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I’m sure by now you all have seen our government’s ‘official response’ to your wildfires. I saw that, and as an American I am beyond appalled. Please know that the public statements made by our government do not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the American people.

When the US had wildfires, Canada sent us significant support including numerous firefighting aircraft, air crews, and support equipment. This was not a small token contribution, it made a real difference. It saved lives and property and forest. That is how neighbors and friends are supposed to help each other out, and we appreciated the hell out of it. It is not forgotten.

To hear that our ‘official response’ to your wildfires is to threaten… I have no words to describe the feeling. I am proud to be American, I love my country, but today I am ashamed. That these things are being said as representative of me and my countrymen… it is beyond shameful. We are supposed to be better than this. Better allies, better neighbors, better humans. I am ashamed and angry that my government is representing me and my fellow Americans in this manner.

I can only say that the majority of Americans do not feel this way. Forget the propaganda you see on the news (and it is mostly propaganda). The people of this country love our northern friends, we feel for you. We don’t want to annex Canada or punish you for a natural disaster or any of this crap. We want you all to be safe. We want to help.

THAT is who we are, even if we suck at electing politicians that represent that belief.

Stay safe. Be well. We love you.


Je passe ce texte par Google Traduction car mon français est médiocre…

De la part d’un Américain…

Je suis certain que vous avez tous vu, à présent, la « réponse officielle » de notre gouvernement face à vos incendies de forêt. En tant qu’Américain, j’en suis profondément indigné. Sachez que les déclarations publiques de notre gouvernement ne reflètent ni les pensées ni les convictions de la majorité du peuple américain.

Lorsque les États-Unis ont été touchés par des incendies, le Canada nous a apporté un soutien considérable, notamment en envoyant de nombreux avions de lutte contre les incendies, des équipages aériens et du matériel de soutien. Il ne s’agissait pas d’un simple geste symbolique ; cette aide a fait une réelle différence. Elle a permis de sauver des vies, des biens et des forêts. C’est ainsi que les voisins et les amis sont censés s’entraider, et nous avons énormément apprécié ce geste. Nous ne l’avons pas oublié.

Apprendre que la « réponse officielle » de notre pays face à vos incendies consiste à proférer des menaces… les mots me manquent pour décrire ce que je ressens. Je suis fier d’être Américain et j’aime mon pays, mais aujourd’hui, j’ai honte. Que de tels propos soient tenus en mon nom et en celui de mes compatriotes… c’est tout simplement honteux. Nous sommes censés valoir mieux que cela. Être de meilleurs alliés, de meilleurs voisins, de meilleurs êtres humains. J’éprouve de la honte et de la colère de voir mon gouvernement nous représenter, mes compatriotes et moi, de cette manière.

Je tiens à dire que la majorité des Américains ne partagent pas ce point de vue. Oubliez la propagande que vous voyez aux informations (car il s’agit bien, pour l’essentiel, de propagande). La population de ce pays aime ses amis du Nord ; nous sommes de tout cœur avec vous. Nous ne voulons ni annexer le Canada, ni vous punir pour une catastrophe naturelle, ni rien de tout ce non-sens. Nous voulons que vous soyez en sécurité. Nous voulons vous aider.

C’est cela, notre véritable nature, même si nous sommes incapables d’élire des responsables politiques qui incarnent ces valeurs.

Prenez soin de vous. Portez-vous bien. Nous vous aimons.

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      I assure you we are trying. Our election structure does not allow us to replace the executive government for another couple years. Congress, our legislative body, is the only ones that can forcibly remove a sitting President. Multiple decades of having Congressional elections ignored by voters attentions has left our Congress thoroughly dysfunctional.

      So that means short of some real smoking gun there is little option for rapid change.

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        nah, you’re enabling them. playing by the rules is enabling them. you’re trying to wait it out without taking action. you even admit it.

        things aren’t going to get better with the action currently being taken.

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          So what action are you suggesting? We do demonstrations and protests and letters and all that but Trump has made it very clear he does not give one single shit what other people think.

          We have a Congressional election coming up later this year and it is currently expected that those who oppose Trump will win significant numbers.

          Or are you suggesting forget about peaceful action within the bounds of the Constitution and go straight to armed rebellion?

          Personally I would rather have the country reject Trump in elections and walk away from this whole thing with a bad taste in its mouth that would make it harder for someone like him to gain power in the future, than to have some kind of violent illegal uprising that would only strengthen Trump’s supporters.

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    We know it’s not all of you (okay, maybe not the internet tough guys here, but Canadians IRL). Bonus points for adding a French version.

    I would say, consider if you should really love a country if it does bad things. The US isn’t Nazi Germany (yet?), but it’s not what it was in the 90’s, either. Professing your love of America is kind of mandatory civic piety in America, but, that’s actually a red flag itself.

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      I actually agree with this 100%. We are definitely somewhere between our peak in the '90s and a bad place. And I agree that mandatory civic piety is always a bad sign. It’s actually one of my biggest frustrations about USA currently, I feel like a lot of Americans babble about how much they love the country and love freedom but don’t actually take any real action to uphold the real ideals of freedom as our founders did.

      A lot of MAGA people and also evangelicals exemplify this. ‘I Love America and I love freedom! But if you don’t support my religion or prejudice against LGBT or my political goals then no freedom for you!’ They buy a bunch of guns and talk about how they are ready to defend freedom for all Americans, and then support political processes that strip freedoms from many Americans. I think it’s a mixture of ignorance and hypocrisy in various measures.

      One of the most frustrating things is ‘I love my country’ sounds exactly the same whether it comes from someone of principle or someone parroting a line. I can only speak for myself, but when I say I love what my country stands for I am talking about the ideals ensconced in our Constitution by our founders. The idea that we are not sheep, we are not peasants, we are each responsible for our own nation. Government of the people by the people for the people. Unfortunately a lot of our country has drifted away from those ideals in many ways.


      Also sort of a question, I know Canada is bilingual and there is some portion of the country that primarily or solely speaks French. Thus it seemed disrespectful and presumptive/arrogant to address the country speaking only in English. But I am curious what the proper etiquette is for such things. Do all Canadian websites have an English/French toggle button?

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        Any product or service intended to be sold nationally must be in English and French.

        So websites, commercial packaging, the phone tree for national agencies, etc all have French.

        Once you get to the prairies and west, random people don’t speak French much, and nearly all local stores have signs and menus in English only.

        It’s a pain 'cause if you’re a shame kinkster and you party in more than one province, you need to make sure people write “whore/putain” on you with equally sized letters, they DO check at airports and train stations. /S

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    What the fuck even is the point of this post? We don’t care that you’re sorry.

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        How is this a good apology, though?

        “Oh I’m not like them!” Is all I’m hearing. I’m sure OP is a great individual, but… So what?

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          Your opinion of me is quite irrelevant.

          The only thing I want people to take away from this whole thread is that there are a lot of Americans who strongly oppose Trump, who love and support Canada, and who find the current messages coming out of Washington abhorrent. It certainly doesn’t make anything better. My only hope is when you watch the news and you see the crap coming out of Washington, you keep in mind that crap is coming out of Washington and not most of the rest of the country. You have friends here.
          I realize that means scant little when your country is on fire and your neighbor’s government is telling you to fuck off and threatening to tax or conquer you.

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            Fellow American here. Do you strongly dislike Trump enough to stop funding his funders?

            It’s a good sign you’re on the fediverse. But where are you shopping? Walmart? Amazon?

            Unfortunately, it is nearly unavoidable to boycott Trump’s funders entirely. But there alsovneeds to be a level of accountability for how we got here.

            We got here because we continued to support companies that dismantled our Democracy (Citizen’s United). Those companies got the power because we chased the shiny things. We went for the lower price, ignoring the local businesses that charged a bit more but supported the local economy.

            We sat back while Democrats earned a reputation of not standing for anyone or anything (except Israel). Maybe we voted for the lesser of 2 evils, but we never demanded better.

            We’re here, in our 2nd Trump presidency, with maybe the start of an answer in the DSA. But let’s be real, civilized countries consider DSA policies as centrist. The DSA is our far left with any power, and it has shockingly little power considering how bad our politicians have been for years. I’m glad that Bernie ran in 2016, I’m glad that the movement built, and I’m glad that now we’re finally starting to see DSAs make a name for themselves and get elected into real positions, but let’s be real: if we were fucking sorry about Trump then the DSA would have had the power it currently has in 2018.

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            Maybe we’re just coming from two very different assumptions. You’re assuming there might be Canadians dumb enough to think all Americans are MAGA, and I’m thinking there’s no way any of us are that dumb. I’m probably being too optimistic though, so thanks for the reminder.

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              I think there’s a difference between logically knowing that some undefined but non zero number of Americans oppose MAGA, and actually seeing one of them stand up publicly against what the government is saying.

              If anything I wish more people would do what I am doing. I would love if every time Trump says one of these bullshit things there was a loud outcry online of Americans disavowing his awful international relations.

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                I’ll have to agree to disagree with you there because as a Canadian who is aware that you can’t just assume everyone from a certain country can be lumped up as a whole, it comes off as annoying. But from now on, I’ll keep such opinions to myself because I now see what you’re trying to accomplish.

                Good luck out there, friend.

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    Go fuck yourself. You’re not “one of the good ones,” you’re a fascist enabling coward more interested in virtue signaling than going on the offense against Nazis. You’re a pants-pissing, craven (probably white) milquetoast liberal who cares more about their own relative comfort than about democracy.

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      My comfort is irrelevant. I’m just another idiot on the internet.

      But genuine question, you say I am a fascist enabling coward who cares little about democracy.

      So what would you have me do? Like, you have a single American who has never voted for or supported Trump, for such a person what does ‘caring about democracy’ look like? What might that single American say or do that would make you say ‘that person right there is no coward, that is a stand-up human being who values democracy’?

      I’m asking because you say I do it wrong, I am curious what doing it right looks like?

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        Just fucking go take a nap, dude.

        You’re not asking what to do. You’re asking what you can do that will make other people think you’re a good guy but that doesn’t require any risk or sacrifice on your part. Then I can A) spoonfeed you an answer so you can duck responsibility by way of the “fedposting!” or “keyboard warrior” thought-stopping cliches, or I can B) be as dismissive as you deserve and listen to you get shitty and defensive. This game is so tired, kids.

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    “I’ve shaken the hands of American firefighters in northern Manitoba who are helping us out,” said Premier Wab Kinew, whose province has endured a deadly and devastating wildfire season in which thousands of people have been forced to evacuate from their homes.

    “I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S. Congress to go and do the same, and to hear how much the American firefighting heroes who are here — how much they love our province.”

    “This is what turns people off politics,” added Kinew. “When you’ve got a group of congresspeople trying to trivialize and make hay out of a wildfire season where we’ve lost lives in our province.” 2025, CBC

    The O&G politicians did this finger-pointing war-drum-banging media blitz last year too. Remember?

    People were sharing info about nurdles, orphan wells, lobbying etc, and we’re all trying to organize responses to help the people and places that need it. And suddenly… there were all the “ambulance chasers” and culture warriors north and south of all our shared borders, ready to make the most of our collective tragedy while draining energy and empathy from our collective FEEDS. United Statesian Cons said “your smoke is touching my border” and Canadian Cons were like “no but we’re friieends and WE helped you out” [important to note that not a single one of these windbags has ever done anything to fight any of the fires currently burning].

    And here they are doing it again.

    idgaf what King Trumptrumptrumpingofftowar has to say about anything. And I hate Captain Canada DoFo for amplifying that shit, posing for PR while Ontario burns (in part because of his anti-environment aggressively interventionist Lord-Of-The-Manor governance).

    [edit bc unasked for advice]

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    No sympathy, please. Our elected government, voted in for a second term by Americans too God damn dumb to realize they were getting conned, erased 100 years of progress in six months. All through propaganda aimed at REAL America. Middle States, southern states, predominately white states, where more Americans live maleducated lives in poverty, working as manual labor in yesterdays industries because they weren’t afforded the luxuries of other states. The imbalance of power is wilder than I’ve ever experienced. Someone said “send help.” While some of you scoffed at this plea, or just shit all over it, I can feel the desperation. I’m about as far left as I can get without removing walls of logic. We literally have concentration camps. An SS of fuckers too scared to join the military and too fucking dumb to be cops abducting folks, while onlookers are fired upon so these fucks can protect their identities (black and latinx Americans working for ICE can suck a .22, anything white that moves in groups of 4 or more males, shoot on sight).

    Uneducated Americans with generational hatred toward anything different than themselves. Their pappy’s pappy hated everything other than white straight people, and that shit gets handed down like a fucking family heirloom. I know. I had to break those chains in my family. Parents have died, other family members, formwr close friends, and I refuse to shed a tear for any of them. The first time they voted him in, I told these people I would never speak to them again. Now my friend and family circle is just me, wife, and cat, but I can also sleep well at night knowing I wasn’t a hypocrite or bending in my beliefs.

    Which brings me to action. I believe I am doing as much as I can in the interest of my safety, the safety of my wife and cat, and the safety of other Americans (and nonamericans) regardless of political alignment. I struggle with self control in volatile situations. Regardless of strategy, andvance knowledge, scenario, my brain abandons logic and goes on the offensive. No flight, only fight. Never unjustly, in my opinion, at least if you consider yourself antifascist and subscribe to those beliefs.

    I’ve also been to prison. I didn’t enjoy it, and although nothing bad happened to me aside from a week-long migraine, I’ll never place myself in a position where I could find myself coming out the other end locked-uo because I was fighting for my rights. Not sure what jails/prisons other Americans been in, but no bueno. Shout out to Catshit, MParker, and Texas.

    So action… I want to burn it all down. I fantasize about it (and more!). The thought of certain inevitable deaths fill me with enthusiasm, fire. I don’t want to be passionate about any of this, but I am because other people living in America are losing their rights to fucking exist. Meanwhile, shitheads like me want nothing more than to avenge these nameless, faceless fellow Americans and immigrants. I probably don’t like these people (i like few), but they have rights, and therefore worth fighting for. I would love for all of us to collectively go John Wick on the likes of the far right, but unlike those MAGAts, some of us are just too wise to do anything that could fail so miserably. I’d love to go strength in numbers with all of you fellow people wanting to fight back, but where the fuck is everyone? I’m in a RED AF state. My local antifa is us. Assuming the cat isn’t a fascist piece of shit. What can I do beyond the writing, blogging, calling (might as well punch yourself in the balls twice instead), showing up? When I travel, so do my stickers, masks, and my get fucked bag. I’m unapologetically antifascist. I also hate all other Americans, including those of us too pussy or too fucking locked down in middle class purgatory with a career in a dead state, a cross species family settled into a nice single family home, just enough money to be able to afford the hottest new game eight months after it’s release on deep discount used through GameFly and still be able to eat in. Sounds like heaven, and compared to the atrocities happening around the world, I can’t complain. I also can’t march up to the granite stairs armed to the teeth like the Jan 6 fuckers. Precedent suggests I’d be DOA. We need a militia, or at least thirty middle-aged fucks like myself willing to live out our fever dreams in the name of saving democracy. I have no friends. For fucks sake, I spend time lurking here. Who you think I am?

    This is unprecedented. We’re not taught shit about fascism in school. I learned on my own in college after reading books suggested by likeminded people. We don’t know what to do. Voting has been our weapon, by design by our forefathers (whom were also likely scumbag pedophiles), and now that it has been proven ineffective, we’re kinda at a loss. So we protest, peacefully until some homophobe gets butt hurt over rainbows or someshit. Then we’re persecuted, arrested, lives and careers wrecked. Unless you die a folk hero, you’re just another cow on the tracks. We have concentration camps. An SS abducting people REGARDLESS of citizenship status. Mass survelence. Unprecedented. Meanwhile, when we’re not protesting, we’re doing arts and crafts for protesting, or being wage slaves making just enough money to afford food and water. If you have a pet or, God forbid, a family, and you’re not making $120,000 on a cushy part-time schedule, where’s the fucking time, money, and energy necessary to organize and fight? We’re boned. The only way I truly see this ending is in another civil war. With all of us so integrated, it will literally be next door neighbor vs next door neighbor. We could use an intervention from abroad, but we don’t deserve one. Or at least HALF of Americans don’t deserve one. Some of us still trying to fight the good fight against literal evil, equipped with nothing but our wits. Voting has become sooo convoluted, the average American is probably reluctant to even participate. You should see the ballots. I’m currently working on my PhD in my late 40s, and I have to read, reread, and reread again some of the shit on these ballots. No fucking way Earl from the Creek gonna know half the words on that sumbish, let alone hit an option correctly with that pencil eraser and those meth shakes.

    It’s bad. Most all of us are fucking assholes. I hate people who look like me, because people who look like me are the villains. Not defending OP per se, but maybe this was their way of expressing discontent with America as an American. I hate the post too, don’t get me wrong, but some of us are struggling with the absolute absurdity of all this, want it to end immediately, are willing to help, but haven’t a clue how aside from using the tools we were given. They could give a fuck about my 2nd ammendement rights if I roll up armed to the teeth wanting to “talk.”

    Don’t give us a break, but don’t assume we’re all behind this shitshow. This can happen anywhere, and it happens fast. No political party is any better than the other, because they’re all politicians. But even the less evil side can’t get their shit together enough to combat this.

    This is long. Sorry.

    • Just another American
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    I can only say that the majority of Americans do not feel this way. Forget the propaganda you see on the news (and it is mostly propaganda). The people of this country love our northern friends, we feel for you. We don’t want to annex Canada or punish you for a natural disaster or any of this crap. We want you all to be safe. We want to help.

    Most Americans may not want to annex Canada if you put that to a poll, but they voted for someone who would, with their eyes wide open. Or willingly stayed in an information bubble that allowed them to do so.

    …I’m sorry, but the first assertion is just not true. Most of us Americans DID this, and we are going to keep doing it. This is who we are now.

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    “the public statements made by our government do not reflect the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the American people.”.

    brother please…

    we don’t blame just the one guy that got elected. the problem is the USA people who’ve been wanting Donald Trump as their leader for like the last 10 years…

    They’ll do it again…

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    Your prez is going to tax you because he promotes global warming and the winds blow. The rest of the world knows this is ridiculous. This actually has nothing to do with Canadians, so your time is best spent writing letters to djt instead.

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      From what I have seen of Trump, it is pretty clear he does not care what anyone else thinks and his vindictive as hell. So rather than writing him I think I could use my time more productively by repeatedly slamming my face in the refrigerator door. At least that way I’m less likely to end up on some sort of list.

      What I do instead is vote for candidates in Congress that oppose Trump and his ideology. And spend time in online discussions like this one making it clear the American people are not in lockstep behind him.

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        Vote the right way and I’ll put the US on my radar again. Until then, there’s a restraining order in force.

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    This post is just like when all the Americans were apologizing for threatening to invade Greenland.

    Your apologies aren’t worth shit. Go call your representatives. Go protest. Go organize. Go phone bank for better representatives. Do anything but whine to foreigners online.

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        Lol…here’s the thing…“Promise?” You do realize the one thing most of the rest of the world has learned from this situation? Promises from an American are basically useless. Promise whatever you want. Stop with the “I’m sowwwy! Please tell me I’m a good boy and absolve me” crap. If the responses to your apology here tell you anything it’s that we are fed up with America’s and frankly your crap. You claim to be good people? Fine, show us. Don’t talk about it. Show us.

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          My dude, how do you know OP isn’t doing anything? I mean odds are they aren’t but neither you nor I know that. You’re right, a few nice words doesn’t absolve an American from anything. The only thing that will is cutting MAGA from their government like a tumor but we shouldn’t be punishing people who are claiming to help. I get the desire to unload all the frustration we feel from America on an American but it doesn’t help.

          I’ll leave you with this, why hurt someone who is trying to be an ally? What does that accomplish? Critisizing an ally is okay and good. What does striking an ally do other than drive them away?

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            It doesn’t matter if Russians are posting online about how they are good Russians that don’t support Putin. The world doesn’t watch drones attack St Petersburg in Russia and ask how many critics of Putin were hurt vs supporters. The west largely simply supports Ukraine.

            The same rules apply to Americans. It’s great that there are critics of Trump in the US. Apologies are not necessary nor welcome by Americans. Americans must focus on fixing their own community if they want to offer a genuine apology to the rest of the world. It’s not to drive them away, it’s to turn them back inward instead of them focusing outward.

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            “What does striking an ally do…blah, blah blah” Excuse me but the way they have treated Canadians lately are you F’n serious? That reply is seriously tone deaf. BTW judging by the new 50% tariffs OrangeFuhrer just hit Canada with if they are doing anything it’s not very effective, lol.

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      When other people speak on my behalf, I can clarify that I am not part of that, speaking on behalf of the great many people who don’t want to be part of that.

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    You should be finding ways to bring your nation back from the brink, not typing sympathetic words to foreigners.

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    Hey friend,

    I’m glad you condemn the position of the US government on this matter. As for the “from the American” part, I would be a little… careful.

    Sadly (as much as I wish you were), you are not really representative of the American public. Over half of the public voted for the current administration. Even with the midterms coming, almost half is still going to keep on voting for the current administration. The hostile position of the American government does not belong to a small crazy minority.

    I love you back, friend. I’m sorry you have to live through this government. I’m sure that we share the same core values. I’m sure we share the same desire for freedom, love and happiness for ourselves and others. I love you a lot for that.

    But again. You are NOT America. The United states has shown irreconcilable hostility to us recently. We cannot base the sovereignty and well being of our country based on the internal political whims of another. Going forward, we have to prepare for the worst. We cannot rely on the US as our “old, trusted ally”. Rather, we have to view the US as a neighbor with expansionist ambitions, from whom we have received threats of annexation multiple times.

    Thus, in the tier of foreign relationships, we have to put the US in the same tier as Russia, China and India. Except, the US becomes much bigger of a threat due to our economic interdependence and our large border.

    Sadly, this position of Canada (the government and most of the public) will not change till the US can demonstrate decades long stability in terms of a foreign policy that considers Canada an ally.

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      The US is a far bigger threat than all those other countries simply because their governing party is full of insane and senile people.

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    I am proud to be American, I love my country, but today I am ashamed.

    Can almost hear that stupid redneck song being sung in that inbred southern drawl.

    You’re either proud of your country or ashamed, not both. Pick one.

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      Haha I didn’t even realize that what I wrote fit that song…

      I am proud to be an American. I am not proud of my country’s current actions. As a nation, we are far from perfect. We’ve done a lot of stupid shit and continue to do even more stupid shit. Doesn’t mean I don’t love my country.

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          18 hours ago

          I’m proud of my country’s history and what those who founded it stood for- freedom, independence, liberty, and self determination both as an individual and as a society. I’m proud of what those who followed accomplished- civil rights, technology, the Internet, art, music, science, and of course aviation.

          We are not perfect. From the day Columbus set foot on the continent and killed natives, we have had a checkered history. Slavery, racism, sexism, interventionist wars in other countries, the internment of Japanese citizens during WWII, imperialism in the 1900s, the ‘global war on terror’ in the 2000s, and the majority of how the USA has conducted itself on the world stage over the Trump years, especially how we have treated our allies and friends.

          I guess the analogy I would make is think of your child, even if they are badly behaved you still love them and are glad to be their parent. And even if they sneak out and smoke weed you’re still the proudest person in the room when they win the science fair.

          Make sense?

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            18 hours ago

            Sounds like you love what your country was supposed to be, not what it is. You love a marketing slogan that was never truly actualised

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              No country is just one thing. I love the good parts of what my country is and I will work to fix the bad parts. Are you saying I should reject my entire country because some of it is bad?

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                17 hours ago

                No. Im asking what are the active good parts happening right now that you’re proud of .

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                  Great question.

                  One of the biggest things I am proud of is how many people stand up against MAGA and continue to even come out in protests such as the no kings rally. It makes me happy that people are still willing to stand up and be counted for what they believe in.
                  More broadly, anytime I see someone fighting to make the country a better place it warms my heart. And there is a lot of that, even if it isn’t obvious from the outside.

                  I am proud of what we have accomplished, and continue to accomplish, in the area of civil rights and personal liberties. That is not a completely solved problem, but Americans stand up everyday to fight for it and I am proud of that.

                  I am proud of space related activity in the US. We have multiple private companies actively launching things on a regular basis, One of which has the largest satellite constellation in the world by far providing internet and cell phone service anywhere on the globe.
                  And on the government side, I am proud of our participation in ISS, in our missions to bring humans back to the Moon, and to build newer space stations.

                  I am proud of our work with electric vehicles and electric transportation. I wish we were doing more, wish we were doing it faster, but we are still doing it.

                  I am proud of the vibrant aviation world that is present in the US, more so than almost any other country. I’m not just talking about airliners, I am talking about small planes, and our pilot culture here. It’s easier to become a pilot in the US than most other countries and we have many more small private aircraft to fly. Or build yourself.