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Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

hope florida is having the same thing.

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Good. Stick it to us Canada.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you want to make an omelette, you might have to fuck a chicken.

Wait...

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

We didn’t oust our far right. They got more votes than they’ve had in decades. They just got them in the wrong places.

We also lost our left wing party whose votes got gobbled up by the centre-left Liberals.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?

It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.

[–] VitoRobles 9 points 16 hours ago

Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.

We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Not really, just an act of humanity.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Almost the entirety of the border (minus Detroit and Buffalo) is Trump country.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

He will be fine though and likely dominate, he will kiss his fists and say meet mr calm and collected and all will be well

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 219 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey 'murican here, the other day I punched my friend in the face and started bragging about maybe taking their home from them with violent force and now they are ravaging our friendship by refusing to hang out with me.

What can I do? Threaten my friend with more violence and intolerance?

Thnx ahead of time for any advice.

Have you tried deporting your friend to a death camp in El Salvidor?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's your friend's fault, they are brainwashed by the woke trans globalist agenda and can't understand you're doing it for their own good. Keep draining the swamp and they will eventually see you were right all along!

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

No matter how much you fuck up, don't stop! Political Momentum is all that matters!

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago

How about a 90-day moratorium on face punching, after which their will definitely be more face punching?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 177 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's not even a boycott at this point, who in their right mind would cross the border and risk getting detained by an unshackled border control and ice.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Exactly, I wouldn't visit America for the same reason I wouldn't visit Afghanistan...it's a dangerous country run by dangerous religious nut jobs.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I think many of us are shocked that the US has an army of ICE and CBP agents that were this ready to go full Gestapo. That suggests some alarming underlying issues.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

many of us are shocked

Yet you have been regularly informed that "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" since 1992.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

Don't know if that's widespread knowledge outside of the US but it would be interesting if that was widely known within the US.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The type of people that went into those agencies are uhh obsessed about those issues.

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[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago

Yup. Boycott is only part of it. The other part is that it's not safe. ICE is out of control and has already sent Canadians to jail for zero reason.

I'm planning a 15 hr drive next month that I'd normally do thru the US as it shaves a few hours off. But not this time. You literally couldn't pay me to cross that border - I can't risk getting shipped off to some concentration camp in El Salvidore because ICE doesn't like my hybrid car, or whatever.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Ravage US, Canada. This isn't sexual.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 10 points 17 hours ago

I don’t like it when they say sorey every time I scream. I’m American, I need it to hurt so I can feel.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

We're currently being hit at the cervix by Alaska panhandle, can you ease off eh

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 62 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Our tourists won't come back until we abolish ICE and stop detaining random people at our borders.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Canada isn't going to be friends with the US again for at least an entire generation. I can get to mainland Europe from Vancouver for roughly the same price as a US vacation because your prices are completely fucked too. 18 usd for a burger? Lmao I'll go to Prague and have a goulash and two beers for that

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 67 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And the tariffs.

And threatening to annex us.

It's not just ICE.

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand why so many Americans don't get that. I hear, Canadians are upset at tariffs. I hear, Canadians are worried about border issues.

Both are true.

But that's not why we're enraged. It's because an unhinged, racist, sexist, authoritarian, mentally challenged dictator has threatened to destroy our country and everyone there is doing fuck all about it.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

everyone there is doing fuck all about it.

i think it’s important not to downplay the protests… people are organising the most political action that’s happened in most people’s lifetimes

but it’s by no means proportional to the situation

and perhaps more importantly: there are still a huge number of people that are drinking the koolaid

[–] thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 28 points 21 hours ago

Honestly? It might be too late. Even if we did those things, no one is coming back for decades. We just proved it's not safe.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I can confirm Points Roberts is really losing out from this trade war. It's a little tiny piece of the USA easy to get to from Vancouver but hard from mainland USA since you either have to take a boat or go through 2 international border controls.

Point Roberts gets the water electricity and telephone from our lines, throws their trash in our landfills, gets most of their business from Canada, and have a bunch of shipping/forwarding services because the rates are often cheaper to a US address.

Many Americans are great and I like them, but we're boycotting because starting from the Republican regime and its supporters, a lot of people there have gotten too casual about how much they think they don't need us so we're reminding them at large of our value.

I'm glad this Bloomberg article finally lists the many reasons that factor into this because for a few months the only reasons given were the tariffs and bad exchange rate. On its own, those haven't stopped Canadians crossing to the US to this level in the past.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

As an American, I do not take it personally that Canadians and other countries are boycotting the US. it's understandable, appropriate even, and I'm fully supportive of it.

The only thing I ask is that when the resistance comes that you find ways to support us, covertly if necessary, but public if able.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

that you find ways to support us, covertly if necessary, but public if able.

I hope you will extend the Canadians the same courtesy if the US invades them.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Many Americans are great and I like them…

Thank you. That means more than you realize.

Nobody can blame Canadians for responding rationally to an irrational situation.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do want to feel bad, especially when hearing Canadians say, "go back to the US" like in that article. Then I hear stories about my Canadian friends going to Arizona for business and people making jokes about being a 51st state to their faces and my compassion dips.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Don’t ever feel bad for giving exactly what is being asked for.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Other countries need to hammer republican states with tariffs and boycotts. Since they control the government, it's the only way they will relent on economic sanctions and ICE nonsense.

Or...

The West Coast needs to form its own trading bloc and reform ICE, as the former rules don't seem to apply to anything anymore. We'll continue to uphold traditional American values from 1776-2015, values held before all of this New Right horseshit.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 19 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Uhh, we definitely don't want to uphold traditional American values from before the 1960s or so.

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 points 12 hours ago

Governors should sign executive orders firing all ICE employees in their states.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Every time I take the tsawwassen ferry I look at point roberts and wonder what the fuck must be going on there.

[–] antisocialite 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Keep it up. We need to feel the pain to fully awaken to the reality of Trumpism.

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