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So what they're saying is that Canada can win this fight if they've got good aim and a minimal arsenal of tools at their disposal. Got it.
Also, God is on their side!
Also, we're declaring ourselves the loser bad guys of the story
The rest of the world: yeah we already knew that, though.
I just don't understand the part where we're somehow being "unfair" to the US.
During Trump's first term, Trudeau had to remind him that Canada has the deficit in trading with the US. This is probably retribution for embarrassing him. I wish I was kidding
I think it's more an attempt to replace income tax since it acts like a sales tax like they've been drooling to do for years but now they don't have to say the word tax
People should just start referring to Tariffs as "import taxes" (which exactly what Tariffs are) , as in " Trump raise the import taxes on Canadian goods".
Then just let people reach the natural conclusion from the pain on their wallets.
It's a strongarm tactic to negotiate something else they want or they're trying to spoil u.s.-Canadian relations.
Our president is a baby. Everything is unfair. Diapers? Unfair. Hurricanes? Unfair.
Also, remind me Jack, whose side was God on in that fight? Because if I remember correctly it might have not been Goliath's...
Canada:
USA: How dare you. Trade war it is
Goliath also ate children.
perfect analogy for the american government.
Also I heard him call me a slur on Xbox live
Short answer - No
Long answer - Nnnnnnnnoooooooooooo
The long answer is wrong. They read the parts that suit their agenda.
Its usually read to them
Bitch, the "unfair treatment" you are going on about was the one proposed by Trump in 2018.
Do these people even read their own books?
No. I thought that was pretty obvious.
I stopped reading Reddit entirely save for deshittifying search results, but I braced myself and looked at the conservative subreddit today, and even they think this is quite dumb.
Hahaha I did the same, I was considering what rock I could turn to find them under and remembered Reddit.
Can confirm, even they haven't found a way of spinning this one. Their best shot was justifying this as an attempt of making Trudeau, who's leaving, to look bad and ease up on the tariffs when the new guy comes in so he looks good and is more eager to work with Trump, but even then they see it as a shot in the foot.
That's certainly the first word that comes to mind when you hear Canada; Unfair. How rude of us to bully America around like that.
You got right to the problematic issue: "read". Reading is hard. Reading a long text is harder. Reading a very long text with complex meanings and referring to things outside the historical context of most readers, is very hard.
I've read the Bible. Twice. I don't think there is any action or concept by the current GOP where you won't find a sentence in the Bible that is actually condemning this precise move. They don't care, as they have never read it.
They can only read at a 5th grade level. If stop signs didn't have a shape and color there would be mass casualties
They're not even trying anymore
Because they don't even have to
Yeah! Prepare yourselves! You're going up against Cobra Kai!
This is your end game and you're up against Thanos is what I mean!
You're like that Mexican "Chapulin Colorado!"
You're like those blue people fighting Gargamel and his cat! You'll never succeed! Never!
Have you guys ever seen voltron, the thunder cats, robotech, ghost in the shell, the power rangers, you Canadians are just like that going up against all their archnesises! Yeah!
You're assuming that these people give a fuck about Christianity other than as a cudgel for beating people up.
No they don't. "Christians" don't read, especially their own handbooks. To the point where if you quote something from the bible that disagrees with their ignorant bullshit they get extra mad.
The US has strategically used tariffs with great success over the last decades to get favorable pricing from Canada on everything from energy, softwood, potash, you name it. One item at a time, slowly, methodically they were able to bring down pricing. We have been giving the US extremely good prices, and now, because of Trump he has just flipped the board over and it's time to restart.
America will be far worse off than before this started, and this has leveled off the playing field again with Canada.
As a Canadian I am thrilled.
I find the average atheist seems to be more familiar with the messages of the Bible than many of these people who claim to spend their Sundays studying it.
Teenage me went into reading the Bible expecting to learn more about my religion and become one of those well-versed scholars.
And then I kept reading, and the terrible truth eventually dawned on me. It really is just a bunch of silly stories from farmers thousands of years ago. It's nearly impossible to actually read it and remain neutral about this; yet another one of life's "emperors new clothes" situations.
Out of curiosity I went to one once, I am not Christian and I never believed in the Bible.
I donβt know if this how all churches do it but the one church I went to read the Bible in a manipulative way. Regardless of the book or its content, you cannot construct a narrative by selecting one or two verses from one book and another one or two verses from another book of the Bible. Sometimes the books arenβt even from the same testament.
Any book should be read in whole, and any verse has a context that explains it.
The same technique applied to anything be it a research paper or a comic will produce a false narrative.
Here's a fun one: tell a conservative that rich people are doomed to go to hell. If they ask how you figure that, quote:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God
Without fail their programming will kick in and you will get some lengthy blog post with stupid reasoning about how what Jesus was actually talking about was some rock formation and some other dumb shit. Meanwhile you can just read the verses before and after for context and it's pretty damn clear what was meant: greed is a form of evil.
This is the difference between reading the Bible and having it explained to you.
Another fun one: tell them God prefers atheists to vague believers. Prepare for another programmed blog post about how Jesus was actually referring to the taste of the water at some town that completely ignores the context of the book itself.
I always find this imagery amusing. David is touted as this weak shepherd boy who is nearly defenseless in the face of this giant opponent. In reality, you've got someone who has trained to sling rocks with deadly accuracy. He's basically the bronze age equivalent of a sniper, bro can send a 2 inch projectile at mach jesus straight for your dome.
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No. No, they do not.
No. They don't.
They have co-opted something they are too dumb and lazy to even understand.
Any other questions?
If they read it, they would call the main character in part II "woke" and dismiss him as a "liberal."
And he wasn't even especially woke.
MAGA has such a hardon for hurting people.
Must be weird thinking emperor palpatine was the good guy
Goliath was killed by a sword - the rock knocked him down so that David could behead him.
Setting tariffs without accompanying trade negotiations is like starting a fight with someone by shooting yourself, unless of course the goal is xenophobia and isolationism instead of equitable trade.
Oh, the irony...
