In a way, as a Canadian, I’m glad for Trump for two reasons. One, we hated him so much that the conservative candidate in our federal election lost what should have been the easiest conservative win of my lifetime because he threw in support behind trump. And two, we are finally diversifying our economy away from that volatile ass country.
The art of the deal
America: I’m bleeding making me the victor
'Tis but a scratch!
Why trade with Canada when we can just start a war?
I wish I could export myself to Canada permanently
You don’t understand it is 5D chess
By playing checkers against your opponent and scamming as much money as possible from your pawns?
if you move your pawns to the end of the board and then move them up in the z-axis, you have successfully extracted tariffs from them.
My brain broke a little bit your statement was so stupid. So, unfortunately, I’m sure you’re 100% correct.
We are all Canada.
The whole earth should boycott the Yanks
The country should be sanctioned out of existence.
Plus their little pal Israel. I saw a meme making a case for the biblical ark being built in North America. Perhaps we could convince Bibi and his cronies Israel should actually be in the American Midwest. We’ll see how many Yanks support Zionism when so-called ‘settlers’ are killing their neighbors and taking their homes.
Yeah buddy, they’re one and the same.
The word you are looking for is sanction.
Walmart is currently deep-sixing a whole bunch of Canadian products that are subject to tariffs. that doesn’t really sound like a Canadian win to me. That doesn’t bring me joy, but let’s not be delusional here.
Carney was right to walk away, but the retaliatory tariffs are just going to further punish Canadians on top of this.
Times are about to get really tight.
What part of we’re, in a trade war. That means taking hits to our trade. Get used to it or give in. Don’t you understand?
What part of the image in the OP did you not understand. It’s trying to paint the whole thing as nothing but a win for Canada.
That’s what I would do if I where there. I’m in the Pacific Northwest and we feel the tourism squeeze here. I don’t care. You can’t insult your closest friend and bully them. I want the US to suffer the consequences, for a good amount of time, so every idiot is aware of the reasons for their pain. Not to mention Canada is beautiful. I could vacation at Banff or even in the far east for the rest of my life and be fine, you guys will be fine and even happier spending money to support your own countrymen.
I cannot wait for trump to shit himself to death. Or at least fall down and hit his big fucking orange face.
Can we do export tariffs on potash now? I think an extra 30% is reasonable.
I’m an American who didn’t vote for trump and none of this is my fault…but fuck it make it hurt harder daddy, we deserve it uwu
Love this but i’ll bet Facebook/insta/Amazon/apple/etc are as popular as ever in Canada.
That’s what happens when companies illegally leverage their monopolies to extinguish any competition.
Digital. Services. Tax.
Bring it back. Fuckem.
Fuck who?
You’re suggesting USA taxes Canada for using digital services?
No, it would be a tax on revenues that amazon, facebook, adobe, xitter, etc extract from Canadians. Digital Services. Subscriptions, software, that kind of thing.
Oh okay, then yeah I’m here for it.
The reality is most people just dont care where a service originates from, as long as its good. You wouldn’t think it based on the internet, but most people arent on the internet to make points about things.
as long as it’s good.
But they aren’t good.
They mean good as in “functions well” not good as in “is not evil.”
As did the person you replied to.
That’s part (the lesser part, but still important) of why I hate when news orgs use an angry dude on twitter as their example of someone who is up in arms about something.
The Internet is not representative of the population. The people posting are self selected. It’s the same reason if you go looking for coffee advice you’ll find a thousand posts with advice about roasting your own beans while most people are drinking Starbucks, Dunkin, Folgers, and Maxwell House.
The great majority of people do not give a shit what the Internet is doing. A lot of people look but only a teeny tiny slice are posting about it.
I only use Facebook for my business. Mostly just social posts about things which act as promotion. That said, I’m not seeing the results I saw a few years ago. Far fewer interactions on posts, almost no comments. I’m not sure it’s worth doing these days. We get more client contacts from our webpage than via facebook. We’re doing a ton more business these days than a few years ago, so I know it’s not coming from Facebook.
We have a business instagram account as well, but I use a third party to post to facebook/insta and it commonly has an issue posting to instagram. I have personal facebook and insta accounts but I never use them (expect to log into the business accounts). As a user, I can’t stand either of those platforms.
I don’t subscribe to any streaming service. Haven’t for over 3-4 years.
I do use youtube. I also have a business and a personal youtube account that are monitized so I throw videos up a few times a month.
I only use Amazon for my business and even then orders are rare. I try to order from Canadian vendors when possible.
That said, I’m not seeing the results I saw a few years ago. Far fewer interactions on posts, almost no comments.
I know someone who used FB for business. They said engagement was amazing to start with but it was as if FB started hiding their posts to encourage them to pay to promote them.
We tried a paid promotion on facebook a few years back just to see how it did.
It got shit results.
You use lemmy. No one you know uses lemmy. You are literally the minority of minorities
That’s true. I hate Marvel and Star Wars movies as well. I’m definitely an outlier.
Europe is working on alternatives, it takes time but I think people will switch.
Probably but those services are shit anyways and people should stop using them.
