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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So an entire continent and a half might unite against the united States.

Excited to see that.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You might consider BRICS+ . It is massive. BRICS countries have roughly 3.3 billion people.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Malignant narcissists get worse the more power they feel they gain.

    This is emboldening him.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    There should be a maximum size / population limit for countries to limit power so things like this aren’t possible

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Bullshit. There’s no way Trump knows what a hemisphere is.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Sounds like something Putin would say, something Kim would say, something Hitler would say, etc etc etc.

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    [–] 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    So that's Venezuela, Nigeria and Somalia the USA is currently attacking, plus Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Greenland and Canada they're explicitly threatening to attack, and Trump has talked about taking Panama too. Nine countries the USA is invading or threatening to invade. People of the USA, you need to rid yourself of these Nazis before they destroy your country and start a world war.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's no use. People have been screaming this for almost a year now and it just keeps progressing while the only people who can really do anything about it sit at home on their couch and watch television.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    If you are an American: You need to make a cost benefit analysis in your head. For the worlds sake.

    How many people are you willing to let die, how much goodwill are you willing to let go of, how much worse will you let it get for your countrymen before you actually act?

    If you ever wondered how you would have acted in nazi germany; this is how...

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    What do I do though? Do I just show up at maralago with a sharp stick?

    Do you really think this is going to end in any way but armed resistance in mass? How do I start that?

    I'm serious. Give me a good idea. Please.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    First find people you trust, consolidate.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    And do WHAT? Plot murder? I'm at a loss as to what else would even have an effect.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    In escalating order, start from where you're comfortable then advance from there:

    Ensure the people around you aren't oblivious to what's going,on and if they're aware, then not just buying the administration's lies or taking their actions and statements at face value.

    Protest to show widely that randomly kidnapping foreign leaders is not what average Americans approve of. Meet people that are open or ready to organize with you.

    Forming mutual aid organizations to plan how to react if the federal government tries to come after you or your neighbours. Ex: if you run a business, lock the door at the first sign of ICE, like whistles, and refuse to allow entry without a warrant.

    Boycot the supporters of the administration. The more co-ordinated and widespread, the more effect it will have. Hell, Canadians got Jim Beam's factory to shut down for a year.

    Raise a strike fund and strategically withhold your labour. This, used well, might be the only thing needed to bring down this government so you wouldn't need to resort to anything further.

    Use your knowledge and expertise to create parallel systems and infrastructure to the ones being abused by this administration. New communications networks, a new health organization that actually gives proper health advice, communal safety groups and welfare, research funds to replace those that the feds threaten, so on and so forth.

    Raise a bail fund and plan civil disobedience. The action would involve things that aren't violent, but may or may not be illegal (or something that is legal now but declared illegal by the administration). The actions would be intended to slow down and obstruct the administration's priorities. Example: federal tax avoidance/objection, throwing your trash in front of a federal building in a way that just so happens to create a blockade, refusing to comply with policies you believe are unconstitutional.

    Edit: wrote protest twice

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I mean its just like ukraine. take crimea and no one does anything. cool then try to take the rest. if no one says boo to that then maybe poland. nothing but hand wringing with venezuela so yeah he is going to keep on going. I mean its not like other countries are going to stop protecting us ip or anything else that might cause the big corps to actually work against him than for him.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I'm sure he would annex us to take our water and the many resources we have. Who's going to stop him? Russia or China? Or Europe? No one. The best we can hope for is the TSA (T stands for terrorist) would crumble from within.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    “In play”

    Like some kind of real estate deal or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    While Trump is approaching his final term seemingly racing the clock and focused on short-term results, autocrats around the globe able to play a longer game could benefit from rising tensions between the U.S. and a number of its neighbors.**

    I can't find a good reason why he would target US allies and shit all over the continent other than it's a win-win situation for him: he pleases Russian mob daddy and distracts from his own child trafficking scandal. He was probably sold the idea that his name would be forever engraved in history and his eyes glowed.

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    [–] 23 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If he steps one foot into Canada there will be hell to pay. I will stake my life on that.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe Carney should be condemning the operation instead of praising it, then.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't classify acknowledging that Maduro was a bad and probably illegally placed leader while saying that international standards have to be maintained is praising it. That's kind of like reprimanding your neighbors kid for punching an asshole at school. He certainly could be more forcefully about his objections, but there are good reasons he wouldn't, as well.

    And, as always, fuck Poilievre and his response.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Trump claimed if Harris were elected we’d see World War 3. Every accusation is an admission.

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    Americans, when you speak of this with right-wing people, speak of it as an act of weakness and desperation. Strong countries with strong economies do not resort to colonial adventurism in the modern age. We are flaming out.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I’m sure there might be someone biting nails in Denmark right now.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    That fifa peace prize is sure paying off for them.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    This is why the world needs to turn against hegemony and violence and toward international democracy and the global rule of law. That's not happening in the US anytime soon, unfortunately. That's why the world really, really needs the sane countries to step up and unequivocally commit to a rules based global order.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Trump’s northern hemisphere needs to play with a fork and an electric socket.

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  • [+] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    Unfortunately it wouldn't change much. The current fascism is structural and enabled by many actors, companies and institutions, not tied to one particular person. When he dies, Vance will just continue doing the same.

    The only thing that could initiate real change would be the majority of US citizens revolting (but the majority are currently brainwashed by fascist rhetoric on proprietary social media and Fox News) and/or retaliation from other countries.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    One thing about Trump cultists they really don't think of any future fallout to their actions.

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    [–] 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Power is above the law, and politics is failing. I wouldn't be that surprised if China just takes Taiwan before their readiness deadline.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    How? I mean physically. How would China even attempt to do that now? Taiwan has one of the largest and best equipped militaries in the world and it’s an island, a natural fortress. It would be a worse fiasco for them than Putin‘s invasion on Ukraine.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago*

    I was going to say: fear of international retaliation is not what's holding China back right now. Any "successful" invasion of Taiwan would turn the island into the surface of the Moon and be akin to a Zapp Brannigan "Killbots have a preprogrammed kill limit" strategy in terms of casualties.

    Donald Trump is far too corrupt, stupid, and unpopular to lead the kind of international retaliation that would actually make China hurt. If they wanted to invade but felt pressured, they would've done it the microsecond that sack of shit entered the Oval Office.

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  • [+] -18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    Trump..."So, after I got away with the whole Venezuela thing I realized I could do anything else I wanted and still have sex with little girls. We might even televise it, we're not sure though." /s

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Practicing on Venezuela in order to get ready to take Greenland.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    NATO activating article 5 on itself? Putin might fatally cream his pants.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I guarentee you if the usa attack greenland. The rest of Nato won't fo anything about it. Even if the usa is out of Nato, Nato will still do nothing about it

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yep. Handwringing. Condemnation. Too little, too late. You will be disappointed every single fucking time.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The reality is that it will be easier to wait for trump to go away, and assume whomever takes over after him will restore the status quo, then it would be to confront the US in anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Venezuela has over 28 million people. Greenland has 56 thousand. Even if you assumed the latter could punch above its weight because it's a rich first-world country -- and even if you included the whole 6 million population of Denmark in your assessment too -- the idea of working up to it from Venezuela seems backwards to me.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    "Practicing" doesn't necessarily need to mean only militarily. Taking over a country here and there. Starting with countries that have bad people in charge. Working up to more and more controversial targets. 😅

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