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[–] [email protected] 58 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Every time I see headlines like this I think:

He told us he would ruin it. For months. He signed the plans to ruin it weeks ago. He's been organizing teams of people to fuck it up starting a few days ago. Canada has been not only openly reporting on this as a major issue but even going so far as to run advertisements on Fox News informing people about it, but people only start to fucking notice it after the fact, like this really blindsides the majority of Americans!? Buffoons!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

As a Canadian it is god damn terrifying. I can't imagine what it's like to be a US citizen under the control of a dictator right now. Watching your fellow citizens be sent to death camps along with lots and lots of other people just unfortunate enough to be brown, tattooed, born in the wrong place or a woman who fights for immigrant rights.

Then the racists cheer and heil Hitler.

It's crazyness but it's been brewing for a very long time. Hopefully it wakes up lots of my fellow Canadians so we don't end up in the same place you are.

VOTE!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago

straight up not having a good time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

Exhausting. Trumps second term is making his first look like a holiday. It's so bad it is hard to find words to talk about it because there is just so much to talk about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Voted for Carney from Colorado, heres hoping..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Keep your head down fellow Canadian and thank you for doing your civic duty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

I mean isn't this pretty much how people are now? Refusing to heed any warnings until it's too late. Complaining that everything sucks after ignoring said warnings, and then instantly forgetting anything ever happened the millisecond the trouble passes.