Legitimate point, that kind of applies to Lemmy here too. It's not helpful to just dunk on Americans for being Americans. To beat fascism, we need to be allies.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Exhibit A from a couple of days ago, with 12 upvotes right here in /c/canada:

until they remove their leader every American should be treated as an enemy. Because if he isnt dead they are all compliant.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, you were responding to something specific. I could talk about other mutually exclusive attitudes I see more often, but that would be missing the point.

Okay sure, fair enough. Those kinds of comments are awful, to whatever degree they happen, which is not never. We all know there's the same ideology here in Canada, so if someone picks a place they don't live to blame it on, it's near certain they just like blaming outsiders for things in general.

OP also reminds me more than a little of other toxic political people I've known, though, and I'm suspicious of her as an authority on what builds good relationships, international or otherwise.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok but that's one little person, doesn't mean the entirety of the country feels that way. You are literally reverse painting us with the very same brush that you are accusing us of painting you with. Or something like that.

Look, it's pretty straight up. MAGA most of us disagree with. Their screamy supporters, most of us disagree with. Everyone else, can just keep on keeping on.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah man, I'm not attempting to paint us as anything, I'm just trying to remind us that we can be a bit ...touchy (can't blame us of course) and we should be gentle to our natural allies down south.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I think people generally get that.