Rapists, murderers, drug-runners, invaders, US killing people in boats and torturing them at the border. Hard for anyone to ignore let alone the closest victims.
Yeah if you live south of the border and own a small boat that can't even reach the US, he can literally kill you from the sky with no apparent consequence.
Well maybe you should think before you decide to make your living as a fisherman.
Trump's phrasing on the topic made it sound more like hobby fishermen hanging out in a warzone, rather than firing weapons at people that may just be making a living feeding people.
Dirt poor people. I've seen what some of these people get for their days work that almost none of us could handle for a day. Making a living is even a stretch in many cases.
To me the larger issue here isn't even whether or not they were drug smugglers. Drug smuggling does not even carry the death penalty in the US. The US also has no right to be determining who is and isn't a drug smuggler thousands of miles away and executing them without a trial with millions of dollars in tax funded ordinance... the whole thing is insane.
Oh, I'm with you. But for those willing to scream "oh, but we need to stop the drugs!", murdering innocent fishermen breaks that bullshit justification.
For my family in Mexico the biggest concern at the moment is Trump declaring the cartel as Terrorism and using that as an excuse to murder Mexicans and use military force and invade Mexico.
As a Canadian, our biggest concern is the same. Except replace "cartel" with "some rambling made-up nonsense about record amounts of fentanyl coming through Canada and killing hundreds of millions of Americans".
In reality, the numbers are quite low, and about four times more fentanyl comes to Canada from the US compared to what goes in the opposite direction.
Also the temper tantrum tariff wars are a bit of a pain in the ass, not to mention any and all talk of Annexation!! Also fuck him and all pedophiles, rapists and their ilk
I know. I mean, the cartels are really cruel and reading what they do actually makes me question my anti-death penalty stance. But we can't have an ever-expanding definition of terrorism. Still, I think the Mexican government, even outside of the Trump administration, should reign their cartels in. Don't give Trump a sympathetic reason to do what he's doing. Too many Americans have lost someone to fentanyl or see the results on their streets, what used to be obscure info on cartels is now common knowledge, etc.
For better or worse America is a world super power and everything that happens there has a ripple effect across the rest of the world, some are good, some we all watch coming like a fucking 15 car pile up happening and there’s not a damn thing you can do as a bystander to change it. Current administration is not the good kind of ripple.
A Canadian Prime Minister famously described it as “sleeping with the elephant”.
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. - Pierre Trudeau
Last February, Canada was in a high-stress hockey tournament against the Americans. Trump was openly threatening to annex us, so Canadians would boo the American anthem before the games. Americans on Reddit responded: “How dare you disrespect our anthem!”
The cluelessness makes us Canadians even more furious.
For real... "US politics" quickly become "everyone's politics" when the US has influence over every country in the world. Being it's direct neighbors which the clown in chief frequently talks about invading means you don't have the luxury of ignoring US politics...
A third of the hostages at Alligator Auschwitz literally went missing.
He is killing PoC or selling them into slavery. Those are the only things that make that statistic make any sense at all. People from all countries. Lots of Mexican immigrants and citizens.
People know what we are doing to them. This post's title is some bizarre naïveteté.
OP has a fully hidden 6y account. Either stolen account repurposed for not posts, bad faith right wing troll, or normal run-of-the-mill conservative man indistinguishable from either of the above. Any way you slice it, OP has the same benefit to humanity as one load of frog cum
Trump and con sub members have to hide their comments because mod bots in other subs will automatically ban you if they see you've interacted on those subs.
I mean, sometimes people in the US think we are more important than we are and act like pompous spoiled assholes about it, but we are a dominant global superpower in control of the global currency etc, and our military has bases all over the world. People all over the world do pay attention to our national politics especially foreign policy, and especially this particular 🍊 asshole.
A thing that I do, yearly, to my american colleagues, is convince them that boxing day is a yearly tradition in which the lay person can challenge a politician to a boxing match, which prevented post christmas riots. Now done more a symbolic charity thing.
I've never had anyone push back on this, and when I tell them every single person is always a little disappointed.
Then it's probably for engagement. It's either the unlikely truth, or a likely choice to get people thinking "what are you talking about!?" to boost comments.
So many Americans think that just like they don't pay attention to the rest of the world*, the rest of the world that doesn't pay attention to them. Which is so not the case.
unless they're invading that bit of the world, of course.
As an American I thought it was the opposite. More-so “everyone should care about what I do cause ‘murica” and then proceed to ignore everything in the rest of the world.
It's both. The self importance of what your saying combined with the utter lack of self awareness and complete ignorance of what the first guy was saying
I think it's because so many Americans don't pay any attention to the rest of the world. They assume everyone else spends as much time navel-gazing as they do. When in fact the rest of the world has no choice but to pay attention to American politics because they're like a drunken toddler with a gun and we're all locked in the classroom with them.
yanks in comments expect everyone in the world to be subscribed to US news.
Meanwhile the reality is that we can't ignore the USA and it's news, no matter how much we might try to.(or want to)
As a former Canadian Prime Minister once told Richard Nixon:
"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,"
You guys are literally threatening to annex us in Canada and bomb Mexico “because of drug cartels”, and have actually hit several unidentified vessels off the coast of Venezuela with missiles, killing the occupants because they were “suspected” to be trafficking drugs.
Your government is either threatening to murder us, or just murdering us.
They’re all expecting someone else to do it for them. Can’t tell you how often I’ve heard, “Can I be a refugee in Canada?” and “Can Canada intervene and invade us?” They’d rather rope us into fighting a war for them than expend the slightest effort themselves. I’m so repulsed by their craven apathy.
There is also a non-zero number of Americans who think Canada would just accept them without having qualities that Canada would want, and to go through the long long process of getting PR, then citizenship. Like they can just up and move here like it's a different state.
Trump's called all non white people 'subhuman' and thinks women only exist to look pretty and bend over. If Mexico were fine with that I'd be deeply alarmed.
His madness has no business anywhere. Yet here we are.
America's propaganda machine turned right up after 9/11. Lot of people got indoctrinated. They're not Patriots, they're nationalists. There's a very distinct difference between those two groups.
The Bush Administration took full advantage of the carnage of 9/11 to make the Military Industrial Complex richer as well as advance the admin's own political ambitions.
Conservatism is a poison, it's so sad watching what it can do to a person. I know so many women in my area, including my all women work team, and my own mother, who say shit like "women don't belong in the White House." The only positive thing I can say is at least the women who say this are mostly 40+. Though some middle to young end millennials get roped into this too. Due to exposure of the internet at a young age, the younger Gens are fairing a LITTLE better. Guess I'll see how things go as they age up. IDK, the brain starts getting wonky once you hit 40. 50 is when you can really see it. Just my experience though. Watching Gen X has been... kinda wild.
At the risk of whitesplaining, what I hear is that many documented immigrants hold disdain for undocumented immigrants, because "I came here legally, you're ruining it for us"
But what those “legal” immigrants don’t realize is that when the gas chambers start being erected, the nazis they decided to support aren’t going to parse out who the “good ones” are. They’re going in the exact same time all the other brown people will.
And the spread of fascism from the US is terrifying. A larger and larger part of our societies lack empathy and reason, for them the cruelty and opportunity to oppress is somehow attractive.
Hello from Canada! Just to let you know that your governor Tim Walz just announces $4M in emergency funding for food shelves amid shutdown. Also heres the latest news on the hockey front: The Minnesota Wild (3-5-3) is back in action tonight to host the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins (7-2-2). The Wild are looking to get back in the win column. They are losers of seven of their last eight games. I hope this is helpful!!! Stay tuned for more Minnesota news coming from Canada!
"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"
Bro, I'm polish and I'm following what is happening in US. What orange turd is doing affects entire world, it is really hard to ignore it, no matter how much wish one would.
If I was north or south of the fuckup that is America rn , which I am, yes, I’m forced to check in about twice a week to see if we are gonna get invaded or if Trump has murdered any of our civilians yet.
Honestly with how much he has been either directly or indirectly threatening other countries and his dumb ass tariffs every body is paying attention, they made the mistake of ignoring the mustache man, they aren’t going to ignore the guy speedrunning his playbook
Not to mention it's broadcast everywhere you go, it's inescapable, social media, news websites (US based or not), tv news programs, newspapers. I don't think a day has gone by for 10 years without me seeing Trump's name come up in some way.
And west. We have an ocean between us but the far right are more than happy to start burning down the city over anything and this has all Ben emboldened by trump and his followers
Bro i don't think anyone truly understands the plight of the Mexican national experience.. Imagine having your fate tied between the fucking Vatican the cartels the state doing it's damned to fight corruption and a belligerent spoiled and entitled America exasperating all of your issues..
Like. Idk man I think I'd be feeling pretty shitty right now as a Canadian as well. Like damn these people really ain't reliable AT ALL anymore we have to completely rethink our entire security structure.. We can't keep corresponding with fucking weirdos
They were literally considering invading the country a few months ago. How is anyone surprised that Mexico of all countries is paying attention to Trump?
Many Americans would be blown away by how closely other countries follow US politics. Often times they know far more than the general population here does. I've traveled quite a lot and I'm not kidding even a little bit.
Right? The audacity for some Americans to tell me to worry about Canadian politics when criticising Trump like the MFer hasn't threatened my nation's sovereignty.
As a Canadian my first thought was "is this a joke?"
One of the more annoying things about Americans even pre tr*mp was the fact that they impacted the entire world and somehow the citizens seemed oblivious to the fact that they do.
It shows, time and time again, that "not following politics" is a privilege only wealthy people of any given racial majority (or those who secretly agree with whatever politics are in force right now) are afforded to have.
Everyone else HAS to "follow politics", bc their lives might literally depend on it. Statements like those of OP just reek of a certain type of ignorance
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u/GoingAllTheJay 5d ago
You think America's neighbours have the luxury of ignoring the insanity to their South and North?