America: I’m bleeding making me the victor
Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules!
Submitted 9 hours ago by roserose56@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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huquad@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 1 hour ago
The art of the deal
Lanske@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The whole earth should boycott the Yanks
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
The country should be sanctioned out of existence.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The word you are looking for is sanction.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Trump: this is Obama’s fault. Republicans: I knew it
TimboSlice@discuss.online 1 hour ago
I wish I could export myself to Canada permanently
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 hours ago
You don’t understand it is 5D chess
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
By playing checkers against your opponent and scamming as much money as possible from your pawns?
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
My brain broke a little bit your statement was so stupid. So, unfortunately, I’m sure you’re 100% correct.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Why trade with Canada when we can just start a war?
jobbies@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Love this but i’ll bet Facebook/insta/Amazon/apple/etc are as popular as ever in Canada.
rbos@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Digital. Services. Tax.
Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
You’re suggesting USA taxes Canada for using digital services?
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
That’s what happens when companies illegally leverage their monopolies to extinguish any competition.
Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
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.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
imvii@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
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.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
You use lemmy. No one you know uses lemmy
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
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.
Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
Probably but those services are shit anyways and people should stop using them.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Europe is working on alternatives, it takes time but I think people will switch.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Well, most Canadians. I gotta say, maybe not surprised, but definitely irked that Carney is trying to encourage Canadians to put US liquor back on the shelves.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I think he’s trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.
If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn’t be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn’t buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.
It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.
What’s more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren’t alternatives to American products.
What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere’s approval, etc.
Instead of raising Canadians’ costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn’t feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.
clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Pretty sure that no longer applies after we just walked away from the table.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
That was always a bargaining chip. It wasn’t super significant from an economic standpoint, but it’s an easy thing to remove liquor from the shelves, just a decision by Premiers. Liquor producers have way more influence in the US relative to the actual economic impact. That makes a very good bargaining chip. Don’t know why you’d be upset over Carney wanting to use that bargaining chip.
It’s a moot point now, pretty sure US booze isn’t going back on the shelves anytime soon after the collapse of trade talks.
Talaraine@fedia.io 6 hours ago
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
Malyca@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
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.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
We are all Canada.
imvii@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Can we do export tariffs on potash now? I think an extra 30% is reasonable.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I cannot wait for trump to shit himself to death. Or at least fall down and hit his big fucking orange face.
chunes@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Gotta love all these delusional posts that somehow ignore that Canada has no chance to make a difference due to the population difference. Furthermore, 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.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
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.
clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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?
chunes@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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.
pentastarm@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
We are Canadian, we are NASTY: No American Shit, Thank You.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I prefer, we are nice and polite….until we aren’t.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 hours ago
The classic “I’m sorry” and “you’ll be sorry”. It starts with the first until given reason to switch to the second.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
This is it, right here, and not just in regards to warfare, which is where this reputation gets a lot of it’s legs.
Honestly, polite and accomodating until deliberately crossed is a huge part of national identity, but it’s not really expressed it seems like. We all know we are this way, but internationally, we still seem to have the pushover vibe which is weird and stupid.
Come at us ya hosers.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 6 hours ago
I’m totally fine never buying anything American ever again.
The only pain point for me is computer parts. They’re already insane, this makes them 50% more expensive on top of that because x86 is USA dominated.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
ATI Technologies Inc. (ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of GPUs and chipsets.
BRING THEM BACK!
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
- US economy collapses because of spending all its money, and money it didn’t have, on AI,
- Canada gives up trade talks and imposes 50% tariffs on the USA, matching America’s trump tarrifs on canada
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
If Canada sells the US bonds it holds, that US debt becomes very expensive.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’ll show em
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Death to America!
Bo7a@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
Death to the demoness Allegra Geller! Death to eXistenZ!
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
makes a gun out of chicken parts
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Take your pills, we’re talking about politics here.
Talaraine@fedia.io 6 hours ago
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
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I had a girlfiend from Canada when I was young, you wouldn’t know her
imvii@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I knew her
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh yeah. I knew tf out of that quim.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 41 minutes ago
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.