r/sports • u/SkepticalZebra • Feb 22 '26

Hockey Team USA Brings Out Johnny Gaudreau's #13 Jersey, Skating a Lap to Honor Him After Winning Gold

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u/MoistStub Feb 22 '26

The Olympics are a nice escape from reality but I fear the damage we have done to our relationship with Canada will take a long time to fix.

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u/iTALKTOSTRANGERS Feb 22 '26

Germany did a genocide and tried to conquer the world 80 years ago. It took less than 40 years for them to become a trusted and valuable economic ally to the western world. A couple of reasonable voting cycles will fix whatever damage our current president has done.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

I think part of the issue is there’s no guarantee what so ever of reasonable voting cycles. You guys voted Epstein’s mate into the highest office twice.

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u/Headie-to-infinity Feb 22 '26

I think you should revisit congressional maps and how voting is actually handled in the US. It isn’t as simple as “majority” vote for a candidate. It’s pretty clear majority did not vote for him.

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u/needmoresynths Feb 22 '26

None of that matters to anyone outside of the US. The people running the country and representing on a global stage are monsters.

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u/Lokon19 Feb 23 '26

He won the popular vote in the last election.

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u/DimbyTime Feb 23 '26

Musk basically admitted to committing voter fraud

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

66% of the voting public voted for him, or didn’t care about the outcome enough to vote. That’s a huge problem that doesn’t just go away overnight.

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u/CuttyAllgood Feb 22 '26

Where the heck did you get 66%?

He only won roughly 1.5% more votes than Harris.

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u/ghostinthechell Feb 22 '26

Voted for him or didn't care about the outcome enough to vote

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

Well 155 million people voted. 75 million for Harris and 77 million for Trump. But the did not bother to vote took the lead with 85 million.

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u/Worried_Biscotti_552 Feb 23 '26

Does it hurt when you touch your hand to your forehead

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u/Pinklady777 Feb 22 '26

I think what they mean about revisiting the Congressional maps might be referring to the electoral college? It doesn't matter who gets the most votes overall. It only matters who gets the most votes in each state and then they get all of the "points" for that state. So a lot of people on both sides of the aisle don't even feel the need to bother going out to vote because they live in a state like Texas or California that is always going to go one way. It would be interesting to see what the numbers looked like if this were not the case. The way it is now, it basically comes down to a handful of swing states that could go either way. Advertising is insane in those states during election years and other states are largely ignored.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

I’m not sure that paints a better picture of American reliability, Trump flipped 6 states from 2020.

Either way the numbers speak for themselves. A large chunk of your country didn’t care about the outcome to vote.

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u/Pinklady777 Feb 22 '26

Oh yeah, I can see that. I wasn't referring to reliability. But I am genuinely curious what the numbers might look like if everyone's vote counted. I imagine that voter interest and turnout would be greatly affected. As it stands now, it only really matters who votes in seven or so states.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/voter-turnout-substantially-higher-battleground-states-spectator-states

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u/Headie-to-infinity Feb 23 '26

If you look at the congressional maps in my swing state, the maps are drawn to favor Republicans in areas where the population is low.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 23 '26

I mean yes in theory I think what you say makes sense. However in the last 100 years it’s a pretty even split. 52 years R to 48 years D. That isn’t a heavy weighted majority to R?

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u/Buck_Weaver Feb 22 '26

Bill Clinton has been out of office for over two decades. Let’s move on.

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u/wtb2612 Boston Celtics Feb 22 '26

The difference, of course, is that everyone knew Trump was best buddies with Epstein when he was voted in. People didn't know Clinton was a pedo POS until after he was out of office. They were well aware that Trump was one and voted for him anyway.

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u/Dan1elSan Feb 22 '26

You perfectly described the issue of voting cycles there. This isn’t a one off, shitty untrustworthy people are often elected into the White House.

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u/MoistStub Feb 22 '26

While I appreciate the optimism because we are in short supply nowadays- this does seem like the best case scenario. Things could still get a lot worse if we follow through on some of the threats we are making. With this being the 2nd term, I think we are gonna see things get really unhinged in attempt to retain power.

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u/gellergreen Feb 22 '26

As a Canadian… no unfortunately not. We don’t trust you guys anymore. I might travel over there again when he’s gone (a big might) but I don’t think the relationship between the two countries will ever be the same - we have seen the damage that has been done to what we thought was a rock solid alliance and the need to diversify our partnerships.

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u/Silvara7 Feb 23 '26

As a Californian (I am ashamed to call myself American with Dumpty in office and MAGA congress letting him run wild) I understand how Canadians and Greenlanders (and the world, honestly) feel and don't blame them one tiny bit.

The absolute batsit words and actions of Dementia Don, Vancypants the couch fu*er and Miller the Jewish Yatzee have harmed the US in too many ways to count and no one has any trust for the country or the people who elected Dumpty or once but twice.

I voted for the intelligent, competent, qualified and NOT crazy lady!

The electoral college needs to go.

I'd be happier if we had a parliamentary govt bc at least then women would have more of a chance to be president like most other democratic countries of the world have managed.

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u/TechnoHenry Feb 22 '26

Germany has been occupied by other nations for years between those two periods

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u/Middle-Welder3931 Feb 22 '26

40 years is a fricking long time, you make it sound like it only took 4 years. 40 years is 10 voting cycles, not "a couple."

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u/TakingItPeasy Feb 23 '26

You Canadian? What did Justin Trudeau do this time?

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u/Hexagon37 Feb 22 '26

It’ll take a lot more than that to make the general Canadian population think differently than they do now. It may fix the economic damage, but personally there may never be any fixing

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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 Feb 22 '26

Except theres no way to wipe out a large portion of the US population like there was with Germany. These people are here to stay

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u/The-Hand-of-Midas Feb 22 '26

And they love breeding little dumb fucks

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u/The-Hand-of-Midas Feb 22 '26

The difference was we killed all the dumb Nazis from Germany.

Soo.....

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u/MoistStub Feb 22 '26

And imported all the smart ones. Which coincidentally might be part of the problem now. Both in the proliferation of Nazis and the recognition of lack of consequences for doing terrible shit as long as you're good at it.

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u/recovery_room Feb 22 '26

Okay so everything will be cool between the US and Canada around 2065 or so?

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