SpaceCowboy

Is your brain so twisted you don't see the President of the USA saying he wants to annex my country?

That's real, it's not propaganda. He said it. I'm looking at the words of the of the President of the USA, what are you looking at? Fox News?

And the only scenario where I'll be going to the US is if there is a war, and I'd only be going there to blow shit up. I don't give a shit about how nice you think your country is, if your president betrays us (as he's constantly saying he wants to do) I'll be doing everything in my power to destroy your nice comfortable life. That's what war means and you need to start looking at this for what it is. This may be a game for you, but it's our country for us. We will defend our country through every means available to us.

That "half of NATO" has nuclear weapons.

The US hasn't experienced a war on it's own soil in living memory. Americans shit their pants when they see a couple of drones over New Jersey. And Americans don't have the will to endure a long drawn out occupation even when there's an ocean between them and a war. Canadians will endure it, because we would have no other choice.

This would be a war of betrayal. Trump would need to have Elon Musk purge the US military of anyone with even an once of honour and courage. Currenttly Trump is demanding Canada to defend the US border for him. The US would need to defend it's border, and that's a long border. You'd also need to have checkpoints in the US where soldiers will check your papers because Canadians would be trying to infiltrate the US and hit the soft targets everywhere. There would be raids on your houses to find and Canadians or any sympathizers. How willing are you do have these things happen?

Because it would be betraying an ally, the US would have zero allies in this war. Canada would get lethal aid from Europe and likely from Asia too. And Canadians know how to make an IED. Because our soldiers served in Afghanistan. Alongside the US military that's going to betray the soldiers it fought alongside a few short years ago. And why? Because of the whims of a deranged old man? So you might have a slight morale problem.

While you're looking at troop strengths on spreadsheet, we're looking at the willingness of Americans to do what would need to be done for decades to succeed in occupying a neighbouring country. We only need to outlast you, while you need to have the will to watch young people coming back from the north in body bags. For decades.

The chance of the US winning a war like this is basically zero.

Then why won't Pollievre even look at the intel on who in the CPC may be a foreign asset?

It took weeks for Pollievre to come out as being on Canada's side in this trade war. It's only when his chances of winning an election started evaporating he did that.

Pollievre is only Canadian when there's no other option for him to get power. That dude has collaborator written all over him. He's only for Vichy Canada.

Probably Putin too. A war on the North American continent would collapse the US economy and remove the US from doing anything on the world stage for at least decades. Maybe forever.

He doesn't want to own all of Panama just the canal. Also interesting that he's not threatening to annex Mexico, wouldn't that look even better on the map?

What is it about countries to the south that makes Trump not them to be part of the US, while with Canada he does?

There's derangement all around on the internet. We're all a bunch of weirdos.

My brother doesn't go on social media at all (he's a wise man) and so isn't influenced by internet culture war bullshit one way or another. I once asked him what he thought about The Last Jedi. He didn't like it. Why? It was boring.

Most people just want entertaining and fun movies. What's wrong with that? The internet would have you believe that movies are supposed to be in your face about pushing cultural changes. But most of the time they fail to do this, and only succeed in generating a lot of views and money for culture warriors. In the end they only help the opposition to the changes they're promoting because pushing those messages in lazy ways feels lame and boring to audiences. Then the culture warriors twist it so that a movie that's merely lame and boring is something more sinister.

What you see on the internet is not actually representative of what most people think. I think we should assume Disney does a lot of market research and isn't only looking at internet arguments when deciding how to market movies. Look at the trailers for Rise of Skywalker we can see the results of that research, My brother's opinion was probably prominent. People don't hate strong women in movies, they don't hate Rey as the culture warriors would have you believe. They didn't like that Rey didn't do anything in TLJ and they wanted to see her do some, you know, action stuff in an action adventure movie.

The culture war shit hurts entertainment regardless of which side it comes from. Instead of having a Star Wars trilogy with three solid action adventure entries, we have one in the middle that claims in it's marketing to be about strong women but actually relegates women to support roles if the movie is considered from the context of an action adventure movie. The final entry has a woman taking on a large role in action scenes but is hated by both sides of the culture wars. Which makes everyone taking either side in this look like a bunch of idiots to anyone that's just going to a Star Wars movie looking for fun action adventure.

TL;DR: Y'all are a bunch of deranged idiots just trying to spite the "other side" and ruining the fun for everyone else.

It would be lame.

Making an entirely new character would be far more different and interesting.

Making a character that's attempting to transfer over the affinity people have for an existing character while also being a new character is just gimicky, manipulative, and above all else, lame as fuck.

And it's not about the character being a woman. Gladiator II was lame because it retconned Lucius to be the son of Maximus and it was constantly being like "you like Maximus, so you should also like this dude!" Naw, the only character in that movie I liked was the new character played by Denzel. The other characters were just a weak imitation of characters from a much better movie.

I think it's a tail wagging the dog situation, really. They don't care about the Pirates movies, they're just using it as an opportunity to push their weirdo narratives.

They want to get views and monetization monies so they will latch onto anything they see as popular and inject their narrative onto it. Talking about popular things expands the number of people the algorithm will recommend their stuff to. The narrative is there to capture the audience and keep them coming back.

Once you have a group of weirdos together they will start trying to one-up each other with their weirdness. Eventually a few will cross the line and start making death threats, swatting people, and sometimes even mass killings can occur. It isn't about the Pirates, it's about proving to the rest of the group how devoted to the weirdo "cause" they are.

The Democrats have no power in the US now. They still hold a few governorships, but the GOP has complete control of the US federal government and that's all that matters on the international scene.

It's a distinctly American thing to blame the Democrats for anything the government does even when they don't control the government. Then they wonder why the Democrats struggle to win elections even against insane GOP candidates like Trump.

In what other country is the opposition party blamed for what the governing party is doing? Only in America.

Things are the way they are in the US because people voted for it. The Democrats aren't doing anything because anything they do now would be purely performative and have no effect. They're a political party, not a revolutionary movement. They aren't doing anything until the next election (if there is one!) because that's how it works with political parties in a democracy.

It would be the same in Canada. If Pollievre got a majority and brought in Elon Musk to kill the government there would be nothing the Liberals, NDP, or any other party could do. That's why it's important to vote and vote wisely.

The polling suggests that the CPC is capturing young, angry, and terminally online voters same as Trump did. So that's a bit concerning.

I'm from the east, but have some in-laws from Alberta. Not farmers though, people with family in the oil industry. They seem to 100% support Pollievre and went from Trudeau is evil to Carney is evil before they knew anything about him. So the CPC will probably still do ok in Alberta.

There's also people who've read the newspaper every day of their lives and now that newspaper is owned by postmedia. They tend to hate every prominent Liberal, wonder why?

But yeah Pollievre lost a lot of support in the eastern part of the country. Hearing about the security clearance stuff from family members unprompted, and people are very suspicious of a guy that doesn't want to even look at the intel about who in his party may be a foreign asset.

Given all of the factors of American oil industry influence, American postmedia influence and American social media influence, I think it will be close.

One guy with a gun isn't going to accomplish anything in a resistance. Rambo is just a movie, it's not real.

A civil defense corps is needed, not a bunch of angry and paranoid individuals with a gun collection that spend all day posting their grievances against the government on the internet.

People in China accept having Xi as a dictator for life because they feel like a strong man is needed to run the economy and protect them from evil foreigners. Also he keeps the billionaires in China wealthy by oppressing the workers, so they support him.

Does any of this sound familiar? The US is already becoming China, no annexation needed.