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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To all Canadians, us sane Americans would rather you prefer as you are. This is a concrete example of a "president" that just thinks the way to "lead" is by writing as many executive orders as possible and pressuring other countries to meet ridiculous demands by initiating trade wars and threatening them.

A complete bully.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I know that many Americans don't like this either. But Canada is unable to defend itself against the US military without serious help. And I don't completely trust that a US population that couldn't be bothered to vote against Trump would take any action to stop him if he were to give the order to invade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada could never defend itself from the US military. Never. Canada could only do asymmetrical warfare and insurgency. But it would also never end. So the US would have to kill all 41 million of us to put a stop to us going FLQ 2 electric boogaloo on them until the end of time. Also we would poison pill all our resources as well. If we can’t have what’s rightfully ours, neither can the fucking USA. Scorched earth.

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

They aren't fighting to save their own democracy. They won't fight to save ours.

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

Oh fuck off. We're past ballot box, now at jury box. No where close to bullet box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There's no way he would invade with military force. It would not only be political suicide, it would collapse NATO and likely the Western world as unified entity. With Russia's aggression and China's ascension, the stakes are way to high for a potentially catastrophic move like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

it would collapse NATO and likely the Western world as unified entity.

I suspect that's the point. Trump wants it to happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Today Dementia Don sat next to Mark Rutte Head of NATO and spewed his fucking 51st nonsense and talked about erasing our border. Rutte said NOTHING. Fuck NATO to hell.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's not a bully.

He's a fascist.

You guys need to get serious about saying, that real fast.

America has a fascist government, and Americans need to figure out how to do something about that.

It took Hitler less than a hundred days to go from elected to dictator. And from there it took less than four years to invade Poland and start WW2.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Fascism is nothing more than the bully mentality writ large. He is a bully but a bully is no trivial thing. They're the absolute scum of humanity.