This is hilarious, depressing and scary, all at once.
A Canadian put a post on X and BlueSky, defending Canada against American extremism. The post - which read,"For a US President to refer to the Prime Minister of Canada as 'Governor' isn't just rude. It's a hostile act." - was pretty tame. And indeed it hardly registered a blip on BlueSky (which is mainly populated by refugees from the increasingly toxic X).
On X, however, the post completely blew up. Responses ranged from "Get over it, it was a joke" to "Yeah, but it's Canada, so who gives a fuck?", "Fuck Canada", "Trudeau deserves it because he's a jerk, and anyway he insulted Trump too", "Whuddya gonna do about it, pussy?", "Come and do something about it. I'd love to see you little maple syrup gay boys try something", and worse. Choice epithets included "cuck", "bitch", "coward", "drama queen", "beta male", "soy boy", "libtard", "snowflake", "butt-hurt", "faggot", "pansy", "trans communist", "Good Jew".
Wow.
Just the choices of terms of abuse alone give a pretty good idea of where Trump's America's head is right now. And the vitriol, the absolute disdain and contempt for anything approaching liberalism or even impartiality, is a thing to behold.
There's a lot of bad feeling in Canada these days, and a lot of divisiveness, negativism and even hostility (thanks almost entirely to Pierre Poilievre and his populist shtick). But, God, am I glad I don't have to live in the USA. It's hard enough living next door.
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