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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
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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.
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.
"Surely the leopards won't eat my face!"
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").
Wait, I voted for Harris, but I chose this?
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.
I understand. There's definitely a lot of frustration.
It never ceases to disappoint me that people could look at Boris fucken Johnson or Donald duck and think "yup, that's da fella I want to lead us".
You may not have chose this but too many around you did. I believe if you’re not okay with what’s happening you have a responsibility to make noise and tell those around you that nonsense like this has to stop.
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?
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
Why would you still consume US media? It's a US made product?
sure - there’s plenty of US-made things i enjoy… americans are some creative people. i’m not going to stop enjoying them as long as it doesn’t contribute to their economy
So we're pretty much all the same now, even if we are extremely opposed to Trump. That means everyone that has a piece of shit leader or government is responsible for it if they are a citizen of the country. I totally understand why everyone shits on the USA and their citizens, but it's pretty disheartening when you try to oppose the bullshit, but still get lumped in with everyone else.