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I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling (thetyee.ca)
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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] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Canadians will need to do the right thing and hurt America in the spot they like most: their pocketbook.

This will hurt us too, no doubt. Monetarily, probably more. But I don’t think the average American are prepared for what kind of hurt we can put them through.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree with you but you need to be careful about the details. You'd like to think Americans care about their pocketbook, but so many people voted for Trump with the clear expectation that he would raise the cost of living.

Or maybe they believed his lies, and now we've seen that egg prices are higher than ever and gas isn't going down, but still there's no public outcry, right? We have millions of Americans who will vote against their own best financial interests.

[–] TheresNodiee 5 points 2 days ago

I think it's still kind of early for many Americans who voted for Trump to "bring down the price of eggs" to realize that they were lied to.

There has to be some level of cope that they'll have to overcome first. Like they'll see Trump and Elon dismantling the gov and think that they're just making it less wasteful to save money, which they'll use to save the economy. Or that as more and more "criminal" immigrants are deported prices will start to come down somehow. Something along those lines.

I like to imagine that the farther we go into Trump's presidency the more that those economic voters will start to realize that they were sold a bad bill of goods. It's only been about a month since he was inaugurated after all. He's still in that "honeymoon" phase of his presidency.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)