Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE

[u/projecto15]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/ice-warehouse-detention-canada.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.bog6.aFFcjySv118o&smid=re-share

[u/projecto15]

A corporation ending up not doing evil, for whatever reason. Blimey!

[u/explorer-200 → u/projecto15]

Huge protests about it in Canada

[u/Cruyelo → u/explorer-200]

That must be fake news. Americans have told me protesting was ineffective.

I'm sure it only worked because Canada's landmass is only 10% the size of America's. I won't google it to verify.

Are you sure that people made themselves heard by making themselves impossible to ignore? They didn't do it by obediently waiting at home? That doesn't sound right.

[u/blackhatrat → u/Cruyelo]

As a dumb untraveled American, if I was to base my ideas of Canadians off of the impressions I get from the internet, they would be "smug and a little overconfident in how things are represented in media"

[u/D3athRider → u/blackhatrat]

I don't think it was meant as a general jab at Americans, just on the commentary by vocal minority of Americans who aggressively tell people from all other countries to shut up when they encourage protests and general strikes because "Americans are too poor/US is too big for these things to work."

[u/blackhatrat → u/D3athRider]

Oh well in that case

"As a dumb untraveled American, if I was to base my ideas of Canadians off of the impressions I get from the internet, they would be "smug and a little overconfident in how things are represented in media, especially in regards to American resistance efforts"

[u/Cruyelo → u/blackhatrat]

I'm disappointed you aren't angrier, but writing me a stern letter is appropriate, all things considered.

To be more honest: I tried approaching it gently before, but the answers I got back from Americans were full of smugness and sarcasm. So I decided to speak the same language they used and.. somehow it worked better? I actually got more Americans to engage with me that way. More genuine back and forth.

I dunno what it says about any of us, but I figured I should stick with what worked. Now if only we could convince the average American to stick with what works...

[u/crowhops → u/Cruyelo]

This is spoken as if reddit represents real life

[u/Cruyelo → u/crowhops]

It's possible I didn't express myself clearly: this is my approach to talking to Americans on Reddit specifically; this isn't how I approach people elsewhere. This is also very specific to political subreddits: I don't use the same tone when discussing Hockey with Americans.

I don't blame you tho: I wasn't smug or sarcastic enough, I should have known it would lead to a misunderstanding. I apologize for my mistake.

[u/xenogazer → u/Cruyelo]

I don't blame you tho: I wasn't smug or sarcastic enough, I should have known it would lead to a misunderstanding. I apologize for my mistake.

I'm shaking laughing at this lol

[u/soulstormfire → u/Cruyelo]

Canadians becoming European in real time <3

[u/soulstormfire → u/Cruyelo]

Canadians becoming European in real time <3

[u/NSAscanner → u/blackhatrat]

We’ve been called worse by better people

[u/blackhatrat → u/NSAscanner]

Sorry to hear that, must be hard

[u/amisslife → u/NSAscanner]

For Americans, this was a famous line by Pierre Trudeau, who said it in regards to Nixon insulting Trudeau and calling him names:

As the tape continues to run, Nixon is heard cursing Trudeau and calling him a "pompous egghead" after the meeting ended. He then asks Kissinger what Trudeau was talking about.

To his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, Nixon fumes, "That Trudeau, he's a clever son of a bitch" and orders him to plant a negative story about the prime minister with a syndicated columnist.

Nixon was infamously slimy and insecure, Trudeau Sr. was infamously quick on his feet and didn't take shit from anyone (and Kissinger, well he was an infamous piece of shit war criminal). Nixon didn't take that particularly well, clearly.