Canada

We know it's not all of you (okay, maybe not the internet tough guys here, but Canadians IRL). Bonus points for adding a French version.

I would say, consider if you should really love a country if it does bad things. The US isn't Nazi Germany (yet?), but it's not what it was in the 90's, either. Professing your love of America is kind of mandatory civic piety in America, but, that's actually a red flag itself.

Fuck off. If you loved us you would DO SOMETHING besides just complaining online

What the fuck even is the point of this post? We don't care that you're sorry.

"I've shaken the hands of American firefighters in northern Manitoba who are helping us out," said Premier Wab Kinew, whose province has endured a deadly and devastating wildfire season in which thousands of people have been forced to evacuate from their homes.

"I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S. Congress to go and do the same, and to hear how much the American firefighting heroes who are here — how much they love our province."

"This is what turns people off politics," added Kinew. "When you've got a group of congresspeople trying to trivialize and make hay out of a wildfire season where we've lost lives in our province." 2025, CBC

The O&G politicians did this finger-pointing war-drum-banging media blitz last year too. Remember?

People were sharing info about nurdles, orphan wells, lobbying etc, and we're all trying to organize responses to help the people and places that need it. And suddenly... there were all the "ambulance chasers" and culture warriors north and south of all our shared borders, ready to make the most of our collective tragedy while draining energy and empathy from our collective FEEDS. United Statesian Cons said "your smoke is touching my border" and Canadian Cons were like "no but we're friieends and WE helped you out" [important to note that not a single one of these windbags has ever done anything to fight any of the fires currently burning].

And here they are doing it again.

idgaf what King Trumptrumptrumpingofftowar has to say about anything. And I hate Captain Canada DoFo for amplifying that shit, posing for PR while Ontario burns (in part because of his anti-environment aggressively interventionist Lord-Of-The-Manor governance).

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No sympathy, please. Our elected government, voted in for a second term by Americans too God damn dumb to realize they were getting conned, erased 100 years of progress in six months. All through propaganda aimed at REAL America. Middle States, southern states, predominately white states, where more Americans live maleducated lives in poverty, working as manual labor in yesterdays industries because they weren't afforded the luxuries of other states. The imbalance of power is wilder than I've ever experienced. Someone said "send help." While some of you scoffed at this plea, or just shit all over it, I can feel the desperation. I'm about as far left as I can get without removing walls of logic. We literally have concentration camps. An SS of fuckers too scared to join the military and too fucking dumb to be cops abducting folks, while onlookers are fired upon so these fucks can protect their identities (black and latinx Americans working for ICE can suck a .22, anything white that moves in groups of 4 or more males, shoot on sight).

Uneducated Americans with generational hatred toward anything different than themselves. Their pappy's pappy hated everything other than white straight people, and that shit gets handed down like a fucking family heirloom. I know. I had to break those chains in my family. Parents have died, other family members, formwr close friends, and I refuse to shed a tear for any of them. The first time they voted him in, I told these people I would never speak to them again. Now my friend and family circle is just me, wife, and cat, but I can also sleep well at night knowing I wasn't a hypocrite or bending in my beliefs.

Which brings me to action. I believe I am doing as much as I can in the interest of my safety, the safety of my wife and cat, and the safety of other Americans (and nonamericans) regardless of political alignment. I struggle with self control in volatile situations. Regardless of strategy, andvance knowledge, scenario, my brain abandons logic and goes on the offensive. No flight, only fight. Never unjustly, in my opinion, at least if you consider yourself antifascist and subscribe to those beliefs.

I've also been to prison. I didn't enjoy it, and although nothing bad happened to me aside from a week-long migraine, I'll never place myself in a position where I could find myself coming out the other end locked-uo because I was fighting for my rights. Not sure what jails/prisons other Americans been in, but no bueno. Shout out to Catshit, MParker, and Texas.

So action... I want to burn it all down. I fantasize about it (and more!). The thought of certain inevitable deaths fill me with enthusiasm, fire. I don't want to be passionate about any of this, but I am because other people living in America are losing their rights to fucking exist. Meanwhile, shitheads like me want nothing more than to avenge these nameless, faceless fellow Americans and immigrants. I probably don't like these people (i like few), but they have rights, and therefore worth fighting for. I would love for all of us to collectively go John Wick on the likes of the far right, but unlike those MAGAts, some of us are just too wise to do anything that could fail so miserably. I'd love to go strength in numbers with all of you fellow people wanting to fight back, but where the fuck is everyone? I'm in a RED AF state. My local antifa is us. Assuming the cat isn't a fascist piece of shit. What can I do beyond the writing, blogging, calling (might as well punch yourself in the balls twice instead), showing up? When I travel, so do my stickers, masks, and my get fucked bag. I'm unapologetically antifascist. I also hate all other Americans, including those of us too pussy or too fucking locked down in middle class purgatory with a career in a dead state, a cross species family settled into a nice single family home, just enough money to be able to afford the hottest new game eight months after it's release on deep discount used through GameFly and still be able to eat in. Sounds like heaven, and compared to the atrocities happening around the world, I can't complain. I also can't march up to the granite stairs armed to the teeth like the Jan 6 fuckers. Precedent suggests I'd be DOA. We need a militia, or at least thirty middle-aged fucks like myself willing to live out our fever dreams in the name of saving democracy. I have no friends. For fucks sake, I spend time lurking here. Who you think I am?

This is unprecedented. We're not taught shit about fascism in school. I learned on my own in college after reading books suggested by likeminded people. We don't know what to do. Voting has been our weapon, by design by our forefathers (whom were also likely scumbag pedophiles), and now that it has been proven ineffective, we're kinda at a loss. So we protest, peacefully until some homophobe gets butt hurt over rainbows or someshit. Then we're persecuted, arrested, lives and careers wrecked. Unless you die a folk hero, you're just another cow on the tracks. We have concentration camps. An SS abducting people REGARDLESS of citizenship status. Mass survelence. Unprecedented. Meanwhile, when we're not protesting, we're doing arts and crafts for protesting, or being wage slaves making just enough money to afford food and water. If you have a pet or, God forbid, a family, and you're not making $120,000 on a cushy part-time schedule, where's the fucking time, money, and energy necessary to organize and fight? We're boned. The only way I truly see this ending is in another civil war. With all of us so integrated, it will literally be next door neighbor vs next door neighbor. We could use an intervention from abroad, but we don't deserve one. Or at least HALF of Americans don't deserve one. Some of us still trying to fight the good fight against literal evil, equipped with nothing but our wits. Voting has become sooo convoluted, the average American is probably reluctant to even participate. You should see the ballots. I'm currently working on my PhD in my late 40s, and I have to read, reread, and reread again some of the shit on these ballots. No fucking way Earl from the Creek gonna know half the words on that sumbish, let alone hit an option correctly with that pencil eraser and those meth shakes.

It's bad. Most all of us are fucking assholes. I hate people who look like me, because people who look like me are the villains. Not defending OP per se, but maybe this was their way of expressing discontent with America as an American. I hate the post too, don't get me wrong, but some of us are struggling with the absolute absurdity of all this, want it to end immediately, are willing to help, but haven't a clue how aside from using the tools we were given. They could give a fuck about my 2nd ammendement rights if I roll up armed to the teeth wanting to "talk."

Don't give us a break, but don't assume we're all behind this shitshow. This can happen anywhere, and it happens fast. No political party is any better than the other, because they're all politicians. But even the less evil side can't get their shit together enough to combat this.

This is long. Sorry.

• Just another American

Dont play innocent in your own democracy. You arent.

Go fuck yourself. You’re not “one of the good ones,” you’re a fascist enabling coward more interested in virtue signaling than going on the offense against Nazis. You’re a pants-pissing, craven (probably white) milquetoast liberal who cares more about their own relative comfort than about democracy.

I can only say that the majority of Americans do not feel this way. Forget the propaganda you see on the news (and it is mostly propaganda). The people of this country love our northern friends, we feel for you. We don’t want to annex Canada or punish you for a natural disaster or any of this crap. We want you all to be safe. We want to help.

Most Americans may not want to annex Canada if you put that to a poll, but they voted for someone who would, with their eyes wide open. Or willingly stayed in an information bubble that allowed them to do so.

…I’m sorry, but the first assertion is just not true. Most of us Americans DID this, and we are going to keep doing it. This is who we are now.

"the public statements made by our government do not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the American people.".

brother please...

we don't blame just the one guy that got elected. the problem is the USA people who've been wanting Donald Trump as their leader for like the last 10 years..

They'll do it again..