I’m sure your point was very clear in your head but it may not be obvious to you that other people can’t read your mind. Suggesting that anyone who doesn’t get your opaque point is being obtuse is arrogant and childish.

Do better.

And Xi doesn’t?

Is there a pedant brigade or something?

That was only two representative examples. Do you actually want me to make an exhaustive list of all of the changes that have happened over time to the Chinese censorship regime?

Did mentions of Tiananmen Square make China uncomfortable before 1989 or did that change? Did mentions of Winnie the Pooh make China uncomfortable before 2017 or did that change?

I’m not sure what point you were trying to make.

You don’t think that’s exactly where the US is heading?

This is consistent. Anything that makes the racists, fascists, incels, tech bros, and billionaires uncomfortable is blocked.

Anyone who has been using Xitter over the last couple of years has already experienced Chinese style censorship.

It was never on the table. Trump is a serial fraudster and bully. He thinks that committing fraud makes him a shrewd businessman. Bullies belittle and diminish their victims to make them feel helpless. That’s what he trying to do to Canada. He thinks that he can treat countries the way that he treats suppliers by unilaterally changing the terms of contracts or simply refusing to pay and making them sue him. He was humiliated by the fact that Canada and Mexico didn’t just roll over last time he tried to unilaterally change NAFTA in favour of the US and he’s determined to make us pay for that humiliation now.

Canada will once again target red states that form Trump’s base with painful tarrifs. Targeted countries need to work together and coordinate their efforts. We have strength in numbers.

That’s why all the billionaires are in such a hurry to get to space. Guillotines require gravity.

That’s ok. You stay where you are and we’ll stay a federation.

It is the fact that the US is a republic that is the problem. If any US states join Canada they do it as a province of the federation.

Yes, that’s what I posted. Good for you.

-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).

-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).

-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).

-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.

-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.

-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.

-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.

-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).

-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.

and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).

(We couldn’t find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)

But the climate.

We’ve done nothing and are out of ideas.

Protect the profits!

Ya, so, we’re not going to do any of the things we promised. We’re just going to try to punish our political enemies and fuck shit up while looting every last penny that we can and running away while the country burns.

I went to a travel medicine guy in Ottawa when I was traveling to Central and South America. I went to my GP for these because they were just the ordinary vaccinations and he spaced them out per the manufacturers recommendations

In 2019 I asked my doctor to boost all of my vaccinations. He asked if I was traveling to a third world country. I said, “Yes, the United States.”

It took three months but he boosted my MMR, my DTP, Hep A and B, and several others.

He’s dead.

This guy was born in Texas. He’s as American as they are not just not as white.