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

No idea what OP is saying, but there is historically 0 US investment that Canada has ever said no to. Canadian owned companies have never refused to sell to US, and Canada has been a perfectly good US slave in invoking national security BS against Chinese ownership of resources. US system of colonialism is through private oligarchy, and they have (had) full access to Canada.

So, the resource access argument is complete BS. The blocking Russian access to Arctic passage and resources is also 100% BS. Canadians are already fully programmed to hate Russia, and their only interest in our resources or passage would be as invited friends, sending us goods we happily paid for. Russia has a massive amount of their own undeveloped resources, closer to its/natural trade partner market, and trade with Europe or Africa has no need for Canadian waters access. Traitorous lying filth program you with any stupidity that Russia is a threat to Canada.

I would suggest that Trump does not want to annex Canada. He wants to destroy Canada in order to move manufacturing jobs to US under the false logic that Americans can do everything that Canadians can, and that a destroyed Canada would be willing and able to buy US goods. I doubt that a destroyed Canada would be given same (nice) treatment as east germany during reunification. But East German complaints existed.

Any explanation of Trump's extortion of Canada, has to be in the context of what the US is unable to get from Canada or get Canada to do. Because no such circumstances exist, it is irrational. Trump, relative to his first presidency, is fully in charge, and he can say complete stupid and illogical stuff without any filter, and the only response to save Canada is industrial policy and international partners to destroy the US economy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was interested because it made sense, then a little bit confused about somehow bringing China into it, then I read “Russia” “ Traitorous lying filth” and so on and went back and read the username and it all clicked into place.

Never change buddy. I have no idea how you’ve kept this account going for this long but I’m planning to report this comment.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The "threat to Canadian Arctic" has always been a transparent ploy to baselessly force Canadians to support purchase of overpriced US weapons. It is theft by traitors who hate us. Plenty of Chinese offers to buy/develop resources in Canada were rejected.

Maybe you could stay out of Canada, if you have no awareness of the BS people like you submit us to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you could stay out of Canada, if you have no awareness of the BS people like you submit us to.

I know when I talk with Canadians about stuff like "Trump is a dope why is he doing this", they always start ranting about China and Russia and traitors and theft and hate. It's a perfectly normal thing to do, and I'm the weird one here. Truly.

I want to start asking you about the slrpnk admins again. Why did you want to involve yourself in standard fare Lemmy drama and why, the only time you got coherent and started trying to make some sense, was it on behalf of one of their strange moderation decisions? Why was that what motivated you to step out of low-effort-chaos land? As far as I can tell, almost literally every other thing you say is this type of schizophrenic nonsense. You'll start talking about electric vehicles and within one sentence you're yelling about the US proxy war on Russia and Mexican state sponsored terrorism and Yemen. But the slrpnk moderation drama was a super weird outlier, as minor as it was, and I'm still curious about why that was.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why did you want to involve yourself in standard fare Lemmy drama and why, the only time you got coherent and started trying to make some sense, was it on behalf of one of their strange moderation decisions?

My interjection on BS oil industry shilling "free speech" was consistent with human sustainability. I don't consider being anti-war and anti-evil to be schitzo. On topic, the political BS that gets repeated as "Trump motivation" is simply distractive BS. The CIA agents that are platformed in our media to tell us such BS, will in their next breath, advise Canadians that we need to spend 3-5% of our GDP on F35s.

Does a different US agency than the CIA pay you to try to normalize evil and disinformation on lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, my funding's been all in disarray since the Trump cutbacks started. I've had to start a whole proxy war in Nicaragua to self-fund the whole thing and it's been a huge pain in the ass, let me tell you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Good news that nicaragua war has yet to hit my news feed. Starving couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Ask to get in on that sweet Panama operation.