A quick glance at the voting statistics says otherwise.

Roughly a third of eligible voters voted Trump. They’re obviously fine with the attacks on everybody and their dog around the world, including Canada.

Roughly a third voted Harris. They’re the good people, right, who’ll undo all the damage? Weird that. When the Great Democrat Hope, Gavin Newsom, was directly questioned about that, he equivocated on whether he’d undo the attacks on Canada. Maybe there’s a significant fraction of that third that doesn’t give a shit about their northern neighbours either.

And the final rough third. They didn’t give a shit enough about anything to even bother voting. I’ll guess that a huge fraction of them don’t give a shit about Canada either.

From watching reactions both in the news and in public spaces like YouTube or Lemmy or such, it seems to me like the only people who care about the attacks on Canada are people directly impacted by the boycott.

I know, right? The same people who flatly said that enforcing copyright would “destroy [their] business model” (yes, they were that brazen!) are now whining that someone is doing to them what they literally did to all of humanity.

It will be interesting to watch this one get squelched.

Americans in general are as guilty as Donald. Some by commission. Some by omission. All guilty.

Or maybe the fact there never was an actual trade deficit? That the “trade deficit” is a mathematical byproduct of things like the US Dollar being the world’s reserve currency? Something that the USA wants, but as a byproduct makes American goods more expensive abroad, hence fewer people buying (slipshod) American products?

I guess we’ll see as the USA reaches the point where people stop using US dollars as a basis currency how quickly that trade deficit vanishes when the US dollar plunges into a hole.

I don’t.

In the last election, Trump won by a hair. Also in the last election, almost a third of the voting populace decided to sit that one out.

In effect two thirds of the American electorate was fine with Trump as president. One third directly voted for him, one third just said “meh, both sides” and went about their day.

The world’s oldest toddler plays in his pram again.

This is exactly my issue with Catan. It suffers from a severe snowball effect disguised as strategy. If you have as few as three unlucky rolls especially when paired with a poor initial placement, you are mathematically locked out of the game. You end up trapped as a “zombie player”: unable to win, unable to meaningfully impact the outcome, but socially obligated to sit at the table for another 45 minutes asking, “Anyone want some sheep?” and occasionally getting a pity trade from the more empathic players at the table.

Meanwhile, the player who got lucky early on praises himself (because it’s always a guy doing this!) for his “strategic genius,” when in reality, the game’s mechanics simply rewarded his initial dice rolls.

Like Monopoly, Catan has neither catch-up mechanics, nor any meaningful alternate routes to victory, meaning a bad start basically dictates a long, agonizing, and ultimately unfun endgame for all but the lucky one or two.

I upvoted you. Catan is worse than Monopoly for me, and I hate Monopoly with the burning heat of a thousand suns.

Surely you mean the Islas Malvinas?

I disagree. The AGs did their job and made the situation better …

… for the wealthy. That is what the whole “justice” system was set up for, after all. Making things better for the wealthy and powerful.

[…] words like “courage,” “integrity,” and “ethics” aren’t words you’re going to be associating with U.S. […]

… citizens.

Fixed that for them.

Personality issue.

Find friends.

It’s really simple. Irony is just like bronzey and goldy, only it’s made of iron.

You know, this is the first DW video I’ve ever seen. It’s also the last. What an utter pile of CRAP that video is! Had they considered perhaps bringing someone on who actually knows about Canada while opining about Canada?

The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT billionaire who pays no taxes.

They found out it would apply to them so the leaders put the kibosh on that.

And the saddest part of all is that this is only PARTIALLY satire. The Secretary of (Botching) War really did turn his pedophile eye to Canadian teens.

The USA is a fucking embarrassment and should just “unalive” itself at this point.

I don’t give money to people who are attacking my people. That is, yes, an act expressed through consumption. You’d prefer I go hunting Americans with a shotgun or something?

Your parallels are utterly idiotic; you are equating choices made by people—who have agency—to fires and diseases which do not. To paraphrase a famous movie clip, we are all dumber for having heard you express this foolishness. Go peddle whatever incoherent shit you’re peddling elsewhere. Ideally, perhaps, in a rubber room.

I consciously check labels (plus a bit more) and eschew anything that has ties to an American company. I removed myself from American corporate media services. I don’t use American banking services: no credit cards, for example. And I drink enough hard liquor (non-American, natch! … no bourbon!) to smash those brain cells that have any memory of once having admired the USA.