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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is ruining relationship with all of our allies to set up to flip on Russian side.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Canada is surrounded by the USA to the south and Russia to the north. Trump and Putin will be working something out. Being on friendly terms with the USA was foundational to Canada's security, and now it's gone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

inb4: Alaska allows Russian military base and Russian military exercises near Yukon and BC

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After reading about Rubio's stupidity during the G7 meeting, Brussels should ask Canada to join the EU. It would force the UK to vote again, the EU would be number one in GDP and Putin's Fucking Sock Puppet would have an aneurysm.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Very inadequate response so far. G7 meeting did not result in any unity with G6.

It is straightforward to destroy US auto industry and agriculture. Export tariffs on energy, materials, potash. Stop reciprocal tariffs on China. China just tariffed US auto parts. Canada specializes in these. Great idea to get closer to Europe, but they do not have our back, and its not producing any results so far. Democrats definitely not a check on US empire/extortion.

It's very easy to get a cost advantage in Canada for auto industry. Export tariffs provide revenue support for subsidies to ensure it. Fuck WTO rules, until "fake emergency" is revoked. Force automakers to side with Canadian plants. Michigan provincehood. Cancel all US military cooperation, kick them out of NORAD, demand refund for all F35s, and cancel rest without paying penalty on corruption grounds. Exterminate Boeing orders.

Immediate diplomacy with China, North Korea, Russia, Mexico. Hoping that other colonies choose Canada friendship over US boot licking, should be read as a long shot, unless we/they coordinate on destroying US auto, aerospace and weapons industry.

Where Trump/US (stop saying this is "one man" or even one party responsible) is very successfully keeping the colonies divided against China, and begging for submission to US military evil. That is precise path that loses our country. It's time to commit to destroying US economy, until they back down, and we gain a better relationship than we had before.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Sorry Tankies, we aren't going to run to China, Russia, and NK just because the US is starting act more like them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You had me until the "China/Russa/NK" part...

Do you really think a good solution to the US slowly going haywire over the past 20-30 years or so is snuggling up to dictatorships, of which two have boots on the ground in the first major European war of aggression since WWII, and the third is the only thing keeping the economy of the other two afloat? I think not. I think alienating said dictatorships is a good idea. I also think the US needs to be confronted and forced to make a decision on whether it wants to remain on good terms with the civilised world.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Trump did not campaign on a war with Canada. No one elected him to do this. Everyone who isn’t mad has brainworms.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

75 million of us studied for the test, took the test, passed the test, and still failed.

Standing in a street with a sign isn’t going to fix this. 60% of us still need to work 5 days a week just to eat, or at least sort of eat while our kids actually eat. The DNC didn’t even ask for a single recount they quietly rolled over and gave been laying on the floor ever since, and they’re the ones with all the money.

So, in your fury, what would you suggest?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guns. Americans own lots of guns. You have the 2nd amendment that is exactly to be used for just this sort of thing.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Standing in a street with a sign isn’t going to fix this.

People often say that. But standing in the street with a sign can be the first step in encouraging and recruiting people to do some actual resistance. The power of protest is that it brings people together and shows them others are also willing to show their discontent. From there, you can build your networks and move on to other things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Standing in a street with a sign isn’t going to fix this.

75 million people standing in a street with signs would be a start.

75 million people blockading government buildings, preventing the Nazis from doing their job would definitely help.

How many people protested Vietnam? How many people were involved in the Stonewall riots? For fuck's sake, how many people were involved in the January 6 attempted coup? They may have been fascist thugs, but they got things done instead of sitting around saying "I can't do anything, it's the government's fault!"

FUCKING ACT! If signs don't work, then get more signs. Barricade government buildings. BREAK THE FUCKING SYSTEM and stop whining about it!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

So, in your fury, what would you suggest?

Get organized and ramp up your activism, whatever kind fits your life and priorities.

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