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[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes ago

Typical rapist, won't take NO for an answer.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

"You know, I've got no direction to, you know, continue a dialogue on the 51st state. It hasn't been in play for months," he said.

Fucking Hoekstra. What a cock-gobbling sycophant.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'd rather die and I mean that

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

Just make sure you get a few on the way out.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

Eh fuck you USA πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I’ll go back to the US when Trump and his cronies are dead.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

My boycott becomes stronger.

The great white north has existed for thousands of years. No American president will ever control this land.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

I will never become a worthless piece of shit American.

Trump can fucking die already. America sucks. Fuck you America!

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

The precept behind this is that Canada needs the Golden dome to defend itself from Russia or China. What's lost is that NORAD defends the US from Russia. We should be paid to protect the US from Russia.

If we choose to not demonically hate Russia and China, as a carbon copy of US dictated demonic policy, then there is zero need to defend ourselves from what what we do not threaten. A nuclear attack on Canada involves us crossing a dementia line, where even if we're not the active threat to human countries, exterminating Canadians is viewed as a net global positive. Europe is far ahead of our dementia, and a legitimate threat to humanity in its demonic fascist evil, we would STFU quickly when US bases in Europe are nuked. We already do not need NORAD for defense of Canada. Our section of golden dome would only be to protect the US, and so if they want to build it, they MUST pay us to build it. They also need to start paying us for NORAD. Chinese missiles will not go through Artic to hit US, and again, the best defense is to stop being stupid vs humanity, and being part of same alliances as US.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why does he think ALL of Canada should be a single state, anyway?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Cause he is a fucking moron and an idiot with dementia

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Because he doesn't actually understand how any of this works.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

He’s incredibly proudly stupid

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

My guess is he thinks naming it just a single state conveys the message that Canada is inferior. It's whatever enough to just clump all together.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

He's not kidding. The whole "no rules of engagement" speech by Hegseth, Canada should be preparing a drone army by now, Ukraine style.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Canadian government really should be funding courses on combat first aid, self-sufficiency, and other non-combat insurgency courses.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

No fucking shit.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

Give Canadians 96 hours notice, we are closing up shop, come across and get back home, and close the border. You don't hold open borders against invaders.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hey USA. Your boy is on the front lawn in his diapers eating dog shit again. Maybe collect him before he gets away?

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sorry. He does that some times. We are working on it. Don't let him inside. Just try to ignore him for now and he might go away.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

The information I have seen leads me to believe that something really fucking bad is about to happen, and WW3 is about to kick off for real.

  • Canada and the US are still far apart on any "deal" that would see the tariffs go away, and Canadians likely are never going back even if the relationship thawed politically.

  • Trump renamed the "Department of Defense", to the "Department of War"

  • Trump is currently sending troops to Portland. (I believe I read it was close to 1,800. Please correct me if wrong)

  • Days later, Trump starts talking 51st state bullshit again.

  • Let us not forget that Putin and Trump are friends, and any issues between them are 100% performative.

Meanwhile:

  • China seems to be readying an attack on Taiwan.

  • China has been observed in our Arctic waters.

  • China is also buying up anything they can to get rights to our rare earth minerals.

Meanwhile:

  • Russia has also been poking around the Arctic.

  • Russia has been invading NATO airspace for some time now, specifically around where the leaders will gathered this week.

  • Reports of Russia potentially opening up a NATO front in the war with Ukraine.

Meanwhile:

  • Russia, China, and North Korea are in an open alliance.

  • North Korea has been pushing some boundaries recently with South Korea.

I am missing a lot because I am just pulling from my memory (As an example the Saudi/Pakistan treaty that I didn't read into enough) but it just looks like this is it. I am not trying to be an alarmist, but I don't see these signals going any other way than directly to Global war.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Russia, China, and North Korea are in an open alliance.

That's a bit dramatic. They agreed to some deals, and wrote a press statement about how they're BFFs. There's still no way in hell Russia trusts either, and so vice verse, and NK/China relations are a whole weird thing. Ditto for India and China, which have made the impressive step of no longer openly beating each other with literal sticks over territory.

But yes, there are many, many powder kegs waiting to go off. The only question is if it could actually go hot, or it will stop at proxy wars, espionage and tradefare like the last time.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

North Korea and Russia have a military alliance as North Korean soldiers were fighting in Ukraine with Russia under Russian control.

I agree that it is a press statement being BFFs, but China has been supporting Russia's war efforts with Russia saying they would also support Chinese war efforts. It is definitely a weird alliance, and they most certainly do not trust each other, but they are clearly working together to be a counter to "Western" influence and are likely going to increase military, intelligence, and trade ties.

I hope that it stops at proxy wars, espionage, and tradefare. I just do not see it as likely given the climate.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 20 minutes ago

It's true that the three have become kind of aligned, I'll give you that. But, "alliance" implies something like NATO where an attack on one is an attack on all.

What you've mentioned are cases of Russia buying things. The NK troops were sent in exchange for technology and goods. China won't even sell devoted military hardware, only dual-use civilian technology.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago

OK I get it but you know my state would make a great provence.

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago

Yea time to start playing with switches at Niagara substations around the time the stock market opens again... Wonder how much that would wipe off the market

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 hours ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 hours ago

Trump's latest remarks come only days after Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said it's Canadians who are fixated on the 51st state talk, and that sort of rhetoric is now in the past.

We Canadians just knew Trump would keep babbling about it.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 51 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Trump's latest remarks come only days after Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, said it's Canadians who are fixated on the 51st state talk, and that sort of rhetoric is now in the past.

These idiots can't even keep their bullshit consistent.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hoekstra can't keep his bullshit consistent with his own bullshit a few seconds ago when he denied his previous bullshit after being called out on his bullshit being bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ4RX5PsnFM

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 hours ago

And Canada, once again tells Trump to "get fucked".

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

oh look, another few years added to how long it will be before I consider going back there

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago

I don't know what math you're using but adding more to infinity is beyond my cognitive capacity.

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[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 hours ago

Wait, I thought we had a fentanyl problem. Why would he want that?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 24 points 11 hours ago

This fucking clown.

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