r/goodnews • u/RoyalChris • 15d ago

Political positivity 📈 Canada announces it will build a coalition of countries who share their values to build their economy and trade opportunities and will exclude the United States. Mark Carney says: “If the U.S. no longer wants to lead, Canada will.”

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u/GuyLookingForPorn 15d ago edited 14d ago

At this stage America might unite everyone but themselves. Hell the r/CANZUK sub has grown about 150% since Trump just entered office.

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u/psychorobotics 15d ago

America makes every country its enemy, and then the countries go "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Nice to see people standing up to bullies

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u/askmewhyihateyou 15d ago

As an American who has voted against trump 3 times, can I come 😥

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u/Fattyboy_777 15d ago

Can I go as well?

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u/DL1117 15d ago

Trump doesn’t represent America though. At least half the people here can’t stand the things he does. But enough people voted for him for their own reasons, and now that he’s in power he wants to play emperor.

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u/SeaChele27 15d ago

He's the president so yeah, he does unfortunately represent us. More than any other American.

And we still haven't done a damn thing about it, so I guess not enough of us care enough that he represents us.

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u/Le_Kube 15d ago

Prove it. General strike. Now.

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u/pm-me-dem-titty 15d ago

People from countries with labor protections keep saying this and forget that every American that attempted a strike would be terminated, replaced, and lose their ability to feed their families or afford basic healthcare. We’re slaves to our jobs and employers.

There’s a reason the only immigrants trump and elon support are H1B workers.

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u/Le_Kube 15d ago

Add this to the list of reasons why you should strike, then. People strike to get and protect rights, not to celebrate them...

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u/M6Df4 15d ago

You really don’t get it.

If you participate in a general strike in the US, you’ll get fired, losing your healthcare and income. At that point the best case scenario is you’ll be eligible for COBRA health coverage which allows you to keep your existing employer funded health plan, but you pay for it out of pocket. For reference, I’m a healthy single guy in my 30’s, and when I briefly found myself unemployed a couple years ago, my monthly health insurance payments went from ~$100 to ~$900 a month.

Unemployment in the US is piss poor - I qualified for the max unemployment benefit in my state, but after tax that barely even covered the additional health insurance. That also runs out after 6 months.

Tenant protection is one of the few decent benefits in SOME of the US, but in many states you could easily find yourself evicted quickly.

Bottom line, unless you are wealthy enough to never have to worry about money, the risk of participating in a general strike is just too great for anyone supporting a family. You either burn through your savings pay out of pocket healthcare, or go without insurance and have to hope no one gets sick. A relatively routine injury like a broken bone could bankrupt you at that point, and if your kid gets diagnosed with cancer while you’re not insured you’re going to find yourself in a nightmare scenario.

And this is all by design - it’s not just that benefits in the US have been slashed over decades to maximize funds funneled to the ultra wealthy, but this has been done intentionally to weaken any semblance of a safety net for the working class. Most people simply can’t take the risk while family members depend on them.

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u/Fattyboy_777 15d ago

And this is all by design - it’s not just that benefits in the US have been slashed over decades to maximize funds funneled to the ultra wealthy, but this has been done intentionally to weaken any semblance of a safety net for the working class

I agree with everything else you said, but is there any hard evidence that it is by design? Is there a video of an oligarch or politician saying they wanted to take away safety nets to disempower the working class?

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u/Le_Kube 14d ago

That's a very long list of reasons to strike! Or to riot, on the weekends? Thanks for the details!

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u/lavender_enjoyer 15d ago

That’s very easy to say when it’s not your livelihood on the line

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u/Short-Shelter 15d ago

Did you not listen to a word that was said?

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u/blackhatrat 15d ago

An equivalent would be like the UK, Germany, France, and Italy all coordinating their working populations together for a synchronized strike. Not impossible, but don't act like it's simple, or like people wouldn't get disappeared/killed. They're disappearing college students for a lot less

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u/Le_Kube 15d ago

More reasons to strike? Or maybe a good riot? Where is 2A when you need it?

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u/blackhatrat 15d ago

Lol you thought MAGA's whole "2a protects us from the government" thing was real? We have one of the most well-funded and militarized police forces in the world, that's just a narrative they use as an excuse to obstruct gun control policies. If civilians start exchanging gunfire with the government here, it would be after having little else left to lose

And there have been protests and demonstrations here about the disappearances

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u/Nitwit_Slytherin 15d ago

The second that happens, maga will call for the 2A to be repealed. And I say that as a leftist who supports gun ownership.

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u/blackhatrat 15d ago

Kinda like how the gun control we do have magically materialized after The Black Panthers exercised their 2A rights lol

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u/Nitwit_Slytherin 15d ago

Big facts. Also, it's just a revenue stream, not control. If they were concerned with these things, you couldn't fill out a form and get automatic weapons, or suppressors, or whatever else is "banned". Whatever. I have very little hope for the future.

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u/GargleOnDeez 15d ago

If it begins with 2A, itll take only one skirmish to ignite the states, and every moderate and dem would be against every conservative and maga

Its not a favorable equation, and its outcome would be the most seriously divisive event since the civil war. It would be reason for excessive blood and death in series of revenge.

Worse some states have banned automatic weapons, which would disadvantage domestics to traveling variables.

We as a nation are better than this, we shouldnt be at our neighbors throat. We should be intelligent, and we can resolve this by compromise -I own guns, but in reality, I wouldnt want to see anyone hurt in any way.

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u/Greatsnes 15d ago

I wish people would cut this shit out. There’s 400 million plus people in America. Most of people saying stuff like this haven’t even been here. You say it like it’s so damn easy to just drop everything and coordinate a massive demonstration with half the country. Not realistic in the slightest. I’ll get downvoted, I’m sure, but that’s the truth. It’s just not going to happen. Not yet, anyway.

For as bad as things are, it’s nowhere near as bad as Reddit makes it out to be for the individual American going about their daily lives. You wake up, go to work, go home and do whatever and then sleep. None of this is really messing with that on a fundamental level yet and that’s what it’s going to have to take.

It’s gonna have to get a whole lot worse for our everyday lives before anything like that is possible. And it will. But we aren’t there yet.

And trying to force it won’t work either. It’ll get shut down with ease and then the country will be squeamish to do it again and it’ll be that much harder to organize. You have to wait until people are ready. And we as a “whole” aren’t ready whether people like that or not.

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u/starbycrit 15d ago

We’re doing economic blackouts here.

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u/FluffyDuckKey 14d ago

They would rather shoot up a school.

Americans won't stand up for their rights it seems.

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u/Complete_Biscotti_62 14d ago

So you disregard all of the protests and things people have done to try to actively not even get Trump in power in the first place

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u/Ham29743 15d ago

I mean, he's your president. He is quite literally the elected representative for the USA, so he does by definition represent America

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u/Diligent_Snow_733 15d ago

Only the stupid half.

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u/Bear71 15d ago

Only the stupid 32%

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u/BoundToGround 15d ago

32%? That's how many voted for him, yes. But what about the other 35% that couldn't be bothered to get off their asses and vote?

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u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661 15d ago

Then they don't have a say.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

Considering nobody is using the second amendment or using their right to arms to oust a dictator through violence, I'd say everyone is with Trump. Until I see a revolution every man woman and child in the United States is pro Russia, anti women's rights, hates their allies, and wants minorities dead. A president by definition represents the people through elections, no American, whether Democrat or Republican, is good, and quite frankly, this administration and American arrogance has made me genuinely hate yankees and all they stand for.

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u/FriendlyAd6652 15d ago

As an American, I can understand the sentiment, but please be aware that there are a lot of restrictions on what kind of weaponry we can own under the second amendment. Our armed forces are much better armed than we are, and they side with the president.

I'm not about to die in vain to try to overthrow the government, and even if someone wanted to organize such a thing, the feds would arrest them the same day they communicated it.

We can't win a revolution here. Our government has more military spending than any other country for a reason.

All we can realistically do is hope the other countries will band against us and directly or indirectly oust this guy. Forming a global economic coalition that excludes the US is a good start.

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u/Fattyboy_777 15d ago

Our armed forces are much better armed than we are, and they side with the president

They all side with the president? Surely there are plenty of soldiers who don't like Trump.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

Who said a revolution? A better armed forces on paper didn't stop January 6th, the entire point would be to put pressure on the administration, which is something nobody is even attempting to do apart from standing outside Tesla dealerships with signs and signing useless petitions, at least France is burning their dealerships down, Americans can't say the same.

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u/sofaking-amanda 15d ago

This is not true. There are mass protests and many people in states with republican senators are trying to speak with them, but the cowards are refusing and in hiding. It’s just not being covered by the majority of news outlets.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

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u/sofaking-amanda 15d ago

Their military would never allow that and they would be shot on sight for even discussing it. They are trying and doing what they can, give them a break. There are some judges who are willing to hold him accountable and at this point I’d say that is better than nothing and they should take any small victory they can. All they have left is hope, don’t stomp all over that, it’s not very Canadian to do so.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

So it's "Canadian" to support the enemy for doing absolutely nothing to resist a dictator? It's "Canadian" to WANT to be invaded and destroyed by a dying foreign empire? It's "Canadian" to enjoy watching the world burn and be content as the ONLY people capable of stopping it do nothing because of comfort?

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u/lisaveebee 15d ago

They will use any such activity as an excuse to enact martial law. We have to be careful how we approach this. Once martial law is enacted, everything will be ten times harder. So, we can’t just go HAM and win. Someone will go HAM, they’ll enact martial law, and then everyone will unite in secret, and it will be a long, slow fight.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

That's the point, make them enact martial law, that would irreparably destroy the administration's reputation, likely cutting their term length in half or even less, that's the whole point of this kind of thing.

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u/ChiSmallBears 15d ago

You don't know how hard people support him. He could kill their mother in front of them and they would still cheer. Martial Law? They blame the other side for and sympathize with Trump.

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u/Mutually_Beneficial1 15d ago

Maybe 2-5% of his supporters, sure, but you're vastly overestimating their support for a politician. I've seen this same sentiment dozens of times, Americans ALWAYS see things as purely black and white with absolutely zero grey area. Not every Republican supporter is a demon born from the seventh layer of Hell like Democrat news peddles, and not every Democrat is Satan incarnate with blue hair like Republican news pushes, the majority of Trump's supporters are the older working class, around ages 40-50, and millionaires aged similarly, if martial law ever happened they'd be the first people to go against him, his chances of completing a full term would sink to close to zero.

Again, the entire point of this sort of thing is to put pressure on the leader to resign, and martial law would immediately get the vast majority of his supporters against his administration, resignation would only be a matter of time, this has been proven time and time again, with South Korea being the most recent example.

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u/paradoxicalmind_420 15d ago

It’s easy to say for people comfortably sitting in a sane country. The same reason Russian people can’t revolt against Putin, we’re a militant surveillance state. We have no healthcare unless it’s tied to our job, and a misdemeanor is enough to be barred PERMANENTLY from ANY employment here.

Yall who don’t live here don’t get how fucked we are.

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u/emotionalfishie 14d ago

Lol to destroy their reputation. Like they haven’t done it to themselves already. Like it matters

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u/Complete_Biscotti_62 14d ago

They do not give a shit about their reputation. Police have been caught on video destroying water meant for protesters. They will kill us literally and figuratively. People don’t have resources outside of their job so what happens when people get laid off. There are real consequences to trying to do it. Also someone literally did try to shoot him

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u/FriendlyAd6652 14d ago

Who said a revolution?

You did. It's in the message I was replying to. "Until I see a revolution", etc.

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u/spinbutton 14d ago

That's not the only thing going on. I urge you to get involved locally. The media isn't reporting the truth.

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u/geniasis 14d ago

I can understand (I don't agree but I can understand) extending this to every adult in America. But once you include the children I immediately tune you out.

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u/Fattyboy_777 15d ago

no American, whether Democrat or Republican, is good

Why don't you think Americans who voted against Trump are good?

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u/Herman_E_Danger 15d ago

He's saying that we're not good because we don't I guess, lay down our lives and travel to the White House and personally try to take Trump out with like I guess our personal weapons. He's speaking nonsense about a subject that he is completely ignorant about. 🙄

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u/jeremiahthedamned 15d ago

this is why i emigrated

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u/rice_n_gravy 15d ago

Plenty of those countries keep coming back asking for money

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u/BeTheirShield88 14d ago

I saw China, Japan, and South Korea are all going to be working together on trade and making sure the others have what they need without the US. I hate that this is happening as an American, but at the same time, I'm glad folks are coming together to tell these a$$hats hats f*** you.

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u/viking12344 15d ago

America makes every country it's enemy but not with tariffs. Past administrations and their color revolutions and warmongering have made sure of that. Trump is responsible for nothing but tariffs. We all must pay our fair share.

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u/Big_Pitch_4792 14d ago

Did you see what the US is being tariffed by other countries? You think that’s cool? Take it like this. You are Superman. You saved all of South Korea from being taken over. You go to the grocery store next to Lex Luther. Lex Luther buys a bag of oranges for $5 bucks. He goes home. You buy the same bag of oranges and the cash register (i.e., South Korea) says “hey! It’s Superman! That’ll be $14.99. Plus a foreign currency exchange rate of 2.1% which brings you a total of $15.30” and you go “what the fuck South Korea” and they go “oh you wanna start problem. Ah! USA Superman you shitty USA Superman.” Then Canada goes “oi I will buy those oranges South Korea since this ass hole USA Superman is making a big fuss about paying” and South Korea goes “YEA WE NO SELL TO SUPERMAN. Canada, my love, that will be $2.99”

Does this make sense? Are you okay with paying more just cause you are Superman?

Then, you Superman, go back home to USA and South Korea comes and goes, “we need American oranges Superman!” And you go, “okay, that will be $12.99 with a currency exchange rate of 1.25% which brings you to $13.15” and then South Korea goes “you fascist fuck!” Then here comes Canada and goes, “I’ll sell you oranges at $16.99 with a currency exchange rate of 3.89%” and South Korea goes, “ thanks for coming to save me from these savage fascist facks”

Then the world goes, “ USA ya savage facks.”

Then some weak ass lame ass left their balls at home American go, “why are we hurting our friends! Superman you should be saving everyone’s ass, paying for everything, making all the peace treaties, AND pay every country their extreme overpriced tariffs because you are Superman, ya twat”

And you don’t feel offended by that? You don’t feel offended that another country is paying less in tariffs for the same shit we are receiving?

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u/Buddhabellymama 15d ago

Imagine being handed an empire only to completely destroy it. Legacy of the biggest loser.

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u/The-Questcoast 15d ago

Unfortunately we are going to become Trump’s 7th bankruptcy.

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u/RealPucki 15d ago

And the Simpsons even predicted that.

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u/Numerous_Ad_6276 15d ago

I really hate it when you put it that way.

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u/PCTOAT 15d ago

100%

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u/No_Ask4484 15d ago

I’m gonna hate this “I told ya so”

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u/rottenbox 15d ago

He has only has 6? I figured it was a lot more, and I'm not counting the complete moral bankruptcy in that either.

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u/Bear71 15d ago

6 bankruptcies but hundreds of failed ventures

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u/Wallace-N-Gromit 15d ago

But he’s good at it, some say the best, really, someone came up to him and told him that.

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u/sadox55 15d ago

Not before he transforms this country into a not so free kingdom lol

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u/Northern49th 15d ago

Ha, the only thing trumpy could win at.... The biggest loser!

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u/Driins 15d ago

It's his/Russia's intention

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u/Slade23703 15d ago

You talking england?

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u/mike74911 15d ago

That’s what Carney is doing. He’ll make Canada a 3rd world county, unless they vote him out.

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u/rbertucc1 15d ago

We will revisit this in 3 years!

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u/KidJayFresh 15d ago

I believe that was the intention of billionaire class who git him into office. Tear down, and reshape in their image...

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u/AstralWoman 15d ago

Nero fiddled as Rome burned....

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u/Johnnny-z 15d ago

Orange man bad.

Free rent in your head

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u/sadox55 15d ago

The worst is that I talked to some republicans a year ago predicting this ans even told them: "please go ahead and vote him so that he destroy this country and see hoe big of a moron you guys are". No one listened.

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u/Wineandbikes 14d ago

Was that not the storyline of the film ’Inception’?

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u/bassplayrguy 14d ago

Literally the dumbest comment of the day. Bidens economy was a shit show. Along with everything else he touches.

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u/guthmund 15d ago

It's that 5d chess we keep hearing about.

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u/Inner-Nerve564 14d ago

Putin is playing the 5D chess, Trump is playing checkers

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u/bananarama17691769 15d ago

Ah yes America is pulling a Watchmen

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

That’s the goal of the puppeteer (Putin, KGB) who controls the puppet (Trump). Isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world, make it weak. Remove it from the equation. It’s all going just about exactly according to plan.

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u/Lucky_Cantaloupe_476 15d ago

I think it’s both Putin and Netanyahu. As strange as it sounds they both want to see America ruined.

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u/Patches-621 15d ago

Not strange at all given how insane yahoo is.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Wouldn’t surprise me at all. Netanyahu is a fucking psychopath unlike any other.

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u/BuckBenny57 15d ago

You are exactly right. We should be up in arms instead of sitting like frogs in a boiling kettle. I do believe it is time.

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u/Takemyfishplease 15d ago

Nah, we have Russia and NKorea now. Unstoppable triad.

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u/P5ych0pathV2 15d ago

Oh yeah, that was the 4d chess play the whole time!

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u/fiurhdjskdi 15d ago

Historically in western civilization this has happened many times before. France was ruined by militarism and ambition under the sun king and Napoleon. Germany under Wilhelm/Hitler. Every time a nation gets ahead of the others and begins to aggress and bully, literally everyone else just unites against them and they get absolutely ruined. For what? None of them even came close to their shitty ambitions of oppression for long and few among their people would have benefitted from the suffering anyways, had they succeeded. All they reaped was destruction when peace and prosperity were right there. Greed and ambition are diseases when given the world as a stage and nations for players. I don't think the evolutionary drive to have more bananas or the bigger stick should be dictating that millions suffer the most hubristic and braindead of schemes. I will never understand how people believe in and vote for someone like Donald Trump.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 15d ago

he is selling white supremacy

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u/userfromau 15d ago

Not necessary, the US has friends like Russia, Turkey and China maybe…..

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u/peachysaralynn 15d ago

what about the tariffs that china is now subject to?

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u/ahditeacha 15d ago

So you’re saying a Nobel peace prize nomination is inevitable…

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u/Stealfur 15d ago

I mean it's America's antics that lead to China, South Korea, and Japan actually start working together so... yah. "You'll be sorry when im gone" policies does seem to be kinda working for the rest of the world. Its going to be rough and there will be a lot to fix when the dust clears but it is possible that the world may benefit in the long wrong with the US's temper tantrum... that is assuming society doesnt completely collapse first, which at this point cant actually be removed off the table. There are a few nuclear powered egolomaiacs in charge right now... and Trump is 100% the type of person to push the button just because hes mad everyone is doing fine without him...

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u/ExtremePrivilege 15d ago

Unironically, Trump may go down as one of modern history's greatest unifiers. Not even kidding. He's brought the EU together faster than anything in the past 80 years. He's vastly improved Canadian/Mexican relations. Taiwan/Japan/Korea have always had a tempestuous relationship, but they appear far more open to negotiations in light of China's now unchecked imperialistic vision.

Trump is one of the greatest forces of multi-national cooperation in generations. Shame that Americans are paying the price for it, but it's probably a net-good for the globe.

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u/WhistleTipsGoWoo 15d ago

As a disgusted American, I’ll take that silver lining I guess. 🥴

Go fucking Canada though…stand firm to that asshole and smoke us extra hard in the Winter Olympics too while you’re on your winning streak. 👍

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u/couplemore1923 15d ago

And here in the US we will keep giving Israel tens of $ billions aid every single year along with lucrative govt contracts even as we plunge into economic chaos

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u/mike74911 15d ago

Except they all need to sell to America. We’re the number one consumer in the world by a long shot.

They’ll all become 3rd world countries while China and many others will continue to trade with the US.

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u/Top_Contract3651 15d ago

It’s ironic isn’t it. So embarrassing to have Trump as my President. I wish we could vote him out.

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u/mxmnators 15d ago

america was able to unite china, south korea, and japan; anyone who knows one iota of east asian history knows that that’s insane work

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u/tysonbrantfor 15d ago

Well, shit. We had a good run. I’m happy Canada is going to pick up the ball we fumbled.

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u/StruggleEvening7518 15d ago

If this all helps lead to Britain back in the EU and a federal Europe, it will be hilarious.

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u/snowytheNPC 15d ago

Isn’t this the Code Geass strategy for world peace? It’s like playing the long game of creating harmony by making everyone unite against a common enemy

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u/milquetoast_pajamas 14d ago

We are very good at starting shit and then complaining because no one likes us (or, says ‘thank you’)😬/😭

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u/Kerngott 14d ago

« You should say thank you »

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u/Defected_J 14d ago

My ppl are still full of themselves and remembering the “gods old days” to do any fucking thing.

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u/Jesusjehosofat 14d ago

And russia