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      Canada here. In our house we’re still not buying anything American because their president threatened to invade and annex our country, and the government have yet to walk it back or even apologize. And even if the president of America did back off and say sorry, he’s a rapist and a pedophile so he can still go fuck himself.

      I don’t think the powers-that-be in the US realize quite how much damage they’ve done to international relations lately. This isn’t the sort of thing they can just say sorry for and expect to go back to normal once Trump is dead and everyone is pretending they didn’t enable him for the last decade.

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        The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.

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        People don’t remember tariffs from 9 years ago. People will never remember what’s important.

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    I’m becoming anti-American, and I’m American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don’t blame them at all.

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    Gee I wonder where that could’ve stemmed from?

    I’m american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting…

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    Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There’s concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.

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    As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we’re not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we’re getting.

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      I’ve been in Scandinavia since early July and yeah, being American is basically a joke. If you can sit down and have a real chat, they know very well that our politics don’t represent us but quick face to face? Couldn’t give a single fuck about us.

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    Sucks to suck.

    They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.

    We can’t have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.

    Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I’m American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.

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    Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.

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            the founding fathers would probably have a heart attack seeing that women and black people have some rights

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              Some would. But many were progressive even then. They recognized the dangers of slavery, but felt that the southern states joining war against the north was unwinnable. So they pushed the problem off for another generation to handle.

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                George Washington was extremely respectful of women. He held his wife’s opinion in high regard, and one of his closest personal advisors was a a lifelong female friend. I don’t think he would have minded the idea of women voting.

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    These stupid cunts didn’t realize he was unpopular when they were doing photo ops during the campaign? Let them suffer.

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    Fuck major American brands fuck corporations fuck the bourgeoisie and the patricians fuck CEOs fuck “members of the board” fuck shareholders and the entirety of every Forbes list

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    This is proof that individuals do have power. Together we have a voice. Keep speaking.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.