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The US/Canada Trade War

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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As a Canadian - I don't want to fight the US indefinitely. Our countries are much better off together than apart and everyone with any economic training knows it. I really like a lot of Americans, and they like me. I have had multiple Americans apologize and insult the Trump administration in the strongest language possible. I absolutely know this trade war and abuse from Trump et al. is not what my friends even remotely want.

But your government right now is intolerable. So I'm very much in support of this wave of Canadian national indignation and FAFO but I hope it doesn't last for long. As long as it takes, but the quicker our two countries return to cooperation the better for citizens of both nations. Even if everyone wanted to, decades of steadfast alliance cannot be undone cleanly and would likely leave our two nations weaker for it.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Id argue we need to pull away from US economic dependence. Doesnt have to be all or nothing, but coupling your economy to another this deeply is risky by default.

We need to diversify as much as we can. I know it isnt easy or simple, but in the long run it might be best.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 23 points 1 day ago

No Canada, keep the Tariffs...you don't want to fund a fascist state that wants to annex you!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (3 children)

God. It's like a humiliation fetish on a national scale. The Annoying Orange and the World's Most Terminally Divorced Man just can't help themselves - or stick to anything for more than ten minutes.

Though I suppose, given their goals, we should be grateful for that weakness? I don't know, I'm on the edge of learning to make moonshine to make the pain go away

[–] ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe Melania is making Trump cuck himself in front the man she really wants?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I'll leave this here. Plenty of others is anyone wants to have a search.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you imagine being the first president whose wife gives birth to another man's baby while in office?

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Musk can only have IVF kids because of a botched penis enlargement. Melanie is 54, so even with IVF there's a super slim chance at best. Without IVF it ain't happening.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 11 hours ago

American rapper says that Elon's ex-wife Grimes told her that Elon has a botched penis implant.

Rofl I thought he couldn't touch a women without getting hives or something. This is karma level stuff if true.

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

I think he's referring to Justin Trudeau. Baron looks like Trudeau.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While I'd certainly believe someone other than Trump as biological father I'm not seeing the Trudeau resemblance personally.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

barron looks more like trump than trudeau.

All white people look the same.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Wait, for real on the dingaling damage? I had no idea and that is hilariously on brand.

No shade cast for anyone using such a procedure, btw, unless you're a malicious spoiled man-baby.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not that they can't stick to anything... The issue is that they come up with shit ideas that they implement immediately without any planning. Then when the idea turns out to be shit publicly they have to walk it back at least partially because it isn't doing what they wanted. They don't care about how it looks, but the ideas are so terrible that they aren't even accomplishing what they intend.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm at the point where, while I think there is a great deal of malice and certainly some horrific long-term plans, I genuinely believe that these people are idiots at this point. I think many of their actions lack any intention beyond the immediate and impulsive emotional reactions of a thin-skinned narcissist.

We are not just being ruled by evil shitheads, we're being ruled by evil shitwits.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They’re six years old playing their first run of Civilization and think winning means destroying everything else and taking everything you can, but you don’t know what all the menus mean yet so you just start clicking random stuff to see what happens.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

[ Add tariffs +25% 🪙 -30% 🕊 -25% ⚖️]

clicks

[ This breaks your agreement USMCA 2019. Are you sure you wa... ]

clicks Yes

Wait why is my trade income decreasing?

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

This is... so accurate

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The trade war wasn't against Canada or Mexico or the world ..... it was directly against the American people and according to the belligerent, the American government is winning.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canadian here, sure feels like its against us, especially given the border threats.

We literally have articles coming out from mainstream outlets talking about guerilla warfare. People here are starting to get rabid.

I don't think your dimwitted leaders understand how much the average Canadian resents being forced to deal with america (for decades), the resentment is turning into hatred.

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-invading-canada-would-spark-guerrilla-fight-lasting-decades-expert-says

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

You are correct. The "leaders" don't. The majority of Americans are also disillusioned into hating people not responsible at all for the struggles they have to face. The soverignty of nations should be respected, but that hasn't, historically, been the American way either.

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Relevant song (find it on your preferred streaming service of whatever): https://genius.com/Three-dead-trolls-in-a-baggie-the-white-house-burned-the-war-of-1812-lyrics

And the White House burned, burned, burned
And we're the one's that did it!
It burned, burned, burned
While the president ran and cried
It burned, burned, burned
And things were very historical
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!

Everybody loves Canada. We’ll be cheering you on if you do it again for the lulz 🤣 (until the nukes start flying and the world ends, anyway) But if you want to do something a bit less incendiary, DJI drones aren’t geofenced anymore so maybe dropping a nice Canadian flag 🇨🇦 on top of the white house would make a clear point, with clear historical precedent!

(Sigh. Please come back to your senses soon, USA.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

according to the belligerent, the American government is winning.

And according to objective reality, the American government is being destroyed by a traitorous enemy agent and an unelected kleptocrat.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So much for, "Trade wars are good, and easy to win."

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Also he showed us is that his goal is to fuck up US and the West.

It doesn't even look like incompetence, but pure malice.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From what I understand, it's that when he looks at various agreements he doesn't understand how to work with countries to mutually improve.

It has been said a few times now that he only sees agreements as having a winner and a loser. In his eyes, a win-win means one side could have done better.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Zero sum game. A life philosophy for assholes.

This is it. And even after lying, cheating, and stealing his way through life he still managed to bankrupt seven businesses including a casino. If he had put his inheritance in a market index fund he'd be fabulously wealthy. Instead he's been pretending to be a billionaire for 40 years.

The funny thing is, after all that, he finally is a billionaire for real because of truth social of all things.

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 10 points 1 day ago

If they're so easy to win, that means the other guy can do it too

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago (12 children)

The US folded? Can someone send me an article about it because DDG isn't providing

[–] Poppenlockenheimmer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month, two senior Canadian government officials said.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Duckduckgo, a search engine

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

duckduckgo I assume

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So anyways, as an American, I think the United States of Canada has a nice ring to it....eh? (Did I do that right?)

[–] Timbo1970@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

It would have been better to end with, "Sorry, I hope I did that right?"

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[–] SirHamlin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thinking that they're just doing anything they can to crash the stonks so they can buy low.. Agree? Guess it doesn't matter if the market never recovers and nobody wants to do business with the US

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