In other words, some Republican senators still want to insert the knife into Caanda, to drain our lifeblood, but they want it done compassionately.

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    I don’t know if that is a good idea for us. Even if in two years they take back congress and the senate, the next two years after that they could put in another pack of lunatic fascists. I think we should continue with our diversifying strategy and put much more effort into CETA and CPTPP.

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      It is their entire adversarial culture that needs to change. The Americans HAVE to have an enemy, even if they change a friend into an enemy.

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    I might, in four years or so, but probably not. There’s a segment of Americans that have the memories of goldfish.

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    From NYT:

    As for Mr. Trump’s threats of annexation? “We don’t even want them to be the 51st state,” Mr. Cramer said with a laugh. But unable to resist, he added: “We want Alberta to be the 51st state. And then we have two Republican senators.”

    Fuck these guys. They’re the usual entitled American idiots, blundering around in foreign countries without understanding them.

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      What a completely tactless piece of trash thing to say.

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    You have to earn the second chance, yanks. And given the size of the betrayal, you got to work hard, very hard, to earn it.

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        My general stance is that, for the most part, Americans are like everyone else is. They’re mostly perfectly fine individually. It’s when you get them all in a group that they’re an issue.

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          Their entire culture pervades each one, individually. They are definitely NOT like ‘everyone else’. The indoctrination into the ‘American way’ is so pervasive, it is almost impossible to speak to any American individually for any length of time before some aspect of the ‘American way’ comes through. Basically, the ‘American Way’ is summed up by the phrase ‘The entire world is centered around America, and only America maters’.

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      I’ve known that since the age of 6. lol To me they always seem to hide something, not tell the whole story. And they’re mostly background racists.

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    There are simply too many reasons to say no. How the US treats people entering and leaving the country. How due process is ignored for people within the country.

    In broad terms the US is an unkind society. This is not to say that there are not kind individuals, but they are unable to influence the overall norm that is so clearly on display.

    You don’t get to cause so many damages to a partner and then suggest we give you another chance. That ship has sailed and I am ready for us to find other trading partners and address our own internal trade barriers.

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      The Americans are an adversarial us-vs-them society. There always has to be a loser in the American culture.

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    From that article,

    "He [Carney] announced a $6-billion purchase of over-the-horizon radar systems from Australia in March as part of the government’s ongoing NORAD modernization project.’

    A NORAD radar.

    From Australia.

    That just HAS to sent the Americans a message about Carney’s thinking towards the Americans.

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    Do not capitulate. The greedy fucks in charge right now want you to buckle and make them look tough. We need MAGAts to suffer so that there’s no doubt who is solely to blame for this.

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    You want us back?

    Impeach Trump.

    Then, if Vance fucks around, impeach him, too. Then Johnson. Keep going until you find someone who isn’t a fascist asshat.

    That would help with America’s “trust” problem.

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      I think it’s more likely individual states or blocs of them regain our trust by seceding