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Fucking shameful. This is how we treat our allies? I am ashamed to be an American.
TBF, this is how we treat Americans.
^^^
That and threatening to eliminate our country altogether. We're not really feeling the "allies" thing these days. I fairly often visit the USA, but I'm rethinking that now, along with many other Canadians. And I'm taking my money out of the USA too, wherever possible.
If I was a foreigner, I would not visit the US at all right now.
I am a foreigner and I won't anymore. Used to go to Florida during autumn vacation. Now we'll just go to Italy or Spain. No Jetlag and the Flights are cheaper as well
As a Californian why even go to Florida to begin with, seriously there are infinitely better places in Mexico alone not even factoring in the Caribbean or Central America.
The climate of the Carribeans with the (relative) safety of the US. That's all there is to it.
Also we don't like it when you're in these Hotels for tourists from rich countries where your meal costs more than the staff earns. It just feels wrong. And inside you have this completely artificial experience that shatters as soon as you leave the hotel area. It's just not relaxing and morally wrong.
Also the Reason why we're staying in Europe next year despite loving the carribean climate.
I was thinking of the more rural portions of Baja and less touristy portions of Belize, but then again my kin have always preferred the risks associated staying away from corpo crap. My grandfather used to train jump down to Mexicali and Tijuana for dinner for context of what I think of as a good time. Is it really a road trip if ya don't nearly get shanked at a rural Nevadan gas station.
Yeah we don't really like those "corpo crap" holidays as well (if "corpo crap" means "classical commercial tourist destinations"). We prefer to go somewhere smaller away from all the stress and pickpockets. Rent a Hotelroom or small vacation-house and explore the place in our own pace.
But again, we're pretty risk-averse. Rome was already stressful for us because we were always afraid of getting pickpocketed. I couldn't imagine going to a country that isn't politically stable. I just couldn't relax.
So yeah, we don't like that "corpo crap" either, but we also are pretty risk-averse. That's why we usually vacate in regions that are stable and pretty rich (similar Level to Switzerland) and not too touristy. We're a difficult clientele, I know ;PP
Ah I see, that's frankly an alien concept to me. Risks like that don't really factor in for various reasons, I have legit wandered into VERY ghetto areas with zero care because I saw a sandwich place and was hungry. But hey you do you friend, even if your care for safety may as well be akin to a strange cultural custom to me
I wouldn’t visit them after, it’s obvious most Americans are okay and happy to sit down and accept this.
Most Americans don't KNOW about this shit. Most of us get their news from Fox and they're not saying anything negative about the administration. Except for sometimes having a token liberal on a talk show get shouted down by the five hosts.
Fox broke records with 4.8M viewers out of a country of 340m.
Most of you get your news from social media sharing.
OK, still most of us have no idea what is going on. They see nothing but stuff supporting the administration. Cable news and social media are all arms of state media. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Now, those Americans that have no desire to hear anything critical of their views... I can blame indoctrination but I can also blame the masses of this country.
Most of us are NOT okay with this.
The government created media infrastructure to isolate people from each other so most of us would not find out. It's like the Matrix.
A lot of us know and are trying to do things about it.
Many of us would rather fight for Canada than against. Don't fret the threats. Likely a lot of people, even some who voted for tRump, would be done defending this administration and maybe we'd see that well armed militia we keep hearing about!
They will quite literally do anything for him. I’m so sorry.
The US has allies??
The US has countries that it used to know.
But we didn't have to cut you off.
Hopefully in 4 years we can make out like it never happened and that it was nothing.
So basically 2009 and 2021 all over again.
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over.
Yeah, their client state Israel, as well as Russia and presumably its client state, Belarus
Who's who's client state again?
Israel is America's client state. If Israel magically ceased to exist, America would recreate it, so as to maintain their military position in the region. If America magically ceased to exist, Israel would soon follow.
Though the way things are going, pretty soon they'll both be more like Belarus
Even its Canadian girl friend left it
*had
We never had allies, we barely knew those countries, they might have gotten coffee for us at some point?
/s
Since there is a certain psycho suggesting all Americans go to war for their personal protection I will take the opportunity to ride the top comment with this attempt at organizing a general strike in the US.
Any general strike attempt will need to have some support from unions or similar groups with influence among large parts of essential industries. While there is a nice starting list of partners there, I don't yet see the kind of big names necessary for an effective general strike, especially a country-wide one.
I hope the organizers are seriously reaching out to large established organizations.
It's gotta start somewhere. FWIW I have been following this for at most a month and it is increased by at least 70,000 people. Not that that's enough, but 300,000 people ain't nothing.
That's true, and if we're lucky, some of those 300,000 people can help make it happen.
Canada isn't an ally anymore
Friendship with Canada ended. Now Putin is best friend
Friendship with Poutine ended. Now Putin is best friend
americans do not have allies, they have minions and masters. you should have started that shame a long time ago.
Putin's bidding to fracture the deepest alliances of the West under utterly bullshit pretenses.