I am Canadian. I worked as a medic in Canada when 9-11 happened. I volunteered and left my home, family, friends and my job to come to NY to help my fellow man. I felt it was important. EMS then was a pretty small community when you got into higher skill levels so I personally knew some of the FF's killed that day and many associated with them as well. I was there for a month with a team of fellow Canadians pulling out body parts of your countrymen.
I watched your people rant and rave and run around screaming to kill the terrorists. I watched your president openly lie to the people to get them into this state and declare war over fantasies and money. Our team was told to fuck off and go home when we objected or questioned at all or in any way. After our month was up we did. I personally haven't crossed the border since and never would again after the treatment we received for trying to help.
We worked with people from all walks of life, all backgrounds on that site. All were screaming for blood without even looking at the facts. No one stood up and said it was not ok. No one attempted to stop it. They all screamed about bombs that never even existed and there was plenty of information available to be informed correctly.
The same is happening again except now it's at home. You're waiting for people who don't care about you to stand up for you while they openly and brazenly lie to you. Until you realize no one is going to do it for you you're fucked.
You're right about one thing. There will be no changing someone's mind and for the most part I could care less what happens to you as Americans after my experiences there. You can Thank your Fellow Americans for that. If I did care I would suggest you would organise but every time I or anyone else does, we get told you'll just be mowed down in a hail of bullets and to "fuck off" because we are idiots. Familiar. Yet defeating a dictator most often takes risking one's life. In fact there are very very few instances of it happening any other way.
All this however doesn't make it less shocking that one of the most brazen, murderous, war mongering and heavily armed populations in the world is so fucking docile and subservient to their masters that they cringe at the thought of fighting for themselves and their neighbors.
Creating "terrorists" a couple of planeloads of bombs at a time. This is not geopolitics. It's war. Only the western world could be so crass. It's only a couple of bombs on sovereign soil....meh. I say this as a Canadian. If the US lobbed bombs at us today I'd be on the warpath. I imagine there are some Iranians with those thoughts as well. It won't be a one and done even if it's not all out traditional war.
Mark Carney is pushing us exactly in the same direction as previous presidents have in the US. Check out the bills passing through government right now. He's cozying up to a fascist regime and setting us up to be exactly the same.
Give them a break, a new season of oligarchs housewives just started and it's not like they can just not go to work. They'll be out next month on Saturday.
There's a huge community of expat Germans here in Nova Scotia who brought their racism and love of Nazi ideology with them. If you could repatriate your problems we would really appreciate it.
In Nova Scotia this is an open threat just like trying to take control of the auditor generals office was a bullhorn signal strait to the brain to not trust this slimy dirtbag.
It's the war cry of the subservient American citizen! Look this little one is out here all on its own. Remarkable.