How dare you break the jerk! /s

High chance it was a “friend” ordering it for them.

I guess that’s true. In aggressor states “how dare they resist” can be a real dynamic, but the examples I can think of are more from within the military or regime itself, not civilians.

Yeah, it’s grim times here. Good news is that acting crazy is finally having an impact on Danielle’s polls, and Nenshi is a very strong candidate come next election.

Will red America really see it that way? Blue America will still hate Trump, of course.

Good to hear! That hasn’t been my experience.

I wonder what kind of hard numbers there are on that.

Trump doing things is actually what gives me hope. If the trade war hadn’t happened we’d be following the US trajectory exactly, and PP would currently be PM. As it is, Doug Ford is kind of repeating what Churchill did way back when, starting fascist-aligned and then moving off, and might be the next Conservative to actually win.

Trump doesn’t do much. He’d have to have actual knowledge to operate those levers. He makes demands, and the ones he makes a lot get carried out by other officials out of self-preservation.

Greenland is one of those repeated and clear demands. Canada is up in the air… for now.

It’s a third that leans poor and less educated. Fancy people are still on a “business as usual” kind of wavelength, which is also how it’s been allowed to get this bad.

>50% have normalcy bias, where they fully believe the stuff they see on TV only can happen in far away places. Because it never has here in living memory.

I think it gets even higher once you get to the elites who could actually prevent it.

I’m guessing it would mostly be stupid for the government in power, and staying in Canada would win decisively.

In Alberta there’s a barely-concealed affinity between separatists and MAGA, so it becomes a useful wedge issue to unite your own party. Not so in Quebec.

So the PQ is probably going to win, in your assessment?

C’mon Carney. If they go we’re all but goners too. Our only hope would be getting nukes and (somehow) not being invaded before they’re finished.

A tripwire force, basically. Albeit small even for that purpose.

Trump’s clearly committed to the goal. Multiple people are organising around it, and he’s consistently talking about it.

I actually think that would be really good for Trump, if it actually happened. Remember what happened to W’s approval after 9/11, and what kinds of new powers were passed even with the then more functional democracy.

I mean, there are TikTok trends which are basically the same thing. It’s just that you’re on Lemmy instead like a nerd.

(Yes, that was a self-own)

From what I’ve heard about Windows, it works more like the Simpsons “Barney coming up behind Moe” meme.

So, as it should be, Tux.

Well, we agree on that, basically.

If someone can’t decide between the NDP or the Conservatives

Coincidentally, there was a lot of orange-blue swings in Ontario this last election. Factory workers who vote anti-establishment more than one away or another politically. See also how UAW in the 'states has pulled in behind Trump and his tariffs, despite literally being a cross-border union at one point.

How do you individually live a good life in such a crazy world? I admit, the IRL activism stuff I do still feels like trying to piss out a forest fire.

Combine them and the Liberals and you get a population that at least believes itself to be largely left of center so actually piss off.

That is a very slim margin, and a whole lot of voters are fence-sitters who might vote left or Conservative. If the Liberals were the NDP… well, Trudeau was not set to win. Because people hated him, and wanted something to his right “for a change”.

You mention the pattern. The pattern is a pendulum swinging back and forth. If you think it’s been waiting to go hard to (one’s specific version of) the left all along, that’s unscientific. The only actual control activists can possibly have is the pace and distance with which it swings.