• rose56@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Bravo to Carney saying no and to Canada standing on their feet! I stand with Canada, Elbows up!

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      So like as an American, cool. Also as an American, and I’m sure I speak for most of us, we didn’t give a crap. Like as much as you think we care, it’s like 100th of that in reality.

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        2 days ago

        Also as an American, and I’m sure I speak for most of us

        The hell you do. A lot of Americans don’t like this. We’re shitting on our closest allies while trying to suck off North Korea.

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        as an American, and I’m sure I speak for most of us, we didn’t give a crap

        I get it. False consensus aside, it’s a trope that Americans don’t much care about things outside their borders. Many Americans never cross a border, and for many people if it doesn’t affect them directly then it’s just noise in a busy day.

        But with such long unguarded borders, minimal manufacturing, insufficient resources and a surplus of cash crops, it needs friends who will deal squarely with it and help secure those borders.

        And when the oil and electricity run short, I hope America is cool paying “market prices” if we’re no longer best-buds.