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Congratulations to all Americans! I can finally type your countries name with a capital "A" again. Looking forward to your healing and cleansing. Canada is quite forgiving, give us at least a few years though. Surely a better day and future for the American people. Phew! Take this opportunity to tighten up those authoritarian loopholes. The only way you should fall is from total external invasion, not from within, like trump and his enablers were trying to do.
Respectfully to you personally as your heart is absolutely in the right place, Americans do not need or at this point want Canadian forgiveness. Canadians have their own problems with their far right neighbors that they will continue to underestimate until it’s too late. And when that happens, the majority of Americans — who respect and support Canada and its people, who were outraged over the governments treatment of Canada, and who turned that outrage into action through protests and yesterdays rejection of the current government, will remember how Canadians turned on them.
The global rise of far-right authoritarianism defies borders and those of us standing against it should have been standing shoulder to shoulder, but instead Canada would rather blame all Americans while burying its head in the sand and pretending like the same thing couldn’t happen there. As if America is somehow uniquely susceptible to a problem that has been plaguing the entire world. First they doubted Americans would deliver on the rejection of its government, and now that they have, they disqualify it.
We should and we have to put things to rights with Canada because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s what our northern neighbors deserve, but frankly the holier-than-thou pearl clutching that has dominated online Canadian-American discourse has sucked the well of Canadian sympathy dry for a lot of people.
"You can trust the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted"
I'm glad at least one Canadian doesnt hate us. We always loved you
We are still taking a "wait and see" approach with the USA.
You guys dumped trumpism once, then brought it back again in an even worse version.
The USA will have to regain our trust, and that takes a lot of work over a very long time.
This is step one on a very long road.
We're not letting our guard down yet.
Agreed.
Man I'm American and taking the "wait and see" approach lmao.
Yep totally. I'm still absolutely baffled (but not really considering the average american) it took high gas and groceries and a war to make people think.
Not 40+ felony conviction and rape and almost certain proof of Epstein island visits. The Americans didn't care about that one bit. Or killing brown people or kidnapping children. Until it affected them.
Not how that works: without supermajorities in the legislature to override a veto or convict an impeachment, the president can still block all legislation.
Time to find 12 Senators that are up for re-election in 2028 and remind them that backing Trump led directly to GOP Senators losing yesterday. They need to step up and start doing their job - working for American citizens.
I am not is forgiving. Just because they voted some progressives which this politician in this post is not i won't forget that it is still an evil empire that destabilize the whole world
As an American, you should definitely not forgive us or lower your guard. We voted Trump in twice. And even beyond that we've been a scourge on the world for a long time. A small blip here does nit change that. And the Dems that got elected have to show that they will actually try to change things. I doubt they will.
For many of us non-american it is not only about trump but all the evil things the USA did in the middle east, Asia and Africa before and during trump
It's like being in a bipolar relationship. One day it's sunny, the other it's rainy, another USA is run by an oligarch pedophile cabal.
Calm yourself, they aren't any closer to healing. They haven't changed anything. They haven't even showed that this will have any effect. The regime ignores the courts and congress, so this doesn't make any difference.
The US is still a regressing democracy and have an obvious and seriously dangerous fascist problem. They are not our allies.
Thanks Russia.
Let's thank Zelensky and Ukraine for taking out a bunch of internet troll infrastructure as well! They were part of winning this election.
This is the victim mentality that makes me say this.. muricans can't take responsibility, so they are not even close to healing.
Not everyone criticizing a fascist regime is a russian bot.
It's most important to remember that us Americans very well might have been okay with the corruption and fascism if the admin just weren't fucking stupid about it.
The fact that you guys reelected the most blatantly corrupt president you've ever had isn't forgotten by the rest of the world.
It will take a lot of work over a very long time for the USA to remove the stink of Trumpism.
Electing a few better politicians is step one. Let's see how effective they are able (or how willing) they will be to improve things.
And then let's see what the American people do in the next 2-3 elections.
We were cautiously optimistic when the Americans elected Biden, and we all know what happened 4 years later.
Look, this is them making an effort. Let's pat them on the back. They did well. There is still a lot of work to do, but today, let's just celebrate progress.
LORD KNOWS how much shit we give them, always, and always will, but let's be happy for our brothers and sisters that democracy prevailed one more election.
A threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. Likewise, a victory for democracy anywhere is a victory for democracy everywhere. Tonight, democracy won.
Wooo! USA! USA! USA!
Yeah, it is a small victory, and I'm glad. I am basically just quoting Mamdani from last night - now is not the time to rest.
And he is absolutely GOD damned right. Strike while the iron is hot, this is exactly the time to go bustin caps in asses. But tonight... We celebrate and be merry. We have all gone through a lot over the past decade. We earned this.
I'm calm. I'm also very happy for the American people. They deserve a bit of peace and quiet after all the bullshit spews that constantly seem to go on forever, including yours. Be happy for them. Take the little wins and dance in the sun.
Trump gave me high blood pressure and I have to take pills now. I'm not joking. This thing has been so stressful for me over the past two years that I developed cardiovascular issues, I got the results today. I know the nightmare is not over, but at least now I feel like maybe at some point we'll wake up from it and have a few beers and laugh about the whole thing and go on living and try to fix ourselves and our planet together.
Tonight I dream.
They are too close to invading me and my allies to give them peace and quiet. They are dangerous. Now is not the time for rest.
I hear that.