A Shadenfreude Morning
(midwest.social)
CanadaUsually I am sympathetic towards people losing their jobs. However, that goes out the window when their government is hostile and I am watching family struggle due to the trade war.
I guess I am technically employed currently, but it’s not in my educated field that payed way better so I would like some more of those jobs specifically please.
To me, an American, here's how this reads: In past economic downturns, the US government could at least construct a plausible story of our resilience and strength because of things like "inflation is high all over the world, but ours is lower than other trading partners" or "unemployment rate is higher than we'd like but still lower than other developed nations" and things like that. This time around, it's clear in many ways that our federal (and often state) governments are making things so much worse for us than necessary, not doing anything that's effective to fix the problems, and other developed countries / trading partners / former allies (even those who are facing similar issues and/or dealing with Trump's shenanigans) are doing better than us in metrics that are important for the working class.
Believe me when I say, I'll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters' faces along with everything else. Even a mediocre president and incompetent congress could have maintained the slow but steady recovery we were in the midst of before Trump took over.
Instead, they supported and elected a terrible president and malicious / complicit congress, and the resulting damage to our country, the economy, and our reputation is now cemented in. They voted to fuck everybody over, which tracks with the rapist and pedophile supporting crowd.
To the Americans crying about how unfair we're being by celebrating their economic loss and how "what are we supposed to do about our administration?"
Now you know a fraction of how every person in a country under US sanctions feels. The exact logic you're railing against is the same logic your country applies to Cuba.
The difference being those people have to deal with the immiserstion of brutal poverty and you just have to deal with having to find a new job and some mean Canadians online poking fun at you. Cry me a river.
You can dress it up any way you like, delighting in innocent people's suffering makes you unequivocally a huge asshole and always will.
Maybe those innocent people should haul a guillotine down to DC and loudly complain to those responsible for this mess instead of pointing fingers at other countries.
Y'all get no sympathy from me. Take care of your fuckong fascism problem. The second amendment is useful for more than shooting children in classrooms.
Not many innocents. They voted for this, and a third didn't care to vote at all
Yes let us justify our disgusting behavior by grouping in innocent people with others. Feels like there's a name for that. Hmm.
America Electoral System?
Well hopefully this will be a lesson learned for the apathetic populous that allowed this to happen.
Lib
lol the only person you can imagine being objective is called a "liberal"
Ever heard of realpolitik? Being righteous doesn’t matter on a geopolitical scale, especially not when it comes to an imperial superpower currently in the midst of its death throes. I’m afraid you’ll have to come to terms with billions of people understandably revelling in hundreds of years of a country’s utter nonsense finally returning itself to sender. Might be irrational, but it’s definitely not without precedent.
Yes I have heard of flimsy bullshit justifications before
Mhm… I’m sure you have some solid reasoning for that claim that you’re withholding for good cause and not for a complete lack of substance.
But you're not an asshole because the very shitty belief you have is part of a bigger picture, or something. Pathetic.
How about you Americans let the rest of us enjoy a little bit of what you've been doing to all of us for the entire existence of the US.
You don't gotta do shit, just don't be a bitch about people laughing at you for the same shit y'all laughed at everyone else for.
And yea I know it's not YOU it's your country.
This is exactly the same behavior as when men come out of the wood work and say "I'm not like that" when people start taking about toxic masculinity and shit.
It's not all Americans but it's always an American.
same shit y'all laughed at everyone else for.
A moronic, false thing to say and no I won't be starting even after this display of widespread assholry though. I actually appreciate it though, my blocklist and user tags are in a much better spot after this thread.
I'll join the Americans in the thread in reminding that this is less of Canada vs US and more of the 99% vs the 1%. A struggle that exist on each side of the border with the 1% cooperating across the border. I say this as someone who actively dislikes plenty of American culture. 😅
I too enjoyed this juicy bit of schadenfreude tho.
Canadian here, and I agree. Sadly global products tend to lead directly to the 1%, and its best if most people buy from local and small businesses -- for the environment too. And to donate / help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.
help poor countries so they can be better self sufficient.
So so many problems would be solved by this. Help at macro country-to-country level, not on individual level.
Shedding jobs is literally what our administration has set out to do. Its what the Fed has been aiming for. They recently voted to hold interest rates, with some members voting to raise them. Idk who these "analysts" are, but they're fucking morons. Even if interest rates were cut, it would take like 6 months to a year to see wages and employment bounce back.
I'm def not saying it is good to be losing jobs, but it is intentional.
American Voters: "Republicans are better for Job Creation! We heard it on The News."
"Hey! They took our jooooorb! Get 'em!"
Hmmmm I don't usually start my day with porn but ok, what the hell it's Friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2pgcagyRk
Unless you somehow know those jobs were only trump voters, that's a pretty shitty thing to take pleasure in. The majority of us in this shithole are against everything he's doing. Yeah yeah I know I'm a horrible person for not singlehandedly murdering the administration.
No its the minority most either support him or don't care enough to get off their fat asses.
Maybe don't comment on things you know nothing about. And maybe don't fat shame an entire nation.
I would use that Notification Settings button at the bottom to disable all those apps' notifications. Most of my apps are denied notification permission unless they are for messaging or necessary. Makes the phone less hassling
And what - miss this beautiful moment OP shared with us?
...some people might want those notifications?
Right? Super strange just telling somebody to disable their notis lol clearly they want them on.
Found the mansplainer.
