Sometimes I'm like "This is the perfect and logical place to put this item, this is where the item can live from now on." and then it's gone.
Canada is five large cities, which are easy to capture, and an entire USSR-size back-country of rough terrain, which would be nearly impossible to patrol and hold in the face of even a mildly resentful populace. You don't have to have the entire population actively fighting - passive resistance would make it difficult to do anything in the face of shrugs and "I dunno"s.
Resistance fighting can be picked up pretty fast, and in the face of brutal American reprisals and repression, I think it would be. Their history in Afghanistan and Vietnam shows that they'd create an entire generation of people out for revenge VERY quickly.
We would hide our insurgents, and they would fade into the mountains and forests. You don't need a lot of active insurgents to cause a huge problem.
We have cheap drones and abundant weapons. We're one of the more gun-infested countries per capita, and have a porous border with the USA.
It'd be a hell on Earth. They'd never hold the Rockies.
Resource extraction operations. Forestry and mining are easy to disrupt, especially if the local labour doesn't like the occupiers. There are a thousand ways to gum up the works, and a thousand more to attack them and fade away into the surrounding forest.
If and when it becomes possible to surgically modify yourself into an actual transhuman type catgirl or kitsune, and you know the furries will be all over it, there will definitely be a conservative backlash.
Oh gods... the man really is an idiot. :( At least Harper was shrewd.
He may be too dumb to be effective politically, I hope.
"Cake" in "let them eat cake" is "brioche". I had thought that cake meant cheap chemically leavened bread-ish, but it actually was an out of touch elite being genuinely confused about bread shortages, not someone callously suggesting the peasants eat shittier food.
Also it probably wasn't Marie Antoinette.
Do not use a chainsaw like that. yikes.
I can't speak for the others but Dawkins has fallen into an anti-trans rabbithole lately and has said some pretty hateful stuff. :(
Clever! An actual legit medical use for essential oils!
I might find that reassuring in 1923, if the world makes it a full 100 years with only one global scale war. It's a great run by historic standards.
Sometimes being an expert makes you leave the beaten path and get stuck in the weeds whereas a newbie would have blindly followed instructions. I get caught by that sometimes.
You have no authority here!