The Canadian government has insisted that information on domestic goods is readily available to all trading partners, even including nations that recently elected a felony-convicted game show host to be their head of state. Instead, the United States has decided to employ a rarely-chosen trade tactic that international economists refer to as the “fuck around and find out” model.

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        Naah. It’s just the less nuanced version of the blanket false accusations suck statement that I’ve already made several times now.

        I didn’t vote for him. Therefore, not ALL Americans chose this.

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      Those who voted certainly did. Those who chose to not vote did also. I don’t live in America but it was incredibly obvious this was coming. America chose to be represented by by this guy who said quite clearly what he was going to do.

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        And everything that’s happened so far was clearly spelled out in the project 2025 document. But people don’t read and now they’re all Pikachu face surprised.

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        His owner/donor fElon said as much, too. That we are going to suffer, but it will be worth it (to billionaires, I’m sure, not to the peasants he thinks need to “live within their means”).

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          I’m talking about America as a country, not you as an individual. I understand your frustration - I went through Brexit as someone who voted to remain and very definitely didn’t vote for a government that chose Boris Johnson as a leader.

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          Apparently we all did. Outside of individually storming the white house and getting shot in the process, turns out all of us might as well have been sitting on our thumbs. I mean really,how exactly were we supposed to counter some of the absolute dumbest people on the planet that might as well have marked a ballot with a crayon?

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            americans, as a whole group, did choose this… you specifically might not have and i applaud you for that decision

            however the country that you live in DID choose this, and it wasn’t even like he lost the popular vote this time

            americans chose this

            and everyone globally has to live with it

            and everyone globally will choose how to insulate ourselves from it - once is a joke; twice means it’s really what your country as a whole chooses with eyes wide open. this wasn’t a fluke: this is america

            and then, i guess we will see what happens, but im going to be cheering on the australian government every time they pull away from the US from now on. i’m going to be cancelling US subscriptions and buying non-US product alternatives. i’m going to be pirating all US media

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        You mean all the bots and edgelord kids telling everyone not to vote against trump, and instead vote third party? Or did you mean all the bots and edgelord kids that shouted at everyone to stay home in protest?

        Because if it wasn’t either of these two- I saw a lot of people urging others to vote for Harris. Otherwise known as the one person that had a chance to defeat trump. All while warning them of what would happen if they didn’t.

        And if I recall correctly- those warnings looked a lot like what’s happening right fucking now.

        MANY of us didn’t choose this. So don’t blame all of America for this shit. Be precise- blame the asshole single-issue dipshits that protested their way into a trump victory…There’s all still around-

        Go on… Be my guest.

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        Less than half in fact. Surprisingly, more than a third of our voting body didn’t vote. And that’s how he won.

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          One third of Americans (non voters) were happy to watch whilst another third (MAGAts) attempts to murder the other third everyone.

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            Well, that’s only counting the voting collective of Americans. Not the entire population. Sadly, there are a lot of people not of voting age or ineligible to vote that are counted.

            Point remains though.

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      Those who didn’t vote don’t matters. I don’t know why we’re supposed to acknowledge their existence in these discussions. In every way that actually matters, Americans chose this.

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        Soooo…. all of Germany chose Hitler? Of course they didn’t.

        I’m an American. I did not chose trump. Let’s stop with the blanket statements.

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          The statement “Americans chose this” does not mean or imply that all Americans chose this but congrats on being trivially right in a pedantic and irrelevant way. Most voters chose this, and that is the only thing that matters .

          I’m an American. I did not chose trump. Let’s stop with the blanket statements.

          Yeah I’ll definitely keep your delicate feelings at the forefront of my mind as your leaders madness starts destroying my country next week.

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            Right. And you be sure to keep blaming those that voted for the one person that had the chance to stop him while you’re at it because that’ll sure help a lot towards my keeping your delicate feelings in mind while he’s destroying your country next week.

            I tried to stop this shit. I did the right thing. Don’t bring this shit to my doorstep.

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              With reading comprehension that poor no wonder Trump is loved there. No one’s blaming you.