I Dared Defend Canada on X. The Response Was Chilling

You know those are just bots, right?

Wah! I refuse to leave the leopard cage and don't understand why there are leopards in it!

@breakfastmtn You have to remember that a lot of the accounts on X aren't real people, they're bots.

I'd seen warnings posted that this, in large part, is and is going to be a psychological type of warfare. I thought it was nonsense at first, till I saw the barrage of verbal attacks against Canadians continuing to grow in numbers and frequency at sites like Reddit... telling us we're useless and might as well give up. But then it occurred to me that when our enemy wants us to think we're doing it wrong, it's because they know we're doing it right!

So if they are, in fact, attempting to defeat us psychologically, then we need to fight back the same way: We need to maintain and guard our right thinking and perspective by continuing to read and post and share those articles that prove our efforts are working! When we read something that discourages us, we need to follow it up by also reading from the reams of encouraging news out there! Foremost, we need to remind ourselves and each other that we aren't alone in this... that, as Canadians, we are 40 million strong! And not only this, but we also have the support of Friends from all around the world, many of them even joining us in our efforts!

So we need to keep standing together and standing strong... knowing they would love nothing more than to see us give up, and in fact need for us to give up cause they know what we're doing is working!

Go Canada & Friends! 🍁🌍

This quote from a political scientist they interview for the article is one of the most baffling statements I've seen in a while. I keep staring at it.

“You know, it’s sad,” Givens says. “I was one of the first Americans to study the far right in Europe. I’ve looked at various aspects, anti-immigration stuff, anti-discrimination policy, the roots of racism. I did a video for PBS called ‘Can democracy survive racism?’ This was back in 2019.

“And now I’m like, ‘Damn, I didn’t think the U.S. was going to be the first to fall.’”

It is simultaneously nonsensical and the essence of "this explains a lot".

As a general rule, nothing curated by an algorithm is genuine.

Iterate that for an algorithm controlled by an American corporation.

Then iterate it again for Musk.

Combine that with everyone having left Twitter who isn't maga.

No, your experience on Twitter is not representative of the average American.

The thing that is surprisingly hard to keep in mind is that the US is a culturally fascist country. It has been for a very long time. It's what a fascist democracy looks like.

It is a country with long standing and broadly shared and accepted foundational mythology. It glorifies the military, and the "All American" young adult. There's a strong cult of tradition, a deep distrust of learning and knowledge, and firm belief in the United States as a country and people of "action". Despite their own claims to the contrary, they believe that disagreement with the US is betrayal, particularly on the part of people who arr not white and born of white US citizens. They always have an external enemy (and often an internal one, too) to judtify any action. They have contempt for countries and peoples they see as weak, and a huge hard-on for machismo.

American exceptionalism, which is taught to every school child in the country, is a fascist doctrine.

You can go down the list of fascist qualities outlined in Ur-Fascism and see that the US has always ticked off a large majority of them. The only thing that's different today is that Americans are confronting someone trying to turn it into a disctatorship.

It's not the fascism that bothers people about the current shift, but the governing structure the current fascist-in-chief is trying to impose.

@breakfastmtn "is this how americans really feel?" -- a lot of them, yes. 100%, there are plenty of americans who feel that way. certainly not all of them, but definitely a lot

Canadians will need to do the right thing and hurt America in the spot they like most: their pocketbook.

This will hurt us too, no doubt. Monetarily, probably more. But I don’t think the average American are prepared for what kind of hurt we can put them through.

Twitter seems like it has basically turned into YouTube comments.

They forget. We burned down the white house once, and we'll fucking do it again.

Say what you want about how many Americans disagree with Trump blah blah blah, when it comes down to it, Trump could invade us tomorrow and throw us into concentration camps and enough Americans would be behind it that he could get away with it. I don't see how canada doesn't become annexed by the us within the next few years. I doubt the Republicans will ever lose power of the government again, so this is pretty much our future. I'm thinking of moving but I doubt I can convince my wife to come with me. Plus our house is here. Not sure if I sell it before the us comes and steals everything.

I wish I could get the time I wasted in this thread back. How is this so highly upvoted?