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I've been doing that for four years now...
Thus far they remain obtuse to the idea. Maybe they will get it soon.
@Rural_Canadian @csstrowbridge
Yes please, there is consistently more evidence, greater threat, and more people calling.
I don't know who to call, but demanding protection from subversion is government job.
I don't know who else to call either....
It's hard to take seriously a government who claims it will protect Canada from turnips threats without same gov recognizing that elon and X are part and parcel to that offensive government.
...plus posting on a nazi site should be effin' obviously unacceptable to them by now.... hope they figure it out ASAP.
Romania and the EU are responding to TikTok like they should after Putin used it to try to hijack Romania's presidential election.
No reason it shouldn't be the same for Twitter.
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Fox News wasn't actually banned in the UK- it was voluntarily withdrawn because the British, to their credit, would not watch it.
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I don't see shouting, not the teeth, not the all caps typing, and its said because there are still people using mastodon on xitter ("shitter" formerly not a weapon) we can tell because links show up in convos (only to be muted).
So what's your point about this bland reminder intended to improve our garden?
Anyone still using X is supporting a Nazi.
Yeah, OK, maybe I bit a bit hard, sorry.
But the underlying thing was that practically everyone here already agrees with you. Hence shouting into the void, or preaching to the choir. I'm not seeing the point, is all. Forgive me if I'm being a slow person tonight.
There are still people, news organisations, like Huffpo and ABC using xitter like it is the Press Release Office, still using the weapon as their video source.
And again, no teeth, no all caps, no shouting, just the insistence to stop now. To stop supporting, stop using, defending, stop playing down, the Musk threat, the invader's armaments.
Musk is a manipulative Nazi, an active and growing threat.
Everyone must, in growing unity and loudness, SHUT MUSK DOWN.
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And just for added measure issue arrest warrants for both #tRump and #elon so they won't go to Canada.
Those 💩's should be in jail.
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Meanwhile Boeing awarded mega contract for new fighter jet.
Priorities.
Feature on Sin & Punishment for the Nintendo 64.
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I spent 20 minutes looking through my music CDs for my copy of Arling & Cameron's Music for Imaginary Films, only to discover it gone. I probably lent it to someone ages ago and never got it back.
I found an unused, still-shrink wrapped copy on eBay for $6, cheaper than the $9.99 Apple Music was charging for digital-only.
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Trump set to sign executive order shuttering the Education Department nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm…Trump set to sign executive order shuttering the Department of Education
The president campaigned extensively on a promise to dismantle the department and appointed an education secretary keen to carry out the task.Garrett Haake (NBC News)
Caitlyn Jenner is the latest poster-child for kissing Trump's ass
inquisitr.com/caitlyn-jenner-s…Caitlyn Jenner Speaks Up About Recent Trump Administration Deportations—"This Is What America..."
Caitlyn Jenner, in a recent post on X, voiced out her opinion on the deportation of over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members by the Trump Administration.Arvind Rao (Inquisitr News)
The #canadiangov needs to update their official travel advisories on the federal info website.
#boycottUSA
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A French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
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@syb
Ja, de Nederlandse regering heeft het reactievermogen van een dooie slak.
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@MennoWolff @VoordeMus @syb mastodon.energy/@Sustainable20…
I’m the Canadian who was detained by US Immigration for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was luckyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Ja, fair point.
Maar de voorbeelden in dat artikel gaan allemaal over problemen met werk- of verblijfsvergunningen. Mensen die wellicht goed bedoelden, maar technisch wel een fout hadden gemaakt. En gek genoeg niets over Europeanen.
Tot zover heb ik 1 voorbeeld gezien van 1 Europeaan die het land niet in mocht. Geen verhalen over onrechtmatige detentie.
Oh ja, die Engelse, maar ja, Brexit.
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Oh.... Alsof je het over de Duvel hebt.
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Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.Nelli Bird (BBC News)
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Ach ja, mijn vrouw komt van het eiland Antigua.
Toen hurricane Irma daar de boel zowat volledig plat gooide (vergelijkbaar met situatie St Maarten) kwam BuZa 3 dagen later met een mailtje dat het misschien wel een goed idee zou zijn om daar even niet heen te gaan.
Uiteraard was 2 dagen vóór de storm al vrijwel zeker dat ze geraakt gingen worden.
Wat natuurrampen betreft doen meteorologen het steeds beter. Voor politieke ontwikkelingen zullen we wel afhankelijk van de politiek blijven.
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Well yeah...
Thing is, until there's evidence that NLers or Europeans are *often* illegally or unfairly detained, or other serious issues, it's not something that they would put on there. See for example China: code is yellow.
"Willekeurige arrestaties
Als buitenlander in China kunt u gearresteerd worden om onduidelijke of politieke redenen. Bijvoorbeeld omdat u wordt verdacht van spionage of het in gevaar brengen van de nationale veiligheid."
Yup. Until it's clear that traveling while under the influence of melanin is a problem they will not do anything.
Absolutely. But do realize that they ask you for your social network accounts upon entry or in the ESTA. And they might simply look you up online.
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Trump thought his invasion of Canada would be swift, but it’s been tougher than any of us thought. Who knew that after deploying their entire military and reserves they’d reach the depths they did in recruitment that they did? Turning to amateur hockey players to fill their ranks. For whom violence is a hobby, and somehow seems to be about half their population.
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I thought December was the worst of the frigid torture, but January has brought a fresh new hell frozen over.
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We’re 55 miles south of Winnipeg, and temperatures go down to -25 degrees Celsius (a bad metric habit we plan on breaking them of if we win) these days.
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Many of us Yanks are freezing to death in these sub-arctic temperatures. My platoon is fighting hypothermia by taking turns in a hot tub made out of a foxhole and geothermic heat, a technique a Canadian Prisoner of War (POW), Jean-Pierre, taught us when he got bored.
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The Canadian soldiers are in t-shirts, playing bunker hockey. Damned snowbacks.
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In a rather nice display of kindness, they throw mittens over to us. Well, we thought it was ‘nice’. We learned quickly that they keep our fingers from falling off due to frostbite — but it also means we can’t return fire as our trigger fingers don’t work when mitten covered. The bilingual bastards knew this.
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These snowspooks knew a lot of things — like having winter fatigues that are entirely white. It turns out our camo uniforms stick out like a sore thumb in Canadian winter.
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Despite not having the war chest that we have, they’re surprisingly clever. They’ve whittled down hockey sticks into shanks and are using them as bayonets in hand-to-hand combat.
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These syrup-suckers trained their Canadian Geese, what they call “Cobra Chickens”, to pick our drones right out of the air. The nerds they brought in from the Canada Space Agency easily learned how to reprogram them. So they’ve found an endless source of drones, courtesy of the American government.
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Their surprisingly ample supply of groundhogs from the prairies have been trained to burrow into our bunkers and drop explosives. And their beavers have successfully choked our supply of fresh water with their dams.
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The toque-wearing poutine junkies learned to coat grenades with maple syrup, to stick to whatever they’re thrown at.
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In some ways, they are the polite adversaries that we had hoped for. Every time they throw a Molotov cocktail made out of a Molson Canadian beer bottle into our bunkers they yell out ‘sorrey’. That’s quite polite of them. However, that good grace is entirely undone by their brutal psychological warfare.
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The Canooks play Nickelback and Justin Bieber on a subwoofer, 24 hours a day, to break our morale.
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They’ve been airdropping marijuana onto our side. Half my platoon has been incapacitated by the potency of their pot. Steve said, and I quote, “I’m higher than Snoop Dogg at a Willie Nelson concert” before laughing like a lunatic for 87 minutes straight.
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Entering the war, they clearly knew more about us than we knew about them. They’ve dangerously tapped into our overwhelming urges for patriotic pride by having one soldier yell out the names of states and cities. “Is anyone from…North Dakota?” The minute the Dakotan pops up in pride yelling “ME!”, their sniper picks him off.
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For a country that doesn’t have a lot of guns, they surprisingly have some of the best snipers in the world. As we learned far too late, 3 out of the top 10 longest sniper kills in the world are Canadian.
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Thankfully, they’ve grown since their Geneva Convention days, when their official policy was ‘Fuck Around and Find Out’. I learned from our POW, Jean-Pierre (surprisingly nice guy, he taught me how to make maple taffy in the snow), that they refer to the Geneva Conventions as the ‘Geneva Suggestions’, or the ‘list of things Canada isn’t allowed to do anymore’.
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I can see why the Geneva Conventions were invented in 1949 after the end of WWII. It was to stop the Canadians. They were (and are) savages, who did things like throwing canned foods into German trenches only to lull them into a false sense of security, and then lobbing grenades.
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They also took no prisoners and killed the wounded.
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My entire platoon is desperately hoping they keep to the Geneva Conventions should any of us be captured.
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But so far they’ve adapted an even more evil-maniacal strategy when it comes to POWs. They’ve been treating them so well that they turn. When captured, they get a trip to a nice Canadian hospital and a full workup. They also teach them how to ice skate and play hockey. They feed them authentic poutine, which is a welcome treat compared to the MREs our government has been purchasing from Russia. Nobody likes Borscht, Trump.
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I saw my buddy Dave the other day, he’s fighting with the Canadians now. He’s taken his new Canadian patriotism seriously, he started chanting “Build the wall!”…then he started building it.
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Pfft, turncoat.
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To boost morale, Trump sends us sporadic visits from Mr Beast and The Village People. Our morale hasn’t been boosted. And we’re starting to prefer even the Nickelback.
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But the Canadians have been successful in keeping their spirits up. Their government has kept them entertained by Ryan Reynolds, who learned some surprisingly quippy stand-up routines — and performs them in the Deadpool outfit. And Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has been their motivational speaker, who in a surprise move activated his Canadian citizenship to distance himself from this embarrassing war.
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I have to say, there’s something paralyzingly majestic about watching the Canadian soldiers ride into battle with smiles on their faces atop their military-grade moose (mooses? meese? meeses?).
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Mom, I fear we shall not be victorious and I fear for our safety. In addition to the millions of toothless amateur hockey players, who fight like angry badgers, joining their ranks — they’re calling up an even more terrifying brigade of soldiers.
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Menopausal women.
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These fearless she-demons are seemingly impervious to cold — and have redefined the term running amok. Hailing from Gen X, absolutely nothing instills fear into their hearts. America however continually refuses to activate our menopausal brigade, due to our conservative government and gender and age discrimination.
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All of us hope not to confront these hot-flash-having lady devils in battle.
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I don’t know what Trump was thinking. We can’t even beat these hosers in battle, how does he expect to keep 40 million of these hostile Zamboni-riding bastards under control if he wins?
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I have to stop writing now, my fingers are so numb from frostbite that I can’t fathom why we want to take this land. It seems inhospitable, despite the occasional hospitality of the Canucks.
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Mom, please send maple syrup in your next care package, Jean-Pierre is going to teach me how to make even the borscht palatable with it.
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You know what, scratch that, Jean-Pierre just promised if I helped him escape he’d give me Canadian citizenship, 7 Saskatoon berry pies, and a date with Nina Dobrev.
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O Canada, here I come.
wildingout.substack.com/p/the-…The 2027 American War with Canada — A Soldier’s Perspective
A tale of humorous woe from the sub-arctic front linesRobin Wilding (Wilding Out)
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28. Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.We unplugged ours a few weeks ago, before I read about this.
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with our own cheaper gripen and planning for a gen6 fighter, were we ever in for f35 to begin with?
I would feel sorry for the workers but if I could I would still press a "hurt" button, I'm afraid.
Portugal had never placed an order to cancel. Their F16s are at the end of their lifetime. They were considering F35s, and now they are saying they might consider others if they eventually do get to replacing them
Portugal's government wants to reconsider order of US-made F-35 jets — but it must be reelected first
In March 2025, Portugal's government said it would cancel its order of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of F-16s.Anna Rascouët-Paz (Snopes.com)
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Republican billionaires respond with funding for a war.
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Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).Sam Bright (DeSmog)
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it seems that Portugal never had an “order” for F-35s. They were just considering them.
Love you Mr. Takei but you just made me look bad in front of my friends. Now I have to verify stuff that you post too?
win stupid prizes.
Finland is also on the edge of cancelling their contract.
Good!
Canada is also taking a closer look at their contract to see how much of it can be cancelled.
FAFO 😀
♲ @sjvn@diaspora.glasswings.com:I'm with you Nancy.
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Trump's betrayal has catastrophic consequences in #Ukraine.
10,000 Ukrainian soldiers face #encirclement in #Kursk region, — The Telegraph
The main offensive against the Ukrainian armed forces began right after the United States stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
Did #Trump inform the #russians about the stop BEFOREHAND?
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Mapped: 10,000 Ukrainian troops at risk of encirclement
Putin’s forces advance on vital supply line after US stops sharing intelligence with KyivVerity Bowman (The Telegraph)
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Mike Johnson: Soros paid protesters because actual GOP voters couldn't possibly be angry
Republican House members have been facing a fierce backlash in their districts to Trump's heavy-handed firings and suspensions of federal programs, but Mike Johnson passed the buck onto the usual right-wing boogeyman.
crooksandliars.com/2025/03/spe…Mike Johnson Blames Soros For Protesters Causing Havoc At Republican Town Halls
In MAGAland nothing is ever their fault.John Amato (Crooks and Liars)
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And yet Saudi was left untouched.
That right there suggests something is wrong with NATO.
That not one of its members was able to say "hang on dudes, the conspiracy and funding and people came from Saudi"
Oh - and why was the Bin Laden family allowed to fly in the immediate US no-fly restriction?
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Well there are pretty good at disrespecting whose who came to the aid of #USA
""I didn't even know they were in the war," panellist and comedian Doug Benson added. "I thought that's where you go if you don't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."
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J D Vance as a Senator voted against aid to Ukraine
...and he wants thanks for that?
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And Trump has irresponsibly withdrawn US troops from Afghanistan, throwing hundreds of thousands of people under the Taliban's feet.
When men invade a country, they also take responsibility, which was once again broken by the usa and its allies.
Before that, he made one of his great deals with the Taliban, which ultimately led to a refugee crisis in Europe too. Fuck you #Trump!
I think it is important to recognize that the MAGA coup is close to a fait accompli. Impeachment is the only practical remedy available. All efforts need to be concentrated on achieving that result soon. It is only necessary that a handful of Republican representatives honour their oaths to achieve this end.
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Surely he would have to answer yes, because he stated that is not funny to have "illegal" aliens.
And then he should have ask to this guy if he knows that impersonating an officer is illegal.
That would be funny to see.
MAGA are imbeciles
He is so stupid he doesn't even realise he is committing a crime. Using uniforms to impersonate police etc is a crime.
His only two infinitely small brain cells are high on drugs, he has a small body and must have a small dick syndrome. His uniform should say CUNT.
But it's just that: Trump brings our the worst in people
This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but the belief that we are truly a global force.”
I think Tusk hits the bullseye here. Those 140 million Russians are already fully occupied by fighting Ukraine, and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.
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Also, lingering trauma from WW II, perhaps, where American troops did swoop in and rescue many.
If Europeans are behaving like trauma victims with unresolved fear, might be helpful to help them re-learn to fight back.
@northernlights I think the trauma of the US joining WW2 so late and only when Pearl Harbour forced their hand (as opposed to joining the fight against fascism on principle) - together with the permanent jingoism of the simplistic ‘we saved your ass’ line makes many in Europe, with any sense of history, feel deeply sceptical about US involvement. It’s deeply disrespectful to those who did fight in WW2 as well - US and others.
Europe needs to wake up now
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@samueljohnson @Wouter_Pieterse @JimmyB @northernlights
WW2 was won with Soviet soldiers, American industry, and British intelligence. (And also Congolese uranium, but nobody cares about Africa for some reason)
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@mok0 @samueljohnson @Wouter_Pieterse @JimmyB @northernlights
Ukrainians fought as part of the Red Army, and it was a constituent republic of the USSR.
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No, although Russia lost many civilians and soldiers.
Be careful that your anti-American attitude does not mean you lose track of reality.
@JimmyB @northernlights Yeah, we like to think we stood up and fought for the world against fascism but the truth is that Americans did NOT want to be involved in yet another European conflict and wouldn't support Roosevelt's desire to join the fight. He had to stick to humanitarian aid only (presidents hadn't yet decided they could just wage war without declaring it).
We also didn't give any fucks about Jews. We told them to fuck off and go back to Germany. I hope we didn't know.
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@JimmyB @northernlights We did end up being pretty darn important once we finally did join in. I think our pride there is warranted and, until we squandered it, the appreciation and camaraderie our countries developed was really great and the US played a huge part in it.
But what we're asking for now is so beneath the pale I don't think that matters anymore. It's us who have squandered the blood we sacrificed.
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“We did end up being pretty darn important once we finally did join in”
Sure. But that’s not really my point. In fact it’s sort of the counter point.
“I think our pride there is warranted”
I think that pride allows USians to not face who they really were - and are. I can say this coz it’s so true of us Brits too. Anyway. Here we are… more fascists to fight incl, again, a load of home grown ones
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@northernlights
Most credible historians would say it was Russia that finally ended WW2.
Not the USA. That's Hollywood
Sure, but neither would suffice without the other. Russians tied up a lot of German effort, with a sizeable contribution from US gear. On top of that, European and US troops together freed western Europe.
To the larger question, can Europe do it this time? "Europe" is not a unified force, we do not have the ability to amass like the US military has. Aircraft-carriers, huge transport-planes. The whole engineer and logistics operation. We're local. @northernlights @randahl
@hakona @northernlights
It is good that the US is less active.
It has done enough damage over the last 100 years.
@rzeta0 @northernlights without US's Land-Lease it could have taken USSR (not "Russia" - at some point Red Army was 30% Ukrainian, not to forget many others) nobody knows how long to stop Germans.
Of course that's not what was taught in Soviet school, and not what is taught in Russia at present. They in fact have turned the while WWII victory into a cult of Russian supremacy. And then into in aggressive revanshist "Можем повторить" ("We can repeat!") cult . And then Feb 2022 came.
I think what we are lacking is a sense of unity.
There is still way too much nationalism and protection in the heads of most Europeans and most European politicians.
Especially the far right-idiots fail to understand that we need a strong united Europe not a bunch of little countries fighting each other. Now more than ever.
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We need to stop worrying about hurting the feelings of racists, facists etc. We need to stand up for what our values are. Those who want to spread hate, disinformation should be told where to go, free speech be damned, it has boundaries and does not allow people to spread hate and lies.
We need to decide what is right, what is wrong and ensure those in the wrong are told and punished in some way.
I am not sure how to do that.
I think that in Germany they have made it illigal to deny the holocaust and educate people about it, and the war, so it never happens again. I don't think anyone can make Germany change that policy.
We need to do the same.
Send Europe's equivalent of Seal Team Six to snatch Putin and deliver him to the The Hague.
A fantasy of course but that would solve everyone's problems, wouldn't it?
I think the Waggoner group already tried something like that, hence their leader blowing up in a chopper, iirc.
I would be careful to scream victory ... and don't forget plutonium tea and weak windows ...
@thefwguy @jawarajabbi I’ve got a Serb mate who warns about the dream of assassination - coz the KGB is Hydra. I think he is wrong tho: there is something about the individuals - be it Trump, Putin or any of the other successful totalitarians which means that the individual does matter and replacements are pretty unlikely to be as successful.
Trying to think of case studies
@prokyonid @thefwguy @jawarajabbi well the gap between Tito and Milosevic was pretty long. That perhaps is the point though: while the individual may have gone, they leave a gap which can in future be filled by another with that character who gains power through fascist lies. And that hole can remain open for a long time.
The Balkan folks have insanely long memories too so this is particularly true for them
@JimmyB @prokyonid @thefwguy @jawarajabbi Don't let anyone tell you that #UkraineWar started on 24 February 2022!
1. Illegal #nazi #coup in Kiev: February 2014
2. Peaceful protesters burnt alive in #Odessa: 2 May 2014
3. Military attack in #Mariupol: 9 May 2014
4. Airstrike in #Lugansk resulting many killed women: 2 June 2014
5. Shelling of #Gorlovka resulting many killed women and children: 27 July 2014
6. Ukrainian UAV intentionally killed 4 yo boy in #Donbas: 3 April 2021
No war ever started on a particular date: context is everything. And yes - there were serious provocations. And US screwing in their election in 2014 was only matched by the Russians trying and failing to be as successful at the same game.
But your list could have been published by Putin. And the cartoon - disgusting Kremlin propaganda.
Being a dictator is the stupidest way to have a life, always watching behind to be sure don't be stabbed and "replaced" or just killed by the population.
Stupid stupid men.
Hey what's wrong with Liechenstein? Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtesnstein, was the one to give a home and money to Curt Herzstark, inventor of the legendary Curta pocket mechanical calculator.
Before then, Curt had been forced to stop work on his calculator by the Nazis, who forced him to make precision instruments for the German army, and then threw him into Buchenwald until U.S. troops liberated it.
See? Seeeeee? Eh? Eeeeeh? Liechtenstein.
(pic Wikipedia)
I don't know how to re-post this over to here, so I'll just repeat:
There's real "Iraq War Energy" on the front page of the Post this morning.
The attitude towards the importance of other countries;
"Zelensky doesn't hold the cards" == "The support of every other country combined is as nothing compared to the USA."
And "...not a smart strategy" was very Iraq-War editorial. Nothing about ILLEGAL or IMMORAL, just "bad strategy".
It's like calling the Mafia a "bad life strategy".
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That's a totally useless comparison of the Polish PM.
It doesn't matter how many people a country or Union has, the only thing that matters in the 'Age of the Bullies' is the actual military power.
And Europe - like it or not - is a dwarf in this regard compared to the USA.
It really is pathetic. We could have helped Ukraine to end the war already. But, it's not too late if we act now: urgently boost military production in European countries and invest massively on defence at home and in Ukraine.
Russians losing. Let's get it through the line and help Ukraine defeat them this year.
Yes. It's so weird that rich nations cower before Putin. Russia is on the skids and more sanctions could crash their economy which is smaller than California. Why do people believe Putin's propaganda fantasies? That is why Biden not giving Ukraine everything they needed on Day One makes me absolutely furious!!
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Poland is going to be a more important player in EU in the future. Not to mention they're (still?) the third largest military power in NATO and largest in the EU.
I think it was Tusk I listened to a radio program about. He could become the next Merkel going by what that program said.
All speculation of course.
one way to muscle up is to start issuing ITAR right back at the US.
The US doesn't make all of its own weapons, and relies on Europe for a bunch of weapon components. Maybe Europe gets to start saying where the US gets to use or transfer weapons with European components.
That was kind of handwaved away while the US was a friendly ally and global hegemon. But if things are going to be fraught and transactional....
"Este es el comentario más importante que he escuchado esta semana: el primer ministro polaco Donald Tusk:
“500 millones de europeos están pidiendo a 300 millones de estadounidenses que los defiendan contra 140 millones de rusos […] Europa, si hay algo que nos falta hoy en día, no es poder económico o demográfico, sino la creencia de que somos verdaderamente una fuerza global”.
Creo que Tusk da en el blanco aquí. Esos 140 millones de rusos ya están totalmente ocupados luchando contra Ucrania, y nuestros líderes actúan como si fuéramos Liechtenstein."
@energisch_ separation is generally not a good thing in my opinion.
the more we are united the better.
main reason why the EU military cooperation never came further was that most countries didn’t want to upset NATO, and we generally is very happy with NATO.
but right now it looks like NATO is dying 😢
and all because of the orange man.
sad times indeed 😢
Interesting how the recent #US behavior has resulted in a massive shift outside of the US. In a sense it has totally backfired.
#Canada is now more united than at any point in its history, and the #EU is finally waking up and stepping into its leadership role.
We can now all collectively give the big middle finger to the USA.
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Exactly, and allow themselves being bullied by a megalomaniac demented idiot…
Hope the wakeup call is there now.
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>>and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.
Just sayin'.
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Russia’s economy I think it’s smaller than France’s economy or Germany, I can’t remember which. The idea that they could actually tackle the full force of Europe’s military capacity is ridiculous.
Only nukes have kept this proxy war. The demographics of Russia are not a cliff, but a black hole. Putin‘s war has cost Russia several generations.
The consequence of Ukrainian victory is access to resources Russia supplies, but instead of a malificar (see dragon age), an ally.
Esperance de vie des hommes en Russie : 58 ans.
Espérance de vie des hommes en France : 78 ans.
A cynic would say:
Not really 140 million russians anymore, since Putin "lost" afaik about 800.000 soldiers in Ukraine. And he is not stopping...
It's so horrible.😱😭
All this to invade Ukraine and go on a killing, torture and kidnapping spree, to erase a country and a culture. 🤬
Stay strong Ukraine ✊
Putin kills "his own" citizens for a war nobody wants, not and especially even them.
Putin is may be not as strong as he seems. Yes by military force and state violence, but after all not based on russians. (I guess, who really is eager for war)
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conventional war turning into nuclear. That's why U.S. nuclear deterrent is paramount in supporting Ukraine.
European Federation. Countries now will get Staates then.
This ist what Trump fears.
But even though he has divided the US into a shambles via Trump, Putin has failed. NATO will stand, even without the US.
Don't forget. The USA has always placed themselves in the leading position.
"European countries needn't develop nuclear weapons. We will provide the nuclear umbrella and will be central command."
Selling rocket systems that need their GPS systems.
Together with the hope/ believe in many (western) countries that Russia had become member of the international community and no longer the enemy has made us complacent.
The wake-up call is there, but getting our baring is not easy.
The History of 2 World Wars ?
Is this:
Threats happen, when a Bully has the power of the Atomic Bomb his population numbers don't matter?
So 140 million is enough
500 million?
Better get the Bomb
MAD is a concept that worked for 75 yrs
America under Trump the Sociopathic Pal to Putin/Russia is a game Changer
Get The Bomb
You may not like me saying it ?
But that is the course that has been set
The Freedom & Balance in the World/Planet depends on managing HELL'sDEVILS!
the 21st Century is in the nuclear age. In the nuclear age the size of one’s population does not define survivability.
To treat a conflict between nuclear powers in 2025 as if it is merely an echo of world wars from the last century is to mischaracterize the realities of now in vital ways.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - likely falsely attributed to Albert Einstein
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Unfortunately Europe will have to direct more resources towards this rather than more productive choices
Honestly this is the biggest issue with Europe. We (the US) can look at our top line defense spending and clearly see that it's unsustainable. Meanwhile we can peer over to a more wealthy Europe who spends less on defense and see that their armies are lackluster at best.
Bulk up. Take the decision to knock Russia down a peg out of our hands.
@Grovewest @samueljohnson @cliffordheath @burnoutqueen @Wouter_Pieterse @JimmyB @northernlights
I always have a laugh reading people argue about “who won ww2.”
theconversation.com/who-won-th…
Who won the war? We did, says everyone
New research suggests people from Germany, Russia, the UK and US all think their own country was the most important in World War II.The Conversation
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The problem that despite being in the EU is that we still are thinking and very often if not most often act like separate, national states remains and that is our weak point!
We need to become a European Nation.
We need to stop dividing ourselves and let us conquer.
@RaffKarva @Grovewest @cliffordheath @burnoutqueen @Wouter_Pieterse @JimmyB @northernlights Ggod article, but it's not a laughing matter. We see now, again, the consequences of the conceits national exceptionalism.
When I lived in the US I encountered "We should just nuke'em" attitudes (when people were asked about what the US should do about Poland during Solidarity period).
Why?
Trumpian ignorance and a Putinesque feeling of impunity & superiority. Evident in Brexiters too.
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There is something deeply dystopian about folks who weren't born, taking some nationalistic credit for winning a war which they had nothing to do with, and to which the contribution of the forebears is controversial...
@RaffKarva @Grovewest @cliffordheath @burnoutqueen @Wouter_Pieterse @randahl @northernlights
@JimmyB @RaffKarva @Grovewest @cliffordheath @burnoutqueen @Wouter_Pieterse @northernlights The bigger issue, surely, is the delusions of impunity by citizens of historic imperial powers informed by misunderstanding of the past.
Citizens of smaller countries that have been subjected to domination by their larger neighbours generally don't suffer these.
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Yes: we have a real issue with this stupidity.
To wildly misquote someone or other...
British patriotism is the art of believing that because you were born in Peckham, you are superior to Mozart.
We get fed this BS in our tabloids day after day. Murdoch and Lord Rothermere are guily of a lot here.
But overly long historic memories is not just the preserve of the colonialists.
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yep, Europe could be very independent if only we’d choose to integrate more with our fellow European countries.
Divided, we might as well be Liechtenstein though.
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in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 • • •No, that's not true. He bankrupted five casinos. And it's difficult to make a profit in places where people who are addicted to giving away money walk in, give you their money, and walk out again.
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Yeah, but why would you buy them if you can make your own, or buy from a trustworthy supplier?
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in reply to Pascal • • •@trimethylpentan True. I wonder how they are doing in terms of supply chain control. I remember I read that only the French focused on keeping the supply chains independent from the US.
It's interesting how the conversations have shifted in just a few months. We have a fleet of Gripens and our government signed a deal to buy 24 F-35s last year. I very much supported it because the US had been reliable ally and it would be an upgrade for our aviation. I don't think the government would sign the deal now. And I wouldn't support it either.
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in reply to Bogdan Buduroiu • • •So the solution is to build your own, competitive system. #Trump the job creator in the EU.
@HarriettMB @Nigel_Purchase
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in reply to HarriettMB • • •He lies so much, but often when he brags, he admits things he shouldn't.
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in reply to HarriettMB • • •@HarriettMB Purchasing military equipment from the US is presently such a security risk. Even *if* (a big if) in the future, there is a seemingly more benevolent administration, the fact that the US has the capacity to turn on allies and use equipment it sold them to do so will remain
It is *such* a grave security risk that any UK government that purchases US arms now should be judged to be working in the service of a foreign interest #politics
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in reply to Greenseer 🩷🐇 • • •@HarriettMB Btw, I doubt the Trump administration is the first to sell 2nd rate US military equipment with kill-switches it controls and software it compromised pre-sale. I would assume that has been going on since it was technologically possible
The difference now is that the US has proven beyond doubt to be an unreliable ally, likely to use them
This means the UK nuclear deterrent is a white elephant. A very expensive tribute paid by the UK to the US and nothing more
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in reply to Fight the Right • • •Which will be an overwhelming push forward for the european wepon industry!
And don't forget the european weapon technology the US relies on, Hesold Radar Systems, KrausMaffay Tank Guns for the Abrams Tank, Bofors rotary guns, ...
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in reply to Fight the Right • • •It's been reported that European military powers are working on a 5-to-10-year plan to replace US in NATO.
This is too slow. Trump will drag us all into WWIII before that happens, and Europe will be ill-prepared if they take 10 years to build up their own defence industry. WWII was over in 6 years. It would have been a lot shorter if we hadn't built up our defences in a lot less time than 10 years. (And we would have lost).
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Replace is a cool word
Trump didn't leave #NATO 2 weeks ago, he began a slow process to remove leadership of........
Then NATO met without him, but with Canada and Japan and Oz.
The US is already out, de facto
It'll take a while to do the diplomacy and paperwork, but we've already moved on without them.
I expect intelligence data sharing has already been reduced, including elements of disinformation or distracting information, or fake alternate priority data.
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in reply to SufferForMe 🆘 • • •@sufferforme Sounds like you’re advocating for War Economy like in Hearts of Iron 4. “Build all the Military Factories!”
“The economy law of a country defines how many Civilian factories civilian factories of all factories are needed to produce Consumer Goods Consumer Goods. It affects the Construction Speed Construction Speed of factories and the conversion cost of factories, as well as altering fuel production. 150 Political power political power is needed to change the economy law if the prerequisites are met. The default economy law is “Civilian Economy”.”
#hoi4 #politics #uspol
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in reply to vvbudh • • •I'm not in favour of War or a War economy as some sort of ideological ambition. However, with the start of Trump's second term, the world has changed... dramatically. What do we do if Trump does start Military action against Canada or Greenland (for a start). Sit by and watch (like we have with Gaza)? Or do we go to the aid of our allies? For that we have to be prepared, replacing any reliance on US produced weaponry. I wish that was not the world we live in, but it is.
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I mean it's science fiction. It's not real. 🤯 And who, in the past would think that buying weapon systems from the #mairikkkans would mean that someday in the future, the Failed States of America would switch off those systems.
Allies.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup
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I buy a plane, or missile defence system, I want the fucking keys.
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Yeah, neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus really cleared all that up for me 30 years ago.
I've been using neofeudalism, but techno is way more descriptive
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Extinction, Orcutt GHGs!
in reply to Baron Vonskinnback • • •@Vonskinnback @Paulos_the_fog @Maxfieldripken
Every one who wants to stop this Trump/MAGA/Oligarchic sudden violent overthrowing of our existing government, that are forcibly suppressing any opposition, ignoring legal court orders, & unlawfully eroding Our Civil Rights in their 2025 plan to destroy our democracy needs to send an email like the following to their Republican congressperson!
Senator: senate.gov/senators/senators-c…
Representative: house.gov/representatives
Representatives | house.gov
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Stephen Elliott~Buckley • • •@Maxfieldripken
I think people when they buy their cars, phones printers, you know cameras whatever expect that.
But that’s not how that’s not the world we live in all of our music is now least we don’t own our CDs we don’t own any vinyl which of course have their limitations but still
Every penny we spend on big corporation products whether it’s the food we buy the phone service we use the car as we drive all financing our subjugation in early death
Stephen Elliott~Buckley
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yeah #saas was a clever thing
And I keep talking to people who regret getting rid of their albums and CDs and DVDs, because the intellectual property holders or the streamers or the publishing companies or whatever, they are under no obligation to allow the things to be available online all the time. I threw out a bunch of VHS and DVDs that I really regret too. But I have all my CDs and LPS, and these days, no way am I getting rid of those.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Stephen Elliott~Buckley • • •@Maxfieldripken
You do have to be careful though of digital media like that videotape CDs and even hard drives are not immortal. They do breakdown. There is a case, therefore for ripping everything just as a matter of space and having one or two discs to mean, you don’t need that very big ones so you can get some cheap ones you can even get USB sticks.
Never assume that digital media are immortal
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Stephen Elliott~Buckley
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yeah thanks, i do have a digital burn of all my CDs
And when I can download movies/tv, I'm doing that to make up for VHS and DVDs I no long have. Thennnn, make a hd backup, then a grandparent cloud backup. Whew.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Stephen Elliott~Buckley • • •If some of your favorites happen to be classic movies of various kinds, it’s always good to go. Check Internet Archive or just search through your favorite engine just type in Internet Archive in the movie name might be a surprise with crops up.
Stephen Elliott~Buckley
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell oh that's a great idea
I never thought of the Wayback machine for this!
Stephen Elliott~Buckley
in reply to Stephen Elliott~Buckley • • •Like, we have inadvertently given away our right to own a thing we bought. For convenience or something and corporations don't care if I can't find a really cool 1976 movie that I used to have on VHS. They really don't care that I bought it once and owned it and have owned it and owned the right to have a copy.
Kent Navalesi ☕️
in reply to Stephen Elliott~Buckley • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I'm so glad I never switched over to streaming. The whole arrangement seemed rather precarious, and it turns out I was right.
Pennywhether
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in reply to Pennywhether • • •@pennywhether @Nigel_Purchase the obvious failure of the Budapest Memorandum is bound to get everyone thinking about nukes.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budape…
international treaty of Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom
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Sune Auken
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I haven't the foggiest.
But to my thinking he does everyone, including the Danish government, a lot of good by being so outspoken.
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in reply to Fight the Right • • •Maybe you've seen the original text and can clarify? It was from March 1