and the only time that I *sort* of understand people not immensely hating taxes
politics
Thursday, April 3, 2025
I think the impact to US soft power is also being overstated, and imo fuck soft power in general
it's this weird line, of I love America, but I want us to get our fingers out of the rest of the world
but, the reason we're on-top is because we reduced 80% of the world to a psuedo-slave population for the last 100 years
Yeah if the goal is to just become entirely isolationist, fuck it just tariff everyon at 50% or higher
I think thats the move
I mean, there are so many MASSIVE existential changes that will occur over that timefram Mint
and no offense to Trump, I think he's a blip on the radar for a lot of those
and Pika, I'm not going ot argue with you about Canada I promise, but I find that your personal position is wholly unique compared to every other Canadian I work with or talk to
Okay, but I find my position more in line with Canadians I talk to
not claiming everyone' secretly the bigget fan of America
so I think you just talk to weird Canadians
honestly
but I think the mediun opinion is a lot more neutral, and there is a significant portion who would like closer ties with America
For clarification, other than he who I am not allowed to name, is it only Canadians who have moved to the US for higher pay who you talk to, or do you talk to a lot of Canadians who live in Canada?
China is bizzare rn
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak For clarification, other than he who I am not allowed to name, is it only Canadians who have moved to the US for higher pay who you talk to, or do you talk to a lot of Canadians who live in Canada?
it's people under 40, we work with a couple Canadian companies and I know a handful personally that I've talked with more since the whole 51st state meme started
and their circles are 180 degrees what you say yours are
so you are the only one I talk to that has a negative opinion of America, yes
I'm not counting Canadian xpats
To be clear, I have a negative opinion of most countries
who idk if I'd even notice unless they specifically told me
including my own
More like 2nd or 3rd territory
however many of those you have
a dozen
perfect
as soon as we get to 51
the magic is broken
and we can keep adding them
Anyways, maybe I amp it up a bit more for the sake of debate since I am kind of in an american only echo chamber here, but wanting to join the US is a minority position
unirronically, I think a significant amount of US opposiiton to annexing Canada by force, is because 50 is an even number
no one gives a shit about your feelings otherwise
Yeah, I am well aware that Americans only care about america (as they should)
explosion
I think countries should only care about their own country
but yeah, I like tariffs and feel like a cuck for saying so
because Trump is doing it in the most retarded way possible
and probably chatGPT'd that formula
Also I have to ask because I saw people on twitter saying it and did not care to look it up
did he actual tariff an island that only really has pengiuns on it
or is that factchecked "mostly false"
that makes more sense
Its good for you to do so
more americans should try that
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 and probably chatGPT'd that formula
considering the math they did magically did 50% reciprocal to everything greater than 20%
I also, am 100% in favor of zero federal tax dollars being spent on anything outside of the USA
I can't think of any exceptions, although I'm sure there are some
I agree that they should do that
I am also in favour of that for my country
yeah, if Trump pitches a spaceport in the Philippines
I'm fine spending on that
What if he pitches this big city off the coast of japan right
and it has a ton of windmills