Canada to cut off electricity to US states: "Need to feel the pain"
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We Americans have a serious problem labeling anything we disagree with as "those other guys". I might even say it's our main problem. We wouldn't be where we're at today without the divisiveness and team mentality.
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We won't do shit until we are literally starving. Look right here at Lemmy, non-stop memes and stories about how what horrible economic shape we're in. So how is everyone fat?! Meanwhile, I go to work and look at what's for sale, at what prices, and think, "Jesus, people pay for this?!"
Even the Great Depression didn't have us storming the White House. Think on that.
tl;dr: Americans aren't near broke enough to band together.
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LCBO is actively removing American products from shelves.
I do think there's more technical problems related to decoupling a massive load from the grid, but Ford does seem to be following through with at least some of the promised retaliations. Time will tell if he keeps it up.
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Considering he won an undisputed election and at least a quarter of his base are gun nuts, plus police love to use excessive force & violence, that scenario would probably play out poorly for pretty much everyone. I would say try to show conservatives how terrible he really is, but that's not going to happen in Lemmy. I'm not even conservative, I'm anti-authoritarian centrist but even I find this place extremely hostile to conversation with anyone who doesn't embrace the group-think.
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With a dead crackhead brother you mean
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Oh, so they crowd-sourced it and it's being brigaded by Trump morons. Got it.
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Sadly it's not just Americans...
Seeing the same we-they pattern here in Austrian right wing communities/parties
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Nobody is going to support trump if the whole system collapses. We've seen it play out over and over across history.
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Well, yeah. But if people try to forcibly remove him before that happens probably there will a lot of unnecessary beatings, incarceration and death. Honestly even leftists have been saying this system needs torn down for decades. So if he tears it down, build back better.
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Imagine thinking Harris is a leftist
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Got it. The Americans who have been struggling against this shit storm are still allowed to communicate.
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On the slim bright side maybe just maybe this might make the US think of renewable energy, it’s why China invests so much into it to prevent relying on countries for oil.
Ehh who am I kidding, that’s not going to happen at all.
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I think you had a reading comprehension fail.
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On the other hand, our formerly quasi-municipal energy company is now owned by a Canadian conglomerate. I'd not mind unwinding that.
Like it or not, we are all connected across North America.
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In the US, reporting on simple facts makes you “radical left” while obvious propaganda makes you “right leaning”.
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Doug Ford is the last idiot I want to hear anything from.
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Broadcast it live on PBS!
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Sometimes I go look at r/conservative just to take temperature, and on returning to political communities on lemmy I find the same ad hominem insults and dehumanizing efforts as over there, certainly less of it and less virulent, but just as spiteful and aggressive.
I'm all for being upset when it's appropriate, but I am afraid that political affiliations are no guarantee of sanity or reasoning.
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Or even better: Discuss it with Ukraine, US gets no say in the deal.
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those states are all pretty blue.
Minnesota is. Michigan tends to be (especially now that our districts are drawn independently), but we voted for Trump as a state. And New York is mostly red except for NYC.
I almost want to see our power bills skyrocket in Michigan. But at the same time I know full well the dipshits who voted red (including my own family) will blame everyone else before they blame the people who might end abortion. So it won’t matter. They won’t learn. Instead we’ll all suffer because of their idiocy and they’ll continue to think that we’re winning.
(In fact they’ll be thrilled because it will mean increased oil and natural gas production to close the gap in demand.)
