Speed running the nazi playbook.
Sometimes I can’t believe how domesticated USians are.
Anarch157a ( @Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•2 months agoDo you want Canada to pivot to China? Because that’s how you get Canada to pivot towards China… I think.
I’m just a dumb tropical dweller from the deep south, so I will not pretend to understand Canuck politics or the whims of their people, but history shows that even liberal, democratic nations sometimes turn to tyranical regimes for protection against bigger threats. See Finland during WW2.
Something, something, enemy of my enemy…
Katzenmann ( @Katzenmann@feddit.org ) English0•2 months agoOnly after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Then will you find that money cannot be eaten. Manmoth ( @Manmoth@lemmy.ml ) 0•2 months agoim14andthisisdeep
masquenox ( @masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English0•2 months agoIs Canada supposed to be afraid of a country that couldn’t defeat Vietnamese rice farmers and Afghan goatherders?
PyroNeurosis ( @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English0•2 months agoI mean, the US military absolutely can and will roflstomp traditional governments and heirarchies. Both the Taliban (2001) Saddam’s gov’t were steamrolled. The followup of holding territory and “winning hearts and minds” is where they fall on their face.
And this threat really seems to be for the Canadian government and ‘elite’ rather than the people.
BastingChemina ( @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ) 0•2 months agoI think the orange Cheerios still does not understand tariffs. Right now Canada isn’t paying any tariffs on imports, the people in the US n the other hand are paying tariffs on Mexican, Canadian, Colombian, Chinese … products.
phx ( @phx@lemmy.ca ) 0•2 months agoMore like he knows his base doesn’t understand tariffs, and when they make things worse they’ll believe it when he blames somebody else
Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English0•2 months agoFuck it. Close the borders. We good.
Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 0•2 months agoLet the queer folks come over first plz, we promise to be good Canadians.
Luci ( @Luci@lemmy.ca ) English0•2 months agoOf fucking course!! If you can get to Ontario and need help getting settled/staying here please DM me. All queer folx are welcome at my house and in my country!!