Like so many things, most Americans are puzzled by this hostility toward Canada.
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Just wanted to re-iterate, just in case...
Sane Americans do not feel this way. In fact, I daresay the majority of us would probably gladly emigrate to Canada if we could.
Fuck the USA.
Sincerely, US Citizens everywhere.
I hate to tell you this, but Trump is becoming very popular with the average Canadian. The average Canadian hates their own government so much that they'd rather throw it away and become America's 51st state. If you come to Canada to escape MAGA you're just going to run into more MAGA.
Eh, at least I'll live in a fascist country with healthcare. So... still a win, I guess.
That is the problem across the west, both parties are captured by the rich, and the only protest vote, the only real reform vote, is for the far right in league with these guys, and russia, and they are planning on fixing elections to never lose power to boot.
It will happen, especially with the US and Russia helping behind the scenes, unless we get popular reform options in the west, and we still don't have that, trusting the oligarchy's tools in our parties, the keir starmers, to run the opposition to fascism and their far right.
Unfortunately, it's not the majority. Remember, the majority of people (that voted) voted for this
We don't actually know if that's true. Only 74% of the voting age population of the US was registered to vote in 2024. Only 65% of Americans voted on this election cycle and the popular vote was very close. We also know that Trump's approval ratings have absolutely tanked in his first year coming in at -16 points where as when he started, he sat pretty at +16. He has lost 32% of his initial approval in this country. I would say, it is quite likely, many if not the majority of Americans are well and truly, over this man's shit, even those who voted for him previously.
Not the first time around. And even Trump didn't expect 2016 to happen.
If it weren't for the good old electoral college we wouldn't be in this mess.
True, fucking stupid institution
I know, that's the most depressing part of all of this. This is the true face of america.
Let me out please :(
Fuck the US, I'd gladly live in Canada if I had the ability to immigrate. Canadians are the bomb.
All the while claiming to be the World's Best Christians.
Well... Kinda depends on what you mean by 'neighbour'. For a time, the natives were neighbours to the Canadians, and they didn't exactly have the best of times with their new neighbours.
You are harming the narrative that Canada is categorically friendly and peaceful.
One redeeming feature of the history is that refugees of slavery in the US were able to find protection in Canada, though it was often quite difficult for them to reach.
You're about to discover who were the neighbours of the current indigenes when they were initially migrating here; and what happened.
There’s a lot of rabidly pro Trump pro facist Canadians. I had some Canadian friends I had to cut of because they are aggressively MAGA
Yeah there's a surprising number of Canadians who are enthusiastic about Trump and the idea of becoming America's 51st state. Particularly in Alberta.
Those canadians should be outraged at all being put into one state, they would be defenseless against the rest. You would think they would want to be ten states or something.
But they are dumb to want to join at all obviously, directly emulating nazis over here and they are like, you know what, it worked so well for hitler why don't we give absolute power to the worst person in the world with a chip on his shoulder? Let's give it another go.
Sorry Canada, we're trying to correct our government's insanity. Sane citizens doing our best.
Will keep doing all I can. I appreciate your support! It's not easy seeing the destruction of science and medicine in the US, and knowing that this will result in increased sickness and death, here and abroad. Just the shenanigans with the vaccine schedule, eliminating the early hepatitis vax will result in increased mortality and morbidity which may not show up for decades. Long after the current administration is dead and gone. sigh.
The process of annexing Canada began in 2059, as the Resource Wars began ramping up in the wake of the Euro-Middle Eastern War and the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv
(...) Despite mass protests, the country's resources were exploited and stretched to the breaking point to support the American war effort, such as vast stretches of timberland being destroyed beyond recovery. By 2069, public opinion to the south had turned against Canada, with the nation becoming known by the derogative "Little America" in the minds of U.S. citizens
(...) Despite the outcry, the military initiative forged ahead. Propaganda portrayed the annexation as a "liberation",
.... cool :(
We are sorry Canada 🇨🇦! As soon as we get this under control we hope to mend our relationship ASAP. Don't lose faith in all of us... We still love ya!
we've only lost faith in most of you
This makes me more upset than it should. So simpe, yet so painful. Only the truest of the MAGA core leaders believe Canada is anything but a friend and ally and most important trading partner to the US for the last 70 years - like maybe a few hundred people in the US, all with their own insane agenda. The 30% of MAGA that follows whatever those leaders may be lost but, 70% of the country is still pretty WTF about our current leadership's shift to aggression.
The MAGA administration is setting things up so that they can never lose power again, a'la a coup. (Or I guess they call it a reverse coup?) the rubicon may have already been crossed and you may have to shoot your way out of it
Im not holding any faith that it changes. the whole point of moves that fascists make, is that by the time you realize you have to fight, its already fait accompli, checkmate, already too late.
We know this and it's grim. We're trying to remain optimistic in order to keep fighting in the face of growing fascism. The alternative is giving in or leaving, which I don't think the world wants to see. I'm just upset that even our northern friends and close ally since WWII think this lowly of the US when we share so many facets of life. It's been eye opening for me (and I'm not quite sure I understand the downvotes even if I appreciate everyone's tough lough messages).
I'll put it another way... If those of us here who are sane fail, Canada and Mexico are likely to be Poland and France. I think Venezuela or Greenland may be Czechoslovakia already. I can only ask you to encourage those of use against this nonsense as the front lines will shift quickly if they start rounding us up here. I'm pleading to your own best interests to stay positive and encouraging resistance instead of doom and gloom.
I'm Canadian.
My interests are in protecting my own home, friends and family from getting stabbed in the back from our supposed brothers. Its up to you to sort your own obsession with fascists out.
Most of us are working on it! And you've just proven my original point. You're absolutely right in protecting yourselves - I was just alarmed that the hatred here seems to have deepened and seems pointed at anything USA instead of at our GOP administration and MAGA shitbirds. It seems we're all being grouped and I can't say I blame anyone for it (just upsetting to see).
Stay strong Canada -our particular brand of billionaire driven fascism is past knocking and already inside your house. I genuinely hope you all do a better job than we did.
We never really had faith in you tbh. We just kinda accepted you for who you were.
I'm sure indigenous communities in the global south don't agree with this meme, but I guess it's par for the course for neoliberals to ignore the externalities and consequences of capitalism.
Lol, of course I got downvoted.
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incidents involving 28Canadian companies;
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Europe is the same.
Most Americans like Canada and barely even see it as a separate country. Certainly not a foreign country.
That's kinda the problem bud, we ARE a separate country. Just because you might not have to get on a plane doesn't mean crossing the Canadian border isn't international travel (necessitating your passport).
It's the attitude like this that has fed the "might as well become a state" rhetoric. We quite literally are a foreign country because we're not part of theirs. Unless Americans only use the word foreign to mean scary/nonwhite.
Ummm... You should see it as another country and foreign isn't a bad word. You can be neighbours and friends but you are not the same.
Much like Australians and Kiwis aren't the same. Cousins, yes. Besties, yes. But not the same. And it's disrespectful to think you are. Both have their own identities and that's a good thing.
thats the crux of the problem.
we are NOT the same country. we have similar culture and values, similar, but not the same.
there are some things that Canadians firmly choose the Red door on, where Americans chose the Blue door.
those fundemental differences is what makes us a seperate country. there are many things we are on the same page of, but there are many things we might as well be cats and dogs on as well.
It's just conservatives that behave like this toward our allies.
Unfortunately, our electoral process is broken, so the minority can gain control of our government and make it look like we're all low IQ pieces of shit.
That being said, there are still way, way, way too many stupid people in the U.S.
Honestly I'm not shedding too many tears over the imperial boomerang coming for Canada.
Yes. Those "good" neighbors that always smile and act chipper when you pass them on the street. The ones who rarely hesitate to tell you, or anyone who will listen, how much different and BETTER they are than you. How they wish they weren't living in the same neighborhood as you even..to the point where they start deluding their selves that they're now a part of the euro neighborhood...even while they're still living next to you. The ones who have "neighborhood watch" obligations that they don't uphold because they'd rather watch you spend all your money on keeping things safe for the kiddos and gramma while they talk crap about what a warmonger you are for spending your money on protection rather than pretension. Oh and they have the graves of Indigenous children in their backyards. But let us not speak of that now. Greatest neighbors ever!
Show me on the doll where the Canadians touched you.
I'd like to say this is a surprising take.
How's that "keeping safe" part going? Any time now, right?
Most of us Americans actually love the Canadians. It's just the morons currently in charge that want to pretend they have a problem with Canada.
The morons in charge get voted in by Americans. From a Canadian's perspective, we don't believe the admin is pretending to have a problem with us anymore.
Claim to love us or not, a sufficiently large portion of the US population chose this. We judge America by its actions and right now, we're all pretty collectively pissed at your government, and the population for allowing it to get here.
A majority of Americans (who voted) voted trump in, that's true. But the other branches of government which could check the president are undemocratic:
Each state gets two two senators, meaning places like Wyoming and North Dakota each get two senators while they have fewer people than individual cities in other states (500k people in Wyoming vs 8.58 million in NYC, 800k in North Dakota vs 1.5 million in Philadelphia)
Congress seats are gerrymandered so that the number of seats awarded is not proportional to the amount of votes to each party.
The supreme court is appointed for life (bad enough to start) and then has one stolen seat (should have been appointed by Obama) and another semi-stolen seat which wouldn't have been appointed if we didn't have the electoral college (Trump first term).
The supreme court has ruled that corporations can spend money promoting politicians just like a person can.
One might argue these are the rules, but we didn't put these rules in place, and the people in power have worked together to prevent reform. Blaming all Americans for the current administration's stance on Canada is counterproductive.
All that said, Canadians have a right to be freaked out, to be mad, to be concerned. I'm mostly saying it's a stretch to call the U.S. democratic.
Excuses excuses excuses. You have the tools for the solution now get on with it.
Spoken like someone who really doesn't understand the difficulty of what they're asking.
Very aware of how the electoral and political system work there. It's broken here too, just differently. We all still manage to get by without threatening to annex our allies.
While I appreciate the explanations, I'm not sure it's counterproductive to be angry right now. You all need to know that we're actually legitimately upset with America. Being our usual polite selves isn't appropriate for the kind of behaviour that's been directed this way, we feel pretty betrayed and hurt by our closest friend and ally.
Consider it a signal for change. Maybe enough Americans are left that care enough about what your neighbours(and increasingly the world) think of them to make a difference, maybe not. But no free friend passes until this stops.
Anyways, no one was calling the US democratic. It's more like... competitive authoritarianism at this point.
Yeah, ikr? It was fine while we were helping them commit war crimes together against brown people.
BUT, HOW FUCKING DARE THEY THREATEN TO DO THAT TO US?
The morons in charge have a problem with anyone except their fellow pedophile protectors.
American non-voters and Republicans are the majority and therefore the majority do not in fact love us. Or themselves apparently, self inflicted injury.
I love Canada. I have a bunch of Canadian coworkers who are lovely people and the parts of Canada I’ve visited were wonderful (some better than others, but still). I don’t think I’ve ever met another fellow American who dislikes Canada or Canadians.
There are those that are friendly to Canadians that think we should be your 51st State. To those, I say, get fucked.
Fuck all of them. They're all pieces of shit.
I've loved Canada ever since I saw SCTV and Strange Brew
I say to this admin: take off, you hosers; we love Canada, eh
America has nothing to complain about with canada true but people in canada have every right to hate canada so be careful on this kind of stuff.
Been to Toronto a couple of times and I love Canada. Beautiful city, people, Healthcare.
Walkable cities.
Poutine.
Molson.
#ExhibitAAsylumApplicatuon
nah, that's the current administration's view of Canada. most Americans like Canada and Canadians.
Most of the trump voters just wanted to hurt queers. I dont know of anyone who hates Canada.
The thing I hate the most about this is that we, Canada, are the stupid ones in this image. Carney’s “elbows up” turned into “knees down” so fucking fast, though that was thoroughly unsurprising, and we just can’t seem to help being so fucking naive as to believe that the US is anything but a volatile disaster of a country.
In part true. Canada keeps wanting to be the US's little brother and this doesn't help. Rather, I would like to see Canada get more tangible benefits such as easy moves, work, and education by it's participation in the commonwealth.
Exactly this. We pose no threat to the USA or anyone else. We have lots of resources that the USA wants for free, apparently.
*neighbour
🍁 Canadian English Eleanor pulled on her favourite grey sweater and stepped outside to check on her neighbour’s garden. The autumn colour was breathtaking — fibre-thin leaves of amber and crimson drifted past the old theatre on the corner. She had promised to catalogue the different plants while Margaret was travelling, and she took the task seriously. After scribbling notes in her cheque-book sized journal, she wandered back inside, put the kettle on, and settled in for a quiet afternoon. It was the kind of ordinary day she had learned to recognise as its own small gift.
🦅 US English Eleanor pulled on her favorite gray sweater and stepped outside to check on her neighbor’s garden. The autumn color was breathtaking — fiber-thin leaves of amber and crimson drifted past the old theater on the corner. She had promised to catalog the different plants while Margaret was traveling, and she took the task seriously. After scribbling notes in her check-book sized journal, she wandered back inside, put the kettle on, and settled in for a quiet afternoon. It was the kind of ordinary day she had learned to recognize as its own small gift.
Pfft. Your geese flout our customs and immigration controls with impunity, and they are fake voting I hear. It's true. Now you are sending all of your willdfire smoke down here? Fuck that.
Build the wall, build the wall, build the wall!


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