Americans have a tendency to both over estimate their contribution to the world for positive things, and under estimate when they do something harmful. Anything good is a transformative boon to humanity, anything bad is just a minor mistake to be quickly forgotten

Not (just) because of tariffs. Because of threats to annex us. Because the tariffs were economic warfare meant to force as to bend the knee. Also because we can see the path the US is on, and don't want to be associated with that

The thing is, this wasn't a one off thing, he was RE-elected. This means we can't chalk it up to people not knowing what the result would be, and means we can't trust you won't do it again with some other wannabe dictator. So it will take more than Trump being out of office

I'm not. They've been pulling that shit for years with Canada, why would they not for Europe?

Not to mention, assuming something does happen, probably won't, but let's say it does. Since russia apparently knew of this in advance, why not stop it? they are in control of it, so surely they have the ability to prevent sabotage, right?

and so has the X-Men, Star Wars, Star Trek, and on and on in a list of things where these chuds with low media literacy grew up to be the baddies of the fiction they grew up on.

I suspect this is her wanting to do the USA colours, but wanting the white on top so it blends into the costume, and not thinking it through all the way, rather than her purposefully wearing the russian flag. Bad look, shouldn't have happened, but... shoulda put red in the middle.

Though, invading across THE ARCTIC, is not an easy task, even if the distance is not that big. Especially since russia has shown they suuuuuuuck at water crossings as small as rivers in Ukraine.

Also Canada is home to one of the largest populations of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine and russia. Despite our small population compared to the USA, we still have more people of Ukrainian descent in our country than the US. so we tend to be rather fond of Ukrainians.

as a Canadian, most people I know think highly of Europe, and hope to cooperate more, especially recently. It's mostly distance that has made the USA our closest partner, but values wise, we align more with Europe.

while the downward trend in the USA and EU is worrying, it would help if this was measured per capita rather than raw billions spent. Of course China will spend more, when they have 3 times the population.

kind of makes it scarier, honestly. That they would do this to not only a white dude, but one of their own shows no one is safe.

not links to, content from, they want people to be linked to the sites, rather than just having google summarize it on the results page

The man who constantly over promises is not set to deliver on his most ambitious one? You don't say...

I mean, yeah, good explanation of the specifics, just... not very surprising that he is YET AGAIN promising something he will not be able to deliver on.

It's the rural areas that voted for him the most strongly, as is often the case with the far right in other countries. While the voting system in the US needs reform, it's not like the rural areas would have voted blue anyway. You can't just assume every vote not cast would have been blue.

Exactly. people aren't boycotting Tesla because of the cars, they're boycotting because of HIM. Also, when he was micromanaging things, we got the Cybertruck. Tesla is likely better off with a hands-off approach.

lol, was just coming to post this. It's hard tack.

Because he discounts other countries agency. Besides all his other myriad faults, including the arrogance to believe he alone could fix this, he thinks that the USA runs the world. So everything that happens in the world is at it's discretion, and that Biden was not properly wielding the USA's power

aww, lil wrinkly Devon Rex heads.

But it's like this every time

Yeah, PP and Smith are sadly no surprise, they kept the rhetoric low key during the election because they knew it would be political suicide to do otherwise, but now the election is over, they lost, they have nothing to lose by pandering to the worst elements of their base. Nickelback tho, wtf?

Don't worry, this race is just for his seat. While I would love it if he lost his seat, winning this race does not make him PM. Carney is still well ahead of him in polls and early voting results

Yeah, that's part of it too. Smith is a puppet of the oil and gas industry, but she uses the rural/urban divide to help promote that sense of grievance, over things the Liberals did decades ago. The narratives definitely land more with the rural crowd

Mainly the cities. As is often the case, it is a rural/urban thing. Alberta and Saskatchewan have a lot of rural farm land.... Living in Calgary, it often doesn't feel like you are in a particularly conservative place, but it and Edmonton are islands

yep that was the one! so ridiculous, I can't see any of my neighbours falling for it, but i kinda wish they'd gone a bit less.... nutbar, to draw some more votes from the Conservatives

True, it is pretty big. Someone came to my door today, but I wasn't there so they just left a door hanger, but my mind was made up long ago anyway. The PPC came by the day before with their super cringe flyer with a bunch of anti-woke fearmongering.

We must live fairly close, lol. Well, I will be voting for him. I would have already but my polling place for voting day is like, super close, waaaaay more convenient for me than early voting, so...

a neckalace with a blue and yellow star pattern drawn on an egg

Me wearing a neckalace with a blue and yellow star pattern drawn on an egg

Look what I got at the Farmers Market today! a vendor was selling Pysanky, it's a quail egg, too cute!

Exactly. even if Trump is overthrown tomorrow and a nice safe Democrat elected, at this point we can't trust the US populace to not elect another wannabe fascist dictator next time. I get many countries face a surge in the far right, but when it's the US, it's a bigger problem for everyone else

There are typically around 30 or so volcanoes erupting at any given moment on earth, it's just some get more attention due to proximity to people, or their size. Nothing unusual here