No guys. Trump was just kidding, Project 2025 is a conspiracy theory. Christofascists aren’t trying to take over and PP using fascist rhetoric is nothing we should be concerned about and is just Liberal spin. This is what I’ve been told.
Everyone flirting with the far right is just going to magically move to the center once they get in power. Just like Trump! Just like Smith! Wait…
What frightens me is how Godwin's Law is now used as a proxy to the Boy who cried wolf. We have been so conditioned to see any mention of Hitler or Nazi's on the internet to mean an overreaction, many have lost the ability to see the truth happening before their eyes. There are too many excuses of how it is not happening exactly like in the 1930s, how Hitler was a monster and it is unfair to say someone like Trump can be as evil, or how the republicans can be as evil as the Nazis. But completely forgetting the lessons learned, the fact that it wasn't 1944 Nazis in the beginning, and we can't conflate how WW2 ended with how the rise of fascism began.
The total disregard for the rule of law when it comes to Musk and his team of youthful sycophants. The disregard for the sovereignty of other nations. The disregard for human rights, to the point of dehumanizing that we are seeing.
On this message board, most people are seeing the issues, but the frightening part is how many social media platforms have a message of discarding any of the evidence and are fine to cheer him on. It keeps me up at night wondering how today feels and how close it is to how the Austrians, or the Poles or the Chezchs must have felt in 1933..
The other thing is even if it doesn't come to death camps, and wars of aggression, it doesn't mean that the comparisons were unfair.
the hundreds of thousands to millions that died of covid and other health outcomes he has already made worse, the hundreds of thousands who will die because of worse governance, the hundreds of billions $ that will be lost to unnecessary disaster relief after burying our heads in the sand, the enabling of China, Russia and Israels genocidal ambitions.
You can do Hitler like things, and be just a pernicious of a figure through fascism without literally gassing people
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It's such a wildly inconceivable idea that the U.S. would invade and conquer Canada, but just for arguments sake, if it did happen, I doubt Canada would resist like Ukraine against Russia. I'm not saying people would be fine with it, but I also don't see Canadians making those kinds of sacrifices.
I could see the U.S. taking islands in the Arctic archipelago because they pretty much can, but I doubt even that would lead to an all out war. In fact, I would bet on it that they will start claiming islands up there.
I think the take over of Canada would be a slow burn, an erosion of sovereignty. They have already shown that they can use economic threats to make our government act how they want it to, and that will just continue. Eventually they will be dictating policies at higher and higher levels, followed by more "joint institutions", giving American agencies power on Canadian soil, followed by military integration, and economic union. The border won't be erased overnight, but over time.
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The EO about the 14th Amendent, suspending birthright citizenship, has made it to court, and didnt do well.
Judge Coughenour is an 84-year-old Reagan appointee. He sounds shocked and appalled that the Justice Department is defending Trump’s brazenly unconstitutional attack on birthright citizenship—condemning not only the president but also the lawyers lying on his behalf.
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
“The Constitution is not something with which the government may play policy games. If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution itself. … That’s how the rule of law works.”
Wait, is he suggesting the justice department is also corrupt and not following the rule of law? Shocking that Pam Bondi doesn't have unimpeachable credential, and that she'd do thew will of a man who gave her money.
Half right. We all knew the GOP and Trump were going to be disasters, but we're still not at the end of humanity/western civilization level he was preaching.
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Except the Supreme court is now so stacked with Trumpers than any lower level blocking is just temporary.
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Half right. We all knew the GOP and Trump were going to be disasters, but we're still not at the end of humanity/western civilization level he was preaching.
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It's such a wildly inconceivable idea that the U.S. would invade and conquer Canada, but just for arguments sake, if it did happen, I doubt Canada would resist like Ukraine against Russia. I'm not saying people would be fine with it, but I also don't see Canadians making those kinds of sacrifices.
I could see the U.S. taking islands in the Arctic archipelago because they pretty much can, but I doubt even that would lead to an all out war. In fact, I would bet on it that they will start claiming islands up there.
I think the take over of Canada would be a slow burn, an erosion of sovereignty. They have already shown that they can use economic threats to make our government act how they want it to, and that will just continue. Eventually they will be dictating policies at higher and higher levels, followed by more "joint institutions", giving American agencies power on Canadian soil, followed by military integration, and economic union. The border won't be erased overnight, but over time.
I was thinking about this the other day. US talking about Greenland (and Canada), is that partially because Russia is looking to take more land from Ukraine? Also, the smoke around China and Taiwan.
I don’t put Gaza attacking Israel in the same category as the others, but maybe Iran was hoping to get their claws on more land?
Seems as though some of the bigger powers are wanting to expand. I wonder if it’s just because of the Russians invading Ukraine, or if Trump would be musing about expansion regardless.
Some of you would probably like the book Prisoners of Geography. I read it 6-7 years ago and it pretty much lays these things out as inevitabilities. Why Russia needs Crimea. Why the Arctic is important especially once climate change opens up permanent sea lanes. The future of water (and Canada's role as holder of 1/3 of the world's potable water). And many other fascinating things. I recommend it to basically anyone even vaguely interested in geopolitics.
Honestly, if you were starting a game of risk with the current world, Canada would be an OP place to start. All the resources any civilization needs, peaceful and educated workforce, powerful allies. We've bunked a lot of it up to be honest.
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I say let's team up with some European nations on a joint Artic initiative. Form an agreement and then split the cost of building infrastructure, manning, patrolling, and defending across multiple nations.
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