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I'm genuinely sorry to hear that, not just because I actually know how far our right-wing shit has reached into your country, but because I am aware that we never had a better friend than Canada, and without Canada to the north and Mexico to the south the 20th century would not have been nearly as meteoric as it was: without Canada we would have FAR less to brag about. I hope you are aware of just how many of us are on your side, how many of us are the ones telling you to "keep it up" with the boycotts and yelling "Elbows up!" when we see or hear another way Canada has decided to resist, because we are not represented in the media.
Canada has never been anything but the best friend my country ever had, from helping us in disaster to joining us in war, and you deserve far better than the neighbor from hell to the south. And while that does not make what you wrote correct or even anything less than arrogant and entirely dependent on stereotype, it does make me genuinely sorry, because we'll never have a better friend on the national stage, and it will be a cold day in hell before Canada forgives us. Deservedly so.
I think you guys need to understand that no one gives a shit about the good individuals you have if the outward effects of your country are so violent and disruptive. Like, I’m sorry for the good people who live in the States but the instution of the US and the 100+ million people who either zealously support it or don’t think it’s that big a deal are big fucking problems. And far-right groups export that ideology all over the world, especially to my culturally similar country, and I am in no way obligated to pity you while your country threatens the safety of my own and others.
I do not care how many of you are “on our side” because you are effectively useless. Strongly worded letters and some sanctioned protests do nothing for us when you’re largely too cowardly to stand up for yourselves in even the smallest of ways. The US is a shithole country, and I’m sorry you live there, but I’m not gunna change my tune just because reality makes you sad.
I also have very strong words for my own country along similar lines. At least I know how to admit it.
When you cannot see individuals because of the group they are in, and you have grouped them that way in order to "other" them, to place on them the burden of your own anger and ill-will, congratulations! You are propagandized.
I saw it in your first comment, but now you're tripling down like the best of the Fox News crowd, so okay.
Then who do you think is going to fix it, if not for us who care?
Then why are you battering the "useless" with your words, where they will either do no good at all or tire out what little goodwill we have left?
Where are your words when it comes to those creating and doing this great evil? Because I see ZERO in your screeds.
I never said or even implied that the controlled opposition in Congress was or is "good": they are as complicit as the openly destructive.
If protests are sanctioned, why are protesters being surveilled and jailed?
Here you are again, consuming media that serves your own partitioned worldview just as much as anyone on the right: this is what the media wants you to believe, that you should hate average people like yourself, believe no one can change anything, that all effort is wasted, and that the best possible outcome is that you personally get to shit out your own dissatisfaction with your own life via strong words that might as well have been scripted for you by Fox News were it not for the anti-authoritarian slant. You probably think that orange fungus got elected and we still have fair and aboveboard elections, lol.
And I note that you personally can't do shit in Ottowa, or you'd be there doing it instead of dunking on the only people who can actually change anything for the better in the US: those of us who DO give a shit.
You've given up. And worse, you have an exceptionally selective idea of reality. You really need to pull your head out of your self-pity, because you are not helping, you are only dragging the people who actually care down, without having a single idea of how close you personally are to having your own government yanked out from under you in similar fashion. While you think it's a matter of mockery to watch a country turn to full Nazism, you're not exactly doing so from a safe distance: how long do you think you last if we lose?
And where, oh where, is your contempt for the actual doers of all this evil? You have plenty of shit to fling at anyone trying to effect change, but ZERO for the leaders of this filth. Where is that? And a better question is, doesn't your lack of censure for people actually doing what you claim to hate just make you another lazy hypocrite of the kind you despise down here, another lounge chair warrior "too cowardly to stand up for yourself in the smallest of ways" when you personally have nothing like ICE cruising through your neighborhoods, picking people up on sight?
I may love your country, but your own position and actions are contemptible. When you can do something other than your personal best to discourage anyone else from even trying to change anything, even as you suck on the media's warm tiddy of manufactured narratives and caricatured Americans, let me know. Until then, keep "doing your own research" and "telling it like it is" and "just asking questions" because what you claim to hate, you have already become.