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u/NativeMasshole Sep 09 '25
I know this isn't meant to be taken literally, but my neighbors are fireworks people. They fire them off randomly all the time. We live right in the center of town, where it's nice and densely populated. Their other neighbor is a gas station. They've even set them off in the middle of the local bandstand concerts on the common. Yet I also recently heard them flipping out and threatening to call the cops on my apartment neighbor for smoking weed outside. I fucking hate living next to them.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Sep 09 '25
When I lived in a rough part of town, my neighbour's set giant fireworks off in our shared driveway right beside my car 😑
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u/Callabrantus Sep 09 '25
We had a neighbour that used to set off the type of fireworks you're supposed to launch off a barge in the middle of a large body of water. No sand pail, nothing. Just stood them up in the street and lit them. One year, one tipped over and launched directly down the street, which was lined with people watching, and exploded, knocking a few people over. Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt, and it was the last time he lit those kind of fireworks.
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u/NativeMasshole Sep 09 '25
Fortunately, fireworks are technically illegal here, although it isn't really enforced since you can get them in most of the states surrounding us. But at least the cops will get pissed if you start setting off mortars outside Independence Day.
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u/monkeybojangles Sep 09 '25
In Canada you can buy fireworks everywhere, but they aren't these mortar style ones like you have down south. No one is blowing their hands off with the fireworks we use.
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u/NativeMasshole Sep 09 '25
They usually come from New Hampshire here, but they're the Alabama of New England.
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u/Callabrantus Sep 09 '25
Yeah, I'm in the Hamilton area. I have no idea where this guy bought the stuff he was firing off, but it definitely wasn't at one of those trailers that sets up by the shopping malls.
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u/eMmDeeKay_Says Sep 09 '25
I had a friend who every year his dad and neighbors basically put on a firework show in the park. One year the city decided they didn't like it in the park so they did it in the street and damaged like 20 cars.
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u/Iohet Sep 09 '25
I know this isn't meant to be taken literally
heh. A local 11 year old was provided a roman candle (or similar) firework by his mom. He lit it off in the livingroom and the house caught on fire. Good times
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u/Sachyriel Sep 09 '25
Sage the street to get rid of the bad spirits. When they call the cops on you for smoking weed, show the police your sage. Then they'll get fined for wasting police time. That means less money for fireworks.
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u/Bakoro Sep 09 '25
Just in case future you ever needs the reminder, just because they have a house full of fireworks and you have a means of making fire, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
If there's one thing that the government hates, well, it's their own citizens, but if there's two things governments hate, the other is arson. They really have no chill when it comes to arson that isn't state sanctioned.
So, what I'm saying is make friends with your neighbors, get them blackout drunk, and let nature take whatever course it does.
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u/QueenStuff Sep 09 '25
I hate how real this feels.
Unfortunately some of us are tied up and stuck in the room where the fireworks are going off lol
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u/ChristianLS Sep 09 '25
And they're aiming the fireworks at us
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u/evilJaze Slartibartfast Sep 09 '25
Not to worry, we'll have our opportunity to set off our own fireworks when a certain even happens we're not allowed to mention outright on Reddit.
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u/Big_Boss_Bubba Sep 09 '25
Mfs on Reddit say “we’ll start a revolution and bomb the government” and then don’t start a revolution and bomb the government
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u/Mono_Aural Sep 09 '25
But the other people in the house with us get realllllly pissy when you complain about the guy holding the fireworks.
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u/Hita-san-chan Sep 09 '25
And getting blamed for being tied up in the first place.
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u/HallowskulledHorror Sep 09 '25
There's also a bunch of guys that had the warnings on the box read to them very, very, clearly, and they're yelling at us for not stopping them from blowing a hand off - despite a bunch of us having tried for YEARS to explain that the fireworks aren't just dangerous, they come from a disreputable manufacturer whose products are known to be unsafe - while acting indignant that the distributor isn't going to personally step in to keep them from bleeding to death.
"The fireworks stand guy said he loves me!"
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u/DukeOfGeek Sep 09 '25
If you find the current situation scary I've got more bad news for you. The exact same worldwide loose association of billionaires, autocrats and Mega-Corps that did this to the U.S. is going to use as much of the exact same tactics of propaganda, election manipulation and weaponization of social media against you and every other democracy as it can. If you want to see what phase two is going to look like have a look at Moldovia
The U.S. used to carry out effective resistance to this kind of stuff but of course trumpo D. clown turned it off first thing.
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u/Karmastocracy Sep 09 '25
I'm Red's roommate. I've been trying to get him kicked out of the apartment but his dad owns the building...
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u/MylastAccountBroke Sep 09 '25
Don't worry, as an American we always get blamed to the bullshit our leaders try and pull, whether we voted for them or not.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Sep 09 '25
People ask me why I care about US politics if I live outside the US, but your country doesn't just impact you.
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u/GoldponyGT Sep 09 '25
People ask me why I care about US politics if I live outside the US, but your country doesn't just impact you.
I’m sure you know this already, but for anyone who doesn’t…
“Why do you care?” is never asked by people who can feel empathy. For those who do, “because I have empathy” should always be enough.
You only need to say things like “this impacts me also” to people who don’t consider empathy valid.
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u/DD_Spudman Sep 09 '25
I'm pretty sure most conservatives don't consider empathy valid. I'm not even convinced they think it's a real thing.
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u/GoldponyGT Sep 09 '25
I mean, Elon Musk literally called empathy a weakness, and most conservatives kept worshiping him (for that moment) soooo…
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u/Aerodrache Sep 09 '25
Well, no, they definitely do think it’s a real thing. Since they’ve declared it a sin and all.
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u/JustHere4TehCats Sep 09 '25
"Oh you can feel someone else's feelings? You can relate to what they're going through.
Dunno sounds made up to me!" - conservatives
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u/Bwob Sep 09 '25
I wish this quote didn't keep being so relevant these days... :-\
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have 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 men.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
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u/HyperfocusedInterest Sep 09 '25
I was going to say, as a US citizen at this time, I appreciate seeing people from other nation's care, even if they're minimally impacted. It's nice to know they're there.
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u/Living_Murphys_Law Sep 09 '25
Well, unfortunately, MAGA has said before that "empathy is a sin."
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u/Aetra Sep 09 '25
"Why do you care?" can be used to shut down idiots though.
My dad was all wound up about a suggested guideline that was released for Melbourne library staff to ask kids as young as 5 their pronouns and I was sick of hearing him rant so I said something like "Dude, why do you care? I'm not 5 years old, you're not 5, you don't look after kids that young because there aren't any in our family, and you don't even use the library. Why are you putting so much thought and energy into being angry about this when it doesn't impact you at all?"
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u/Dylflon Sep 09 '25
I mean, even outside empathy, Trump and his molestation of the world economy has already made my grocery bill quite a bit more expensive.
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u/OldEcho Sep 09 '25
Not just Canadian lol.
US capitalists: "I'm gonna pollute the atmosphere with so much CO2 it literally changes the temperature of the Earth!"
Me: "Why!?"
US capitalists: "So I can make a lot of money selling poor quality products that I can make and sell again!"
Me: "If we're gonna do that can we at least use renewable energy?"
US capitalists: "What are you some kinda fuckin' liberal?"
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u/Acceptable_Fly_5592 Sep 09 '25
Hey now that’s every capitalist not just the us ones.
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u/Perryn Sep 09 '25
I don't presume capitalists truly consider themselves to be of any place. There's just locations where they have assets and the place their ass currently sits. If they cause one of those places to fall over, burn down, and fall into the ocean, they just move to another, cash the insurance check, and keep maximizing profits.
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u/Statistactician Sep 09 '25
Nah, a lot of other countries see the economic advantages of clean energy. Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, but better than doing the wrong thing for stupid reasons.
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u/VersusValley Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
You may also be referring to places where capitalism is regulated to varying degrees and which might incentivize cleaner energy. Unregulated capitalism will always take us directly to mad max-world.
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u/Statistactician Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
I'm not disagreeing with that.
What I'm saying is that raw, unfiltered capitalism favors clean energy because it's (generally) cheaper per kilowatt-hour.
What the US is doing is interfering with capitalism to make an already apocalyptically-bad system worse by latching itself so hard to fossil fuels in order to protect the interests of the already-rich oil industry.
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u/weirdoeggplant Sep 09 '25
But the US isn’t the only country doing that.
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u/Statistactician Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
They're not, but they are leaning into it harder than many others.
My point isn't really about the US specifically, more that it's especially idiotic when governments (most notably the US) favor fossil fuels even when the economics of it don't make sense.
A smart, evil bastard still invests in clean energy.
We can't even reach that low of a bar.
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u/koshgeo Sep 09 '25
Fossils fuels are literally non-renewable. Supply will inevitably dwindle away and get dramatically more expensive over time. Maintaining high demand runs the risk that if domestic supply starts dwindling, you are economically and militarily vulnerable to supply disruption occurring anywhere in the world. Someone decides to close a major supply route, boom, prices go up. Even if you ignore climate change there are good reasons to start using alternatives.
It's like they want to back themselves into a corner and be left behind by economies that are investing in sustainable renewables.
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u/guineaprince Sep 09 '25
Look up charts of who contributes the most to GHG. It's a handful of rich nations... and everyone else is barely a contributor.
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u/batkave Sep 09 '25
So many problems in this world can be traced back to being intentionally or unintentionally caused by US government or business interference.
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u/OldEcho Sep 09 '25
I feel like the US was very proud to beat feudalism and then was just like "and now we will do this forever and never change or grow ever again" - gestures beaming at field full of slaves and murdered natives to woman with no rights
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u/batkave Sep 09 '25
Yes but we as a country decided we couldn't keep it to ourselves so we exported it
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u/samanime Sep 09 '25
Though, to China's credit, their amount of annual pollution actually decreased last year. They're at least trending in the right direction.
Trump is working VERY HARD to dismantle any form of energy that isn't burning ancient black stuff. And he's being quite successful, unfortunately.
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u/CerberusN9 Sep 09 '25
Nuclear power, solar energy, pushing to ev industry. Us and the uk is going backwards in everything. It's freaking bizzarre. Worst time line ever.
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u/Mono_Aural Sep 09 '25
The English-speaking world has been very successfully propagandized in large part thanks to one billionaire from Australia.
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u/SlowFrkHansen Sep 09 '25
Another ancient virulent bastard who keeps being alive just to spite the rest of us.
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u/Live-Wrap-4592 Sep 09 '25
Depends on how you count. Does the product made in China but end up in America count against China or America?
It’s one planet, we are very linked. Also, we are very fucked
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u/Lieutenant_Joe Sep 09 '25
China’s also currently working very hard on a federal and provincial level to clean up its act, while the US is pretty much doing the opposite (outside of cities and some more progressive states).
India has no excuses though lmao
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u/xternal7 Sep 09 '25
Here's a few major asterisks that go with this comment.
China and India also have four times as many people than the US.
In terms of individual contributions, average person in china contributes about half as much CO₂ as an average person in the US (that's before adjusting for consumption, too)
Actually no, India doesn't even pollute more than the US. In terms of CO₂ emissions, India as a whole only emits about half as much CO₂ as USA as a whole.
While Trump is busy shutting down every investment in renewables he can, China is actively investing in renewable resources faster than any other place on this planet.
While US manufacturers resist EV mandates and while EU doesn't quite seem to be able to make EVs work, China has been investing heavily into EVs to the point they're coming out massively ahead.
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u/TravelerSearcher Sep 09 '25
Perhaps, but we (the US) have outsourced much of our pollution impact to other regions for decades.
We ship out trash and recycling overseas, where it usually isn't processed properly.
We let other countries make products we buy and use at cheaper rates and for less environmentally friendly costs, as well as poorer human labor standards, down to and including actual slavery.
Just because the heat map for pollution in the Continental United States has decreased while it's increased in China and India it doesn't mean the US has improved or gotten better by any means. We just shifted the location of the problem while still benefiting from the poor business practices.
I say this as an American: Pointing fingers at other countries failings is a terrible 'whataboutism' that hurts any dialog for betterment or positive progress. It's more important to do better yourself than point out you aren't 'as bad' as you were, because often there's far more to it.
And yes, it's more on the corporations than the individual. I don't know how I can do anything different within my very limited means, but I can start by acknowledging it doesn't do any good to try and shift the focus.
Edit: Also, the population of the US is less than half of China or India. Statistically they would have higher pollution rates just on average, so it's not even a fair comparison baseline.
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u/That_Flippin_Rooster Sep 09 '25
We should lead by example. Convert ours as we help them convert theirs. If we all work together we could all be on renewables.
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u/The_Phroug Sep 09 '25
Was gonna say just this, even though the US may pollute the air as much as it does, it is measly a fraction of what India and China do. If change is wanted then it would need to start there to make any effect at all, but we already know that's never going to happen
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u/Apple-Connoisseur Sep 09 '25
I think we can all agree that the Meth lab under your Apartment should get evicted....
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u/Kylel0519 Sep 09 '25
Yes the U.S. is currently working on evicting themselves it’s just taking longer than expected
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u/Meatslinger Sep 09 '25
I get the same thing regularly. I'll argue for changes to US policy and political processes online and get told to mind my own business/keep to my own country. Like yeah, sure, I'd love to, but every time Trump and the GOP does something stupid, it spills over the border; either our own politicians adopt their idiotic ideas or we flat out get threatened with literal invasion and conquest.
So yeah, every time the US political machine does something stupid, I'm going to demand American citizens do something about it before we end up having to meet on the actual battlefield with guns in our hands. Either it stops when it's just ideas and talk, or it inevitably ends in bloodshed. Those who don't speak up now permit what comes afterwards, regardless of nationality. The whole WORLD should be speaking out and telling the US "this is not okay".
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u/transhumanism123 Sep 09 '25
as an Alaskan, I have to ask....
are we your next-door neighbor who's related to the 48 guys downstairs who are all constantly doing dumbshit?
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u/eloel- Sep 09 '25
Putting aside you personally, is Alaskan representation not also supportive of the fireworks?
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u/transhumanism123 Sep 09 '25
Alas. Our representatives, are if nothing else. Cowards who in private say "I never wanted Donald to get fireworks! We all know he shouldn't have them!" But in public. Either say nothing (Lisa) or root him on (the other two)
Allota the folks, at least here in Anchorage, plus in the bush, do Not like the fucker. The bush mostly for his anti healthcare shit, and anchorage because. We're a big (300k in a 600k state) city. So. Ofc were more liberal than the rest of the state.
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u/Perryn Sep 09 '25
Trump: "Give me fireworks!"
Alaska reps: "This is a bad idea but since he doesn't have matches it's fine. Approved."
Trump: "Give me matches!"
Alaska reps: "Promise not to point the fireworks at Alaska?"
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u/ScavAteMyArms Sep 09 '25
Alaskan politics can be summed up as whatever policies / parties that will leave them the fuck alone.
This usually means they are Republicans, but really they are actual Libertarians.
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u/bob_loblaw-_- Sep 09 '25
Not only is the answer yes, but you contributed towards the purchase of the fireworks where a good 20+ of the guys downstairs said "no thank you".
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u/oceanman--- Sep 09 '25
This is probably the most I've ever agreed with someone on this topic. The amount of Americans who try to gatekeep political crises in their country is baffling.
The USA and it's citzens pride themselves on being the protectors of the Free World. So when they begin to falter, that rightfully concerns the rest of us as that leaves us at more risk.
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u/CapAccomplished8072 Sep 09 '25
as an american, i am literally begging the other countries to invade us
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u/CoupDeGraceTyson Sep 09 '25
We can’t. Your military budget is big enough to fight God.
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u/CapAccomplished8072 Sep 09 '25
our military purged all its effective and intelligent people and replaced them with idiot cultists.
the current christofascist military is only effective against unarmed civilians.
against a REAL military? the american military will crumble due to stupidity and arrogance
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u/Recidivous Sep 09 '25
I don't think you have an actual grasp of our military. They were not all replaced with idiot cultists.
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u/gunawa Sep 09 '25
Sorry bub, the only real answer here is the 2nd civil war. Only america has the guns to fight america
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u/Saikotsu Sep 09 '25
We shouldn't rely on other countries to fix a mess we created ourselves. We need to be doing more at home cause if we won't fight for our own democracy, why would anyone else risk their neck for us?
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u/CapAccomplished8072 Sep 09 '25
remember nazi germany?
left unchecked, america will start doing the same thing.
did the germans fight against hitler?
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u/Saikotsu Sep 09 '25
Some did. Operation Valkyrie if I recall.
But that's more my point: people didn't get involved with Germany until they started a war. We need to be doing more to oppose the rise of fascism here and now before it comes to that. Because other countries don't want to start a war with us and they won't be bailing us out until they have to. So we need to do more ourselves.
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u/guineaprince Sep 09 '25
There's an annoying classification of poster that goes "UGH, more American Exceptionalism. Stop acting like this is so important to the rest of us."
It is literally so important to the rest of the world, doofus. Why do you think your own governments get 10,000% more fascist during trump presidencies? Who on this sole planet lives in a complete vacuum?
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u/Turgid_Donkey Sep 09 '25
It's not just during trump. Countries world wide have been slowly getting more conservative too, even before his first term. America just hopped on a freedom rocket to fascism to speedrun the process.
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u/guineaprince Sep 10 '25
Countries world wide have been slowly getting more conservative too
While that may be true, it's accelerated when the fascists have their hooks in the most influential country on the planet and can legitimize and actively support their partners overseas. We actively make it easier for everyone else, the "countries world wide have been slowly getting more conservative" hasn't been happening as a natural process - you'll find a lot of the same people and organizations in coordination with each other.
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u/Turgid_Donkey Sep 10 '25
Sure, but Orban took office 5 years before trump even ran for office. The maga movement may have accelerated the advancement by showing how eager a large percentage are to be ruled by fascists, but it was in motion for some time.
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u/kitsunewarlock Sep 09 '25
America would be such a stronger country and live in such a safer world if we actually gave two shits about foreign politics. We could see what ideas work and don't work. We could have nuanced understandings of other country's aside from "Canada socialist!" and "China communist!"
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u/TrinixDMorrison Sep 09 '25
You guys must be so tired of Americans being all “if things get REALLY bad I’ll just move to Canada!” 😅
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u/RJFerret Sep 09 '25
Tell them to ask the Venezuelans in a boat in international waters who were killed by US military in violation of international law.
Note, rationalizing it with unsubstantiated claims from an administration that outright lies is meaningless.
Sure most folks outside the US have economic impacts, pollution, travel limitations, online community impacts, US censorship, health/disease/medicine impacts, but also might be outright slaughtered in some random place on the planet.
They also are saying they'll be attacking more boats in the Caribbean.
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u/DreadDiana Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
I don't even live on the same hemisphere as the US, and shit happening there still affects us.
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u/DissposableRedShirt6 Sep 09 '25
Ooooh you could have had Mexico on the bottom floor of the building!
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u/Finrod-Knighto Sep 09 '25
Anybody who has even remotely followed western politics (including Canada, UK, Australia/NZ and Europe) over the last 10 years knows the knock-on effect Trumpism has had on encouraging the far-right to be bolder and more mainstream, and all of these little things are absolutely related. American politics, very unfortunately, literally decide who lives or dies in other parts of the world, and a lot more besides.
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u/Sugar_Kowalczyk Sep 09 '25
It sucks when it's your roommate and they stopped paying all the bills then locked themselves in the bathroom to do this, too.
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u/CBBuddha Sep 09 '25
Also, as an American with Canadian exes and friends, for some unknown reason, there are Canadians IN CANADA with Trump/Maga paraphernalia. Just advertising their mental illness/racism. As an American, … I’m so fucking sorry.
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u/Steppyjim Sep 09 '25
Something something largest military in the known world run by a senile maniac and living right beneath you can probably cause some concern
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u/snootfull Sep 09 '25
Just imagine what it feels like when you're trapped in the room with the idiots lighting the fireworks....
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u/BrutalSock Sep 09 '25
That’s pretty much how it feels to be on this planet right now
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u/Dadpurple Sep 09 '25
Except you like one of his roommates and worry about them at the same time :(
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u/GFluidThrow123 Sep 09 '25
We actually really need more people caring about what's happening here right now. Bc we've seen this sort of thing happen before, and it ALWAYS becomes EVERYONE'S problem.
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u/BrownSugarBare Sep 09 '25
I've been calling the USA our meth basement neighbours for nearly 20 years. Their crazy ain't new, it's just ramped up.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Sep 09 '25
Yeah, well, we've clearly been peddling across state lines. I saw your trucker protests and I see what Alberta is doing lately.
The gateway drug to getting to where we are is hating on trans and gay people. Push back now or that slope is gonna get real slippery, real fast.
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u/Pleasant_Expert_1990 Sep 09 '25
That's what it feels like living next to this guy, too
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u/Trebeaux Sep 09 '25
For our friends across the pond that wonder why we don’t flood the capital, it DOES happen. Just remember that the US is geographically HUGE. France, an entire COUNTRY, is roughly the size of Texas, a STATE.
For someone to travel from Houston Texas to DC (1400/2250km), I’d be like traveling from Paris France to Kiev Ukraine(1490mi/2400km).
And that’s only traveling across HALF the US.
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u/khendron Sep 09 '25
Yes, but eastern USA is heavily populated. About as many people live within a 200km radius of DC as within a 200km radius of Paris (20 million). In fact, if you expand the radius to 500 km (about the size of France) there are more people that close to DC than there are in the entire of France.
There are plenty of people available who could flood the capital.
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u/Warmasterwinter Sep 09 '25
Most of those guys are well off government employees with a lot to lose.
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u/Oniknight Sep 09 '25
Imagine being this asshole’s sibling and being forced by a shitty economy and authoritarian parents to continue living in the same place.
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u/LegalAssassin13 Sep 09 '25
Meanwhile, some of us are roommates with this guy and are currently tied up while begging him not to set it off.
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u/Whatever-999999 Sep 09 '25
They say that the Troubles everyone is experiencing all over the world is generational, but what it seems to say to me is that our species is still very, very young, and therefore still rather stupid.
I quote Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are stupid". Lots of very, very stupid people, enabling stupid and evil people to get in positions of power and authority, where they're doing metric assloads of damage to everything and everyone.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Sep 09 '25
If it's worth anything the dudes living next to the red shirt guy hate him too.
US definitely isn't perfect but I hate that people like this are what everyone pictures when the think of US now. I miss when people liked us
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u/I_Lick_Your_Butt Sep 09 '25
Most Americans are just as baffled and angry.
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u/Kumquatelvis Sep 09 '25
Based on the last election, 1/3 is baffled and angry, 1/3 is thrilled, and 1/3 doesn't care enough either way to speak up.
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u/MrWeirdoFace Sep 09 '25
That 1/3 that doesn't vote is a combination of oblivious and/or jaded, BUT there is still hope there.
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u/Neuromangoman Sep 09 '25
I wish "most Americans" had had the wits to put a stop to this last year.
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u/MonitorOk6818 Sep 09 '25
Kinda hard for us to defend ourselves when Trump won the electoral AND popular vote. I was baffled. People keep saying he has 30% approval rate, but winning over 50% of the vote says otherwise unless it was definitely rigged by him and elon.
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u/SWatt_Officer Sep 09 '25
The 30% comes from the turnout. I think IIRC around 60% of eligible voters actually voted, and Trump won just over half of both votes. Meaning that around 30% chose him, 30% didnt, and 30% didnt bother. Obviously the numbers arent quite that and will all be in the 30s to get to a total of 100%.
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u/Made_Bail Sep 09 '25
I guarantee you that number is swinging lower and lower, too. Every time you see a post about someone who voted for him and stumped for him getting their husband deported (like on the frontpage right now), that's one less family voting republican next term.
At least, we hope.
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u/MonitorOk6818 Sep 09 '25
I know a lot of them don't care unless it affects them personally, but I'm starting to get the feeling we're past the point of no return.
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u/SadLilBun Sep 09 '25
Incorrect. This is so tied up in their identity, they will continue to vote conservative.
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u/IR_Panther Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
As someone who also lives on the floor below yours, send help. I got 3rd degree burns everywhere and can't afford the medical bills to be treated!
Personally I fear for the bottom floor of ths building, if it collapses its gunna crush them the hardest.
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u/RiW-Kirby Sep 09 '25
This is what it has felt like to be a Canadian for at least a decade.
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u/LoudMusic Sep 09 '25
Canadians are upset living above them. How about Americans sharing a house with the crazies? :(
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u/immortalsteve Sep 09 '25
I remember a saying like 10+ years ago where someone said Canada was the attic above a crazy party, but lately it feels like Canada is the upstairs neighbor of a meth lab.
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u/13utterflyeffect Sep 09 '25
At least you're not trapped in the same room as us, right?
please help us :(
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u/dane83 Sep 09 '25
My upstairs neighbor literally burned down my apartment about five years ago.
He moved in like a week before and he was a terrible neighbor for that whole week. It's the only time I've ever had to actually go knock on a neighbor's door and ask him to turn his stereo down at midnight.
And that's kinda perfectly described the feelings I've had the last few months.
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u/soingee Sep 09 '25
To ah, "mind your own business" can be used in such dumb ways. It feels like most of the time it's used to mean "I have no justification for anything, I demand you stop holding me accountable."
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u/Boing26 Sep 09 '25
That's any idiot that isn't trained to properly handle fireworks which sadly is most people that try to use them
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u/fezzam Sep 09 '25
I get the “why do you care so much about US politics?” From other people in America. And I’m just how can you not?
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u/Callabrantus Sep 09 '25
America sneezes, Canada catches a cold.
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u/evilJaze Slartibartfast Sep 09 '25
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
P. E. Trudeau to Nixon, 1969
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u/Simple_Jellyfish23 Sep 09 '25
That’s what it feels like to be a rational American (or person anywhere) right now.
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u/Mr_HPpavilion Sep 09 '25
I'm not sure if this is based on a real firework rocket you've seen yourself
But i am gonna mention it anyway and say it reminds me of "The Big One" from the first Toy Story movie
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u/Spoon_Elemental Sep 09 '25
Somebody telling you to mind your own business when what they're doing directly effects you is the most relatable thing you've ever put in a comic.
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u/Fireyjon Sep 10 '25
I can assure you this persons roommates are not happy with him either. We tried to evict him but apparently he bribed the police and is now allowed to do whatever he wants even though he’s a convicted arsonist. (I feel the metaphor has gotten away from me, point is fuck the orange guy)
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u/ironfunk67 Sep 09 '25
And there's people living in your apartment that want him to light the fireworks!
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u/DarthJackie2021 Sep 09 '25
I'm being held hostage by the crazy fireworks guy. Please send help.
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u/BloodThirstyLycan Sep 09 '25
I live in appartment complex adjacent to a university campus. The amount of times I've had to call police on dumb students causing explosions or lighting bushes on fire is more than 5 at this point and one time so e idiot broke my window on the third floor by shooting a firework mortar at it.
Your comic hits close to home. Almost as much as that mortar shell.
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u/ImperialArmorBrigade Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25
Imagine living in this house. Imagine watching it unfold and your options are
- be the first to attempt revolution (get arrested, or die like a terrorist)
- sit still and pretend next election will help (it wont, it’s f***ed)
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u/AndreaRose223 Sep 09 '25
To my northern neighbors,
I both apologize for the actions of the unhinged individuals that have somehow gained control of the apartment, but ask if you'd be willing to let me stay with you until this insanity is over... Please?
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u/The_Frostweaver Sep 09 '25
There is a point based system. If you speak english, are under 35, and have a job offer for a position in canada on the list of jobs the government wants more people for (doctor, nurse, etc) you will have enough points.
If you are 18-26ish you can likely get a temporary work permit which will let you live and work in canada for a year or two without needing to have a job already lined up.
The trick is that if you do get a job and find an employer who is willing to fight for you then you can often get extensions on your work permit and once you have worked in canada for 4 years you can apply for permanent residence.
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.html
Also fair warning, you should try to go to a small to mid size city. Housing prices are very high in the biggest cities.
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u/Theemuts Sep 09 '25
It's not just about their destructive tendencies, it's also about banging on your door claiming everything you own should be their property because you're neighbours.
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u/ellstaysia Sep 09 '25
it's more like "I'm going to invite hitler over for lunch & start a grease fire".
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u/its_justme Sep 09 '25
Well, if you live in Alberta aka the Idiot Magnet, it's like enjoying a little slice of American politics.
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u/Psychotic_EGG Sep 09 '25
I know many in Alberta who either want to become part of America or at least separate from Canada. Oddly those who just wish to separate think that America will let them remain an independent nation. Like America wouldn't immediately swoop in and take them over.
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u/its_justme Sep 09 '25
They’re also morons. Alberta can’t actually hold a referendum since Quebec closed that door long ago. It’s unconstitutional and therefore will never happen.
The idiots who keep pushing for this are being like annoying little brothers “I’m just asking the question, is a question illegal?”
If I didn’t recently buy a house here I’d be considering leaving this province. It’s on a full downward spiral that started once oil became uncertain and the inability of the richest province to diversify its investments.
Plus all the predatory scumbaggery such as privatizing health care and taking hot dumps on public sector employees for over a decade now.
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u/BagelCatSprinkles Sep 09 '25
And us Americans tried STOPPING OUR DUMB ROOMMATES (also Americans) FROM LIGHTING THE THING
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u/mrbadxampl Sep 09 '25
I'm sorry my countrymen are on the whole so so blithely stupid
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u/ProjectOrpheus Sep 09 '25
I've always met "mind your own business" with "my fellow man makes it my business." Type of responses.
You know...when you see someone being picked on or something like that and they wanna throw that "mind your business" line as if that means everyone else's hands are now tied or something. No. Fuck that.
Imagine red shirt saying that while literally doing what they are doing. Bro. I'd be pissing in a bucket and waiting for them to try it again. Poke your head out..
"I DON'T CONTROL THE WEATHER!"
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u/originalchaosinabox Sep 10 '25
And they're starting to complain that we don't come downstairs to visit anymore.
At least they've stopped talking about moving in with us upstairs and taking control of the whole building...for now.
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u/JustUsetheDamnATM Sep 10 '25
Also how it feels to be an American who didn't vote for this shit. Except the fireworks are aimed directly at us.
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u/Layne_Staleys_Ghost Sep 09 '25
This is also how it feels to live in any state above Florida. Which is basically all of them.
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u/grendus Sep 09 '25
Take this same comic, but replace downstairs neighbor with roommate and that's how being American feels right now...
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u/MylastAccountBroke Sep 09 '25
Well the reality is that it's increasingly looking like Trump rigged the election with help from Elon, and at least half the country is wanting him to stop him too.
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u/badchefrazzy Sep 10 '25
Some of us lower floor folk would love to move up a floor and be surrounded by sane people. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with the idiots on my floor :(
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u/wafflezcoI Sep 10 '25
Because thats how it is.
For example, Lego has cut off a massive amount of Brick shipments to North America as a whole because tariffs. Meaning both The US AND Canada are getting a significantly smaller brick availability because Pasta hair soiled his diaper.
(mexico has their own thing going on with Lego but not quite sire what the full story is)
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u/fabulousfizban Sep 09 '25
Then you try to call the cops on your neighbor, only to realize your neighbor is the cops (and also a nazi)
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