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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Oexmelin - Today at 07:02:27 PM

Québec, like Canada, has its fascists. I'm sure some of them would be willing to collaborate with Americans.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Oexmelin - Today at 06:55:18 PM

I think Klaus' theory isn't that far fetched that such a list could be utilised as voter suppression in the midterms: https://youtu.be/WGAdpoH5YRk?si=26qmzg-Iq71PFtBY

Bondi seeks Minnesota voter rolls, welfare data to "help bring back law and order" in wake of shootings

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-minnesota-voter-rolls-welfare-data-walz-immigration-shootings/

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 06:51:02 PM

Yeah this has been playing out in Hungary for the past 15 years. If your much stronger democratic institutions won't save you, then your only chance of getting rid of MAGA is getting to near economic collapse.

Yeah that has been my sad conclusion after the 2024 election. We managed to escape Trump 1 with minimal damage. But now we won't escape without a complete disaster. Which will happen sooner rather than later.

Only total failure will save us from fascism.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by mongers - Today at 06:49:58 PM

I missed the LNG part at first and thought Russia had built an arctic rated aircraft carrier 

I'm not sure how useful a CV would be that was capable of going rather slowly through thick ice? 

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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 06:49:11 PM

I just read that the Hungarian military was not invited to the NATO exercises in Greenland for some reason.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 06:46:09 PM

I missed the LNG part at first and thought Russia had built an arctic rated aircraft carrier 

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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 06:44:19 PM

On social media, I agree that it can be used to organize.

However, I think that if the fascists control it it can also be used to surveil and shape public opinion to a high degree of efficiency. The Chinese are quite good at it, for example.

Given that the American social media oligarchs are aligned with the Trumpists, I am not optimistic about the long term potential for social media to serve as a locus of resistance in the US. I could be wrong, though.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 06:36:10 PM

I think it's less about Canada and more about how modern day Scots often like to cast themselves as a oppressed colonial victims of British oppression (like Ireland or Quebec, for example) when the Scots were fairly vigorous participants in the British imperial enterprise not only in terms of leadership, but also in terms of the rank and file participation and of economic benefits.

There is certainly status in certain circles in portraying yourself as oppressed and colonized.  It is also a weakness for multicultural states.  Trump's people already making a big deal of about the oppressed status of the native Greenlanders.  A crafty American conquer of Canada would certainly play up plight of First Nations in Canada and perhaps offer independence to Quebec.  How many people in Le Belle Province would tolerate an occupied Canada in the service of a liberated Quebec?

It's a good question but our ancestors didn't trust the Americans. I don't see any reasons to trust Americans now. Most of us are the wrong kind of white while about 20%  are different shades of brown.

You have these weird fantasies of oppression.  Fantasies of being sent to camps, of being the righteous resistance.  When fascism comes it won't the majority being oppressed.  The whip will be in your hand.

What Jacob said. Plus, the minority of Quebec is the majority of NA.

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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 06:32:21 PM

Yeah we had no overwhelming propaganda through the media before social media, what the hell are you guys smoking. Fox News and that's not even a state one.

With social media people can connect and organise.

If that was so inconsequential like you claim, autocracies wouldn't be limiting access to it.

If you don't see the difference, I'm not sure I can explain it to you

I now know how old you are, you post like you are a lot younger because you seem to not know the world before the Internet.

This was really condescending. I started typing a reply out but if you think somebody who grew up in a fucking village that was until his early teens behind the fucking Iron Curtain can't remember what life was without the Internet, then that prices your opinion in, not mine.

Plus, you are not just arguing with me but with the rules of Russia, China, Iran and other similar places which curtail social media and Internet access to control dissent.

Take this latest murder. How would YOU (or as a matter of fact, state authorities) would have seen evidence of what actually happened if it wasn't for the extremely easy access mobile technology and Internet (social media) offers individuals to record and share that evidence? Maybe if somebody had a camera ICE couldn't confiscate, it might had found itself to some TV station that wasn't too afraid of legal troubles for showing the footage. Or it would had eventually made it's way to you via some Internet bulletin boards or forums if you want to focus on social media as this non-utility.

And eye witness accounts of course. We would have read the government's version and the witnesses taking to the press, and then we would have the speculation, probably with Zoupa in full anti-establishment zeal arguing with "impartial logical mode" Yi on the other side, with the rest of us chipping in.

You asked what people were smoking, you kind of deserved it

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 05:07:48 PM

This seems interesting and maybe significant (I don't know):
https://gcaptain.com/russias-first-home-built-lng-carrier-clears-crucial-arctic-ice-trials-under-nuclear-icebreaker-escort/