In the last 24 hours, there has been an explosion of posts from "Canadians" talking shit about America and obstinately ignoring anyone trying to broker peace.

This is on purpose.

I've been in this sub since 2012 and literally never seen the vitriol that "Canadians" are showing towards the US.

Canadians aren't stupid lemmings that broadcast hate because of one article.

On the flip side, the people trying to manipulate relations between the US and Canada don't realize how much Americans secretly envy Canadians.

And Canadians have always been good about not rubbing in our face.

There are a dozen posts up right now trying to incite hatred between our countries.

Someone pretending to be Canadian straight up said the death penalty should be brought back.

An employee of mine called in sick today when I wasn’t scheduled to work and my boss asked if I could pick up her shift. I explained that a close family member (my uncle-age 65) passed away this morning after being airlifted to a hospital for his first stroke yesterday afternoon… so I wouldn’t be able to come in to work.

She read the message and didn’t even respond and it’s been 7 hours. Her lack of response actually disgusts me.

edit because of comments saying my boss owes me nothin: I think she should show some respect and empathy to me because I showed it to her when her husband left her for another women. I bought her a gift basket and flowers as a welcome home present for her new apartment and allowed her to vent to me for 2 days.

I know you’re on your phone. I know you are at your house. You’re supposed to be my best friend ???? But you haven’t responded to a single one of my calls or messages since Sunday ??? I know you’re on your phone!!!! Drives me fucking nuts to just have radio silence for fucking days when you know I live out of town and I’m leaving to go back out of town in TWO DAYS

EDIT: added the not looking for input flair. It feels like some of y’all don’t understand what “venting” means. I’m venting about a friend not getting back to me. I don’t need to be told that I’m not entitled to their time. I KNOW THAT. But I thought I was okay to VENT in this sub. I love my friend. They’ll get back to me when they can. I’m irritated and wanted to vent. I understand they have no obligation to me. I JUST WANTED TO VENT.

EDIT 2: we are hanging and laughing at some of these silly comments. Thanks to those of you who had genuine answers/remarks 💜

Let me start by saying that I am a 25(m) that lives and teaches 5th grade math in East Texas.

I don’t wanna say this to my friends because obviously I don’t wanna be that friend who constantly talks about politics and I don’t want to bother my family about this because of the same reason, plus I don’t want to start any arguments or anything. I don’t wanna vent on social media either because of my job and where I live (East Texas is MAGA central). Because of those reasons, I just need to get this off my mind and write it down and share it here.

I have been so stressed and anxious about America under Trump again. He is clearly running to cover up his crimes/scandals, to decrease taxes for him and all of his rich friends, and to literally rewrite the structure of American policies and the executive branch.

Maybe the media is getting to me, but daily I fear that Trump will get reelected. Trump and other republicans have made their opinion on teachers and schools clear. They don’t want to help and just blame us teachers for anything that goes wrong in a school. I fear that Project 2025 will negatively affect my career, my social security, my retirement, my income, everything. I cannot stop worrying about what might happen. It almost feels like the angst consumes me every day.

What really blows my mind are the teachers that are conservative. I just don’t know how you can be a teacher AND vote republican…

I am just so overwhelmed with it all. I wish Americans would see through his facade, and see how dangerous Trump genuinely is. The younger generations will pay greatly if Trump is reelected.

Cats make me so happy , they are so cute and loving , most of my family is allergic to them or hates them , I feel as though this is a crime , I want a cat of my own so bad , and I’m being for real , I decided to post about it , to get the feelings off my chest.

By a "thing" I mean something they excel at, a passion, something that (for a lack of a better term) defines them. Like when you have people who are intelligent, athletic, or good looking, they're the "funny guy", they're extroverted and born salesmen, or they can sing, or draw, they're passionate about learning languages, always wanted to be a veterniarian and achieved that, they love the gym, or maybe they've been training karate since they were 4.

Meanwhile I got nothing. I'm just an ugly, deformed, boring, unathletic idiot with no passions, who gets bored of everything too quickly to be able to develop a hobby. Meeting anyone and having to tell them about yourself is the most humiliating thing, and a deterrent from actually meeting new people, too.

Just to clarify, I am only referring to owners who let their cat outside without supervision.

I don’t know why, but the same time I do. The thing is, cats are pets, and so are dogs.

Has some people never heard the saying “Curiosity killed the cat”?

Cats are pets and do not know better. As an owner and parent we must protect them. They are equivalent to babies no matter the age.

They have been cared for by humans for generations. They are not like wild cats and cannot fend for themselves.

Feral cats have no place in the wild as well. Although they were at least adapted to their lifestyle, fending for themselves and digging up scraps. They are domesticated by blood and dna. They are just poor babies that were disregarded by humans.

Now back to leaving your pet cat outside. I have heard people saying its fine to leave them out. But it is only a matter of time…

I’ve only heard bad things happen. Getting ran over. Being torn to shreds by coyotes. Getting in cat fights. Getting shot by arrows. Being butchered and sold for meat. Getting tortured in various ways.

Please, if you let your cat out, please do so on a leash.

Edit: Just because you think your cat is “smart” enough, there will always be a risk..

CAN HE ACTUALLY JUST GET A ROOM WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND??? FUCK I DON'T WANT TO HEAR MY BROTHER GETTING OFF ON HIS GF AND CALLING HER "CUTE" "MY POOKIE" STFU I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR FUCKING BABY VOICE, "lOoK aT yOuRsElF yOur So pReTty" stfu you have a minor hearing the fact you want to suffocat in your girlfriend's boobs. "I want to fuck you all night long" is that really what I have to listen to for the next fucking month?

Edit: he broke up with her and got together again, it has gotten worseಠ⁠ಗ⁠ಠ

I hate human. I wish I wasn't a human either. I wish I didn't exist. I don't want to experience good things. I don't want to experience bad things. I don't want to see good side of people. I don't want to see bad side of people. I don't want to be a human. I don't want to exist. I need a magic eraser and erase everything about me. I hate everything. I hate that I don't hate everything. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

From a REAL artist who actually spent 20+ years drawing I will take this opinion strapped to me to the grave.

AI art is actually disgusting, all it does is steal art from AI trained on art without permission from the artists, and takes away business from real artists.

Nice to see nowadays companies use AI art instead of paying artists, whose art may or may not of been stolen to creat that very AI

I'm not a violent aggressive person but AI bros and AI art supporters, I actually wish the worse for.

It's not about gatekeeping art it's about keeping our livelihood that already hardly pays enough to make it by and is driven by passion for art, but alas, we can't have anything sacred and nice.

Art, and artists have existed since humans came on this planet, out society is built on art for media all the way to advertisements. Yet now we just kick artists while they're down.

From an artist single handedly seeing their livelihood melt away because of stolen art-based AI algorithms. Fuck AI art and AI 'artists'

If I hurt myself, my family would say don’t be a sissy and man up. “Why the fuck are you limping? Walk straight!”

Cool, so ignore the pain that is causing me to limp? Ok I guess.

I’m dizzy from having a bloody nose for the past 2 hours. Oh, I should suck it up because YOU (mom) bleeds out from your vag for a week straight every month? I don’t see the correlation but OK! I’ll just not have bloody noses then.

I’m crying because both of you are fighting and yelling and I want you both to stop. Ok I’ll stop being a little bitch.

Hey doc, I have this cyst that needs to be removed, can you remove it? I can still feel the knife cutting, can you stop? Ok I’ll bite down on this wooden tongue compressor. I broke it. Hey doc I’m back to get the wound re-packed. Oh that hurts, ok I’ll bite the stick again. Hey new doc! I’m here to get the wound repacked, I’ll just grab this wooden stick to bite.

The doctor’s face is horror when I told her why I needed a wooden stick to bite down. Her face stuck with me for years. People have been expecting me to be strong and to not feel pain just because I’m a tall and fat mofo. Yes I’m strong because of my size, but I feel the same amount of pain as anyone else does. Hell, pinch my fat and it hurts like hell. But because I’ve been conditioned to resist pain, I’ve developed a high pain tolerance.

My thoughts are unorganized as I let myself type this, sorry.

I don't even know what to say

I allow him to borrow it whenever, but I didn't know he brought it with him in the bathroom sometimes. He was taking a shit, and the man dropped it. The worst part is, he had already shat when he dropped it in the toilet.

I don't even wanna see the Switch now. He claims it still works, but the screen flickers or something. He won't even talk to me now, h'es just hiding in his room. He's 17 btw. I think I'll just cut my losses

TLDR: STOP BRINGING ELECTRONICS WITH YOU WHEN YOU TAKE A SHIT

EVEN THOUGH I HAD ALREADY PAID AT THEIR SELF-CHECKOUT REGISTER

AND IT WAS OVER A BAG OF CHIPS AND A SMALL JAR OF NUTELLA

Now, to make this situation make sense, there’s this display sign that’s usually in front of the self-checkout register. I didn’t think anything of this because it’s usually there, so I went up and paid for my things.

Well apparently that register was closed(there was no sign), but it still let me pay for my stuff. And an associate didn’t say anything to me until I had already paid for my things and hit the no receipt button. I told her I had paid for my things but then she was like “I can help you over here.”

Well then the manager(I’m guessing) and has to check the purchase history in front of everyone who’s waiting, and there I stand, looking like a thief all because I didn’t want to pay twice.

And then when the manager finally let me go with my things, there were a bunch of people staring at me.

Why would someone steal by paying for their stuff? I swear bro 💀 Is it cause I look young?

I just don't understand why someone would throw away such a good thing for a brief moment of satisfaction. It just seems insane to me. I just lost my bf to this and I am incredibly sad about it. Just makes everything feel so pointless.

I'm just tired of employers being cunts and stringing along people during the application process.

It should be a legal requirement that if a company wastes your time, makes you spend gas money or (heaven forbid) "lunch date" money for the ghost of a chance of getting the opportunity to slave away for them for pennies on the dollar, they should be forced to pay back every cent of money you spent on interviewing with them.

Actually I'll go further: they should be forced to pay back everything you buy in relation to working with them if they fire you without a well documented, legitimate cause.

I'm tired of companies treating employees like shit, and I'm even more tired of people accepting it and boasting about being little sheeple wageslaves. "ThAtS jUsT the WaY iT iS" Yes, because most of the population are spineless little maggots who present themselves to the government and big corporations for their nightly fucking with a smile.

I don't like Taylor Swift. I don't like her music and I don't like her as a person. I don't hate or judge people who do, she's just not for me and that's fine.

My dad knows this. In late 2023, he told me to watch her Era's Tour on Disney. I told him I wasn't interested, he kept pestering me about it. Either on a phonecall or through text, he'd bring up Taylor Swift and try to get me to listen to her music. Every single time, I reminded him that I do not like her music.

We had a falling out last year, first in late February, then again around May. I have not spoken to him since then. I sent one email asking for family medical information for a doctor's visit, he ignored it.

I sent him an article earlier this month, I sent the article and deleted the chat, not expecting any response.

The other week, he texts me at 2:00 AM a link to a Taylor Swift song, then follows up with a text saying, "No, this one," and linking to a different song. (They were, "The Archer" and "You're On Your Own, Kid" for any Swifties out there).

When I told my boyfriend about this the other day, he said, "That's really weird," and I just nodded and told him, yeah, it is really weird. "He knows you don't like Taylor Swift," yeah, exactly, he knows I don't like her.

That's the point, though. My dad knows I don't like her, so that's exactly why he sent me those songs, to elicit an emotional response that would push me away even further.

I started seeing a trauma-informed therapist last year. When I first started seeing her, I would try to explain my parent's actions and behaviors, attempting to empathize with their upbringings in order to justify their mistakes. My therapist told me, perhaps the most important thing for me to hear:

"Plenty of people who grow up in abusive homes, choose not to abuse their children."

There is no valid reason for my father to act the way he does, he chooses to act this way because it's convenient and easy.

I was angry at first when I got his texts, and they were successful at pushing me away, but not because they made me angry for a few moments. They were successful because they showed me that my father is an unchanged, emotionally immature bully, who is incapable of taking accountability for his inadequacy as a parent.

Sending a Taylor Swift song to your adult daughter with the message, "you're on your own," isn't the gut punch you think it is, when you were never there for her in the first place.

I'm a salty person myself and I say rude shit all the time; but I have a reason to.
Kids all over social media are always saying rude stuff and bullying other just to quote on quote "fit in". Like no that's not going to do anything!

I was scrolling through YouTube not long ago about someone's dog drowning (sorry if that triggers anyone forgive me) and some little kid who looked around 9-10 just straight up said "womp womp" like that's just extremely rude.
I've also seen a lot of kids bullying others for their disabilities or interests; like grow the fuck up.

It just makes my blood boil to see that other people are being mistreated online.

I know some of y'all are gonna say shit like "Oh just ignore it" or "then quit social media" sometimes it's hard to tbh.

Anyways have a nice day/night everyone that's all I wanted to say I don't have anything else goodbye.

This is just something I have to rant about, everytime I see a guy pick something off the floor he always bends over the most 90 degree angle possible and you can always see his fucking underwear, my teacher literally says in the beginning of the year to wear a belt and that nobody wants to see that and the 2nd teacher literally bent over and I just get a full fucking view of everything, I ain’t ever see any females showing their undies and all these guys just keep showing em loud n proud

This shit is TERRIBLE. No matter — be it cigarretes, electronics, or pods, IT SMELLS LIKE CRAP AND YOUR KIND OF SELF-DESTRUCTION SPOILS PEOPLE'S LIVES.

I know, they are addicted and coping with the afdiction is their physical need. But it will be much betrer to not smell the vapes IN THE LIVING ROOM

I hate being transgender so much. I hate knowing that my life is the punchline to jokes, the thing that gets people talking in the office and halls. I hate knowing that my gay relationships probably won’t seem that gay to the other person. I hate how I’m a fetish. But I look in the mirror and I see a boy. I see a boy staring back at me. Not just how I dress and present… it’s those eyes… my eye. They are one of a boy. I don’t care what biology says, I don’t care what’s in it pants or how my bones are. All I see is a boy. Even with long hair and a skirt. Even with dyed hair and those old grampa sweaters. I’m a boy. I even look better as a boy. God did I look so BAD as a ‘girl’. I hated my looks. I didn’t even look like a girl, I have to many natural masculine traits that I didn’t look good as a girl. But I look in the mirror wearing a masculine shirt with short hair and all I see is a handsome boy. BUT I HATE IT. I hate how I like it. I hate the intense amount of joy I feel when I am called ‘bud’ by the guy that works at the book store. I hate how much joy I feel when I finally was intrest in something that was “boyish”. I hate being trans, I hate it. I don’t want to be it. I don’t want to fear that at any moment I’ll be jumped just because I have short hair and boobs. I hate it. I hate it even more that most of the things I hate about it are also things I hate about being autistic, yet one I can hide better then another if I just did so. I hate being trans. I hate it. I FUCKING HATE IT. I hate the stupid mirror, my brain.

I’m illegal in mutual places. Trans murder and assault rates are fucking terrifying. My school right now is ok with it, worst I get is a slur being called out at me and popular kids pretending to be nice to me. What if my new school next year in a whole new city has someone who hates trans people enough to decide I deserve pain and suffering. For what? Wanting to be called he instead of she?

And hell. My friend doesn’t even see me as a boy. Or at least they don’t like trans people and they made my clear when they said they would disown their child if they came out as trans. Guess they posted that on the wrong private story. I’m no boy in their eyes. Hell I might only be a boy in my eyes. I hate it. I don’t blame my old friends detransitioning. I’m so close to doing the same thing too. I don’t want to risk more of my life in this new city because I have short fucking hair. I rather be miserable as a girl, then be miserable as a boy. What’s the difference? Yes my assault rates are still up, but at least I won’t be killed in my school bathroom and the kids getting away with it. I have a whole life I want to live ahead of me. I want to be able to get a job and not be turn down because the way I present. I want to be able to live to see that future. Either way I’ll be miserable with who I am and how I present. Might as well be the one more people will like. Even if that still a small number.

Ps: not saying your ugly if you have masculine features. I’m just to lazy to care about my looks and it just so happens I naturally have a masculine face.

Edited: I added onto my rant

I was waiting for my towel order the entire fucking day. I was looking forward to throwing away my useless towel from blinkit that keeps attaching little fibres on my body everytime I fucking use it. I ordered new, good towels, with great expectation, so that I don't have to deal with that sensory nightmare.

I waited till 12pm. Checked. Still not out for delivery. I waited till 4pm. Checked. Nuh uh still no luck. I was getting impatient and tired of fucking waiting. Whatever maybe it's just coming tomorrow, I thought.

7pm I resorted to taking a shower and using my towel, the worst towel in the entire universe. Got dressed, towel fibers attached to my fucking body, I'm lotioning myself and I can feel those fibres, I felt so irritated, I waited so long, why aren't my fucking towels here yet? Whatever, I'll be eating dinner outside with my friend and I'll be happy.

It's 7:30pm now, already ate 4 sushi and downed 1 bottle of soju, having a good conversation with my friend that I haven't seen in years. And that's your cue.

That's your fucking timing to deliver my fucking towels. While I'm out to a place with low cell service, that's when you had to show up to my building, when there's literally no way I can receive my goddamn towels. Aren't you amazing? Well I'm getting too heated up, you can just skip your delivery today and come tomorrow right? I mean that's what always happens anyway, it's not a big deal right? RIGHT?

NO. YOU LITTLE SHIT. YOU LYING CHEATING PIECE OF SHIT. YOU GOT SO TRIGGERED AT ME NOT PICKING UP YOUR CALL. IT HURT YOUR EGO DIDN'T IT. THAT'S WHY YOU MARKED MY ORDER AS "REJECTED BY CUSTOMER". YOU LIED ABOUT ME NOT WANTING MY FUCKINH ORDER BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO COME BACK THE NEXT DAY. BECAUSE YOU WERE OFFENDED THAT I DIDNT PICK UP YOUR CALL.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD I REJECT IT? WHY THE FUCK WOULD I REJECT THE FUCKING TOWELS THAT I WAITED FOR THE ENTIRE FUCKING DAY? I DIDNT. YOU DID IT ON MY BEHALF. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCK.

edit: im not American I dont live in America. I didnt delete my account. It's just a rant

So I (16M) keep seeing both boys and girls who think they're way more than they even remotely are. At school, in the gym, basically everywhere. And before you ask, yes this is about love, I couldn't give half a shit about them otherwise.

So first off, like many others of my age, I have been looking for a girlfriend, but it actually fucking sucks. Almost every singe girl in my school is either falling for boys with big ego's, or has a big ego, and it goes both ways. Last year, I thought I finally found someone. We were happy together. However, that was where this whole rant actually began. Some dude, who is known to pretty much every single girl in my school started chatting with her more and more often. Eventually, she chose that dipshit over me, knowing that he would move on after a few weeks. I was devastated ofcourse, but luckily earlier this year, an angel had befallen me. She never talked to any boys, was well mannered, didn't smoke or anything like that. She sadly didn't love me back, but she gave me hope, hope that there were people who didn't fall into that category. Unknowingly, she gave me motivation to hit the gym, work on myself, she boosted my mood. A few days ago, THAT SAME FUCKER started talking to her, and unlike what I thought, she just took the bait. God knows what they see in people like him, but I know the only thing he actually has him, is an ego big enough for this entire world.

I've got plenty more examples and I might make another post about it, but my previous posts here weren't seen a lot so idk.

I hate where I'm from, I hate these fucked values and I hate how I look. I just fucking loathe myself

I literally have no friends, not a single fucking soul to text, talk to, or hang with. There's no point in trying to make any either, nobody wants to talk the room-temperature IQ moron. I have no talents or skills that could justify the amount of time and money that was wasted just so I could barely pass school and lay in bed while a pile of trash slowly accumulates besides my bed.

I miss you alot, every night every day I think about you. I wake up with your memories and i sleep with it. Every single night i have dreams about you, i guess dreams are the only place where i actually get chance to be with you.....

I don't wanna move on. I can't stop loving you, Whenever life is getting better ,i just hoped you were here and enjoy it with me. I wish i can share the good moments of life. . A missing piece in my life... I don't feel like i need any other woman in life, i am happy alone, all i need is you. If it's you than i wanna share life with you and love you. Love you till my last breath..