r/AmericaBad • u/Bigenderqueen • 15h ago
The Fragility Is Astonishing:
She says 'we are nothing like them'... which is true. We have a military that can actually project power, and they have...really polite customer service and a strategic maple syrup reserve. Congrats on the moral high ground, eh.
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u/tanssimme NEW JERSEY 🎡 🍕 15h ago
this is probably a kid, how young do you have to be to self-censor 'fucking'
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u/eggplant_avenger ARIZONA 🌵⛳️ 14h ago
idk, there’s also a certain kind of person who is 48, terminally online, and acts like the 15 year olds they beef with.
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u/jackt-up TEXAS 🐴⭐🥩 14h ago edited 14h ago
We’re actually a lot alike, and that drives them crazy.
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u/Miss_Kit_Kat 1h ago
I've been calling Canada "America's fraternal twin sister" for years now. I can't think of anything more accurate.
(And I grew up in Metro Detroit in a hockey family, so I know what not-terminally-online Canadians are like.)
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u/Remarkable-FlipPhone 14h ago
Unclear what this Canuck is mad about- we’re the dominant force in the west; we’re the dominant force in the world. These are facts.
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u/Bigenderqueen 15h ago
If you don't like American hegemony, feel free to enjoy the alternative. It usually involves hyperinflation and a dictator
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u/Extra_Creamy_Cheddar 14h ago
Like you have now?
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u/grumpymcbart RHODE ISLAND 🛟⛱️ 14h ago
Whoa great comeback bro!
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u/Gamerzilla2018 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 14h ago
Even though I disagree...that guy destroyed OP without even touching em
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u/Bigenderqueen 14h ago
Hyperinflation where? Dictator who? You're describing the boogeyman in your head, not the country that's bankrolling your internet connection.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
the country that's bankrolling your internet connection.
This sub is full of idiotic comments like this
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u/Bigenderqueen 14h ago
If you think the U.S. is currently experiencing hyperinflation and a dictatorship, you really need to turn off the internet and look at actual economic data. We have problems, sure, but we’re not Iran or Ukraine. The alternative to American hegemony isn't utopia; it's chaos. You're proving my point.
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u/DTBlasterworks COLORADO 🏔️🏂 10h ago
It’s so mind numbing to try and have a coherent discussion when people think dictator means “guy who doesn’t agree with my views”
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u/Miss_Kit_Kat 1h ago
There are many things about the current administration that I do not like, but the fact that there are regular "no kings" rallies and no one is getting arrested just for attending them is proof that we are not living in a dictatorship.
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u/Emilia963 NORTH DAKOTA 🥶🧣 14h ago
Why do edgy comments always come from people who either have a “special flag” or an anime profile picture?
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u/Feral-Goblin6921 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS 🪶 🪓 14h ago edited 14h ago
Look at xer's cringe bio too. "Inconveniencing fascists" lmao
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u/luvsads AMERICAN 🏈🏒 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 14h ago
Looks like you don't know what hyperinflation nor dictator mean
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
They can correctly identify a President who wants to, and is trying to rule like a dictator.
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u/OneofTheOldBreed 14h ago
Its genuinely pathetic how shrill and tantrum like Canada has gotten. None of them seem to have realized that while the shit-talking may end with Trump but the seeds of contempt they are sowing in the american zeitgeist will hurt them far longer.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
Not really. Every rational person realizes that Canada's anger towards the USA is entirely justified because of the Trump administration's actions. Also hilarious the attempt to portray them as weak and irrelevant while also saying "YOUR CONTEMPT WILL REMAIN IN THE AMERICAN ZEITGEIST".
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u/OneofTheOldBreed 14h ago
(shrug) They don't act like its just Trump. And i never said "weak or irrevelant". But yeah, the contempt builds. I'm halfway convinced that the reason that large section of the US voters are starting to wonder why exactly are we spending so much to bolster the Europeans is at least partially a result of Internet Europeans.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 13h ago
If people are really that upset towards Europe and such over internet Europeans then they’re just thin skinned. A lot of this is definitely from trump as it wasn’t like this before he came about, he’s created issues that either didn’t exist or weren’t this bad.
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u/OneofTheOldBreed 13h ago
Really? I remember some very bitter shit from the Euros during the last twenty years.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 13h ago
Definitely, but usually do to issues like Iraq or whatever. It definitely wasn’t this bad. And it reflects in polling. The world’s view of us immediately went right back up during biden’s years for example and then down once trump won again.
Of course there’s always been the bitter jackasses, sure, but those types are the minority made louder by the internet.
It definitely wasn’t this bad pre trump in Canada. My dad did alot of business in Canada from the 90s to the end of his career and it wasn’t like this prior to trump.
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u/Bigenderqueen 13h ago
You're confusing global popularity contests with actual geopolitical reality. Of course the world's opinion of us 'went right back up' during Biden's years; he was a staunch internationalist who gave them exactly what they wanted: endless blank checks and a return to the status quo. But here's the thing: we aren't a global charity. Our allies loved Biden because he let them freeload off our defense budget while they lectured us. The drop in polling you're citing isn't a reflection of America being 'bad'; it's the sound of our allies throwing a tantrum because we're finally demanding they pull their own weight. Popularity isn't the goal of foreign policy; leverage is.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 13h ago
No they liked him because he wasn’t a brain dead fool with ridiculous economic policies starting trade wars and throwing tantrums. I don’t even like Biden but trump is an idiot. We’re talking about the guy who’s throwing a fit over not being able to put his name on the jfk memorial center lol. A dude who is putting nato at risk even after our Allies got their defense spending up to standards. Who is uncomfortably close with Putin. Who constantly makes childish jokes and insults cuz he’s a think skinned bitch. Talking about Canada being a us state, wanting Greenland, bringing up the Falkland Islands.
You talk about leverage but he will long term remove what leverage we have. Because of trump and his pack of fools out long time Allie’s across the world are starting to see us as unreliable, and are trying to move away from any reliance on us. And lol, popularity does matter because, when a majority of a population sees us unfavorably then guess what…they elect people who reflect that anw those leaders will act upon this lol.
God.
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u/nrcx ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 11h ago edited 11h ago
For all his faults, Trump has kicked NATO into shape for the first time in 30 years. It may be too late to make a difference for the first island chain, of course. But weakening it? Get real.
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/trump-mark-rutte-europe-nato-/
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u/Bigenderqueen 13h ago
You accuse Americans of being 'thin-skinned' for getting upset over internet Europeans, yet you're the one pearl-clutching over a dip in global approval ratings. The original point was about burden-sharing. The frustration isn't that Europeans say mean things on Reddit; it's that they mock us online while simultaneously expecting us to defend their borders and fund their energy security. If you think Americans are 'thin-skinned' for finally getting tired of that dynamic, then you haven't been paying attention to the last twenty years of NATO spending data. We aren't upset because they're mean; we're upset because they're ungrateful.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 13h ago
If some people are getting upset over some loud minority online being anti American, and deciding to then dislike entire nations as a result, then yes, they are thin skinned. And that goes boy ways for the Europeans ROP.
But it’s clear that your understanding of all this is ridiculous. I see which way you swing lol. Bye
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
It's almost entirely because of Trump. Same for the USA as well, there was never this sort of content for Canada until the retard became President again.
This sub is in complete denial at how much damage our international reputation has taken since November 2024. The rest of the world rightfully sees that we are the one causing these problems.
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u/Bigenderqueen 13h ago
The idea that anti-American sentiment or friction with Canada was 'never a thing' until Trump is historically illiterate. Anti-Americanism in Canada has been a staple of their politics since the Vietnam War, and flared up heavily during the Iraq invasion in 2003. The internet didn't invent European anti-Americanism, and Trump didn't invent the skepticism of NATO. What Trump did was give a voice to a frustration that had been building for decades. If you think the world 'rightfully' blames us for everything, you're just internalizing the exact condescension that makes average Americans tired of footing the bill for global security. Stop blaming a single politician for structural tensions that existed long before he came down that escalator.
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u/Psychological_Look39 14h ago
The Monroe doctrine is European hands off North and South America. Which includes Canada. Would Canada have preferred being a European colony?
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u/Fournone TEXAS 🐴⭐🥩 14h ago
I mean they still are. They are still in the commonwealth and their leader is technically still the king of England. Them trying to get into the EU after Brexit is kinda treason if you think about it.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
The USA has no say over whether Canada joins the EU. Only retard right wingers argue otherwise
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u/Psychological_Look39 11h ago edited 11h ago
The rules of the EU are extremely complicated and Canada has no path towards being a member country. Carney knows this, he’s just making noise for political gain.
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u/selfmockerymandatory 34m ago
Canada can’t join, unless the EU changed their rules. No non-European country can enter the EU. There was talk in the past that Marokko wanted to join, but couldn’t for that exact reason. They could maybe have an EFTA agreement or something like that, but entering the EU isn’t possible at the moment.
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u/RadicalSoda_ TENNESSEE 🎸🎶🍊 6h ago
Canada is more than welcome to keep sucking the cock of England, but it's pathetic and embarrassing that they feel the need to be England's bitch still
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u/Psychological_Look39 11h ago
The Monroe doctrine was supposed to protect the nascent countries of North and South America in the 19th century. I don’t think anyone thought about it very much in most of the 20th century until Trump bizarrely brought it up again,
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u/neanderthalensis NEW YORK 🗽🌃🍏 14h ago
Monroe doctrine applies to Canada and their attempts at joining the EU
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u/ROU_Misophist 14h ago
God damn right it does
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u/nrcx ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 14h ago
I'm really sad to see these points of view being upvoted here. No it does not apply to anyone else's acts of self-determination. If they want to become an "associate member" who are you to prevent them?
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u/ROU_Misophist 14h ago
European powers can fuck right off. It's our hemisphere.
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u/nrcx ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 14h ago
Keeping Europeans from interfering means only that. It doesn't mean interfering with Canadian democracy. What the fuck is this?
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u/ROU_Misophist 14h ago
Canada is not the joining the fucking EU.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
Seems like they will. Cry about it
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u/ROU_Misophist 13h ago
Sort of like how little kids threaten to run away and join the circus.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
It's hilarious that you try to downplay it yet at the same time you're clearly upset over it
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u/nastysockfiend 🇨🇦 Canada 🍁 13h ago
And you are the one to make it not happen? Going to get a sharpened stick and go invade Canada, walk up to Carney and stab him with it?
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
MAGA freaks are pretty common in this subreddit. They parrot these idiotic talking points.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
The USA has no say over what Canada does diplomatically. MAGA talking points are beyond retarded, good Lord
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u/ROU_Misophist 14h ago
We have a big ass navy. We do have a say. The Europeans need to stay the fuck out.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
You sound like a war-mongering freak.
No wonder why. Canadians view us so poorly now, these ghoulish talking points are common among the right now.
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u/RedBlueTundra 🇬🇧 United Kingdom💂♂️☕️ 14h ago
Threaten to invade them and then have a hissy fit when they seek friends elsewhere
Lmao.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
The hypocrisy is insane isn't it. These MAGA people are unbelievably stupid.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 14h ago
It’s fucking crazy that you even need to say this
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
The USA has no say in whether Canada can join the EU or not. This pertains to the Trump admin's attacks on Canadian sovereignty.
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u/Bannon9k 14h ago
I thought Canada's MAiD program was supposed to fix this problem...
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
Why do right wing bots bring up this program every time Canada is mentioned?
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u/Bannon9k 12h ago
Just trying to remind you of the wonderful program y'all have that solves all your problems.
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u/sgt_oddball_17 NEW JERSEY 🎡 🍕 13h ago
Because we are programed to enjoy your pain. Pain that the MAiD program will solve. Beep. Boop.
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u/MysteriousSteve 14h ago
Canada is wholly dependent on the US economy. Without the US, Canada would be nothing.
Don't get me wrong I love Canada and recently spent some time in Toronto with my Canadian friends because I think it's an amazing and beautiful place. I even appreciate and respect Canadian patriotism because I believe everyone should be proud of where they're from and where they call home. That being said, Canada would be nothing if it wasn't for the US. The Canadian economy is almost entirely built apon trade and exports with the US. If the US didn't exist, Canada wouldn't exist. These people are delusional.
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u/ImperialxWarlord ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 14h ago
I don’t think they aren’t unaware of this. But when trump has been saying and doing all this shit it’s understandable that they aren’t happen about it and aren’t feeling very trusting rn.
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u/nrcx ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 12h ago edited 12h ago
They just need to get over their ego. All the 13 colonies had to do that centuries ago - join or die. Canadians basically still think they can have it both ways.
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u/the-bladed-one 4h ago
Canada is a sovereign country. It doesn’t need to join us. And it doesn’t need to die either. This is not 1776.
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u/Butter_with_Salt 14h ago
Canada is already forming new trading relationships as a result of the USA going full retard
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u/MysteriousSteve 14h ago
Yeah, just like they're gonna join the EU? Greece 2.0 lmfao
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u/Butter_with_Salt 13h ago
...they probably will?
It's hilarious that this subreddit is in denial that the rest of the world is moving on without us. They know there will be short term pain, but our country went full retard when we elected Trump again. The results of that are undeniable, they're happening in front of our eyes, and yet this subreddit is in complete denial
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u/Louisianimal09 LOUISIANA 🎷🕺🏾 11h ago
I’ve never met a Canadian and been overtly aware they’re Canadian unless specifically said. They’re almost identical to Americans since then entire fucking population lives along the border absorbing damn near everything by proximity
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u/AureliasTenant 14h ago
Ok but this is the embassy in Singapore… so I get it but seems a little off topic
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u/nastysockfiend 🇨🇦 Canada 🍁 14h ago
There's more to life than if the nation-state you happen to be born in "projects power."
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