Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn’t elect their own Trump Wannabee.
Didn’t elect their own Trump wannabe yet.
Fascism is on the rise globally, so we must all be vigilant. There are enough warning signs that Canada could be just around the corner.
Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the correct choice.
I’d rather them make the left choice.
Ah, I get it. I really meant the “correct” choice.
Yea, we don’t want them to shift in the wrong direction.
Let’s hope Albanese can stick around.
This is what has me so depressed. This is a forever thing. They lost there for now, but they’re just going to get better at their manipulation as “they” have globally. Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control of all major media. It’s only a matter of time when fascism runs most major countries. :(
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
I’m just concerned the media landscape is so different now that we don’t have enough people living in the “same reality” to really ensure that. Hope you’re right though. Unfortunately no matter what I think we’re going to have to go through the worst of it before anything can change. :/
Exactly.
Authoritarians of all stripes love to lay claim to eternity.
We don’t have to believe them though.
Were it not for actual Trump, wannabe Trump was on track to win. It won’t take long for that to come back
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote compared to the last election (+7.5%), in particular among younger voters. The Liberals only scraped together just enough for only a minority govt because the vote for other parties plummeted.
From my European perspective:
- Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
- The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
- Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
- Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe
The AfD nutters aren’t reconsidering. They just see the deportations and go “yay”.
Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.
The Canadian people are united like they have never been before. Canadian dollar as been rising. Canada is getting more doctors and high level professionals as some flee the U.S. Canada has been expanding trade ties around the world (exception is U.S.). Traveling Canadians are welcomed around the world.
We’re getting a heavy dose of “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
It’s become apparent to even people that normally don’t pay attention that, despite being less than we want, a lot of our tax money actually does go toward things that help the citizens.
Other than that, I got nothing. These policies, decisions, and the people making them are all a disaster that are going to take decades to repair.
Yeah. It also seems, at least where I am, to be attracting the attention of the “voting doesn’t matter they’re all the same” crowd. Serious consequences are hard to ignore.
It’s an accelerationist’s wet dream. Things are gonna get real bad here soon, and the best we can hope for is the when the backlash comes it will be swift and lasting.
The removal of DEI related protections at large corporations show who really was LGBTQIA+ supportive and who was just riding the trends.
And honestly, the way DEI has been handled in some cases really was not very good. I support the basic principles behind the movement but IMO the proper way to ensure that underrepresented groups get their chance is to address the problem at its roots - improved education, improved political representation, improved access to utilities and financial support and so forth. Hiring quotas are counterproductive. So I’m hoping that after the rubble settle and a new progressive movement eventually rises from the ashes it’ll have the opportunity to take a better approach.
Oh, you means liberals did something instead of nothing, and then it wasn’t perfect, so conservatives absolutely lost their goddamn minds, only to realize hey maybe we should do something, now let’s address the things the liberals wanted to address in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE?
Is that what you mean?
Chill out dude
Let.me know which bit I got wrong such that I should enhance my chill.
In my opinion you and the person you replied to probably agree on 80-90% of the same thing on this particular topic but you’ve come in swinging accusing them of being in cahoots with bigots.
It’s a fine line - getting tired of having to meet people where they are when they’re standing in the shit.
Good on you for having the energy to keep it up.
Thanks! Have an awesome day my man
It has radicalized my previously centrist brother-in-law to the left and continues to do so.
Other contries can use it as a fire against far right forces in their own countries. (That is, if the left is compenent to use it properly).
The USA is losing it’s soft power on many countries making them more independed from the US.
He will reduce mindless consumerism of cheap garbage, so there is that.
“Instead of having 30 dolls, the kids will have 2 dolls… and they may cost a bit more” - donald (paraphrased a bit)
A tiny microplastic lining.
One silver lining that I’m hoping for is that the collapse of American global influence might result in a rollback of the insane intellectual property regime they’ve been pushing on the rest of the world for generations. There were already hints of this sort of thing happening back during Trump’s first term; the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty originally included a bunch of clauses protecting American IP but when Trump withdrew the rest of the signatories redesigned the treaty to remove those clauses.
The withdrawal of American foreign aid sucks, but likewise may end up removing roadblocks to various good things like family planning, sex ed, and so forth being offered. A lot of America’s foreign influence was a mixed bag due to their puritanical demands.
The people that didn’t vote against this shit are going to suffer for it.
The people that did vote against this shit are going to suffer as well.
Silver linings, not the obvious bad ones
i appreciate the BuyEU and BuyCanada movements.
also uniting both canada and eu in terms of defense is a good move, imo.
the amount of incompetency people didn’t think would exist, we now have a good example of~! maybe it is not incompetency, but retrograde thinking~.
I’m a US citizen looking for a way out and it’s probably not going to happen because I’m not rich and I’m not important.
The good news is I will likely be killed over this horseshit soon enough so I won’t have to suffer that long with it.
the silver lining is that you die?
it’s that i escape but yes
I never stopped doing organizing work since Trump 1, during the Biden regime a lot of people went back to brunch, it was harder to find volunteers. Now they’re all back and ready to be mad at the government and do work.
Freedom has to be fought for every day. A lot of folks stopped fighting, now it has become much harder.
Thank you for keeping the fight going.
I used to experience a lot of negative emotions when I thought about the second ammendment
