This. Simply removing people of s certain ethnicity from a region without otherwise hurting them is ethnic cleansing but not genocide. It’s still a crime against humanity, mostly, IMHO, because the “without otherwise hurting them” part rarely if ever happens.

Non-elected illegal white immigrant.

Checkmate, atheists!

He seems quite fond of little Kevlar.

It’s very relevant. Wars are still mostly fought by troops on the ground, and you have to be able to get them to the place you want to invade. About the only other option is to try to physically destroy a hostile country with nuclear weapons, but that’s pretty much guaranteed to be disastrous for all parties involved.

Before or after they put boots on the ground to “liberate America from liberal tyranny”?

Right, defending allies is sooo edgy.

The worst cops aren’t always where you’d expect. Cops in Seattle and Austin are atrocious, for example, but Dallas, despite generally being much more conservative, has a much more professional police force in my experience.

It’s adorable that you think Canadians would be allowed to vote. I’m not even sure Americans will be allowed to vote much longer.

And the people complaining that people who want to support Ukraine against an outside invasion are warmongers can go fuck themselves with a cactus.

Anyone know if Johnny Cochrane is still working?

Also the law doesn’t matter anymore anyway, so nobody should vote to convict because they’re concerned about the rule of law.

You seem to be under the impression that I’m defending the idea of the US invading Canada. I am not. It’s a horrific thing to even contemplate and insane on many levels. My point is that the US might do it anyway, so Canada needs to be prepared. You really don’t want to be the next Vietnam or Iraq.

The fascists have gotten so much mileage out of exploiting problems in our government that everyone has known about for decades but that nobody ever bothered to fix.

We really need to get some judges who will reliably rule against fascists. We can’t get new judges, so I wonder how many liberal judges could be persuaded that cock blocking Republicans is a higher calling right now than impartiality is.

For reference, $20B is just over the entire market cap of CBS’s parent company.

Even if Musk wasn’t a Nazi, he’s still a big enough douchebag that I wouldn’t want to buy a car associated with him. And even if he wasn’t a douchebag, the Cybertruck has demonstrated what kind of stupid shit Tesla does when they take orders from him. And even without Musk’s influence, I still wouldn’t buy a Tesla because there are so many other options on the market, and people have gotten very vocal about things like the build quality of Tesla cars.

That’s gotta start hurting their stock price at some point.

There is when you abbreviate it to one syllable.

Deploreans.

I disagree with only one point there: while America as a political entity is like a crazy crackhead, it’s like a very heavily armed crazy crackhead. Treat the prospect of being invaded by the US the same way Ukrainians treated the prospect of being invaded by Russia. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst, because the US military is really good at wrecking whole countries even if it sucks at occupying them.

It’s ok to depend on people being generally competent most of the time. It’s not ok to depend on people never making mistakes, nor is it ok to depend on people acting in ways that real human beings don’t act. I’m politics, one if there critical failures was depending on politicians to act in good faith, and another was depending on the voters to stay informed and use critical thinking enough to avoid voting for an obvious conman.

Maybe there’s just no truly good system for politics, and the best we can hope for is the least bad option. But we won’t even achieve that much if we pretend the US system was created by enlightened demigods. It’s a deeply flawed system created by men who had no experience with democracy and who clearly saw themselves as the leaders of a new kind of aristocracy.

I will give them unqualified credit for one thing, though. The Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution are some of the most effective works of propaganda ever created. Saying that all people are fundamentally equal while simultaneously excluding most people from the levers of power was perhaps the greatest con of all time.