Hockey fans boo U.S. national anthem at Ottawa Senators game after Trump imposes tariffs

Of course we can't know who all those non-voters wanted to win, but I'd rather not imply that nearly half of all americans voted for him.

Who gives a shit? Those non-voters made an active choice to not matter. Makes sense to respect that choice and ignore their existence.

People always bring this up as if it's some indication that things arent quite as bad as they seem. Why? Americans chose this in every way that matters.

People that didn't vote also supported him

Those who could vote but chose not to are at the same level, they actively chose to not participate, which means they at best aggree with whatever is happening. At least trump cult is way out there mentally, and there is no more humanity in those creatures, so they couldn't do otherwise. Non-participators had something in them to prevent the worst, but they chose not to. That's agency, that's responsibility.

Fair point.

Regardless, the words "only 49.8%" in this context, is so beyond absurd, that it must be comedy.

And only 22% of the total US population, including children etc., but still the people of the nation. Very few people voted (or abstained) to make this terrible thing happen.

About 99 percent of the people I speak to voted for him. Loud and proud.

^ Another American here; and I second this notion! ^

Normally I see something like this when a xitter link is embedded, by the way.

I suggest installing something like libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to automatically sub in xitter links for a Nitter instance of your choosing. Manually, replace twitter with xcancel and VIOLA, bob's yer uncle:

https://xcancel.com/SunGarrioch/status/1885844148563099971?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

People still sometimes send me FB links; not sure if there is something for that yet.

That's what happened last time. Global trade realigned and the US was left out. Just ask soy bean farmers.

Life in Canada is about to get so insanely difficult that you might want to reconsider this plan

America hasn't really stood for Freedom (in the pure sense and deserving of a capital F) from when it's "Democracy" 'for male landowners only' was formed, followed by a couple of centuries of taking all the land of the territory it claimed away from the Commons (and the various Indian Tribes who were its main users) and making all of it have owners (i.e. with its use by others controlled by said owners rather than Free).

In its territory, America has had somewhat better periods in that regard, but even the end of Slavery didn't really end it, just restricted it to be only for prisioners, whilst outside its territory America always acted to make other people's lives and possessions serve the best interests of a powerful subsection of the American society rather than be free (hence how most of those interventions involved replacing one dictator by a different pro-America dictator, or setting up semi-Democratic regimes whose hands were tied by a web of obligations to America and some of it's allies, such as how the US and UK basically gave themselves oil exploitation contracts for most of Iraq's oil wealth and "security" contracts at the end of the 2nd Iraq War and then set up a "Democratic" government there).

However unlike with regimes were the web of laws and property that curtails most people's freedom is much thinner and more direct, and hence more obvious, American Propaganda on "Freedom" has always been top-notch.

Yes. The video is an example of how hockey fans generally react to the national anthem of their rivals. Booing the national anthem is not done. It shows the extreme contrast between the respect that fans normally give and the atypical reaction of the fans following the ridiculous and self-destructive Trump tariffs.

Sorry you missed that.

We can't. We're way too small. There are only marginally more Canadians than there are Californians spread out over a country 1.6% larger than the entire US.

We're gunna try to land some lawsuits against the administration and accept refugees from the States like we did last time but it's unfortunately asking a mouse to take on a cat.

MAGA is all about hurting people. MAGA voters voted to turn the country over to the billionaires because they said that they were going to hurt brown people, women, LGBTQ, etc. They would allow the country to be bankrupted as long as people get hurt in the process.