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Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good. Stick it to us Canada.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 255 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Hey 'murican here, the other day I punched my friend in the face and started bragging about maybe taking their home from them with violent force and now they are ravaging our friendship by refusing to hang out with me.

What can I do? Threaten my friend with more violence and intolerance?

Thnx ahead of time for any advice.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

I’m in B.C., and near the Washington border. It was a “right of passage” when we turned 21 and were legal to drink in Washington, USA. I think there was a lot of eye-rolling when we Canadian hooligans came over the border. But, you were always welcoming and hospitable. I miss you, neighbours 🥺.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Do you know where your friend is from? They might actually be from the US. Always ask for ID before you swing. Gotta hoard those calories since food got more expensive.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 106 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's your friend's fault, they are brainwashed by the woke trans globalist agenda and can't understand you're doing it for their own good. Keep draining the swamp and they will eventually see you were right all along!

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Have you tried deporting your friend to a death camp in El Salvidor?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

How about a 90-day moratorium on face punching, after which their will definitely be more face punching?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 196 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's not even a boycott at this point, who in their right mind would cross the border and risk getting detained by an unshackled border control and ice.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 116 points 2 days ago

Yup. Boycott is only part of it. The other part is that it's not safe. ICE is out of control and has already sent Canadians to jail for zero reason.

I'm planning a 15 hr drive next month that I'd normally do thru the US as it shaves a few hours off. But not this time. You literally couldn't pay me to cross that border - I can't risk getting shipped off to some concentration camp in El Salvidore because ICE doesn't like my hybrid car, or whatever.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly, I wouldn't visit America for the same reason I wouldn't visit Afghanistan...it's a dangerous country run by dangerous religious nut jobs.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think many of us are shocked that the US has an army of ICE and CBP agents that were this ready to go full Gestapo. That suggests some alarming underlying issues.

[–] Phoonzang@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

As someone who travelled to the ZS for work (under different Visas(.... Not really shocked. The shit some CBP officers pulled during immigration at the airport. "What do you mean, you are here to work, don't we have Americans to do the job?", " Why do we invited Europeans to America to speak at an American conference?", "You're here because a Swiss company bought an American company? This can't be right."

And this was mostly in California. During Obama. I can only imagine how these interaction would go now, when those notjubs feel encouraged by their leader and on the right side of history.

Not going back there for a long time.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

many of us are shocked

Yet you have been regularly informed that "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" since 1992.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (7 children)

As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I've seen plenty of those same "love Canada" Americans using the "it's just a joke, bro" defense, though. So they still don't get it.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing that will change the US trajectory towards fascism is an economic crisis. A major one.

Sadly there will be collateral damage. I'm sorry for them.

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You say that, but in Nazi Germany (whose playbook we’re following) economic crisis was part of the rise of fascism. Not its fall.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

That's true.

Surely in this case however a direct line could be drawn between fascist policies and the coming recession.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?

It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.

We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.

Wait...

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thats.. not what the dems are doing. At all.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

No. Because the antediluvians running the party don't understand why they keep losing. Maybe they should try a tactic other than "Stop, or I'll say stop again.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We didn’t oust our far right. They got more votes than they’ve had in decades. They just got them in the wrong places.

We also lost our left wing party whose votes got gobbled up by the centre-left Liberals.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Idk anything about Canada's voting. I'm assuming all the right wing votes were placed on places with lower representation?

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

No they were all over the place. They won a lot of seats but Carney’s Liberals won more.

In Canada I think there are just more left wing voters than right wing. Normally when the Conservatives win it’s because the left wing gets split among multiple left wing parties. This time, people abandoned those other left wing parties and jumped to the Liberals.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 99 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I do want to feel bad, especially when hearing Canadians say, "go back to the US" like in that article. Then I hear stories about my Canadian friends going to Arizona for business and people making jokes about being a 51st state to their faces and my compassion dips.

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I and others friends have made jokes about the 51st state thing with a Canadian friend in our group. But everyone in that group knows how fucking absurd the idea is, and everyone in the group knows that no one in the group is in favor of it. Sort of gallows humor.

I have to hope that’s what those others were trying with their jokes, trying to relieve tension by mocking the absurdity. But obviously if that backfires, it’s certainly not the fault of the receiver of the joke. Intention matters but it isn’t everything.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, my friends and I have made jokes that could be construed as the worse things you've ever heard unless you understood that that's the point. Out of context they'd be terrible, so I know what you mean.

The way my friend described it was quite unpleasant. They could have been joking with him but I think a few of us are more on edge about this so that can be in play. I've also seen news reports about Canadian's in Florida and Floridians joking about taking over Canada and Canadians being quite upset about it too.

I would hope that the Americans were not being intentionally provocative and that it's us Canadians that are not getting their jokes. However, I think most of us just don't take Trump's threats lightly. He's caused so much damage and he's only getting started.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t ever feel bad for giving exactly what is being asked for.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The shitty part is that the people suffering aren't the people making decisions, but then that's what needs to happen for voters to vote for someone else.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Our tourists won't come back until we abolish ICE and stop detaining random people at our borders.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the tariffs.

And threatening to annex us.

It's not just ICE.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don't understand why so many Americans don't get that. I hear, Canadians are upset at tariffs. I hear, Canadians are worried about border issues.

Both are true.

But that's not why we're enraged. It's because an unhinged, racist, sexist, authoritarian, mentally challenged dictator has threatened to destroy our country and everyone there is doing fuck all about it.

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[–] thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago

Honestly? It might be too late. Even if we did those things, no one is coming back for decades. We just proved it's not safe.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 75 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I can confirm Points Roberts is really losing out from this trade war. It's a little tiny piece of the USA easy to get to from Vancouver but hard from mainland USA since you either have to take a boat or go through 2 international border controls.

Point Roberts gets the water electricity and telephone from our lines, throws their trash in our landfills, gets most of their business from Canada, and have a bunch of shipping/forwarding services because the rates are often cheaper to a US address.

Many Americans are great and I like them, but we're boycotting because starting from the Republican regime and its supporters, a lot of people there have gotten too casual about how much they think they don't need us so we're reminding them at large of our value.

I'm glad this Bloomberg article finally lists the many reasons that factor into this because for a few months the only reasons given were the tariffs and bad exchange rate. On its own, those haven't stopped Canadians crossing to the US to this level in the past.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As an American, I do not take it personally that Canadians and other countries are boycotting the US. it's understandable, appropriate even, and I'm fully supportive of it.

The only thing I ask is that when the resistance comes that you find ways to support us, covertly if necessary, but public if able.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ravage US, Canada. This isn't sexual.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I realize some of these are merely collateral damage.
Id rather it wasn't necessary, but in the meantime, may it start hurting enough that y'all rise up to your bullshit king.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not yet. People are still in denial that their choice, or their choice to sit it out, us responsible for his installation.

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[–] antisocialite@lemmy.today 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Keep it up. We need to feel the pain to fully awaken to the reality of Trumpism.

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