I'm fucking furious: furious at the quislings and Vichy Canadians who can't see clearly, furious at the fascists and criminals ransacking the US government, furious at the lemmings who follow them blindly. None of this was unavoidable.
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Yes, all of the above for me too!
And I feel like shaking the Americans - they need to do something now!
Not in a week! Protests, marches, get law enforcement on their side. The longer they wait, the harder it will be.
Minor side thing - can we stop spending hundreds of millions on updating stadiums in Toronto and Vancouver, to host Word Cup games that will be pulled when FIFA goes along with what Trump wants.
Gianni Infantino is the President of FIFA. He cites Donald Trump as a “dear friend” and was at the inauguration. Infantino needs Trump to be on side for his “expand to America” project. It’s widely believed that soccer becoming popular in America is a huge gold rush that is ready to pop off.
American tourists can fuck off. It's not right for them to go on vacation instead of dealing with the mess they've created for themselves and the entire world.
A reference to the French government officials who capitulated to the invading Nazis in WWII—a French government under Nazi rule was established in the city of Vichy.
"Vichy Canadians" means Canadians who are willing to bow down to Trump.
I bet there are some rich Québecois/Québecoise French language discussions now. I saw Legault's words. But I mean the spicy common comments. Tabernac!! Haut les mains!
I respect you a lot, Bruce. But the fact is that media is hugely responsible for this. Your industry let lies and disinformation flourish all under the guise of balance and “both sides”.
People only know what they think they know. If you are fed a steady diet of bullshit and lies, how do you know what’s true?
They SHOULD have known what they were getting, no question.
But the world they inhabit isn’t the one we’re in - of course it’s their own fault but you can’t cure stupid.
The difference is that it becomes calm, focused fury. We must keep the traitors out of office here, and we must just beat down the US on this trade war. They are so freakin' soft, we can probably outlast them. And we have the world on our side.
I read once that anger is just sadness coming out sideways.
It's helping me to think of that.
Anger is a normal, necessary response to someone w/out empathy intent on harm. And emotions oscillate. It helps me to understand them. An emotion only becomes a problem when it's negative & gets stuck.
And I'm sorry if this is exceptionally, annoyingly earnest. Too often, I sound like a dollar store Yoda. I share only in case it helps someone who is grappling with strong emotions right now (that's probably most of us, including me.)
Yes it is. And as my therapist once said, it's OK not to feel empathy for someone actively harming you.
I feel there's a role for all of us w/the gifts we bring. For example, writers like Bruce help bring clarity to confusing events & assist us in meaning-making.
Yes, absolutely. Helplessness and/or fear. It feels better to feel angry. I should have phrased it "anger is often".
I think, like with the early days of Covid, for some, there can come a deepened feeling of connectedness, too. A flood of fellow-feeling. That's more me at this stage in my life.
Yes, get a bully like Donald to attack a nation, and you get an upswell of both anger and connectedness all at once. A sliver of a silver lining if you will.
I think it can be a bit of a spectrum, from a practical let's-do-this! sense of connectedness to, um, woo. I think of what Simon Boas wrote in A Beginner's Guide to Dying on a psychedelic experience about feeling like "we are all just leaves on the same tree...part of a permanent, ineffable whole."
Among Canadians rn it feels like our common interest in remaining sovereign (and not economically crashing) outweighs our political and cultural differences. No one wants these tariffs; no one wants to be annexed.
Yeah, when a political issue has me 100% aligned with my hunting, fishing, Con-voting neighbour and an arena full of beer-guzzling Sens fans, something dramatic is happening.
In WW2, soon after Paris fell to Nazi Germany, a remnant of the French government set itself up in the city of Vichy and agreed to govern the southern part of France in collaboration with Berlin's administrators.
"Vichy", in this context, is a slur implying treason. (IMO correctly, in this case.)
I am also furious at the Canadian tankies, selling their story of class warfare around the so-called trade war and will be of no help to anyone on any side of this mess, all while they search for The Great Leap Forward (apologies to Billy Bragg).
There is a distinction between the voters and the party activists. Your regular suburban Calgarian voting for the UCP is probably as pissed at the US as the rest of us.
The party’s *activists* (the ones that Smith is always desperate to keep onside) are all fuckin’ culture war brain poisoned.
Thanks2 Ford,we’re in business with a Nazi (cancel Starlink) If we don’t vote Ford out,we have betrayed our country/joined Trump&Elon bc THAT is who Ford works4. The silent majority needs 2get LOUD NOW. Use/share this link 2tell Ford 2cancel Starlink! https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/default.aspx
I think it's all a lot worse than people realize when you look deeper at the connections & their shared ideological beliefs & desires for the future. Look at NEOM.
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Ivison out there bleating the Canadian equivalent of "actually there's no such thing as a Ukrainian"
And I feel like shaking the Americans - they need to do something now!
Not in a week! Protests, marches, get law enforcement on their side. The longer they wait, the harder it will be.
They can all fuck off, stay there.
#BOYCOTTUSA
This shame shit will repeat in a month.
"Vichy Canadians" means Canadians who are willing to bow down to Trump.
In other words, collaborators.
People have agency.
They knew what they were getting when the voted for Trump.
They had already seen the movie.
They wanted this shit.
They SHOULD have known what they were getting, no question.
But the world they inhabit isn’t the one we’re in - of course it’s their own fault but you can’t cure stupid.
My rage is at 11.
The difference is that it becomes calm, focused fury. We must keep the traitors out of office here, and we must just beat down the US on this trade war. They are so freakin' soft, we can probably outlast them. And we have the world on our side.
It's helping me to think of that.
Anger is a normal, necessary response to someone w/out empathy intent on harm. And emotions oscillate. It helps me to understand them. An emotion only becomes a problem when it's negative & gets stuck.
I feel there's a role for all of us w/the gifts we bring. For example, writers like Bruce help bring clarity to confusing events & assist us in meaning-making.
I think of this a lot right now:
I think, like with the early days of Covid, for some, there can come a deepened feeling of connectedness, too. A flood of fellow-feeling. That's more me at this stage in my life.
Vichy Canadians has been exactly my thoughts.
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"Vichy", in this context, is a slur implying treason. (IMO correctly, in this case.)
And I agree, it very much applies here.
It might not be our fault, but it’s our responsibility.
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The party’s *activists* (the ones that Smith is always desperate to keep onside) are all fuckin’ culture war brain poisoned.
https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/default.aspx