In the same way White Americans would rather burn down the country than live in a predominantly nonwhite one, most Americans would rather end all life on earth than be asked to care about other countries.

This gentleman, a US Congressman from Florida who has called for the mass expulsion of Muslims, is a graduate of Harvard (Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz), which must be so proud of him. If Gretzky wants to rehabilitate himself, he could drop round to Fine's office and elbow his teeth in.

"You should have refused to have gone to Iraq" boy do I have exciting news for you about the Canadian position on Iraq

American liberals criticizing Canadians for not opposing the Iraq War vigorously enough in response to the White House posting an unhinged anti-Canadian meme has got to be the stupidest discourse I've ever seen on this website

I don't know how this can be undone after Trump dies. The rot is too deep.

Remember this next time this country asks us to send troops to Afghanistan or Iraq

Cross border connections with American liberals have largely had a numbing effect on their Canadian counterparts rather than a galvanizing one though. We would be much better served by dispelling the common assumption that Democrats can or will save us, and recognizing that we are on our own.

Canadian liberals (particularly those with higher levels of political engagement) often consume a lot of American political media and have a resulting tendency to place all their expectations and hopes on American progressives. This fosters a sense of complacency that we can’t afford right now

In the context of how it was shared by Canadians, it was a smaller, weaker bird staving off a predatory attack In the context of how it's being shared by Americans, it's celebrating an aggressive attack by an animal with more tools for taking out the other

At the risk of moving into the discourse a 2nd time today, the fact that a lot of Americans in the replies see this as a bit of fun trash talk between rivals kind of illustrates the extent to which maybe a lot of Americans aren't reading the room in how they are viewed internationally at this point

Many Americans seem to have the same view of Canada and Canadians as Russians take of Ukraine and Ukrainians. At best this is a sort of bemused patronizing attitude. But at it's worst, well, many MAGAs are becoming American vatniks and take an overtly hostile, aggressive view towards us.

Canada is a country of 41 million people, and is also the world's second largest country by land area. We are a vast country with a small population, and rich natural resources that many may covet. For many economic and political reasons, Canada must grow its population to 100 million or so.

speaking with americans, this part i found very shocking. Also that many americans take great offence to the idea that they should be shamed for any of this

Yeah idk. Its like you watch the progressive violations of sovereignty and each one a bunch of american libs are like "we wont dont that!" and then it happens and its all "well america is still good! we can fix it!". I just dont know what to do with it

Amid the tariff noise, the scale of Canada’s housing correction is underappreciated—the decline in residential property prices from their 2022 peak is the deepest among major economies (note of course that China has suffered more damage over a longer horizon):

Canada is a G8 economy of 40 million people, if we can’t sort out a conventional deterrent in the near term (even one with long odds of victory but a certainty of making losing very very painful and protracted for Washington) then we’re not likely to successfully midwife a nuclear arsenal.

Borden believed that Canada had to do its part in a great battle for the future of the world, and whether it would be dominated by autocracy and oligarchy (his words) or a vision of open and cooperative democracies, bound by law and mutual endeavour. Shades of the Davos speech.

Given the discussions doing the rounds on American threats towards Canada, national defence etc., I’d be remiss not to promote PM Borden’s speech to the Halifax Empire Club, shortly after the outbreak of the Great War. Some unfortunately timeless things in his worldview and rhetoric:

American culture is rape. It is paedophilia. It is racism and antisemitism. It is grasping imperialism. There is no such thing as a good American. Americans delenda est.

if Canada was annexed, no American would ever know a day of peace ever again

The left of centre version of this from Americans is the "if Canada was annexed Canadians would vote Democratic" argument.

Obviously part of it is due to being a melting pot but there's a rather patronizing view that Canadians are, at best, viewed as temporarily embarrassed Americans whose big difference is saying "eh" every other sentence and a preference for hockey over football.

This view isn't completely new. There's a strain of incredulous and outraged American thought going back to 1775 that simply refuses to believe Canada does not want to become part of the US. It was relatively dormant in the immediate post WWII period, but it never fully went away.

The taking zero responsibility is what strikes me. The “welp, I didn’t vote for him. You shouldn’t be mad at all of us just because of Trump.” Sorry, but we are.

there is no peace to be found with these people

make them hurt even more

I mean, for one, reverse the civil service cuts, expand the CBC, expand Canadian abilities to stand outside of FYEY data collection when it comes to intel....

This past year has also been a lesson in how little a lot of Americans know about Canada. Big things like not realizing how little we want to be a part of the US. Or small things like not knowing how to pronounce “Premier”. Not a big deal, but wow — never even heard that pronounced before?

It's really quite simple: in order for Canada to be free, America must perish.

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I have quite a few American friends and interact with Americans fairly regularly over the years and I've come to the conclusion that Americans straight up views Canadian nationhood and independence as a cute joke and our growing disdain is completely out of nowhere and unfounded

Really the more things go and the more Canada being Ukraine for the US arguments takes root in me. They view us as a fun quirk north of their border, but can’t accept that we are sovereign and a nation just as much as they are. They expect us to have no feelings or independent thoughts.

In effect their relationship with us is the same as a toxic man who can’t fathom that his gf wants to break up. And how they treat us in that break up goes from violent borderline on murdereous to unapologetic and self centred. We know you. You’ll elect an American Navalny and minimize everything.

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We so need basic income in this country.

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Fuck sports in general but fuck sports with Americans in them in particular.

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We’re combatting extortion — by making sure law enforcement have the tools they need to detect, disrupt, and prevent it.

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Getting better, sort of.

good news: the US will be too busy to run operations in Alberta bad news: the US will be too busy to run operations in Alberta

Soon Nintendo will be the only video game console company left and I will be vindicated after 30 frigging years of listening to Nintendoomed bullshit.

Bye bitch!