economic downturns, the US government could at least construct a plausible story of our resilience and strength because of things like "inflation is high all over the world, but ours is lower than other trading partners" or "unemployment rate is higher than we'd like but still lower than other developed nations" and things like that. This time around, it's clear in many ways that our federal (and often state) governments are making things so much worse for us than necessary, not doing anything that's effective to fix the problems, and other developed countries / trading partners / former allies (even those who are facing similar issues and/or dealing with Trump's shenanigans) are doing better than us in metrics that are important for the working class.

Believe me when I say, I'll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters' faces along with everything else. Even a mediocre president and incompetent congress could have maintained the slow but steady recovery we were in the midst of before Trump took over.

Instead, they supported and elected a terrible president and malicious / complicit congress, and the resulting damage to our country, the economy, and our reputation is now cemented in. They voted to fuck everybody over, which tracks with the rapist and pedophile supporting crowd.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I’ll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters’ faces along with everything else

GLWT, most of them live in a different reality

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[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Well said, maybe one day our nation's can be friends again but it will be a long hard process.

Your country will never be what it used to be and that may be hard for some of you to accept. I hope you guys come to your senses soon.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Hmmmm I don't usually start my day with porn but ok, what the hell it's Friday

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Unless you somehow know those jobs were only trump voters, that's a pretty shitty thing to take pleasure in. The majority of us in this shithole are against everything he's doing. Yeah yeah I know I'm a horrible person for not singlehandedly murdering the administration.

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