macsrw.bsky.social
Canadian fellow traveller, mainly here to take cheap shots at expensive people.
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Yeah… we don’t need a duopoly between a centre-right party and a far right party. Look at how bad that shit fucked up the Yanks.
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Maybe warn people about 9/11, but only after I get that ID thing sorted.
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Remember that I now need a fake ID, and curse loudly because I don’t even know a guy for that.
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Well, here’s the trick- you can totally pick and choose. I will take the rabid Anti-Americanism of my United Empire Loyalist ancestors, but leave basically all the rest behind. The Dutch make fairly decent pancakes, so I guess you can take that?
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Wait, so we just need to do shit that would make our ancestors proud? As someone who is descended from Loyalists who tried their damndest to prevent the USA from happening in the first place, I can get behind this.
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America is simply what it always has been, it’s just louder and dumber now (somehow). America has been sending people to concentration camps of one form or another since before the Planter Aristocracy decided to found a country based off of tax evasion.
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Following that historical example, Lincoln legally and politically stood against the American annexation of Mexican territory, but he sure as hell didn’t reverse it.
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Never mind the Putin “regime.” Any government that succeeds Putin will have to also contend with that legal decision, and simply reversing course will not be easy, to say the least. Russia is about as likely to give Crimea back to Ukraine as the Yanks are to give California back to Mexico.
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Putin fucked up by annexing the Donbass and Crimea. If they simply remained “independent” states like Abkhazia, it would all be simpler. But now we have an immovable object/ irresistible force situation.
A frozen conflict is literally the only option.
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And the crux of this whole argument is the lazy liberal idea that Trump represents something fundamentally non-American. He is your guy, and I am sorry to say, but you have to own him. He isn’t some “foreign plot.” He is a poisonous slice of apple pie.
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Your source shows as much.
Again, Trumps tariffs should be criticized and opposed. They are a lazy effort to turn American soft power into blunt force, and they will fuck over the average American as much as anyone else. We shouldn’t wish to *expand* these efforts.
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Ok, so except for Fertilizers, it’s (in terms of intl. trade) peanuts. Again, this graphic doesn’t say *how* that trade is conducted. The fact remains that normal trade between Russia and the U.S. is effectively suspended. Even moreso for Cuba and the DPRK.
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As for Russia, they should face the same repercussions for their illicit war on Ukraine as the Americans did for their illicit war on [insert your favourite choice, but I am thinking of Iraq]
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Don’t get me wrong, Trumps tariffs are idiotic and will ultimately be self-defeating. But there is a reason why Russia, Cuba, the DPRK, and other countries that the U.S. tries to kill with sanctions are not listed.
Also, fuck Yank embargoes on Cuba and the DPRK.
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Citation requested.
At any rate, virtually all U.S.-Russia trade, such as it exists, is done via back channels and other routes which are not business as usual. Tariffs are a formal tax that targets formal trade.
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Weird argument. You can’t put tariffs on a country that you are already trying to strangle with sanctions and have basically already cut all trade off from. It’s like if they announced a new sales tax on Cocaine without legalizing it first.
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Phil Ochs said it best: “10 degrees to the left of centre at the best of times; 10 degrees to the right of centre when it affects them personally.”
Though, he may have gotten the numbers wrong.
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To be fully honest, Male Suffrage in general is a bad idea.
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Gen Z males are not to be trusted with the vote, tbh.
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It’s kind of funny how it’s the same stuff they’ve been going on about since the 90s, but it just gets rebranded every so often.
PC police—> SJW —> Woke Mind Virus —> whatever garbage the 30s belches out.
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“American Lives were put at risk” really? That’s who your concerned about?
What about the people of Yemen who will die after being bombed by those “American lives”?
I hope the leaks keep coming, and that American warships start sinking.
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Here’s a thought: instead of being mad at Trump for leaking plans to bomb Yemen, try being mad at Trump for having plans to bomb Yemen.
The more leaks the better. I hope the Houthis find a nice new home for the USS Harry Truman at the bottom of the Red Sea.
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What’s sad is that you could comfortably do that for the rest of your life with 1/100,000th of his wealth.
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So many people are missing the point on this one. The terrifying thing is that Trump is prepping for war with China, not that he may have let his weird little buddy see the plans.
Thankfully, China is ruled by Adults who are capable of patience and long-term thinking.
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The bad part here is that the Fascist American Empire is prepping for a horrifying war that will kill a significant chunk of the human species. Letting the weird little South African fascist in on the plan is not the issue.
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That dodges the point entirely. Musk or no Musk, the USA should not be prepping for an entirely unnecessary and unspeakably horrifying war.
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Here’s a tip- spin the bottle a little before drinking. The booze typhoon will be your reward.
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Why, does it pour slower?
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Bad comparison. A significant amount of Austrians wanted unification with Germany.
A better comparison would be the Nazi takeover of Czechia.
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I really can’t tell if the people who make these memes are self-defined Centrists who want desperately for everyone to lump the left and right in together, or if they are just ignorant boomers who think “that there’s the Russia symbol. That and them backwards R’s.”
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What auto industry? I am unaware of any Canadian owned car manufacturers. Instead, we had the opportunity to build BYDs in Canada, but we squandered it because the Yanks said so.
If we simply dropped the tariffs on China, they would drop the tariffs on us.
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I wonder if Colin Kaepernick feels a bit outdone these days. Taking a knee during that trash song just seems so insanely respectful.
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The whole “bone spurs” thing is the weirdest Liberal “own.”
You know what’s more dishonourable than making up a fake medical condition? Serving and aiding the American Genocide in Vietnam.
In that case, Trump did the absolute right thing (albeit not for the right reason.)
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Hey, neither do I. Hell, I barely know how to drive. That’s why it will be such an interesting race.
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The sentence “the Former United States” would be nice.
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We should have a race- your Polestar vs. my BYD. The King himself will drop the flag, and the winner gets all of Musk’s money.
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They should do exactly that.
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Yank propaganda is strong, what can I say?
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Bruh, once you get in a Chinese EV, you’ll realize that Tesla is just overpriced trash with really dumb design choices. They are just astoundingly good cars, and we should help China flood the Yank market and drown that Boerish oaf.
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I would be very surprised if the people who posted this could even identify what the symbol means.
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It’s also boomer-posting. They remember being kids in the 60s when the tv told them that this was the symbol of those scary Russians who were coming to eat them, and the memory stuck.
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Americans can’t even elect their own homegrown Yankee Doodle Fascist without getting Xenophobic about it and blaming it all on the scary foreigners.
Build a giant dome around your country. You’ll be happier and so will everyone else.
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I’ll give Trump this- he really can usher in a Golden Age of Anti-Americanism like no other.
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Mexico came in second? Good for them.
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The dark side of Catholicism is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
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There’s a real easy way for those people to join the USA. They could just move to Montana. They’d probably be happier there anyway.
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Tbf, I don’t really want them. I’d much rather simply disunite the States than try to absorb that particular populace.
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Unlike you (I suspect), I have a subscription to the New York Times, and read at least 3 articles a week. I also went to my High School Prom, and while I was technically a stag, I have it on good authority that I was SEVERAL people’s backup choice of a date (unlike you, I again suspect)