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Amaryllis

(10,288 posts)
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 09:20 PM 18 hrs ago

Dear America - A Song From A Canadian. Beautiful. It will make you cry, though.

"Thank you for being here. Dear America. This one's more introspective than usual — a pause from the satire and humour, and something I just needed to say out loud.

It’s a letter, really. A song from one Canadian to our American neighbours — full of complicated feelings, love, frustration, and a hope that someday, we’ll be close again."



"Over the past few years, things have changed. Between tariffs, trade wars, and political chaos, it’s felt harder and harder to stay connected. We're not looking to be the 51st state — and we shouldn’t be. That’s not what this friendship was ever about.
This isn't about Trump, China, or any one headline. It’s about something deeper: the feeling of drifting apart from someone you used to know, used to trust. Some days it even feels like our liberation day — a quiet break, just to breathe.

Sometimes you carry a feeling long enough, and eventually, it writes itself. This video came from that place.

If you’ve ever felt torn between admiration and heartbreak, or struggled with how to hold space for friendship when things feel broken — this one’s for you.

We’ll get back to the usual soon. But every now and then, you’ve got to speak from the chest.

Let me know how Dear America lands with you in the comments. Like, share, and subscribe if you’re here for music that isn’t afraid to feel something."

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Ohioboy

(3,638 posts)
3. It's depressing how much damage is being done to America and her neighbors
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 09:47 PM
17 hrs ago

Things will never fully be the same.

KT2000

(21,386 posts)
4. There is no reason for him to have done this
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 10:01 PM
17 hrs ago

He values nothing but money so abusive behavior is just another way to make even more.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,988 posts)
10. I'll try, some. 6 time zones. First polls close at 7pm USA ET. Hand counted simple paper ballots
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 11:21 PM
16 hrs ago

The ballots are simple with 3 to 7 names (though Pierre Poilievre's riding has 91 names because of tricksters) and are hand counted. About 99% of the ridings will have been called by midnight ET.

Local times

Newfoundland 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. (7:00 pm ET)
Atlantic . . 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. (7:30 ET)
Eastern . .. 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. (9:30 ET)
Central . .. 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. (9:30 ET)
Mountain . . 7:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. (9:30 ET)
Pacific . .. 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (10:00 ET)

Cha

(309,990 posts)
9. Beautiful and Heartbreaking! But Hopeful Just Like I Love it!
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 10:59 PM
16 hrs ago

Thank You So Much, Amaryllis! 💕



highplainsdem

(55,577 posts)
13. THIS IS AI SLOP. The account says it's AI, and it has all kinds of different music and themes, generated
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:40 AM
15 hrs ago

quickly with AI and probably meaning little or nothing to the AI user.

If you skim back over their video titles, before the Canada-theme AI slop it was science fiction, romance before that, techno, lo-fi, and Christmas before that.

They've gotten the most views for the Canadian AI slop, which other AI accounts are also cranking out, very cynically, for views.

The odds are good that every word of the lyrics was written by AI.

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