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So let’s take the renouned intellectual Joe Rogan as an example.

Earlier on he said “why are we picking on Canada”, and now he’s switched his tune to “I won’t go to Canada”. Because when they get pushback it doesn’t feel nice, and they side with their own because that’s easier and that’s what the propaganda machines are pushing.

This is example of how not only will not they wake up, their attitudes will continue to worsen. Right now white Democrats are thinking “oh phew, they aren’t coming for us right now, we are safe” even if they don’t admit it to even themselves.

I know this because this was me, when the targets were Muslims and Mexicans and Haitians what did I do besides fret my brow and say “golly gee that’s too bad” but didn’t do anything. The difference is that now Canadians are getting lumped in with the bad guys now and holy shit does it look a lot different when the barrel is pointed at you.

Sorry this is a long rant and not entirely directed at you.

Canada’s retaliation will not hurt the fascists — it will help them.

The fascists paint us as villains, as scapegoats to distract the American public from their actual societal problems and keep them angry and engaged at an external target.

When they hit us and we hit back, we will cause them harm. The fascists will spin this harm as justification for the pre-existing vilification. They had already established the narrative that we were the cause of their problems and now they’ve turned that lie into the truth.

The fascists do not care that American people will be harmed. They are wealthy and powerful and will be able to live lives of luxury and privilege. Musk could lose 99% of his wealth and still live a life of comfort that goes beyond what anyone reading this would likely ever have.

So no, we will not hurt them with our tariffs or our boycotts. But we don’t do it for them we do it for us. We do it to help build strength and support the industries and workers in our own country and in the countries who like us are fighting back against this.

We do this because we want to feel like our actions have meaning to ourselves, to make us feel like we are part of the process of fighting back and saying that no, we will not acquiesce to the fascists.

There’s a decent percentage of Canadians who aren’t taking this seriously or even the 20% of right wingers who are pro-American. Plus friend and family ties, and practical issues like saving money on shopping or flights with a US layovers.

But yeah especially as the antagonism relating to tangible impacts from the trade war escalates, i expect it will naturally continue to decline.

Good start, now let’s push that to 90%

Reset your expectations.

Not only is this real, he also went on to say that the threat was only valid if PP didn’t win. This is public record and you can verify with a web search on multiple media outlets.

This is who Danielle Smith pals around with at taxpayer expense.

Our debt-to-GDP ratio is unconcerning despite the excesses of the Harper and Trudeau deficits.

So thanks to Martin and Cretien’s work in the 90 and early 2000s we have runway to increase spending and cut taxes. This is important to stimulate demand under these conditions, because we do not want capital locked away in savings or invested abroad during a time we need to build new infrastructure and industries.

As a mostly irrelevant aside, Corporations are not people in Canada — that is a quirk of American law and in general it doesn’t mean as much as people sometimes imply it does.

Wealth inequality must be addressed. Closing tax haven loopholes feels like it should be part of that. I’m not sure if corporate taxes would be more effective than wealth taxes or sharply progressive income taxes. It might be. Perhaps a progressive corporate tax would be useful? The specifics are way outside of my wheelhouse though — but it is Carney’s wheelhouse.

Capital gains should be considered a distinct issue from the use of offshore tax havens.

There is an argument to be made that a low capital gains tax increases investment which is something Canada needs as we rebuild our economy. There’s also an argument against it, that the market has failed and the government needs to take a more active role in areas like providing housing and distributing food.

However there is no such duality of arguments with tax havens. This would be an excellent issue for Carney to show leadership on, especially given his status as an insider and his participation in these schemes.

Would love to see this addressed in a debate or press conference Q&A.

This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

Stardew valley lied to me!

Carney is not a stupid man. He knows that Spraytan will not call him.

In the days of the original round of tariffs; our then-PM acted with some degree of panic, flooding Washington and Florida with attempts to negotiate and make an agreement.

Carney is saying that has ended. We aren’t pursuing them, we aren’t playing this game anymore.

Until they respect our sovereignty we will refuse to deal with them. They rip up treaties? Fine. Block trade? Fine. We can respond with policy actions and don’t need to discuss it with them.

If the Americans want to talk about how to stop the trade war escalation or fucking anything else, they permanently cease the 51st state and invasion threats. Period.

You are not dealing with a fool.

You can replicate this on your own, by looking at the past results of your riding and using that to colour your selection based on your preferences. You can find this history by looking at elections Canada or Wikipedia.

If the party you support hasn’t been competitive and isn’t running a super high profile local candidate, and if you have strong opposition to one of the parties that has been competitive — then consider supporting the alternative competitive party.

Being active and looking at the details yourself might help you feel more engaged and active in the democratic processes than just following what it says on some website.

Don’t get me wrong, if this helps you that’s great. Just trying to encourage folks to take some time to look at the details on their own. This election has a lot on the line, and the future of our country is worth it — especially at this critical juncture.

Not directed at you, OP — but unwanted “annexation” is invasion and we should use the real words even if they frighten us.

I followed your lead on this and re-submitted it without the pathetic commentary

https://lemmy.ca/post/40863201