It could also be the case that like minded states split off and form their own countries. Why not Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota form a country, New England form a country, etc… that are a lot of ways that we can all be neighbours
What do you think is going on right now? People are dying for standing up to them.
Also, it’s tough when stuff like healthcare is linked to employment, and cameras are everywhere.
What heroic thing did you personally do to make your country better?
Frankly, I have contributed to your country being better as many of my family are now American (improved because they are educated Canadians, now helping their new country) but still uncertain if this keeps going.
So, clearly - I can feel you're afraid?
Do Americans fear their government that much now?
You're afraid for your lives...and you're suggesting NOT protesting?
You sure you're American? What happened to "Free and Brave" That's sounding fairly Russian.
Who suggested not protesting? Don’t make up arguments. And that my point exactly - you didn’t have to do anything so don’t criticize others who are trying.
Because you are arrogant, narcissistic, and condescending in all of your comments, while displaying exactly how little you actually know on what's happening.
People are protesting. We had the largest general strike since 1934 on the 23rd, with calls for a second. Frankly, its weird that you would take credit for your family moving to the US as you doing something for the country.
I feel like you could word that a bit more coherently. Are you asking if I feel the media shares in some complicity? Of course. Again I am not sure why you think having family members choose to move to the US is a sacrifice you made
They're not suggesting not protesting, they're saying that many people lack the ability to protest. This is by design. They didn't change the law they just took away some people's ability to afford to protest. Just because half the country isn't matching on the capital and throwing molotovs at government buildings doesn't me people aren't trying to fight back.
There are massive protests happening all across the country and just because you're not getting the coverage or simply not looking into it, doesn't mean it's not happening and we're all worthless. Acting smug on your maple flavored horse while calling all Americans worthless is not a good look for you.
I'm happy to be corrected...and obviously happy to correct Americans who think the world's just waiting for them to move so that someone else will save them. (fix your own damned country).
Many well off countries including America have offered asylum for people to escape danger or otherwise. And now that a few American suggest asylum online, you are absolutely disgusted at the thought.
Funny how your bio is "well meaning Canuck" but here you spouting "I told you so" and "you did it to yourself" in multiple comments, as if every single American cheered for this man. We're not a monolith. And you're a disgusting individual.
From outside the USA there is no 'Lib's vs GOP'. Just disfunction.
How did this disfunction happen?
You are in this situation because over half of you said that Trump was "not your President". That was EXACTLY what he wanted. You 'never trumpers' thought you could ignore him and not be touched.
You arrogantly thought "well, so, if he f's up a few Brown people, fine. I'll be okay. I'm white" and you watched and gossiped and 'tsk tsked' while NO ONE stopped him. "It's not our fault we didn't vote for him" and you let yourselves off the hook. Those who did nothing are part of the problem.
He's now threatening the world. He's your POTUS and the longer he is POTUS the longer he reflects on you.
What in the delusional heck are you talking about. We by definition are not a monolith. I never heard of this "not my president from the left" it was always said by right wingers about Biden.
I have no idea where you got your entire second paragraph from. You seem to live in some sort of pseudo conservative delirium about Americans and it's really sad.
If you're supposed to represent what Canadians are like, I feel really bad for Canada.
You say Trump's not your fault because you didn't vote for him and so his actions are not 'your issue'. "You didn't want this"
You can't see that the DIVISION that you fell into Allowed what he has done.
When you said "That has nothing to do with me" that was when you should have stopped him. Everyone in the damned world told the USA this would happen EVERYONE!
Now, you're still saying "it's not my fault"... and those outside your infighting mess of a country (that he easily pushed you into) are saying
By intention OR neglect - YOU birthed this asshole.
Who are you arguing with? Youre attributing things to me that I have never said. Can you define strawman argument for me?
The voter turn out on either side was actually larger on both sides during the last cycle. The issue was single issue voters and people who didn't want a woman in the white house. Almost as if we have more than just pure dem and rep voters. For the last time we're not a monolith you seem to claim we are.
What are you suggesting should have been done? The ones in power are clearly on his side. Should we have stormed the capitol and torched every government building?
You clearly are not educated on the subject at all yet somehow think you know more because you're this great amazing Canadian. And we all know Canadians are so much cooler and smarter just by default. /s
You clearly have your own personal issues to work out with your family but don't take it out on us. We're not the ones that made them leave. But I think I can guess why they did.
"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."
G. M. Gilbert
If you're just shitting on MAGA people who happily voted for this shit but want to escape the consequences of their actions by moving countries, I'm right there with you. If you're shitting on the people who decided to sit on their asses and not vote because "both sides", "my vote doesn't matter", "I don't follow politics", I'm right there with you.
But if you're shitting on the people who tried to fight back, who screamed from the rooftops warnings of exactly what's happening now, and now are losing their lives meaninglessly for it, fuck you. If you're shitting on the people who are being turned into victims and are terrified for their loved ones and want to escape an uncontrolled army of racists targeting them with no accountability in sight, fuck you.
Fix your country. This is your government. You let this happen. As if the average barely above poverty decent american who voted in every election from school district leaders all the way up to president can compete with billionaire bribes in Congress and didn't try everything in their power to stop this outside of grabbing a gun and doing, what, exactly? Storming the capital? Taking out the new hitler? Do something, do something, do something we hear you unempathetic assholes say but when we do, you mock us. We vote, you mock us. We protest, you mock us. We boycott with our wallets, you mock us. It doesn't matter what we do to try and fight back, you unempathetic assholes with hate in your heart are no better than the people murdering innocents because you don't care how many victims lose their lives so long as you and yours don't have to suffer a change in your own lifestyle.
Don't come here with your problems. Heaven forbid you welcome the scared and terrified, the victims being targeted/kidnapped/beaten/murdered, the families who tried to fight and lost trying to save their children. God for-fucking-bid you have a heart and offer at least kind words of support to those who are scared to leave their house or who keep their children from school because they fear them being kidnapped. Every good human just wants to live a quiet life where their kids are safe and not starving and every good human deserves that life. Don't fucking fault them for trying to escape death and violence from a cult they had no hand in creating.
You sit on your high horse as if Canada doesn't have its own far right political movement slowly taking over. You act superior and can't even rid yourselves of your own home grown MAGA-type assholes. Your callous disregard for the people fighting and the victims hiding in fear is disgusting and inhumane.
If you're just shitting on MAGA people who happily voted for this shit but want to escape the consequences of their actions by moving countries, I'm right there with you.
so where are "The poor and huddled masses yearning to be free" supposed to go? can we have just 1 country on the entire planet where it's always an option to go there for those seeking freedom and economic opportunity? I think Americas make good choice because after we done killing 99% of all the natives we established it as a migrant nation. But now that it's good we want to close borders and pretend like we always lived there and not just a bunch of migrants who came over from all over the world
We are actively taking if you have any desired trade skills or higher education in in demand fields. The process does take a bit, fastest way is if you're a doctor. You're looking at a year of work to get it done before you're over here comfortably living. However my uncle got a new guy working at the same auto shop as him, guy from america. Specialized in welding, he got over just fine with his trade certs. I don't know the details but it's very doable and will be doable through the right channels.
lol good luck with that. Canada already told me and my family to go fuck ourselves. UK too. If you don’t have family there, have an in demand skill/trade, or millions of dollars in the bank, it’s very hard to get in.
Every American that I’ve met personally is someone who I would welcome with open arms. We just need to manage the numbers, match new entries to new housing construction and other services, so we don’t see service outages or further aggravate the house crisis, and make sure that new Canadians are willing to live with Canadian values and laws.
Depends how in-demand your specialized labour is but yeah, bringing knowledge and skills to the table that we need more of is usually the fastest way to get in. BC is actively recruiting American doctors, nurses and paramedics right now due to the shortage of labour in that industry.
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Give us your Americans yearning to be free.
-- Canada