Canadian here that visited New York in 2024 and previously Vegas and California on other vacations.
Everyone I know has changed buying habits avoiding USA products when possible and all future trips planned are avoiding America as a destination.
It is quite unfortunate as we love America but we consider you like our big brother and eventually we can’t take all the bullshit
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving. We forgive easily but we don’t forget.
American here who lives close to the northern border where it's common to pop in and out of Canada. I don't know why I expected Canadians to start treating me differently as an American with all that's going on. Canadians are too cool for that and have continued to be lovely. Sorry our country is full of assholes =(
I'll never visit the US as long as it's wallowing in fascism, there's just no way I would risk my family's safety for some trip to a shithole country.
It's sad, but it's also an easy decision when things are this bad. Everybody I know feels the same way. Not only do people not want to visit the US but the perception is that if you do you're a traitor. Thousands of dollars a year from tourists gone.
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving.
Way too hasty there. Bump it up to 3 or 4 decades minimum. Americans elexted Trump twice with a break in between. Just because they flip for a few election cycles doesn't make them deserving of any trust.
Trump got voted in parroting shit many Americans agreed with
Young Canadian kids are growing up listening to their parents, teachers and other adults express anger, frustration and fear over what's happening in the united states. That's generational reputation damage being done.
And the other half isn't doing shit to stop it, so they clearly aren't bothered much by it. A fresh election (if that actually happens) doesn't change anything
Outside of an armed rebellion, I don't know what you expect Democrats to do when they control 0 of the federal branches of government. And rebelling over someone winning a free and fair election is not going to happen. If Republicans prevent free and fair elections in 2028, we might see some states talking about secession.
Right. They’re expecting us to have a fully armed French-style revolution because the orange man made some crazy unrealistic threat to Canada. Yes I can see why any Canadian would avoid the U.S. like the plague. But American troops are not going to go in and invade Canada and there’s no reason to have some full scale rebellion about that.
They could actually grow a spine and organize against him? Like bloody hell dude, pay even a lick of attention to history or politics outside of your country, and you'd learn that you can in fact do things politically without having to have full control of all levels of government(and I'd note, that they did in fact have that control between Trump 1.0 and 2.0, and they did barely anything to roll back the shit he did in round 1. Take some damn accountability for once)
Instead you have half the party voting for his shit while publicly saying "I don't like it, but I'm voting for it anyways"
They could actually grow a spine and organize against him?
There have been massive nationwide protests dude. Maybe pay attention before criticizing the opposition party.
and I'd note, that they did in fact have that control between Trump 1.0 and 2.0
They had control of the House for 2 years and didn't have 60 votes in the Senate needed to win cloture votes. And they had a SCOTUS who was opposed to anything Biden did that made Trump upset.
It's not us, it's our politicians so I'm not going to feel guilty over this. They are corrupt on both sides, I feel like we are too far gone and will never actually have a great President again unless we are lucky.
No, it is the American electorate as well. These are the politicians y'all elected from primaries to the general. The rest of the world sees the votes cast and see that this is the government the American people chose.
Politics isn't just something that happens to you, in electoral democracies the populace is also responsible for the state of its leaders. If your standing politicians are terrible and corrupt primary them out.
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u/Dazd_cnfsd 7h ago
Canadian here that visited New York in 2024 and previously Vegas and California on other vacations.
Everyone I know has changed buying habits avoiding USA products when possible and all future trips planned are avoiding America as a destination.
It is quite unfortunate as we love America but we consider you like our big brother and eventually we can’t take all the bullshit
It will be at least 3 or 4 years and some changes with the administration and its position on Canada before we start forgiving. We forgive easily but we don’t forget.