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Because protests don't do shit. There were mass protests over police brutality in 2020. Didn't do shit and the right wing media reaction arguably helped kill off police reform legislation that was in progress before the protests.

The reason protests from the left don't do shit is because the most popular media is controlled by Maga. The top social media network for news, the top podcast, and the top cable TV news are all outright maga propaganda. A narrative can arise without them, but they will determine what happens to it. So last time, the protests arose due to George Floyd, but the right wing media turned it into a narrative about lawless riots, using exaggeration and fake images.

See also Palestine protests.

Basically, the left is fucked in the US until something changes in the media so there's no point in trying.

Because the app stores keep adding new requirements that you have to add code to deal with and it gets worse every year and seemingly every day.

I don't want Elon dead, I want him to go bankrupt, fail at creating some NRx corporate dictatorship so hard that he brings about a socialist utopia, and then end up getting the drug and mental health treatment he so badly needs for free, eventually issuing an apology for becoming such an asshole and proceeding to live out the rest of his days giving Ted talks around the theme of how being the richest person on earth was the most miserable time of his life.

People's reaction: "This is tyranny!"
The reality: This is delusional.

Trump doesn't have the power to give that kind of order and any official carrying it out can be convicted and imprisoned under state law that Trump can't pardon them for. He actually doesn't understand this despite being president once already because he either always has been retarded*, or got that way due to some sort of dementia.

*I mean that in the medical sense, not as an insult.

I've not used fabric softener or any other substitute for whatever it does in like 10 years. Can't tell what problem I'm supposed to be having that it supposedly solves.

I actually stopped using it because the dryers at my crappy old laundromat tended to overheat and it would occasionally melt the fabric softener sheets and it smelled utterly horrible and left burnt on patches of fabric softener on my clothes. So I figured it was no longer worth the cost, and then I noticed I couldn't even tell what the benefit was. It was just a thing my mom told me to do and I never questioned it.

Many theories:

• Trudeau has criticized Trump in the past so it's just a revenge quest
• Trump wants to be emperor and trying to rule over neighbors is just what emperors do
• Just some delusionial Trump bullshit that demonstrates his mental decline
• (highly speculative) Influence from Elon, whose grandfather wanted to turn Canada into an NRx-style white supremacist corprate-fascist state 80 years ago and failed, hence the move to south africa. Conceivably Elon wants Trump to make him governor of Canada so he can finish the job. Generally I'm not in favor of wild intruguing speculation like this but it's just too fun/horrifying to pass up.

It's completely unrealistic in the short term, more so in the long term. This would require arresting millions of people - there simply isn't enough jail space. They would have to execute people on sight, and that's also not realistic because low level soldiers would refuse (there's a reason the nazis needed to build a system instead of just executing jews on sight). Obviously if this were attempted it would result in extremely violent resistence which would destroy any economic, political, or other incentives for such an action.

Instead we can see what happened in Russia for a more realistic example - there was a slow elimination of dissent. Even today there are some Russians who vocally oppose Putin and don't get arrested so long as they stay small enough. And that's in a place where the society never had a culture of freedom to begin with, so here it will probably be much harder and obviously MAGA is much dumber than the Russians too. But regardless that's why it's very important to be vocal now and oppose any silencing of dissent, like the removal of pro-Palestine activists here on green cards or even the pardoning of pro-Trump people, as this combined with harsh punishments for others is effectively silencing of speech. It may not affect you now, but if they keep at it for a decade or two it'll get to you eventually.

Having been on several bar trivia teams, I can say that at least 80% of Americans know virtually nothing about history. I could imagine someone with only a vague familiarity with a Nazi salute just assuming there's no way a fortune 500 CEO would actually do one, not recognizing how spot on of a Hitler impression that was.

Don't destroy Tesla cars, destroy the brand. Destroying Teslas means there's fewer Teslas and that makes them more valuable/reduces the flooding of the market caused by people selling their cars. The goal is to annihilate Elon's purchasing power to stop him from using it to implementing fascist governments around the world.

TWILF

American public transit varies widely, ranging from better than driving to comically horrible.

The full quote is even worse.

My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone.

So why the hate and violence against me?

Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls.

So basically he's saying - "I never harm anyone...the left only hates me because I'm a deadly threat to them (and that thing I made up to dismiss everything they say)"

Also, just wanna point out he's definitely killed/is killing people.

Most Americans have little clue what's going on in government. They just know they're angry about things and blame whoever they perceive as being in charge.

No, it's better. Because they people who are doing it don't suck.

No more DEI! (Dogs Eating & Ingesting)

Maybe it should. Why let Russia be the only country that gets to weigh in on foreign elections?

Interfere themselves. The US media landscape is dominated by right wingers, backed by Russia. Canada could help the other side.

So

1. this comment adds zero value to the discussion because you're not even being specific about what your insults are referring to, it's just insults with zero context
2. I'm pretty sure you misread what I said, but I'm not sure because ^
3. Yes, I do believe this and I think it's a pretty obvious thing to believe at this point.

To be honest, Canada partly has itself to blame. They let Russia interfere in US elections for a decade at this point but didn't lift a finger to interfere for the other side that respects them. That attitude needs to end.

Edit: People seem to be misreading this? I'm saying Canada should interfere in US elections. Everyone who hates democracy is already doing it and Canada/Europe is letting them win.