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Canada must think the apartment below is a meth lab!

Rest of the world watching America right now.

The biggest issue Canada has is the spill over from the US right wing nut jobs. They are infecting our nut jobs and making them more loopy.

I don’t know if anything could surprise me anymore

The worst thing is because of low expectations I feel the riots are not that bad and are being handled ok.

Rexedgar said:

Canada must think the apartment below is a meth lab!

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Rexedgar:

As friendly neighbours, often with family or close friends living in the USA, many Canadians are honestly concerned and distressed by these cyclical upheavals which America goes through over mass shootings or police killings of blacks and other minorities. We are concerned that so many of our American cousins have succumbed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus while so many other Americans deny the gravity of the public health situation there. We watch with trepidation as President Trump and his coterie of "advisors" are mismanaging and intentionally damaging your republic for their own ideological or personal interests and we look on in disbelief at the absurd and very dangerous political machinations which are factioning the American body-politic and tearing your country apart. Some Canadians who harbour anti-American sentiments or a superiority complex may take some satisfaction from your present troubled times but most are both sympathetic and honestly concerned. Stay strong Americans and remember to always aim for creating that more perfect union.

Cheers, be well and be safe.
Evilroddy.

Lord Tammerlain said:

The biggest issue Canada has is the spill over from the US right wing nut jobs. They are infecting our nut jobs and making them more loopy.

I don’t know if anything could surprise me anymore

The worst thing is because of low expectations I feel the riots are not that bad and are being handled ok.

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Your cops drew guns on a stormtrooper and youre blaming us for it? Riight...

Lord Tammerlain said:

The biggest issue Canada has is the spill over from the US right wing nut jobs. They are infecting our nut jobs and making them more loopy.

I don’t know if anything could surprise me anymore

The worst thing is because of low expectations I feel the riots are not that bad and are being handled ok.

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Thanks but most of us are neither right or left, just in the middle. You probably see right wing nut jobs because it reflects your political biases. In fact nut jobs as you are well aware might be right or left in politics but their political beliefs are not usually the issue, their extremist intolerance or violence is.

Our political ideologies are not necessarily a reflection of your political biases with due respect. I defer to ERoddy's comments. I am I think like many Americans neither right or left, just somewhere in the middle. If anyone exploits the tragedy in Minnesota to advance their political agenda for me and I speak only for me its cowardly. A person needlessly died in pain. Can we just not mourn that and not see politics in it. It was senseless use of force. Its the kind of behaviour that happens when we cease to see each other as humans with basic feelings and needs.

We all have the potential to be senseless and brutal, right, left, fat, skinny, black, white, Canadian, American. When a person is killed like that I just see needless suffering of a human. I have to think the message for blacks is more immediate. How can I not pause and hear their collective cry of anxiety? Yah it has turned to violence. No one condones violence but to ignore what triggered it and just blame violent rioters adds to the violence.

Someone pay attention. Police officers in Portland kneeled in protest with demonstrators. Let's hope that spreads. That is the message that can help calm things down.

PoS said:

Your cops drew guns on a stormtrooper and youre blaming us for it? Riight...

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No those were just stupid cops in the Alberta Bible Belt

Mika-El said:

Thanks but most of us are neither right or left, just in the middle. You probably see right wing nut jobs because it reflects your political biases. In fact nut jobs as you are well aware might be right or left in politics but their political beliefs are not usually the issue, their extremist intolerance or violence is.

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In Canada, what has changed in the last few years is how often and how many are open to expressing their extremist intolerance. That has changed since Trump came to office. Rebel Media, was the location for extremists (Right leaning) to go to. But now in comment sections, and social media we see far more nastiness than we did before. We see random people punching and assaulting asians in the last few months because they look Chinese. That has not occurred to any real degree since the early 90s' and late 80's. The left has not really become any more nasty than it was over the last 20 years. Heck an Alberta oil company produced a graphic of Greta Thunberg being sodomized and a significant number of Albertan's cheered

That is what I meant by Canada getting spill over from the US on the RWNJ side of things. More people on the right have become nastier than they were before

Our political ideologies are not necessarily a reflection of your political biases with due respect. I defer to ERoddy's comments. I am I think like many Americans neither right or left, just somewhere in the middle. If anyone exploits the tragedy in Minnesota to advance their political agenda for me and I speak only for me its cowardly. A person needlessly died in pain. Can we just not mourn that and not see politics in it. It was senseless use of force. Its the kind of behaviour that happens when we cease to see each other as humans with basic feelings and needs.

We all have the potential to be senseless and brutal, right, left, fat, skinny, black, white, Canadian, American. When a person is killed like that I just see needless suffering of a human. I have to think the message for blacks is more immediate. How can I not pause and hear their collective cry of anxiety? Yah it has turned to violence. No one condones violence but to ignore what triggered it and just blame violent rioters adds to the violence.

Someone pay attention. Police officers in Portland kneeled in protest with demonstrators. Let's hope that spreads. That is the message that can help calm things down.

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I generally consider myself a centrist. Socially libertarian, economically conservative, but support well designed social programs, universal health care and multiculturalism with conditions based on the Canadian Charter of Rights.

Lord Tammerlain said:

In Canada, what has changed in the last few years is how often and how many are open to expressing their extremist intolerance. That has changed since Trump came to office. Rebel Media, was the location for extremists (Right leaning) to go to. But now in comment sections, and social media we see far more nastiness than we did before. We see random people punching and assaulting asians in the last few months because they look Chinese. That has not occurred to any real degree since the early 90s' and late 80's. The left has not really become any more nasty than it was over the last 20 years. Heck an Alberta oil company produced a graphic of Greta Thunberg being sodomized and a significant number of Albertan's cheered

That is what I meant by Canada getting spill over from the US on the RWNJ side of things. More people on the right have become nastier than they were before


I generally consider myself a centrist. Socially libertarian, economically conservative, but support well designed social programs, universal health care and multiculturalism with conditions based on the Canadian Charter of Rights.

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Well written come back. Well stated. However I respectfully respond by questioning whether Trump's statements incite racism in Canada as much as you say. With due respect I think you over- estimate the listening skills of racists. I also think such people were already racist long before Trump opened his mouth.

I think you assign far too much culpability on Trump's mouth for the intolerance of others.

I like though your eloquent susinct response. Ae have our own kind of isms. They tend to be more nuanced then Americans. We like to shed tears and dance at gay parades and tell people we hire women. Then we think no one is looking we fire the women, put black face on, screw men behind our wives backs and tell people we shed tears for jn public behind closed door as to shut up. Our racists are just as often leftist as they are rightist. Me I don't join either's golf club. I hate peop,e who smile when they fart.

Prime Minister Trudeau was tongue-tied when asked about recent developments in the USA. The silence says it all.



"Horror and consternation".

Cheers, be well, and be safe.
Evilroddy.

Mika-El said:

Well written come back. Well stated. However I respectfully respond by questioning whether Trump's statements incite racism in Canada as much as you say. With due respect I think you over- estimate the listening skills of racists. I also think such people were already racist long before Trump opened his mouth.

I think you assign far too much culpability on Trump's mouth for the intolerance of others.

I like though your eloquent susinct response. Ae have our own kind of isms. They tend to be more nuanced then Americans. We like to shed tears and dance at gay parades and tell people we hire women. Then we think no one is looking we fire the women, put black face on, screw men behind our wives backs and tell people we shed tears for jn public behind closed door as to shut up. Our racists are just as often leftist as they are rightist. Me I don't join either's golf club. I hate peop,e who smile when they fart.

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Were Canadian racists before Trump most definitely and Trump is not the cause of that. I won't even say Trump is the direct cause of Canadians being more open about being racist. The current social climate in the US has " normalized" racism. That is the spill over, being open with racism has become more common since Trump took office.

I also expect it will get worse in Canada over the next few years especially in Alberta with the economy which is going to tank. A poor economy almost always brings out the worst in people

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Were Canadian racists before Trump most definitely and Trump is not the cause of that. I won't even say Trump is the direct cause of Canadians being more open about being racist. The current social climate in the US has " normalized" racism. That is the spill over, being open with racism has become more common since Trump took office.

I also expect it will get worse in Canada over the next few years especially in Alberta with the economy which is going to tank. A poor economy almost always brings out the worst in people

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I must agree. I wish you were wrong. I also probably misread you in hindsight. Thanks for the patience in the come backs.