Republicans want to add new states and are looking for conservative ones so they can keep control.

Feet first, too.

You’re gonna need that submarine if you go to war with your biggest trading partner at the behest of America.

Ah yes, elections will fix everything in the USA, just vote harder next time.

Just to make what I am saying as clear as I can without someone putting words in my mouth: The existing system is functioning as designed and as it has ALWAYS “worked” , and if the people of the world are going to have a chance to survive they need to destroy the current one, and replace it with one that cares about people and the planet, not just profits.

Hey cousin!

We just bought some over the horizon radar from you guys!

Unfortunately we’re also contemplating buying some locked down F35s that are sure to be kill switched by the US when they decide that they want our resources. I think we need to accept that the F35s are not going to happen, and instead get the Gripens. At this point it’s seems like the height of stupidity to trust them, especially with our military hardware.

Yeah, that combined with the big servicing challenges for the F35s really makes me think getting them isn’t the right move. For once the glacial pace of Canadian military procurement helped us.

I don’t, but it won’t hurt to voice how people think of the Admin and Congress.

Voicing dissent against the Admin shrinks the permission structure of its actions. Trump feels emboldened if the people have his back, and trepidatious if not.

Trepidation to a child-like tyrant might mean the difference between nuclear launch codes being used or not.

Ultimately elections mean nothing consequential in the US, but that doesn’t mean they can’t influence some politicians.

Well, we have plenty of people on Lemmy who place the blame for this situation on the Americans who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris, as if they weighed the stakes, deliberated, and decided affirmatively that not voting was the correct action. It’s like the people who believe that have never met actual humans. Denial and dissociation ‘works’ very well for us as a psychological defense mechanism.

Now, if we have any hope, we need people to work together to shut down the fascists. I’m just sayin’ that this here is a much better way to put it to motivate them, while telling them that “it’s always been this way” and “the U.S. is simply evil” is a great way to push people back into denial and dissociation.

Hi, failed expat here. Tried to move to Guelph legally in 2023-24 because Nazification of the USA was incredibly obvious to anyone who reads. Canadians changed their laws to be racist to Indians and excluded me, even though I am a white masters degree holder who had professional connections in the region.

When I die fighting ICE outside of some middle school because I caught them trying to kidnap people at my work, know that I would have lived in peace. I literally just wanted to eat delicious cheesecake in Guelph with my hot wife (who doesn’t have full rights in the fucking USA).

*edit: I want the people who are downvoting this to explain to me which part exactly they disagree with, because I think the implication is pretty disgusting generally.

What a weird comment.

Hi friend, and I mean that sincerely, I’m truly sorry that you weren’t able to get into Canada. And I hear you about the attitudes towards Indians… It’s abhorrent and a product of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that the right wing has imported from the US.

One of my best friends immigrated from India a couple of decades ago. He married a childhood friend and they slowly built a life together, now own 60 acres and have two kids. Hearing his story made me proud of this country, and I believe we are hurting ourselves by letting partisan reactionaries set the message on immigration. My family on my mother’s side immigrated from Eastern Europe after WW2. I’m first generation, so I understand what immigrant families go though, and especially the work ethic that the majority of them embody.

I hope you do not give up, and please, please stay safe. I react strongly to the increasing American threat, but it’s easy to forget there are people like you who never wanted any of this. I hope you can join us soon.

No Kings was an absolute fucking joke from the start and everyone there virtue signaling is part of the problem.

The country that has spent a couple centuries dining out on its founding national mythology of knowing EXACTLY what to do somehow doesn’t know what to do.

You know what to do- you’re just a bunch of fucking cowards who are more concerned about not risking your relative comfort.

Good for your friend and your parents. Lots of 1st generation people could have helped us and didn’t.

Anyway, don’t wish for my safety. Do not let these fascists have an inch in Canada. Not a bleeding inch.

Why don’t you trip up some stairs.

American propaganda agents should be hunted down and butchered.

Bannon saying he’s gonna give Ireland a trump should get his ass in the space station with Mountbatten.

Too much was based on good will, public outcry and political capital. When MAGA proved they will excuse anything, they doomed the system.

If the system is ever recaptured, we must put stronger checks in. Or suffer the same fate.

Well, I said that back then and everyone on here ripped me a new one ‍️

I’m leaving the country. I’m not helping these people.

As I said- cowards.

Spend your life sucking up the privilege that being an American affords you and then turn tail and run while those who can’t run have to stay and suffer.