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Frankly, as a citizen of a formerly-allied country that the US is now openly discussing annexing by force, I'm fine with them crippling their military with absurd rules and standards. Go nuts, Hesgeth. Pile on the racism and sexism and whatever. Kick out any pilots or gunnery officers or whatever that are good at their jobs but that can't run a mile in whatever arbitrary time you pick. Ensure there are lots of well-trained former military personnel in your country that are bitter at your government but no longer under its control. I'm sure it'll go great.

Individuals joining is fine, that's what the immigration process is for. What I'm opposing is the indiscriminate admission of entire populations that do not align with Cansdian values.

For example, Minnesota barely passed some weak gun control legislation recently. How ready are they for the 2nd Amendment to be just gone? How keen would they be to have King Charles as their head of state? I think a lot of the people who say they're for joining Canada haven't considered all of the implications.

Minnesota does seem like one of the saner places in the US, but that's relative to the US.

They have meaning in France. The US doesn't have any say over that. If the US breaks those contracts then they can be sued in France and French judges can award them penalties.

Style cannot be copyrighted.

And if somehow copyright laws were changed so that it could be copyrighted it would be a creative apocalypse.

I considered Bush II to be the "first transgression" already. There are some further back too, of course, you can go back to the Gulf of Tonkin or even the USS Maine, but the Iraq invasion was the first where all the contradicting evidence was already fully available to the public if they cared to go look at it. Those "misadventures" in the Middle East and Afghanistan were where the first pebbles of this current avalanche of American collapse really started to move, IMO.

What we're seeing now is just the point of no return, where nobody's trying to stop the slide any more.

We don't want them. They'll just bring their brand of crazy to our politics and culture.

Yes, even the "blue" states. Americans have no idea how far their concept of "centrist" is from the Canadian concept of "centrist."

Over on Reddit today I got the coveted "[Removed by Reddit]" award for a comment where I merely predicted that this would end in violence. This is the Fediverse and I can be a bit freer in saying that at this point that's probably the better option for America, to make it absolutely clear what "side" the general public is on.

I doubt that America will choose the better option, though. Cowards.

It's bitterly ironic that the only people who have taken literal shots at Trump so far were themselves crazed Republican nutballs, his own base. I give America no bonus points for those attempts.

Seeing the video of that girl at Tufts getting abducted by the police, I don't blame people if they are too afraid to protest.

Land of the free and home of the brave.

Hardly. There are many ways to "cripple" the US without need to resort to a simple-minded military slugfest.

They could act to support Trump's next reelection bid, for example. That'd be more devastating to American power than a nuke.

Why are you in a science community if you're not interested in scientific discoveries? You should probably stick to the technology communities, those are more about the applied stuff.

I don't even now what Trump is wanting us to "give in" on, or if he has anything in particular that he wants. Isn't his position basically that the tariffs are good for the US purely in their own right, and exist for their own sake? He thinks that by doing this it'll magically revive the domestic car manufacturing industry and then they'll have tons of cars and money and everyone else will think he has giant hands.

For many years I have argued that Putin's actions in Ukraine and Europe "make sense" based on the assumption that no country in the world actually has agency in its actions other than a handful of superpowers - Russia, the US, and China. Any other country not on that list must be a vassal state of one of the ones that is, so if the Eastern European countries are no longer Russian vassals then that must logically mean they are now American vassals.

It would appear that Trump is under a similar delusion. He's apparently trying to beat countries into submission that he views as already being American vassals. Hence why he thinks stuff like the "51st state" garbage is no big deal, since in his view Canada's already 90% of the way to being a state anyway.