No, just the Iraq war was like that. And even then Saddam Hussein was actually an evil motherfucker and the US tried to claim it was a war about liberation. But we know oil was a significant consideration there.

Afghanistan was about finding the terrorist that did 9/11. I’m Canadian so I have family that went over there and came back with PTSD. We were only over there because the US was our ally. Only war Canada has ever lost in it’s history and it was because the US fucked it all up by going on a side quest to Iraq.

Minnesota is gonna have some problems.

As the article points out, building repair kits for cars & tractors to sell world wide or selling printer ink bypass kits or mandating in country app stores.

Canada deciding to not follow IP laws doesn’t mean the rest of the world no longer follows IP laws. These ideas would be for products that could only be sold in Canada and they’d have to compete with US products in the Canadian market. because under this proposal there would be no tariffs on US products.

This is one of those ideas that people in a single issue frame of mind come up with. Don’t like IP laws? Every single problem is an opportunity to get rid of IP laws and getting rid of IP laws will solve every problem.

Yeah it would be a both a reason and an opportunity for states to secede.

There’s a significant probability of that happening anyway… how long will progressive (and wealthy) states subsidize backwards and ignorant states? The whole reason why Trump is in power is because there are no consequences for significant parts of the US to be backwards thinking. If it were all separate countries the red states (red countries?) would have to become a little more progressive or they’d be living in poverty. As it is now, states like California and NYC are forced to subsidize the red states no matter how backwards they get and the red states get to force their backwards values onto the progressive states.

This is not sustainable long term. If this situation persists, it’s the end of the USA. If Trump pushes things too far it only accelerates the timetable. Right now the allies of the US don’t want this to happen. But those countries are no longer allies of the US and start working in the other direction then it’s all over for the USA.

The US can turn things around, but there needs significant changes to reverse it’s downward spiral.

As someone living in the west I prefer propaganda that isn’t trying to bring down the place where I live.

It would literally be asked to potentially die for the cause of betraying an ally for money. And not money for you, money for already extremely wealthy oligarchs.

Only an American would think that Canada is the same as the US. Because Americans are completely ignorant of Canada, in the same way they’re ignorant of the other places they tried (and failed) to conquer. Which is exactly why it’ll go the same way… only worse because there’s a lot of targets within drone range of Canada.

We seem similar but that’s to our advantage. There’s a very long border that Canadians can cross and you’d have to admit, Canadians would blend in well with the US population. While you’re looking at troop counts and number of planes and think it’ll be easy, we’re over here thinking about how easy it would be for us to fight a guerilla war on US soil. It’s been a long time since the US fought a war on your own soil and I’m seeing a lot of soft targets.

Also remember this would be the US betraying an ally. An ally that was just in a war fighting alongside the US for decades. Then a few years after that the US betrays it’s ally for what? Money? When the US is already the wealthiest country in the world? Never in human history has a country been so dishonorable. What do you think the US troop morale would be when ordered to do something so despicable? To fight against an ally to make some wealthy oligarchs even more wealthy? Canada would get a lot of help even from within the US if something like this were to happen. There would be a significant fifth column, to the point where the US might collapse into civil war.

If the US were to attempt invading Canada, it would be the end of the US.

Seems more like a Liz Truss level mess. Unfortunately, unlike the UK, in the US system it’s effectively impossible to remove their leader from power. So they’re stuck with him even after he craters the economy.

Yeah that’s all great, but someone named Pat got upset with me for referring to her as “they”. Sorry Pat, I never met you in person and so don’t know you’re preferred pronouns unless you tell me.

All controversy about pronouns is stupid no matter who it is that’s making a fuss about it. Tell me your pronouns or don’t, and be an adult about it either way.

Probably has more to do with her being in the pocket of the oil industry.

All of these guys are stupid really. It would’ve made sense for Pollievre to not push for no confidence and just wait until October where he’d be up against Trudeau and probably win. But he got his way and Trudeau resigned. Now is he going to force an election in the winter where he’s running against a stronger candidate? Last election the Liberals took a big hit in the polls from calling an unscheduled election. How many points will Pollievre lose if he makes a winter election happen?

Pollievre went all-in on US style politics and it’s wearing thin. Running endless ads outside of a campaign has made people sick and tired of him. When his US brethren tank the economy people might question whether being “anti-woke” is sound economic policy.

It’s still his election to lose, but it seems he’s doing everything possible to make that happen.

Canada won’t willingly be part of the US. If the US invades Canada, it would be the end of the US.

The US gets boners over their military tech, but they weren’t able to successfully occupy Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Canada is bigger than those countries, and this would not be an overseas war where they can just go home when they fail. Americans don’t have the willpower to succeed with a long drawn out occupation. They freak the fuck out over a few drones in New Jersey, they obviously wouldn’t be able to handle a war on the North American continent involving drones flying over them carrying explosives and searching for targets. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what a US war with Canada would be like.

Screw 15%. Put it to 25% right now, and on 18 February Trump will have to choose between a 25% increase in oil prices or a 35% increase if he goes through with adding the 10% tariff.

What the fuck do you want Harris to do? She’s not President, Donald Trump is President. A big reason for that is people constantly needing to blame Democrats for everything. You got it so bad you’re right now blaming an unemployed Democrat for the bad things that are happening while the GOP is controlling all branches of government.

The bad things that are happening are because people didn’t vote for Harris. If you didn’t vote for Harris, you’re a part of the reason why bad things are happening. She ran a good campaign, was obviously the better choice for President, but not enough people voted for her because they’re stupid. You have the government the American people voted for, or allowed to happen by not voting.

The reason why the humans controlling things suck at it is because they’ve cowed down people to not demand better. Accepting shitty AI instead of humans is just being cowed down even lower.

It’ll certainly make for some contentious AI.

It would be accurate to have “leftists” and fascists both beating up a liberal.

Do you honestly think that reducing the cost of fixing a tractor will reduce the cost of agricultural production by 25% across the board?

FFS Democrats are talking against this. It’s just that they’re irrelevant because the US electorate made them irrelevant. The people that voted for this and the people that didn’t vote at all allowed this to happen. Americans need to start taking responsibility for their own actions or inaction instead of constantly looking for someone else to blame.

He wasn’t even really saying anything from I could tell. His surrogates did most of the promising from I could tell.

But he actually did promise tariffs. All the economic experts said it would be bad. Team Trump was just all “experts? What do they know!”

People are getting what they voted for.