Who is the biggest threat to world peace?
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Yikes.
It’s the world’s most awkward breakup.
More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot.
New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love.
Their message to America: It’s not us, it’s you.
Canadians don’t see Trump’s America as merely an annoyance, the survey found. They consider the superpower next door the world’s greatest threat to peacetime.
@dolmansaxlil - is it as bad from the Canadian perspective as this poll indicates it is?
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Yikes.
It’s the world’s most awkward breakup.
More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced their former pals to the south have lost the plot.
New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love.
Their message to America: It’s not us, it’s you.
Canadians don’t see Trump’s America as merely an annoyance, the survey found. They consider the superpower next door the world’s greatest threat to peacetime.
@dolmansaxlil - is it as bad from the Canadian perspective as this poll indicates it is?
@wtg said in Who is the biggest threat to world peace?:
@dolmansaxlil - is it as bad from the Canadian perspective as this poll indicates it is?
In a word, yes.
I live in an EXTREMELY right wing socially conservative area. People who were part of the stupid convoys during COVID and who cheered when Trump won. Even folks here have soured on the US. In more urban areas, it is even more pronounced. It’s actually pretty great for many Canadians. Small businesses are doing better than ever and “buy Canadian” matters. When we grocery shop we buy products produced in the USA only as a last resort. Our grocery store doesn’t carry much US produce anymore. Many friends (including us) refuse to cross the border even though, at less than an hour door to door (including border traffic) Detroit is incredibly convenient. His recent nonsense about the new Gordie Howe bridge has gotten everyone in our area riled up again because we payed for the construction of the damn thing - on both sides of the border.
The other thing to keep in mind is that many Canadians never LOVED the US. It has always been a grudging respect because they were the bully next door so we have always been resigned to just being under the shadow. But Canadians biggest point of pride is NOT being American. It’s pretty much our national identity. So I think public opinion is just as terrible as your article shows, but also, I don’t think the US was as loved by Canadians as many Americans think it was prior to this.
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@wtg said in Who is the biggest threat to world peace?:
@dolmansaxlil - is it as bad from the Canadian perspective as this poll indicates it is?
In a word, yes.
I live in an EXTREMELY right wing socially conservative area. People who were part of the stupid convoys during COVID and who cheered when Trump won. Even folks here have soured on the US. In more urban areas, it is even more pronounced. It’s actually pretty great for many Canadians. Small businesses are doing better than ever and “buy Canadian” matters. When we grocery shop we buy products produced in the USA only as a last resort. Our grocery store doesn’t carry much US produce anymore. Many friends (including us) refuse to cross the border even though, at less than an hour door to door (including border traffic) Detroit is incredibly convenient. His recent nonsense about the new Gordie Howe bridge has gotten everyone in our area riled up again because we payed for the construction of the damn thing - on both sides of the border.
The other thing to keep in mind is that many Canadians never LOVED the US. It has always been a grudging respect because they were the bully next door so we have always been resigned to just being under the shadow. But Canadians biggest point of pride is NOT being American. It’s pretty much our national identity. So I think public opinion is just as terrible as your article shows, but also, I don’t think the US was as loved by Canadians as many Americans think it was prior to this.
@dolmansaxlil said in Who is the biggest threat to world peace?:
@wtg said in Who is the biggest threat to world peace?:
@dolmansaxlil - is it as bad from the Canadian perspective as this poll indicates it is?
The other thing to keep in mind is that many Canadians never LOVED the US. It has always been a grudging respect because they were the bully next door so we have always been resigned to just being under the shadow. But Canadians biggest point of pride is NOT being American. It’s pretty much our national identity. So I think public opinion is just as terrible as your article shows, but also, I don’t think the US was as loved by Canadians as many Americans think it was prior to this.
When were visiting my grandmother in London (mid 1970’s), we were in a museum and I heard the man next to me speak, I asked him if he was from the US, and he exclaimed, “Oh, God no! I’m Canadian!” Since my father and all my relatives had British accents, he must not have listened that carefully to mine.
He did apologize, but it was pretty apparent that he did not want to be mistaken for his southern neighbors. I’m sure it is so much worse now.
I cannot forgive the current occupant of the WH for what he has encouraged/allowed/done to this country. Or those who are enabling him. -
@jodi yep - that story is a common one.
There was an amazing IMO Canadian comedy musical group in the 1990s called Corky and the Juice Pigs. In 1993 they released a song called Americans. Near the end the lyrics are
We are Americans
We are Americans
We carry great big guns
We are Americans
We all wear
Canadian flags
When we travel
On our bagsIf you want to listen to the song it’s on YouTube
Link to video
