To all my American followers and readers, I need you to be very aware of something, especially my fellow Zoomers.
You are coming of age in a world where, increasingly, everyone hates you.
That's a brutal sentence for me to write, and a brutal reality for you to face, but it's the truth. I've noticed a deep, structural, and moral contempt that is hardening into the new global consensus. You are quickly becoming public enemy number one to the international community, and you should find the velocity of this shift terrifying.
The evidence is in actions so stark they feel ripped from a darker century.
Your government now kidnaps citizens of other countries for tourism. Over 150 Canadians—my neighbours, people who popped over the border for a wedding, a concert, a weekend trip—have been snatched and stuck into what can only be described as immigration concentration camps, without due process. One Canadian is now dead. His crime? Being born in a country that your regime dislikes.
Your fascist president and his regime have ruined countless lives, from the deserts at the southern border to the streets of my own community, where your policies spill over. But Canada, polite and conflict-averse Canada, has finally taken notice. 2025 is over, and the anger here isn't a performative “elbows-up” anymore; it's a cold, simmering fury that is changing how an entire nation sees yours.
A few weeks ago, I saw an image on X that I cannot unsee. It was a shocking and grotesque photograph taken from the inside of the vehicle of a woman named Renee Good, who was shot in the face by an ICE agent.
This image is what I now think of when I think of America.
Not astronauts. Not apple pie. Not rock n' roll or Hollywood. Not the lofty ideals on parchment that the world was taught to admire. I see this. I see the logical endpoint of a system that has decided human beings are disposable, that allies are prey, and that might makes right.
The inside of the blood-soaked car of a mother and wife is your legacy in this moment. That is the brand you are burning into the global consciousness.
You need to get this through your skulls: you are a pariah.
And I know, I know, the gut-punch of that. Maybe you didn't do anything wrong. Maybe you voted against this. Maybe you protest. I am not blaming you, personally. But your nation's government, as a system, has earned this hatred. It has accrued this debt of rage. The blanket of its actions covers you, and the world is now judging you by it. This is the weight of citizenship in an empire in decay.
The clock is ticking. Our generation, the Zoomers, will eventually take the reins of power here in Canada, in Europe, and across the globe. Unlike the Boomers, who built a framework of alliances to uphold the status quo, we have no such sentimental loyalty to dead relationships. We are watching this. We aren't forgetting this.
We will rebuild the relationship on our terms.
And those terms will be harsh. Many of my peers, even if I myself do not advocate for outright vengeance, will be driven by a profound desire for justice, for recompense, for ensuring this can never happen again. They will put you through economic, diplomatic, and cultural hell. The soft power you once bled dry will be gone. You will be isolated, sanctioned, and cut off in ways you can't yet imagine.
This is not a threat from me. It is a forecast. It is the trajectory.
So my advice, as someone who still believes some of you can be something else: stand up while you still have a chance. The window for you to change this from within, to repudiate this grotesque legacy, to prove you are more than the monsters your government employs, is closing fast. The world's patience is gone. Our memory is being formed right now, in these moments of cruelty.
What you do next defines what we will do later. Choose.
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