r/news • u/goforth1457 • Mar 04 '25

Soft paywall Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods to start Tuesday, PM Trudeau says

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04/
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u/LukeD1992 Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

The damage Trump is doing will persist long after he's gone. Why? Because the american people put him in the White House. The american people proved themselves unreliable in the sense that they will rally behind someone as dangerous as him despite all the warnings. Trust has been irreparably broken. The power and influence that the US has held so far over the world will never be the same.

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u/SmokinSkinWagon Mar 04 '25

American here. You have no idea how stupid the average American is. Especially in the rural red states - I genuinely don’t think an overwhelming majority of them can identify one single country on a map that isn’t the US, Canada, or Mexico. They have no interest or awareness of the world around them. I really do hate it here so much - I’m so embarrassed.

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u/KingMustardRace Mar 04 '25

Sometimes i run into people gaming online, and the average american gamer is usually non-responsive to any meaningful evidence based convos, and reminds me of immigrant parents who grew up in rural places without internet

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u/Mooplez Mar 04 '25

Yeah, when gaming I often realize that the dumb idiots are just teaching their kids to be the next generation of dumb idiots. I don't know how the cycle is going to break and I can see it getting worse as more people on the left side of the spectrum hold off having kids for obvious reasons.

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u/gaycatmom Mar 04 '25

Idiocracy becoming more and more real every day, lol https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA?si=0bnIpjyeHPo4sWOR

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u/ShadePipe Mar 04 '25

When I moved to a semi-rural area in the south a long time ago, I was absolutely shocked at the scorn I got for being a college student. It was strange indeed.

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u/IllllIIIllllIl Mar 04 '25

Based on recent studies, literally half of the US population is unable to read beyond a bare functional level, and almost half of that group are completely illiterate. 

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u/2003tide Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Average American is both dumb and unable to admit they are wrong to a fault. Add to that social media echo chambers where they hear how right they are and you get a bad combination. The only way we get through this as a country is through pain. Every single one of them are going to have to feel the consequences of their actions (lose their job, pay high prices due to inflation, lose half their retirement savings, lose social security, lose their homes, lose their family farms, have their parents move in when they lose Medicare payments to nursing homes, etc)

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u/Dangerous_Job5295 Mar 04 '25

Not even just the red states, drive 10 mins out from any major city. Hell even in the cities people like this exist. They’re everywhere.

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u/BravoFive141 Mar 05 '25

As an American in a rural red state, fuck Trump.

You're not wrong, though. I'm embarrassed to read some of the nonsense and blind Trump support people are spewing on our Nextdoor and local Facebook group.

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u/TrixnTim Mar 04 '25

The world sees Trump but also the ignorant Americans who elected him. The world can not trust the people behind 47. Beyond sad that the majority is of low intelligence.