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Rattled by a horde of MAGA trolls, here’s what I learned about today’s social media miasma.

Last Friday I made a post on Bluesky and X, concerning U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “Governor.” It occurred to me that, numb as we are to Trump’s stream of blather, the importance of that remark was being overlooked. It was an overt declaration by the president of the United States that he does not recognize Canadian sovereignty. That’s scary.

So, my post: “For a US president to refer to the Prime Minister of Canada as ‘Governor’ isn’t just rude. It’s a hostile act.”

The post got little attention on Bluesky. On X, for whatever reason, it went berserk. Over the weekend it racked up close to 3,000 reposts, over 29,000 “likes” and more than 5,000 replies. Those replies came almost entirely from Trump-loving trolls, piling scorn and abuse on my concerns. “Yeah but it’s Canada so who gives a fuck?” said one.

Do the responses represent a genuine glimpse of U.S. opinion on Trump’s bully-boy act?

  • wirebeadsEnglish
    154·
    2 days ago

    The U.S. is a terrorist organization. They always have been. They’ve always been at war and are always looking for war.

    Anyone who thinks different just needs to look at the atrocities they’ve committed in the past.

    Look at the atrocities they’re doing now and it’s widely being accepted as OK. Ethnic cleansing, removing one people’s from a location they’ve lived in forever, annexation of sovereign nations, discussing negotiations of a country without the country under attack being invited to discuss their future, nazis in the henhouse, Nazis taking to the streets to proclaim victory, mass racial action, concentration camps for migrants, using <insert excuse here> to bolster their wants.

    This isn’t a stable country, this is a country beginning to show its true colours and hopefully they get ripped apart from the inside.

    Someone needs to put down Trump and his rabid MAGA movement.

    MAGA is just a modern day term for nazisim.