• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      U S perspective here.

      I keep remembering that oath our armed forces repeat so much: “… To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

      What in the flippin’ hell do these bastards gotta do to be considered “domestic enemies”‽

      Because apparently directly provoking all our neighbors to attack us out of self defense, or allying with friggin’ Putin, along with a million other treasons, aren’t qualifying enough? Who over there is gonna actually protect and defend the Constitution and the People of the United States of America?!

      Because dammit we haven’t lived this frickin long, through countless crises and bullshit, just to get shot or bombed by a Canadian we should’ve been sharing pancakes and beer with!!!

      FULFILL THAT OATH YOU LIKE TO RECITE SO MUCH. OR COUNTLESS INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE OVER ORANGE CALIGULA’S EGO.

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        The best option would have been for someone in the military to have put a missile into that golf course the day of the election.

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        Because that’s not how the military works.

        And in the end, it isn’t up to them. Trump won the popular vote. Not by much, but he’s in the White House legally and legitimately. Doesn’t matter what his ‘popularity ratings’ are now. We The People put him there, and We The People are the ones responsible for removing him.

        Do you really want the military to decide ‘I know the majority of y’all voted for this, but we’ve decided we don’t like that, so we’re overthrowing the government’ for anything?

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          Fair disclosure: Haven’t watched the video yet, but I’m honestly very appreciative of your counterpoints here. And I agree! A militocracy ain’t good news, either.

          And you’re right: Taking him out over “unpopular policy” doesn’t make logical sense under a reasonable society.

          I’m also aware that our civil checks and balances that should be putting the brakes on stupid policies are falling apart, because they’ve been carefully staffed by zealots heavily in favor of a single-minded, monolithic ideology.

          However, I’m honestly wondering where the line is, that a leader’s blatantly criminal activity can officially brand them “unfit for office” and bear consequences.

          Like if he actually tried to just kill someone for no reason in Times Square, as he boasted he could, could anybody stop him? Or is it just “rules for thee, not for me” and we actually have a king now?

          Because you know if “We The People” stepped in to stop that, we’d all get gulag’d.

          If he decides “lol yeah let’s annex Canada.” Can our forces deny such a stupid order? Even though he is, technically, “their boss”?

          Impeachment historically seems like a “strong suggestion” more than a solution.

          According to USA.gov:

          The presidents impeached by the House were: Andrew Johnson in 1868 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton in 1998 Donald John Trump in 2019 and 2021

          Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and Trump remained in office following acquittals by the Senate on all charges.

          It sounds like The People can’t really do much but demand that their officials follow through, but even then, it sounds like justice is never actually carried out.

          It’s honestly terrifying to think about, and I wish we knew what to do that was actually effective to reverse course on this absolute insanity.

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            The line is usually ‘where the majority party in Congress thinks it is’. That’s why even though they got impeached, none of those presidents left; look at which party was in charge at the time.

            Make no mistake; the Republicans could have him out on his ass and facing criminal charges before you could blink if they wanted to. They don’t want to, because he’s doing exactly what they want him to do. 40-odd percent of Americans also think this is great.

            And so, yes, he could shoot someone in Times Square and totally get away with it.

            That’s the real problem. Trump and fascism are symptoms, not the cause. If the disease wasn’t there, like it wasn’t with Nixon (or at least, it was just starting to develop then), none of this would be an issue.

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        The second amendment was written so that there would be militias, who could act quickly, in spread-out, often frontier locations, in case of foreign incursion, giving the military proper time to respond.

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    There’s something very irritating to me about the President using the word “trolling.”

    Maybe I’m being a stick in the mud, but the Leader of the Free World using Internet slang just doesn’t seem right to me. It’s petty, I know, but still.

    It is not, however, as irritating as people defending the shit he does to throw the global economy and international community into chaos, by saying he’s just trolling.

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    And we aren’t trolling when we say you’ll sign your own death warrant, as a nation, and as a person.

    the richest nation on earth with a military budget larger than the domestic budget of dozens of countries combined, couldnt stomach a fight against dirt poor cavemen, armed with cold war and WW2 relics, on the other side of the world, who were so culturally alien to them, they might as well have been from mars. And you’re going to pick a fight with people who all they have to do is wear a Bruins hat and they pass for an American?

    Ask the Russians how the occupation of their Ukrainian cousins territory has worked out. If you could speak to the dead that is. Those who are still alive, live looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives.

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      I sure as hell wouldn’t want the job of securing logistics in the northern woods with a bunch of angry Canucks running around.

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      The Russian occupation is actually turning out more or less fine, the Russian government is better at finding and eliminating organized dissent than at pretty much anything else. They’ve been having some trouble against the regular army however

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        Weird, I seem to recall there being some very big explosions happening in Russia like all of the time.

        I guess Russia is very good at rooting out organized dissent and preventing commando operations, just very bad at enforcing no smoking rules around explosives?

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          What makes you think those are commando infantry operations by locals rather than airstrikes from ukraine

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            What makes you think it makes a difference? Targets in Russia are blowing up either way.

            Also some of the big booms in Russia happened far enough away from Ukraine that it’s unlikely a drone strike. I suppose they still could be, but the drone operator would need to be inside Russia to make that happen.

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              if they were local ops, they’d be happening more or less uniformly all over russia instead of what we’re actually seeing, which is that they’re happening near the ukrainian border and steadily moving further out as ukr drone tech improves

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        Shit randomly getting blown up from IEDs, Drones and Grenade attacks, people being killed on the street, none of that is fine.

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      couldnt stomach a fight against dirt poor cavemen

      And yet, you think you haven’t succumbed to American brainrot.

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        Yeah, because the Taliban are the pinnacle of a sophisticated, civilized society, worthy of worldwide emulation.

        /s since it’s sadly necessary these days.

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          It just sounds weird to call your enemies cavemen honestly. I know they’re the fucking Taliban and stuff, but there’s something to it that is hard to explain. If we’d be talking about Sam Losco on the other hand, that’d be a different story as that guy is a literal caveman.

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            A lot of them were literally living in caves, so…

            Also I think we can relax the PC rules a bit when we’re saying someone that thinks women are property is a caveman.

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      The compromise is adding the proper pronunciation of the letter Z to the kindergarten curriculum, and highschool gets French courses.

      “I’ll be aboot time you say zed correctly!”

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    How is election security in Canada? There was fuckery in the last presidential election here, and I don’t doubt they’ll try it in Canada too.

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      Thanks to Elections Canada it’s actually a lot better than the states. We also get answers sooner. There’s nothing like an American election to make Canadians thankful for Elections Canada.

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        Yeah, our Elections Canada is quite solid.

        The influencing of support for our right-wing party endorsed by Elon Musk/Trump/Jordan Peterson via X, Facebook, and campaign financing is the real issue imo.

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      Christopher Tidus just did two hour and a half long podcasts with a guest. He never has guests. The guest is a veteran that has teamed up with a data analyst and a computer geek. They have the data. The election was stolen. They used every single method from kicking voters off the eligible elector list, to vote switching, to ballot box stuffing. The election was a sham that shows a clear Russian Tail.

      https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs

      https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0

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        Honestly? I know who Chris Titus is. Never figured he’d not be a Trump supporter. Know nothing about him really, and I guess my impression of him was completely wrong. So…uhmmmmm…cool! Thanks for sharing!


        I’m about 10 minutes into the first part. And, yeah, this is really really…idfk…fuck. Thanks. I’m really glad you shared this.

        Edit:

        The “mildly tangential ranting” on this comment I made yesterday I think is kinda relevant to this…if only tangentially…

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          I refer to him as a left leaning Dennis Leary. I can understand why you’d think he was right leaning. He’s got the “middle aged white man funny rant” style of comedy down pat.

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        This guy seems like he might know what he’s talking about but is there a version that isn’t a 3 hour video?

        Like an article or something?

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    Once again: not “Trump”. It’s “Republican Party” planning and doing all this

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      Its funny, we use “eh” here in Australia but spell it “A” or “aye”. Wild how a letter can have an accent in text

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        How did Canada come up with its country name?

        C “eh” N “eh” D “eh”

        I’ll show myself out

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    I’m gonna be brutally honest here: unless it’s possible to reverse climate change impacts, the US was always going to invade and annex Canada. Even if we had a string of only progressive Presidents leading up to that point. The southern half of our country is about to become agriculturally useless and nearly uninhabitable. The only place for the US to go is north.

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      Hi, you’re not invading us. If you do - everyone dies. Canadians are extremely fucking petty. If we can’t have what belongs to us - no one is getting it. We’ll uranium the waterways, and burn our own power stations. We will burn our earth and torch the sky before Yanks take one square centimetre from us. You will see.

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        I absolutely support this response. The US shouldn’t be allowed to swing its military might around to extort or absorb its neighbors. That said, it absolutely will and I hope it pays dearly for it.

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          The US can flatten our cities in 5 mins but there’s a lot more to Canada besides the cities. We would torch it all before letting the fucking Yanks take it.

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      Because the US is inherently a “murder and pillage” kind of nation, right? You’re certainly not saying things couldn’t be worked out in the long run between understanding and humane people, right?

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        The U.S. IS inherently a “murder and pillage” kind of nation, yes. It’s kind of the only thing we’ve ever done. If you’re from the U.S. (like me) and you keep asking yourself “how did we get here?” Or “what happened to the America of my youth”, then reading a little bit about history could be helpful. Or shit, talk to any Native about what their history, culture, language is, and then follow up with “What happened to them?”.

        The United States of America is a failed experiment. It’s time to put it down.

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          My soul is rock hard after reading your reply. Having said that, I wish those who are more ignorant than evil could be saved from the coming shitstorm. 😔

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      Or, the southern part of the US dies the fuck off, and the average IQ of the US increases at the same time.

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      Did you notice even the last Top Gun movie had Tom Cruise dropping bombs and stealing planes from a country that looks VERY MUCH like Canada?

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    Yes he is. It’s the sleight of hand you’re supposed to be watching while the other one is in your pocket looking for everything you’ve got.

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      It’s trolling til it’s not. He plants seeds and they fester in our angry wounds and suddenly it becomes the cure.