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An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World (deanblundell.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This isn't even our final form.

We need to get out there and destroy Little trump jr (Pierre Poilievre's conservatives) and stop them from selling us out.

If any Canadians need a voting kit you can go to https://elections.ca/ and sign up for one there. Takes less than 15 minutes. (Deadline is April 22 but I'd suggest to get it done ASAP!)

All you need is a pic of your I.D. to confirm and they will mail you your kit. I got mine within a week and I already filled it out and it's on its way back.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you Canadians, this is how a true friends reacts, they dont normalize bad behavior.

Mexico is on board reach out to them and just have a MC agreement! Work with the UN to prevent this from happening again, because clearly the USA can't be trusted

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot comes down to the propaganda machines. Our conservatives pay millions of dollars to things like "Canada proud" to spread bullshit and divide us. We need to drag this crap out of the shadows and beat them down relentlessly in the light of day.

I don't know if we will win the fight, but we sure as fuck are NOT going to give up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Canada's conservatives are completely off script currently focusing on cutting carbon taxes, defunding public broadcasting and increasing contribution limits to tax free savings accounts while an existential threat is looming. Almost as tone deaf as the Democrats in the US.

Conservatives are still leading slightly among men who seem to respond more positively to "anti-woke" rhetoric and sloganeering vs women who seem to have a strong preference for Liberals (and even NDP) at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I already signed up for mail-in voting. It was easy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This was my first time as well, and to be honest I think it's the way to go. I didn't expect it to be so smooth.

I went to elections.ca (If memory serves it was on a Thursday) filled out the form and submitted a pic of my I.D. and submitted it. By Tuesday it was in my mail, (could have been there on Monday but I didn't check) Filled it out, put it into the envelope and sign it, which then goes into another outer envelope, and mail it back. Done, Easy Peazy.

Now I don't have worry about getting to the polling station on time, or to wait in any lines, and don't have to worry about picking up any of the numerous viruses going around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Registered to vote from abroad. I cast my vote suuuuuuper slow, at the speed of international mail! Sent it away Monday morning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can also do advance voting at any time at your nearest Elections Canada office! I voted last Saturday.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My polling place is like 100m outside my door, but it's really far from my nearest EC office.

So, Friday, because I'm lazy like that!

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Canadian shoppers are starting a new habit. After checking an item if it is a US product they return it to the shelf upside down and turn several more of the same item upside down so the next shopper knows to skip that product.

Haha omg, I thought I was the only one childishly doing that. My grocery store must be really on top of re-facing their shelves, because I’ve never come across any upside down US products.

The biggest hint something is American is when the shelf is fully stocked and there’s lots of items missing from the nearby brands.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s so true - empty sections of cranberry sauce, tomato paste, pasta, etc adjacent to fully stocked American items are such a telltale sign lately.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I fucking love you guys for this. Hit us in the wallet until the fascist trash is gone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

We got that habit from Europe. I think it was Denmark who did this first, and it's so easy.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So thanks for that, but...that's not really the point.

We're not trying to hurt Trump and MAGA. We're not trying to either destroy the US or get it back to where we were a year ago.

Trump - and more to the point, his re-election - was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Canada finally has said "enough is enough."

We're not doing this anymore. We're not tying our country's fate to ANY other nation - not the US, not England, not China or Eritrea.

Canada cannot afford to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of convenience and harmony.

Canada has one direction: Forward. We are reclaiming our sovereignty, our culture, and our place as a progressive leader in the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What are you saying, that you care more about doing right by your own countrymen than you do about harming your perceived enemies??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Canada is a relatively small country. Strategic partnerships are going to be critical moving forward but creating some distance with the US is a crucial first step as it is no longer a reliable trading partner.

The US was by far the greatest financial benefactor of WW2, in part due to geographic isolation, allowing it to sell weapons to its allies without having its factories destroyed by warplanes, which in turn allowed it to collect 80% of the world's gold supply and set its currency as the global standard. As a nation, it played its hand / leveraged its newfound wealth exceptionally well in the post WW2 period.

It made sense to have a strong trading relationship at the time, given the proximity and that the war allowed the US to amass a disproportionate amount of purchasing power.

It seems that the US has decided it does not want to lead the world any longer, despite its economic might. Hopefully there is good that can come of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Did you really mean the US as greatest "benefactor" of WW2 (as in, helping others) or as greatest "beneficiary" of WW2 (as in, gaining from it).

Because it looks a lot like the latter since in helping others the US was mainly helping itself and that help didn't come for free (for example, the UK only finished paying the debt to the US from that "help" in, if I'm not mistaken, 2012), plus the US gained its superpower status exactly from, as you pointed out, still having their factories and selling weapons to its allies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

We need to, it remains to be seen whether or not we will. Don't forget, a huge number of us are still shopping american. If this situation goes away, the convenience of trading with the US could easily take over again. People lack conviction, integrity and have short memories. It will take a long-term, concerted effort by the majority of the populace and multiple governments to maintain our trajectory away from US dependence. I'd love to see it happen, but I have little faith our fellow citizens have the constitution to stay the course.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Donald Trump does not understand Canadian values of compassion and politeness.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don’t let baby Trump with his small PP and his illiterate maple magas win.

Canada needs to be strong, the conservatives are pathetically weak. All they know how to do is bash Canada and say we’re broken.

Let’s prove them wrong. VOTE! VOTE!! VOTE!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hot tip. If you bracket something with tildes (~) just the one either side, you can make it a smöl ~pp~!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As an atheist let me just say you’re doing the lords work here. Thanks for this ~smol~ tip friend!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does not seem be work universally - I use Jerboa on android and just see "~pp~" (tilde pp tilde)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

I needed a shot of pride and enthusiasm today. Thanks for posting.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

If you’re still letting in the profiteers who financialized every aspect of US life, you’re still going to turn into the US. While you need to keep an eye on Trump, you also need to take care of the healthcare profiteers elbow deep in destroying your healthcare system for privatization.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dean Blundell is a former radio shock jockey who has been publishing pro-left disinformation and conspiracy theories lately.

He has an article stating Carney orchestrated a bonds sell off with Europe and Japan which would be cool as fuck if it were real.. the story is widely discredited.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/11/canada-mark-carney-treasurys-sell-off/

He has another false article stating Carney kicked the US out of NORAD.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canada-announces-earth-shaking

I love reading his stories because they're well written and designed to make leftists feel good. If you treat them as fiction you won't be likely to spread the misinformation they contain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that the bonds story is true or not, and neither is Snopes. The article you linked said they don't know if it's true or not, and no one will tell them. Hardly a smoking gun. Really all Snopes does is attempt to discredit Blundell.

Under normal circumstances, and with someone else (not Carney) I would say it's bullshit, but Carney is one of the few people in the world that I think could pull it off, if it's true. Believe me, I am still skeptical about it's truth, but it's not far fetched.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love the bonds story, I love how it's tied to many actual true events. I want it to be true in my heart.

But there isn't any evidence that it's true, and I don't think Blundell is the guy who would have the "inside scoop" and leak it when no one else does. He just doesn't have the credentials or the connections. This combined with the verifiably false and misleading statements on his site like were excluding the US from NORAD means he's simply not a credible source.

This kind of thing is exactly how the right wing conspiracy mindset started gaining broad acceptance and I just don't want to see us on the left fall for the same trap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I would tend to agree. We don't need to be using the same tools the lunatics do, it's what makes them lunatics.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

when America comes to its senses and Canadians return to the US

So like, in 60 years or so?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Depends on the path they take. If they just "wait it out" we'll all be dead before Canadians go back to the way things were. If they hit some kind of breaking point and drag that rapist prick and his sycophants out of their White House in leg irons- I would be willing to negotiate an expedited process.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Trust is hard-earned, easily lost, and difficult to reestablish.

It will be in a few decades as a best case scenario. It's not even about Trump specifically. The world will have lost its trust in the US public to not vote in chaos, now that they've done it twice, for the forseeable future.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might only be 40. Long enough for the current generation of leaders to die off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Who knows. Might get bad enough for the 2024 movie Civil War to turn into a predictive documentary. Could be 20!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Oh yea, really "crushing" MAGA. Every morning, MAGA supporters wake up in tears going "oh why won't the mean Canadians buy our stuff? I'm now really regretting my vote and my support of Trump!"

Oh wait. They don't do any of that. They're still frothing at the mouth in support of Trump and are happier than pigs in shit that their side is "winning".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

They may be too ignorant to notice but once their country is in the toilet, they'll feel that

And no, it is not Canadians doing that. The clown they chose for President is taking care of it all himself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh please. Maga business owners in Kentucky are definitely feeling the pinch. Its doing its part.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

It takes a ton of effort to piss off Canada

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think we are doing enough. There are many businesses with american ownership. Many attractions in Banff are owned by americans. We need to target them as well.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

How do I leave here and join you guys? Y'all aren't very far away

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

American here. Hurt MAGA more if possible.

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, and sacrificing free will along the way.

Is this a typo?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Bravo! Make yourselves stronger and more independent.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure not everything is about you bud

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