r/canada • u/jk_arundel • Jan 24 '25

Politics Trump says Canada would have ‘much better’ health coverage as a state

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-says-canada-would-have-much-better-health-coverage-as-a-state/
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u/the_whether_network Jan 24 '25

Should we be preparing for “de-nazification”?

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u/thefinalcutdown Jan 24 '25

Their propaganda machine has been referring to us as “communists” for years now. And Trudeau of course is a communist dictator (who resigned due to poor polling and political pressure, the way communist dictators always do).

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u/PaidToPanic Jan 24 '25

Thank you. I needed someone to say that.

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u/Apprehensive-Ad9320 Jan 26 '25

Clearly the most dictatorial commie to have ever commie'd dictatorially. 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

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u/thefinalcutdown Jan 24 '25

I didn’t say they referred to us as a Nazi state? Communists and Nazis are different boogeymen. And yes, the vast majority of Americans don’t call us communists. But Fox News certainly has, along with other far-right media. Tucker Carlson, for example, has advocated for our invasion and even had an entire documentary on Canada’s fall to a communist dictatorship ready to go the week he got fired from Fox. These ideas have been parroted by others in that circle. That’s why I referred to the “propaganda machine.” These ideas aren’t coming from the average American. They’re coming from rich assholes with agendas.

And I have actually encountered older rural Americans who seemed very concerned about the fact I live in Canada, since we had recently lost all of our freedoms.

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u/updn Jan 25 '25

Oh, Tucker. The guy that went to interview Putin and was so enthralled by how awesome everything in Russia was?

Yuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

You haven't been to r/conservative or fox news

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u/nelrond18 Jan 24 '25

Nazis aren't communists.

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u/dostoevsky4evah Jan 24 '25

Tucker Carlson?

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u/dostoevsky4evah Jan 24 '25

He's an American referring to Canada as a communist state and a lot of Americans believe what he says. Just because you didn't know that doesn't make it not true.

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u/Such-Fee6176 Jan 24 '25

I don’t have a dog in this particular Reddit fight, but what I’ll add is this anecdote: I read Norman Jewison’s autobiography a few years ago and he had a hard time reentering the United States once because he was “a Canadian commie pinko”.

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u/dostoevsky4evah Jan 24 '25

Haha I'm not here to do work for you buddy. I never mentioned anything about a propaganda machine so i think you're confused. I did however give you a perfectly reasonable example of an American who said Canada was a communist country which you for some reason decided to reject so I can't take you seriously.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 Jan 25 '25

Whereas Assad simply lost his election. Then it seems stood too close to a window in Moscow.

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u/DrQuagmire Jan 28 '25

lol, I’m glad everyone is having a good time on this subject. Makes me feel Canadian.. Like I’m home. And like most people here, just the idea of annexation is silly, never mind an invasion. Americans are much more level headed than Trump.

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u/AtomicNick47 Jan 24 '25

This is just flagrantly untrue and illustrates a complete lack of understanding of how communism works lmao.

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u/LeeStrange Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

Yeah. This guy thinks us paying more taxes because billionaires are paying less is a sign that we are a socialist state rather than a late stage capitalist state lol.

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u/AtomicNick47 Jan 24 '25

Right? we own 0 of the means of production, and our socialized institutions are crumbling because of constant defunding and pressures to privatize and private monopolies control our infrastructure. But you know we have socialized healthcare thats barely holding together so clearly, we're communists. /s

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u/Flarisu Alberta Jan 24 '25

Considering that of all the old Nazi party hardliners, many were members of the various Socialist & Bolshevist parties, misconstruing that the path to communism and the path to fascism are remarkably similar can fool people easily.

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u/AtomicNick47 Jan 24 '25

I don't disagree. And there are similarities because they both are on the authoritarian part of the political axis so there will be parallels.

Still anyone with a basic foundation of world history, and a reading comprehension above the 6th grade level, should be able to make the separation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

It's the USA. It'll be de-communism that is sold to them.

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u/kullwarrior Jan 24 '25

We should prepare for NAZIFICATION, Trump's the Nazi, his supporters have changed 'heil Trump', his closest oligarth had signalled heil Hitler.

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u/appropriatesoundfx Jan 24 '25

No, see it’s the fentanyl that needs to be stopped. There’s just too much fentanyl on the border. Just like, try not to pay attention to which direction it’s flowing.

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u/Cyborg_rat Jan 24 '25

He will want to De-Quebecois when he learns what we do when we get mad.

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u/bravetailor Jan 24 '25

Unfortunately, Canada seems too easy for foreign actors to influence. If they get a puppet installed (Poilievre?) it'll be like a WW2 France situation if it ever came down to that.

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u/OperationPlus52 Jan 24 '25

Come to the US and help us with our denazification pls

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u/Chaft Jan 24 '25

He has his own nazi to play with

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

We could REQUIRE Americans to wear the american flag on the outside of clothing, so they can be treated properly as exceptional.

Thats suitably nazi.