I"m pulling for you Canada. Don't do what the US did.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Conservatives working hard to say liberal won before the election happen so no vote.
The same way we thought he would cost himself his own election, right? RIGHT???
The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
Here in Europe, everywhere but the UK what Brexit did was force all Far-Right parties to stop with their anti-EU rethoric.
Maybe Trump and the consequences of his actions will have a similar effect around the US and possibly further out (I hope it screws the Far-Right around here that most apes American shit).
However, in the UK Brexit did nothing to tone down the nutty Far Right, quite the contrary.
History is littered with cautionary tales. We never learn.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it;
Those who do study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others
In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.
The commonwealth should break up Sky News
They should break up Rupert Murdoch
American here. I hope the rest of the world looks at us in horror and chooses a better path forward.
And I hope that eventually that better path finds us agian.
My shared hope as well. Let this be a mandate to democracies around the world to safeguard their governments from billionaires, capitalist greed, and neo facsism. Maybe that can be the world we strive to catch up to in the future.
How many cautionary tales does the world need? The US is just the latest edition.
We won't. Flatlander derangement syndrome will persist.
Goddamn that article is impossible to read. I’ll just have to be satisfied with the headline.
Canada and the US have rising tensions due to Donald Trump's threats of tariffs and anexation, leading to the unusual booing of the US anthem at a recent NBA game in Toronto. Trump's provocative remarks about Canada potentially becoming the 51st state, although unrealistic, have angered Canadians and created political complications.
Canada has significant global trade and political views, they're proud of their identity, strong social democratic values and a distinct cultural and political separation from the US. The idea of Canada becoming part of the US is just not feasible legally, politically, or practically, and there is no genuine support for such a notion within Canada.
Canadian elections are coming and they're crapping themseves. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, previously leading in the polls, now faces challenges due to the shift in focus towards how Canada will handle the US threats. Because this is all crazy AF, the Liberal Party now has an advantage, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his likely successor, Mark Carney.
The Conservative Party has to condemning the US Right while defending Canada's autonomy, complicating their political strategy. They had recent strong polling, the election is no longer a straightforward win for the Conservatives, and Trump's actions may ironically benefit the Liberals, potentially granting them another term in office.
Good reason to be proud: at the end of WW2, Canada had the 3rd largest navy and 4th largest airforce in the world. Their contribution in WW2 cannot be understated.
Thank you!
I hope so. P.P isn't even qualified to work at a car wash.
He's sure good at just talking shit for no reason though...seems to be the only thing the guy can do is just talk shit.
Good riddance to this asshole clown
If "good at talking shit" means twisting shit around and crying about it, then yup.
I shudder to think of him waiting tables on a Tuesday lunch, let alone working retail on Cyber Monday when all the black Friday returns come in.
Hey now, everyone deserves a chance to get their first real job. Unlike government, car washes provide training.
Hopefully, but we won't know until the election actually happens and the votes are counted.
I think it's also going to depend on who the Liberals pick. I think Carney will have a better chance of winning than Freeland.
Good point, I had forgotten that the Liberal leadership race is underway. I'd personally be fine with either of them as the liberal party leader. But in the end, I'd rather the NDP be given a chance at governing.
Stats show the same.
People are falling for Chinese Propaganda, sadly.
She was a massive thorn in the side of the Soviet Union, and both the CCP and Russia are terrified of her.
Freeland studied Russian history and literature at Harvard University.[18] During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv in Soviet Ukraine, where she studied Ukrainian, which she is fluent in.[20] While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of The New York Times to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents.[1] The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression.[1]
While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organized marches and rallies to attract attention and support from Western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the Soviet Union.[21] By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".[21]
It doesn't help that we won't elect a woman though, or basically anyone who isn't a white man. I say all of this as an NDP voter, she would make me consider an ABC vote.
Let’s hope he also costs AfD, Le Pen, Farage and the Australian Tories their expected victories.
I made the mistake of reading the comments.
So many right-wing Americans talking down on Canada's public healthcare and left-leaning politics, praising Trump's "fixes," and acting like an authority on everything Canada. God, can we please fix our own problems before trying to ruin everything else with regressive changes?
Americans Have been fed propaganda for years through Fox News and the buying up of News media outlets, including social media, and not to mention Rupert Murdoch Empire. Education and intellectualism Have been demonize by the right and so now what we have is an uneducated populous that lacks critical thinking and just regurgitates what they “Political team” says. I say this is an American We are fighting the best we can but regulatory capture has taken over most if not all of governmental services and judicial processes. I’m sorry, and those words don’t seem enough to carry the magnitude of what your country is facing because of my countrys dismantling of our democracy.
Well said, and I wish our northern neighbors well. It can't be easy sharing a border with a government actively ignoring and dismantling its systems of checks and balances, while its new leader is simultaneously make "jokes" about taking over neutral or allied countries.
What really annoys me is the self-righteousness, self-importance, and proselytizing of our low-information conservative members. Most of the world has either thrived or at least existed fine enough with socialism or politics designed to benefit its average citizen, and ever step of the way these chucklefucks are screaming "communism" and denigrating the very things that would have helped them live better lives. And then they try and force those views on other countries which have better standards of living than we do! It's infuriating.
The brain rot runs very deep, and I'm not sure there's any way to fix it.
CANADA DOESN'T NEED A SMALL pp
PP
TINY
Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough... No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off...
The only good thing to come out of this shitshow.
Good.
Thank goodness. The thought of PP becoming PM was giving me nightmares.
I hate PP as much as the next Leftist and will vote against and advocate, but I don't feel existential dread over the idea of him being elected. So we got that going for us
Go Canada Go!