Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
All my life - and for generations before my life - the Americans have been puffing themselves up about their intent and even eagerness to resist tyranny. Cold dead fingers, tree of liberty being watered, home of the brave, etc…
Who am I to deny them their moment to finally shine?
It’s worth explaining to Canadians, though. Explaining to Trump is somewhat of a Socratic method for announcing simple concepts to the world.
Ragebait. People love being angry.
This isn’t appeasement. It’s right there in the quoted text, for crying out loud.
We have adults running Canada’s foreign affairs. That means we won’t be seeing idiotic Trump-style knee-jerk reactions like abruptly trying to go all-in with free trade agreements to other countries without any concern for nuance. Especially not countries like China, which want to be hegemons just as much as America does and would love to get its hooks into Canada this way.
But the moment any nuance gets introduced into Canada’s reaction, the moment there’s a speech that uses careful diplomatic language instead of gung-ho blithering about how bad we think Americans are, it gets this “Carney’s caving! Appeasement!” Reaction. It’s wearying.
The “moment” is the duration of the Trump administration.
Lots of people are keen to blame everything on Trump, imagining that if he would just go away everything would go back to “normal.” But Trump is not the cause of this, he is the symptom of this. America has been trending in this direction for many decades now, with increasingly corrupt and authoritarian/isolationist governments that the electorate has been putting into power. It’s not going to suddenly reverse if Trump suffers a fatal brain clog tomorrow. There might be a moment of respite but that’s not something to depend on as a long-term change for the better, only as breathing room to further prepare for America’s continued degradation.
It’s not really a “moment”, this is the cumulation of a long-term trend.
Do it, you fat orange pussy. You still don’t understand what tariffs are.
In fact, I haven’t actually read his “letter.” I saw some headlines and can guess what it’s about.
Anyone want to tell him we’re not paying attention?
Took Trump a while to understand it.
Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must’ve just not wanted to wait.
Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don’t those businesses just download the torrents?
Seems strange. Anna’s Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn’t need to “cut a deal” for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you’ve got the whole collection available locally.
Nah, embarrassment makes him madder.
Or someone living far away from the US.
Steadily inching their way toward death camps.
You’re regurgitating old US government propaganda and you don’t even realize it.
Ironically, this is also “don’t blame us, it was our government.”
There’s these things called “primary elections” you could be using to get better candidates.
I mean, if the Americans are going to destroy themselves in a paroxysm of racist insanity, might as well make a little money selling them the tools they’re using to hit themselves in the nuts with?