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      They want to recruit different people. Less women, people of color and LGBT, more racists. This fits perfectly in that policy.

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      For the rest of us, we’ve seen it coming for about 25 years. And we kept telling you.

      You got belligerent and started waving your flags harder.

      Now you tell us to “worry about your own country” when we say we told you so.

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        The ones who say to worry about your country are the ones here who saw this for decades as well and are trying to tell you we see the same shit starting all over the place over seas. If you act like you are above it, the same shit will happen to you all. Alot of us unfortunately didnt fight hard enough when we needed to due to thinking most people here weren’t as stupid as they are and we are now pretty much fucked. Don’t repeat our mistake thinking you have less idiots in your countries, the rot starts beneath the surface first just because you think you’ve cleaned the surface doesnt mean the infestation isnt festering below. Don’t be like us, be 100 times more proactive.

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        Hitler assumed USA was going to join them due to the huge German population amongst other reasons…

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      I studied history and have been telling people this for over a decade but most people think I’m batshit crazy.

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    Following the double negative rule: Anti Anti Fascists leaves you with

    Fascists

    The USA is dropping the mask for all the world to see.

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      AND STILL PEOPLE ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL! AT THIS POINT I WANT TO SEE MASS PANIC SO I KNOW I’M NOT CRAZY! AND I’M IN CANADA, I WANT MASS PANIC IN CANADA! I AT LEAST WANT THIS SHIT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THAT CANADIANS STOP FUCKING GOING TO THE STATES AS IF EVERYTHING IS NORMAL!

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        AND STILL PEOPLE ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL!

        Nope, we’rs not. But I, like many people, am in a marginalized/bum-fuck town. So, my opinion doesn’t matter until the polls open. We voted against this evil, and we will again. But, our government wants to embrace the evil.

        We can see it wants to. We don’t want it to. But, most of us don’t matter to the government. We’re not big-dollar donors, so our politicians will ignore us. They’ve minimalized most people so all that we can do is vote against it.

        But, with where the Overton window is, we have one party running with regular evil while the other suggests a diet version of evil.

        I AT LEAST WANT THIS SHIT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THAT CANADIANS STOP FUCKING GOING TO THE STATES

        With how dried up tourism is, it would seem like they’re already doing it. Yet, the government is still going down this path. So, it’s not that big of an impact.

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          The reason I want Canadians to stop going to the states isn’t to help the states, it’s to protect Canadians. But I would also like to help the states if I knew how

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          You say that, but the US is full of people still just going about their business. The country is operating fairly normally, all things considered, and the best you’ve got are sanctioned protests that are great for showing that people don’t love the situation but aren’t actually doing anything that couldn’t be responded to with an AI video of king Trump shit bombing everyone. Oh, and a Californian conservative who makes memes mocking Trump but is himself pretty shit.

          Maybe for a nation of cowards this is action, but really it’s just sad. You’re taking it lying down, and half of you are even fighting to make sure that ya’ll get completely fucked.

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            but the US is full of people still just going about their business.

            Because we aren’t important enough for politicians to pay attention to. Our calls just go straight into an answering machine that gets ignored because we’re not big-dollar donors like Musk. Musk probably has a direct line.

            the best you’ve got are sanctioned protests that are great for showing that people don’t love the situation but aren’t actually doing anything that couldn’t be responded to with an AI video of king Trump shit bombing everyone.

            Yeah. We are in poverty. We have had stagnant wages for like 40 years, but rampent inflation. This is the second gilded age like it was in the 20s and earlier. The rich have everything and direct lines to politicians, and the poor need 3 gig jobs and a regular job just to afford rent and food. In a work heap like this, we need foreknowledge to schedule our protests around. We can’t afford the privilege of just taking off and protesting.

            Maybe for a nation of cowards this is action, but really it’s just sad. You’re taking it lying down, and half of you are even fighting to make sure that ya’ll get completely fucked.

            Again, you’re conflating poverty and desperation in a backdrop of political corruption as aquiesence.

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              Sure, but why do so many people in the US jot even seem to be aware of what’s happening? Why are things still happening like this is just a rainy day and not a biblical flood?

              I’m not going to ask for violence specifically but from the outside looking in it’s like most of the country doesn’t even know that anything particularly bad is happening.

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            I want America to revolt too, at the same time it’s a bit much to ask considering people will die if it happens. Really, my anger and frustration is more directed at congress and the Supreme Court, the people who are supposed to be responsible for protecting America from this sort of thing.

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              They don’t need to start shooting, but they do need to take it seriously. For fuck’s sake not every problem needs to be solved by violence but every problem does need to be solved by people giving a shit at least. Meanwhile there are still hordes of people in the US just pretending like nothing is all that wrong.

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                Agreed but I’m not sure what normal citizens can do. They can vote in the midterms but I fear Trump will rig that. Short of violence, I guess a general strike is the best option.

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                  At this point I’d literally take just seeing more people actually caring and fewer people “not being political”. Caring about politics is not a niche interest. You don’t have to be an expert but the lack of comprehension around the subject all over the world, especially in places like the US and Canada where information is so easy to find, is fucking insane to me.

                  It would be sick if we could throw out the idea that this isn’t fucking Star Wars and we don’t need to take Conservatives seriously as the only other option outside of the centrists to get some kind of light-side/dark-side balance.

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            personally, I’m trans and I’m just trying to survive while I build an exit plan. damn right I’m laying down - I’m laying low.

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              Right?

              Like, the best thing a member of a loathed and marginalized community can do is to have an escape plan. They’re foaming at the mouth with rage and drooling at the opportunity for a hated group to put up an ounce of resistance so they can round them up for the camps. What kind of opposition can one transgender person in a one bedroom at night put up against an armed SWAT team?

              It’ll be someone else’s job to resist with an organized force. The trick isn’t surviving long enough to be rescued from Auschwitz. The trick is knowing when and how to get away before Auschwitz becomes a thing.

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        It would be nice if Canadians would also stop voting for politicians who lead Canada in the same direction as the USA. We need to turn left, not right.

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          When you you hit rock bottom at America’s level we’ll have an ice cold imported beer ready for you and you can pull up a chair with us around the destructive bonfire immolating western civilization. We’ve got hot dogs and everything. I know you dont love us right now but in a weird twist Americans are still big fans of Canada.

          I think I read that American approval of Canadians is 94% while simultaneously two thirds of Canadians not only dont trust the US but feel like they can never trust us again.

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          We can’t stop voting for conservatives to stop the Conservatives™ from getting power. We’re dumb as hell for that.

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        Any Canadian (or other nationality) still going to the Fourth Reich voluntarily is admitting that they support fascism.

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      The mask had been poorly held up for ages, people just chose to believe them 'cos Russia bad.

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    Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as ‘potentially divisive’ under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag

    Threatening racial lynchings is “potentially divisive” but not hateful, apparently. I guess there are very fine people on both sides of the white supremacist lynchings debate.

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    Combine this policy with declaring anti-fascists as terrorists, and I think a pattern is emerging here.

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    That boomerang just keeps coming back around for some reason. Who can explain it? /s

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    THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES IS CALLING FOR LAWMAKERS TO BE EXECUTED FOR UPHOLDING THE LAW! WTF IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS SHIT?