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I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling (thetyee.ca)
submitted 3 days ago by breakfastmtn to c/canada
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Rattled by a horde of MAGA trolls, here’s what I learned about today’s social media miasma.

Last Friday I made a post on Bluesky and X, concerning U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor.” It occurred to me that, numb as we are to Trump’s stream of blather, the importance of that remark was being overlooked. It was an overt declaration by the president of the United States that he does not recognize Canadian sovereignty. That’s scary.

So, my post: “For a US president to refer to the Prime Minister of Canada as ‘Governor’ isn’t just rude. It’s a hostile act.”

The post got little attention on Bluesky. On X, for whatever reason, it went berserk. Over the weekend it racked up close to 3,000 reposts, over 29,000 “likes” and more than 5,000 replies. Those replies came almost entirely from Trump-loving trolls, piling scorn and abuse on my concerns. “Yeah but it’s Canada so who gives a fuck?” said one.

Do the responses represent a genuine glimpse of U.S. opinion on Trump’s bully-boy act?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (3 children)

@breakfastmtn "is this how americans really feel?" -- a lot of them, yes. 100%, there are plenty of americans who feel that way. certainly not all of them, but definitely a lot

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe 30% at most. The rest of us certainly don’t. The problem is that another 40% can’t be bothered to vote.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

People who decide not to vote are in fact making a positive statement, they're saying "we agree with whatever the people who do vote decide." I don't give America a pass due to apathy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

It's probably a vanishingly small population that actually believes the US should absorb Canada. The problem is there's a substantial population that will just support anything Trump says without critical thought, and Trump will repeat anything Putin tells him to without critical thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look at every war America has been involved in. In nearly all of them, the USA was in the wrong but there was still massive support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

WTF are you talking about. You wanted the Nazis To win WWII? Why don’t you ask the South Koreans if they think US involvement in their war was “in the wrong”?

Massive support? People were marching in the streets here over Vietnam.