A new poll suggests almost a third of Canadians say the United States might attempt "direct action" to take control of Canada, with a fifth of Americans agreeing.
Am American. We (the broad majority) don’t want Canada. or Greenland. or Venezuela. Any of this fascist shit. I’m so fucking sick of this. I want to go back to politics being boring-ish and about deciding what taxes will and won’t pay for and having actual friends whom we aren’t actively bullying. I wish this scenario were laughable, but it’s not.
No citizenship ever has been in a better position to prevent their government from doing horrible things, and yet we do nothing. We wring our hands and aren’t willing to hurt, let alone die, for what is morally right. The small arms in this country are more than enough to overwhelm the entire place. We have the numbers and the weapons and yes some would have to die. This isn’t even special though, all throughout history people have died for principles, it’s just… we don’t have any.
Are we in a better position to prevent government from doing horrible things? I’m honestly at a loss for what meaningful action the populace should be taking. We’ve been protesting. Largest single-day mass protests in country history during this term.
We’ve impeached this president (twice) and each time nothing happened because the elected senate blocked removal.
We do NOT have a strong history of general strikes, we simply don’t know how to do it since it has not been done here.
Our populace is not well positioned to fix this except hope that the midterms happen and aren’t sufficiently fucked that we sweep democrats back into power and put a check back on the system.
Am American. We (the broad majority) don’t want Canada. or Greenland. or Venezuela. Any of this fascist shit. I’m so fucking sick of this. I want to go back to politics being boring-ish and about deciding what taxes will and won’t pay for and having actual friends whom we aren’t actively bullying. I wish this scenario were laughable, but it’s not.
That doesn’t help at all. We are complicit.
No citizenship ever has been in a better position to prevent their government from doing horrible things, and yet we do nothing. We wring our hands and aren’t willing to hurt, let alone die, for what is morally right. The small arms in this country are more than enough to overwhelm the entire place. We have the numbers and the weapons and yes some would have to die. This isn’t even special though, all throughout history people have died for principles, it’s just… we don’t have any.
Are we in a better position to prevent government from doing horrible things? I’m honestly at a loss for what meaningful action the populace should be taking. We’ve been protesting. Largest single-day mass protests in country history during this term.
We’ve impeached this president (twice) and each time nothing happened because the elected senate blocked removal.
We do NOT have a strong history of general strikes, we simply don’t know how to do it since it has not been done here.
Our populace is not well positioned to fix this except hope that the midterms happen and aren’t sufficiently fucked that we sweep democrats back into power and put a check back on the system.
Unless you get off your collective couches that’s all that it is: wishes.
You are a serf of America. What you want matters exactly as much as what I want here in Canada.
Make America Gray Again?