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"Canadians may have gone in for wokeness in recent years, it is true, but there is the matter of their bloody-minded DNA. It was not that long ago that they harvested baby seals—the ones with the big, sad, adorable brown eyes—with short iron clubs. They love hockey, a sport that would have pleased the emperors and blood-crazed plebeians and patricians of ancient Rome if they could only have figured out how to build an ice rink in the Colosseum." 😅

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Regardless of bloody dna or not, as an American, why the fuck would anybody want to invade Canada?

To me, it (yes I'm unfortunately very aware of current American politics and the rise of fascism) sounds the same as "let's invade Mexico" or "let's invade Britain". Like, bruh, if the us formally invades anybody rn, the country will shut down like a toddler that you're trying to make skip naptime. We're on the fucking brink of a civil war, the only things from us that you should be considering is how to integrate cascadia into your country and how to arm us against that ratshit for brains, trump and his billionaire autistic nazi musketeer, musk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

why the fuck would anybody want to invade Canada

They have a huge amount of accessible oil, and the north sea trade routes are going to become incredibly important in the coming years as the ice melts further.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

We're on the fucking brink of a civil war

That's the key point: they want to provide a common enemy so it's America vs "whoever" instead of the class war that should be happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right now, the people that voted for him that are bent over, lubed up, and spreading their cheeks are starting to wonder if it was the right move. The blue states where everybody either wishes he'd be ended or are making up reasons why it'd be worse for him to be a martyr... We still have our rights because our states are cool... For now.

So, depending on how the red states take being ultra fucked and if trump tries to waggle his weird tiny rapist weiner over at our rights and systems here in blue states, could result in(tw rape):

  1. raping the red states and them liking it, and not touching blue states: no civil war.
  2. raping the red states and them liking it, and then coming for the blue states: possible civil war.
  3. raping the red states and them not liking it, and not touching the blue states: no civil war.
  4. raping the red states and them not liking it, and then coming for blue states: no civil war.

But since Trump is a true fascist and either a Nazi sympathizer or an outright Nazi, and so are a good portion of the red states' populations, it's kind've all up in the air right now. Which is why I said we're on the brink of one. Is Trump going to end up dead? Yes. Very high chance. Everybody around the world is hoping for it.

Now, is ww3 or a us civil war more likely to happen?

Well, right now, trump has invited his friends over and red is hogtied and having second thoughts. Blue is stuck in the room but doesn't want anything to do with him since we're pretty self sustaining in most regards, but unfortunately we still currently operate under the systems that trump has taken over.

Honestly, it's more likely that he continues to rape red, and then somebody else takes over while we're dealing with the bullshit for the next 50 years. Which is why I say we leave red with trump by forming cascadia, possibly join Canada, lead a sociopolitical insurgency against the then neutered usa, execute the traitors to human morality, and then not let shit like this happen again by not allowing the south to do whatever it wants with education and voting by having a true democracy but having standardized education and firing those who don't teach the proper curriculum.

Because teaching insane stuff like "religion" (religions are blatantly cults) in schools and "evolution is just a theory" is so bad for children that it's child abuse on par with anti-vaxxing. Rotting children's brains with delusions like "gay people are evil" or "trans people don't exist" is liked the equivalent of training cock fighting but in humans by psychological terror, and should be treated as such.

I'm all for allowing other worldviews to exist, but at this point, human religion is so far past being proven as absolute belligerent bullshit that I cannot in good faith allow it to exist. Peaceful people of religion are everywhere, but they are exceptions to the rule that religion is built to be hostile to other world views, and will all eventually vey for power and dominance. Fuck. Anti-birth control, family worldview inheritance, patriarchal structures, proselytizing? Secret organizations with heiarchy interpretation of the will of their leader? Come ON.

One of these world views is going to end up dominant, and regardless of how far into space humanity goes before dying, any existing religion made up by crackpot old fools trying to come up with grassroots power structures "for the people" IS NOT IT. And we see how much tension, pain, strife, and retardation of society occurs when religion is applied. Fascism is not it, religion is not it, dictatorship is not it.... We've got to keep on progressing, but in order to do so, we gotta pull the slowest parts of humanity with us, the ones dragging their feet and kicking and screaming. We need to feed them and take them outside to touch grass so they stop abusing their children in ad nauseum so that they can grow up to be healthy, supportive parents, strong enough to foster healthy happy children.

We are only mortal for now, so are we're stuck in this cycle. Can we at least make it not trash and strive for something better? I'm tired of reading posts by young queer teens in other countries who are terrified of their parents after coming out to them. I never, ever see follow up posts, and can only hope they all made it to the point where they can be accepted and loved by their families and communities, but we all know that isn't the case.

Listen. This post was originally just going to be "is civil war going to happen". But, in reality, there's so, so much more going on. For the wives, husbands, daughters, sons, young people, old people, people that don't want to have anything to do with politics, and those that do. We're all stuck here together, as neighbors and as associates, and I can only tell you how I see the world.

I see a lot of intelligent people, each with their own world views, all clashing, avoiding, and trying to assert power over their own fears. You all live in my head as opposing ideas, some worth more than others, some being completely useless. A lot of you will die. I will die before a lot of you, and none of this matters on the universe scale.

But my ideal is that we can grow our understanding of each other and get past these growing pains in the right way. That's the only way humanity is going to make it. You have to remember the past and learn from it so that you can keep going into the future, learning and developing and trying new things. If you don't remember and learn from the past, you're doomed to repeat it. That, we know is true.

So... Is civil war that likely?

I'm here right now, too; fuck if I know, I'm only human.

The planet will likely live on, long after we're gone, and that makes me feel a little better... I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@SCmSTR Oke damn man, you poured your soul into that one. Fuck. Dont really know what to say right now. Afraid it will be all thoughts and prayers in another jacket.

I'm going to hug my daughter some more.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are way too many people talking about hypotheticals and trying to do "logical" thinking why attacking allies is a bad idea.

The powers in the USA are NOT LOGICAL. They are cutting social systems, they are tanking their stock market, causing irreparable harm to their economy, and military industrial system.

Talking about it like its "logical", and coming from the USA where their media, the people that are supposed to know what's going on and communicating it to the USA public is idiotic. They don't even have the common curtesy to make sure that they have the corret titles and honorifics when talking to our leaders.

Governor Carney Prime Minster Ford Prime Minsiter Jolie

Fuck them all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what is so terrifying and makes this very real. They don’t care about logic, at least not what we think as logic.

However, I would argue that it is fairly logical overall for the United States to do this. I had a feeling it would happen eventually due to two main factors:

  • Climate change. They may deny it, but it’s a tactic to prevent the public from realizing this: the USA, along with many other countries, will not be able to run efficiently or even at all very soon because of the impacts from climate change. It is too costly to manage and management will not prevent the worst of it anyways. They will not have enough resources to sustain their population. Canada is incredibly resource dense and perhaps one of the better countries to live during the climate changes predicted. Although, on this note, New Zealand is probably poised better. I wonder if they aren’t targeting it because they have all their bunkers there already anyways, or if it’s on their list for the future. There’s also all of the new resources and trade route through the Arctic. I could go on but this point deserves a post of its own to lay out the full details.
  • A last “hurrah”, because they know the climate is changing at a rapid pace and there won’t be other chances to live out their dictator dreams. They want to be kings of the world, and this is likely humanity’s last chance to hold such a title. This is why they aren’t playing around with trying to make fair trade deals instead of just taking over. It’s not as fun. And trade deals are likely not as secure for them too, since, as we have seen, trade deals ultimately don’t mean shit.

When viewed through this lens, their potential plans don’t really sound so crazy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree with the lack of logic, as Trump yesterday announced wartime powers, using the pretense of being at war with gangs to justify the order.

That said, I don't see any invasion being based upon any real need, even from an economic level. In fact, such an act will be extremely counterproductive and will harm not only their general economy, but the bottom line of many of their top businesses. Not to mention that any project to extract Canadian resources that aren't already abundant in the US will take at least a half decade to even start producing, with profits only emerging two decades after any annexation at best.

And that presumes that any extraction is done quickly and smoothly. Frankly speaking, the issue is that to extract most things at scale, everything needs to be built up from the ground level, including roads.

That doesn't even start with the liklihood of constant protests and vandalism, including some crazies that try to shoot out tires and critical equipment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

including some crazies that try to shoot out tires and critical equipment.

You mean Canadian patriot insurgents.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No Canada didn't go for wokeness, get your head out of your ass.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

At this point even the pro-Canada American takes are pissing me off honestly

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Canada is a much more left-wing country than the United States, and absorbing it could well revive the political fortunes of progressives

I’m also getting really fucking sick of this talking point. We’re not going to vote in American elections because we’re not going to be American and I don’t even want to hear any thought exercises on the subject

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

As if they would give us senators and equal voting rights. The US is now a hostile rogue nation on par with the DPRK and Venezuela as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

as an American this is a stupid point because our democracy is over

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

As if being "woke" is a bad thing anyway.

Better than sleepwalking into fascism.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Free Healthcare is woke to an American.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anything that benefits anyone who isn't rich and white is woke.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Everything I disagree with is woke DEI communist terrorism!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I like the rhetoric, but the reality is we don't stand a fucking chance. It'll end up turning into an insurgency, not a stand up fight. Our military will crumble instantly, it'll be an occupation, and we'll be the next taliban.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

True - that's what our CAF should be planning for. Take the Swiss model and encourage serving members to take their equipment home, including secure communications devices. Then plan for insurgency tactics, training and organizing volunteers and conducting raids and attacks deep into our "glorious, the 'greatest'" new homeland...

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Canada has always been “woke”. What? You want to sleepwalk into a dictatorship?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The last time Americans fucked with Canada... the Whitehouse and DC were burned to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

At this point, I wouldn't mind seeing a reenactment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

True but a lot has changed in that time and all out warfare would not be good for us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They'll leave that up to the poor!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Warfare is good for no one. Family members dead or starved, or 'interned' - decades of PTSD and generational trauma (3-generations of that brought home by my grandfather from WWII)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Above all...what's the point? No one in their right mind wants to live there except for Canadians! Its fucking cold! Its amazing anything happens there at all. Regardless, it's their country and Trump is one full blown grade A dumbass. I like Canadians!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you realize... the American deep south and southwest are rapidly becoming uninhabitable.

Canada is primed to be a destination once torontos climate becomes more like missouris.

I wish I was kidding.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the climate keeps getting warmer then huge parts of Canada will become temperate and farm-able, while places that are currently temperate will become too hot to live in or farm.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All aboard the war crimes express. Choo choo!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Remember kids, it's not a war crime the first time. Gonna have to go back to being creative.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

It's also not a war crime if you're not enlisted.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Fuck America.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Their backup at freaking meece! No one wants a moose bite.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

A Møøse once bit my sister...

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bite?

We need to line up our meece at the border. They throw and trample.

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

Moose calvary would be absolutely terrifying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The REAL Mounted Police….

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