• lemonySplit@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    You guys as a nation have broken the World’s trust. You were in a privileged position of trust after WW2 that you will never return to, whether trump leaves office or not.

    The World’s boycott on the states doesn’t end with trump, he’s merely a symptom.

    I know nobody in my circle of knowing in Canada is EVER travelling to, or spending money in/on the states ever again.

    • III@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Yes and please.

      That position of privilege was something the US should have been removed from decades ago. It has nothing to do with the Trump. It has nothing to do with whether the US was responsible with the power they exert on the global landscape. No one country should be allowed or even try to lord over other countries.

      And if a long-standing boycott of the US is what it takes to humble them… do it. Keep doing it. It is better for those boycotting, it is better for the world and it is better for the US too.

    • daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Treating US as a single location is a bit naive even though I understand where you’re coming from. If we manage to get the orange pedo and other nazis out of fed, you can safely visit. Nothing wrong with continuing to punish the cunts who voted him in by not buying Kentucky whisky though.

      • hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        You DID get the orange pedo out. And then you voted him back in, knowing exactly who and what he was. The rest of us now have to assume that the US is never more than four years from absolute batshit malignancy.

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          6 hours ago

          They literally said what they were going to do. Project 2025 documents a plan to systematically take apart the apparatus of the federal government, and that’s exactly what they’re doing. Now, a lot of Americans are like shockedpikachu.jpg “I never saw this coming!”

          Like, power to those who were paying attention and tried to get the word out, but 77 million Americans voted for the Republicans, and another 90 million didn’t bother voting. 75 million who voted for Democrats represent only about 30% of Americans, so they’re in the small minority compared to Republican voters and everyone else who couldn’t give a shit about the Republican’s public plan to dismantle the country.

          And even of the 75 million who voted for Dems, what proportion recognized the existential nature of the election? I don’t know how to get numbers for that, but it clearly wasn’t high enough.

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            Project 2025 documents a plan to systematically take apart the apparatus of the federal government, and that’s exactly what they’re doing.

            But he said he didn’t know anything about that! Surely the guy who’s been famous for decades for lying all the time about everything wouldn’t lie about that, would he?

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        8 hours ago

        I’ve been all over the states, I’m not being naive at all; blue states are better than red, but still fucked compared to the rest of the world. Definitely not worth visiting and supporting with your dollary-doos cause red states get 36% (on avg) of their budget from federal tax money.

        There’s a million better places to travel to than the states folks.

        I swear to god if one more person says but muh grand canyon trip… its marketing folks. And there literally isnt enough drinking water (none outside the town) to support the residents let alone tourists. Visit Copper Canyon in Mexico instead and support their tourism industry. There’s even a train! El Chepe

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          6 hours ago

          I wouldn’t blame you either way, but I doubt you’d agree that judging Canada or even Calgary based in general on Alberta is fair.

          Geographically most of California is red as fuck.

          You can literally walk down the street in some cities and go between pockets filled with rainbow flags and maga hatred mixed with messages about how much god loves everyone.

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        8 hours ago

        The US is a single location. Americans vastly overstate the cultural differences among Americans.

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          6 hours ago

          As a trans woman who has tested my rights in state level courts, I couldn’t disagree more. The difference between the rights I have in my own state and the rights I have in many others are absolutely massive.

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          I honestly can’t think of any country about which this statement would be more wrong and I’ve lived in a bunch and been to a lot of them. But like I said in other comments, I don’t blame you for punishing US as a whole.