Please don’t give him ideas.
That’s dumb. If there’s ever a Hitler-level problem a reasonably fit guy like him can just cross through the woods into canada in several places. Stay and fight. Elon’s defeat in Wisconsin today shows that as lame as it sounds, voting does work. If you actually do it.
what do you mean “if there’s ever”? People are being blackbagged off the street in broad daylight by secret police and sent to torture prisons…
Yeah but that’s not going to entrench Trump’s power since those people can’t vote. I’m talking about stuff like Jan 6, but successful. Cancelling elections, arresting opposition candidates, etc. Everything they’re doing now will come to an end after the next election.
Come to the Netherlands: https://dutchreview.com/expat/30-percent-ruling-netherlands/
I’d love to but I honestly have no idea where to start. That 30 percent ruling is interesting.
Must be nice to be able to leave
scientists are usually the first target of when a dictator takes power, they often leave before shit hits the fan. then it goes to POC, and then lgbtq+, and then non-loyalists.
Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Today’s fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say “hey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of people” or “being LGBT is a normal human variation” or “the American civil war was fought over slavery” or “here are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to what’s happening now.”
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style “information warfare” - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more “normal” and common then they are…)
I’d be afraid to announce it until I’m out
love America because it doesn’t have kings
I’m not convinced a president who can act with greater impunity than a king in any modern monarchy is better.
I read that a lot, “we don’t have a king, thank cod”. Is it because you’ve seen what a hell hole e.g. the Scandinavian countries are? /s
A king in a modern monarchy is nothing more than a representative of the country. He cuts ribbons and holds encouraging speeches on New Year’s. That’s pretty much it.
That doesn’t mean we want one
A strong Parliament/Congress and judicial system is what keeps any executive in check. We’ve just got the worst of both worlds.
Don’t forget to show you Covid vaccine card before you enter Canada
you wouldn’t know what freedom was if it slapped you in the face.
Hurr Durr don’t forget to show your driver’s license and insurance when you get pulled over. 🤡
It’d take more than pulling a passport to prevent the average citizen from illegally entering Canada and claiming refugee status
But I understand the concerns, especially with this steadfast bullshit about Canada being the 51st state.
Shits fucked, yo.
I guess he wants to get a job there, find an apartment and then fly his family on an airplane instead sneaking in through the forest at night hoping he can spend couple months in a refugee camp whiles his application is being processed.
I have a feeling Americans fleeing the consequences of their disaster politics may not receive the warmest welcome in Canada. There’s a lot of animosity and a lot of it is warranted.
Don’t disagree. But the majority of Americans didn’t vote for this. Our system is just out-dated and has been slowly rigged over decades to benefit the few over the many. MOST Americans have never wanted Trump to be President. Many have spent years trying to get others to understand the consequences of his first election, and what is now his second term.
But the voices of the many, are easily drowned out by the voices of the few who enough resources to purchase all our social spaces (Twitter / Facebook) and fill it with bad actors posing as other Americans who spout oligarch rhetoric.
But our oligarchy have only radicalized a minority of us, not the majority.
So while I understand your frustration with Americans, at least 1/3 of them have been fighting against this shit for a long time, and another 1/3 have done nothing. (Which is a different conversation
The point is - this bullshit is now bleeding into Canada and the rest of the world. So the Americans who have lost their country to it might have the best information to share about preventing it.
“Divide and Conquer” is the name of the game, and now that the US is Divided between right and left, billions of dollars of disinfo is now getting aimed your way instead.
With “Canada hates Americans” being the headline Trump wants to see in order to invade you. This is why anti-American rhetoric is being pushed to you, and why anti-Canadian rhetoric is being pushed to us.
We’ve only been allies until now, and the majority of Americans want Canada to be safe from what just happened to us.
also MSM have been airing trump propaganda non-stop for the whole of 2024.
If the people fleeing are nazis or sat around like idiots instead of voting the right way, then sure.
If a good American goes to Canada and gets treated like a nazi just because he’s American, then that American has simply found one of the shitty Canadians to avoid. One less thing to think about.
It’ll take a lot more than words and guns
A whole lot more than riches and muscle
The hands of the many must join as one
And together we’ll cross the river
Who gets to turn into the fire breathing t-rex?
I still sometimes go back and rewatch the edit for the SWTOR cutscene to that song
So good
