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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 172 points 2 weeks ago

Trump: this is Obama's fault. Republicans: I knew it

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 123 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 7 points 1 week ago

I love cobra chickens! Very representative of Canada.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 108 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The whole earth should boycott the Yanks

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The word you are looking for is sanction.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 79 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Love this but i'll bet Facebook/insta/Amazon/apple/etc are as popular as ever in Canada.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

That's what happens when companies illegally leverage their monopolies to extinguish any competition.

[–] Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The reality is most people just dont care where a service originates from, as long as its good. You wouldn't think it based on the internet, but most people arent on the internet to make points about things.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

as long as it's good.

But they aren't good.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That's part (the lesser part, but still important) of why I hate when news orgs use an angry dude on twitter as their example of someone who is up in arms about something.

The Internet is not representative of the population. The people posting are self selected. It's the same reason if you go looking for coffee advice you'll find a thousand posts with advice about roasting your own beans while most people are drinking Starbucks, Dunkin, Folgers, and Maxwell House.

The great majority of people do not give a shit what the Internet is doing. A lot of people look but only a teeny tiny slice are posting about it.

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[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I only use Facebook for my business. Mostly just social posts about things which act as promotion. That said, I'm not seeing the results I saw a few years ago. Far fewer interactions on posts, almost no comments. I'm not sure it's worth doing these days. We get more client contacts from our webpage than via facebook. We're doing a ton more business these days than a few years ago, so I know it's not coming from Facebook.

We have a business instagram account as well, but I use a third party to post to facebook/insta and it commonly has an issue posting to instagram. I have personal facebook and insta accounts but I never use them (expect to log into the business accounts). As a user, I can't stand either of those platforms.

I don't subscribe to any streaming service. Haven't for over 3-4 years.

I do use youtube. I also have a business and a personal youtube account that are monitized so I throw videos up a few times a month.

I only use Amazon for my business and even then orders are rare. I try to order from Canadian vendors when possible.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 70 points 1 week ago (10 children)

In a way, as a Canadian, I’m glad for Trump for two reasons. One, we hated him so much that the conservative candidate in our federal election lost what should have been the easiest conservative win of my lifetime because he threw in support behind trump. And two, we are finally diversifying our economy away from that volatile ass country.

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, most Canadians. I gotta say, maybe not surprised, but definitely irked that Carney is trying to encourage Canadians to put US liquor back on the shelves.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

That was always a bargaining chip. It wasn't super significant from an economic standpoint, but it's an easy thing to remove liquor from the shelves, just a decision by Premiers. Liquor producers have way more influence in the US relative to the actual economic impact. That makes a very good bargaining chip. Don't know why you'd be upset over Carney wanting to use that bargaining chip.

It's a moot point now, pretty sure US booze isn't going back on the shelves anytime soon after the collapse of trade talks.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

I think he's trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.

If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn't be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn't buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.

It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.

What's more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren't alternatives to American products.

What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere's approval, etc.

Instead of raising Canadians' costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn't feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.

Pretty sure that no longer applies after we just walked away from the table.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We learned in Trump 1.0 that he is extremely isolationist and wants to cut the US off from the world like it's North Korea.

The way an abusive spouse cuts their partner off from all other social contacts.

The way FOX News encourages its viewership to stop watching all other media sources so they're in an information silo.

And the US voted for him again, because we vote based on vibes and bigotry. Because we have forgotten our civic duty to vote responsibly. Because we are suckers for lying confidence men who make ridiculous promises.

So the US is due for more than a bit of harsh finding out. We should have learned after George W. Bush. We didn't and FA'd. (Effed A?)

Anyhow a lot of Americans have cut off their MAGA relatives and neighbors. It is no surprise at all that Canada — and the entire international community — might do the same.

I'm skeptical the US is going to survive to the November election, much less the new Congress in January.

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[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 28 points 2 weeks ago

I'm an American who didn't vote for trump and none of this is my fault.....but fuck it make it hurt harder daddy, we deserve it uwu

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We are Canadian, we are NASTY: No American Shit, Thank You.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I prefer, we are nice and polite….until we aren’t.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago

The classic "I'm sorry" and "you'll be sorry". It starts with the first until given reason to switch to the second.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is it, right here, and not just in regards to warfare, which is where this reputation gets a lot of it's legs.

Honestly, polite and accomodating until deliberately crossed is a huge part of national identity, but it's not really expressed it seems like. We all know we are this way, but internationally, we still seem to have the pushover vibe which is weird and stupid.

Come at us ya hosers.

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's what I would do if I where there. I'm in the Pacific Northwest and we feel the tourism squeeze here. I don't care. You can't insult your closest friend and bully them. I want the US to suffer the consequences, for a good amount of time, so every idiot is aware of the reasons for their pain. Not to mention Canada is beautiful. I could vacation at Banff or even in the far east for the rest of my life and be fine, you guys will be fine and even happier spending money to support your own countrymen.

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[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

Can we do export tariffs on potash now? I think an extra 30% is reasonable.

[–] Kacerdias@pawb.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

American here. It genuinely pains me to see what little goodwill we had left in the world be squandered by the Turd Reich. Seeing your neighbors vote this totalitarian wannabe in a second time, embrace the hateful propaganda fed to them, as everything becomes unaffordable and AI datacenters, Flock cameras, and prison camps filled with innocent immigrants litter the landscape . So many of us are fighting back however we can. Those of us using legal means see the rules quickly changed to thwart us. Those using less legal means are vindictively prosecuted while pedophiles in power are left in peace. I don’t fault the rest of the world for turning their backs on us - it’s justified.

Please know that the regular people here still love our neighbors to the north and don’t want the longstanding friendship between our countries to die. We don’t want to annex Canada (nor Greenland). We’re sorry and are desperately trying to fight against this cancer that’s killing our country.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the fact still remains that Carney has basically abandoned every environmentalist initiatives to inject money in the economy because of this trade war. Every country on heart os now inveting way more in military. There's a huge cost to all of this, millions will die of consequences of the Trump era.

[–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 18 points 1 week ago

The art of the deal

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

I cannot wait for trump to shit himself to death. Or at least fall down and hit his big fucking orange face.

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm totally fine never buying anything American ever again.

The only pain point for me is CPU/GPU computer parts. They're already insane, this makes them 50% more expensive on top of that because x86 and PC GPU is USA dominated still.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ATI Technologies Inc. (ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of GPUs and chipsets.

BRING THEM BACK!

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[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • US economy collapses because of spending all its money, and money it didn't have, on AI,
  • Canada gives up trade talks and imposes 50% tariffs on the USA, matching America's trump tarrifs on Canadian goods.
[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If Canada sells the US bonds it holds, that US debt becomes very expensive.

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[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only one nation has ever invaded Canada, and we taught them the error of their ways. If necessary, we will teach them that lesson again.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We could go to war and there would still be people in both countries completely fucking oblivious

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nope. Americans are used to having wars on the other side of an ocean. Those are wars you can be oblivious of. When drones are buzzing overhead and you see smoke rising from the strategic targets in your city, you can't drive to work because the bridge was taken down and there's military checkpoints everywhere asking to see your papers to prove you aren't Canadian? I think Americans will notice that.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

You don't understand it is 5D chess

[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish I could export myself to Canada permanently

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I had a girlfiend from Canada when I was young, you wouldn't know her

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

An old friend of mine from university was recently in New York with her kids and posted pics of Central Park on Facebook. And I wondered how fucking oblivious is she

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