The premise here is that Trump loses but refuses to back down, attempting to forcibly claim victory. If Trump legitimately wins, there is a different path. Then...
Assuming multiple systematic failures occur simultaneously, including any of: actual voter fraud, fraudulent electors, congress refusing to certify, a captured supreme court acting in favour of Trump, or actual insurrection on or before Jan 6th.
I actually expect the US Military to step in. Every member is sworn to uphold the constitution. But if the constitution has been discarded, then I'd expect them to step in to restore it.
Failing that, the US likely fractures and we leave the Republic phase.
Not as immersive but we have this little sound activated animatronic monster adjacent to the door, which typically goes off while they're yelling trick-or-treat. One little girl ran off screaming this year. One girl tried to make friends with the monster, attempting to shake its hand...
Counterpoint: Sometimes you can kickstart a community that you want to see just by consistently posting content. !science_memes@mander.xyz is my favourite example -- it was essentially one person who created that entire community (and it's since been diversifying somewhat -- at least there's traction in the comments).
But to reinforce your point: I did !spacemusic@lemmy.ca and tried to do the same thing, but it sort of petered out. But it's way way more niche.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Just engage with the content you like and build some places for content you'd like to see.
What they were looking at was a large bulblike object that seemed to be covered with stippled whitish-yellow skin. Out of it came twenty thick fleshy tubes, and at the end of each tube another bulb was growing.
"What the hell is it?" said Jimmy.
"Those are chickens," said Crake. "Chicken parts. Just the breasts, on this one. They've got ones that specialize in drumsticks too, twelve to a growth unit.
"But there aren't any heads..."
"That's the head in the middle," said the woman. "There's a mouth opening at the top, they dump nutrients in there. No eyes or beak or anything, they don't need those."
The genre is much older than this. The market is huge (something like 10-15 billion $USD) with about 50k different self help titles being published every year. Obviously no bookstore is going to stock 50k different self help titles (except maybe Amazon). But much of this market is served by special interest bookstores, like religious bookstores attached to churches or whatever. And those have existed forever!
I'm old enough to remember the 1980s and the parenting advice books that told my parents to beat me with a wooden spoon -- that they purchased from their church. It biases me against the genre somewhat ;)
Self help books tend to be part of a radicalization pipeline, where the authors are considered "experts" because they have a published book. Once you're in the pipeline, like youtube conspiracy videos, eventually you'll end up buying into antivaxx and other woo.
(1) Tactically, while the liberals are still in power, the NDP has some sway. If they forced an election right now, they would end up being a largely-voiceless secondary opposition party. Of course, you can only really exercise that power if you're willing to topple the government otherwise it's all just noise. So from their perspective, it's a fine line to walk.
(2) Personally, I'm hoping that between now and when the writ eventually drops, PP will make such a fool out of himself that he becomes too sour to stomach. At a minimum, I hope that this forces him into minority territory. (In my opinion, the ideal situation that would result afterwards would be new leaders for both Liberal and NDP and a short lived conservative minority.)
The Canadian Supreme Court, by comparison (in fact all judges in Canada) are merit based appointments. So far we've managed to avoid political appointments, for the most part. Although current conservative rhetoric is starting to target the courts.
Most functioning western world countries do not have partisanship in their courts.
Depends on the city. And who you are. I'm a big white dude with a geophysics degree so the circles I run in tend to be coloured by that.
I lived in Edmonton a decade ago, and it was great as a young professional. However, because the city is full of oil money, you really have to work hard to impress anyone with your career there. They're all like "yeah, whatever, everyone at this bar is throwing down $100s and you're just one of them assholes", so you have to be pretty self-aware to date there. But going to a "drink and draw" event at an art gallery will work wonders ;)
Currently in Winnipeg. The arts scene here is great. Met my long term partner here (online dating during COVID, even -- "do you want to go on a socially distant walk in the park together?"). She is more hipster than I so I basically ride her coattails now in the art scene. We went "power couple" for our first two years -- two houses because that's how affordable it is.
I have lived, worked, or studied in seven provinces and three territories now. I joke with my friends from elsewhere that when I moved to Winnipeg, I bought a garage and it came with a free house. My quite decent three bedroom, finished basement, double garage was $286k.
Well, it's cold in winter and very flat topographically, but whatever -- I lived in Yellowknife so this is nothing ;)
Photo just outside Winnipeg on the frozen lake -- hiking to find cool ice ridges. Just gotta lean into winter :)
Move to the prairies folks. Vancouver has no place to build new homes. Montreal is an island. Toronto has real and artificial constraints keeping the sprawl contained.
Move to Winnipeg. Regina. Edmonton. Whatever. Own a home like it is 1965. If they're still too expensive, move to an even smaller city. The jobs are available.
Elected judges cannot ever truly be impartial judges. The Rule of Law in a democracy means that politicians are subject to the Law as much as anyone else. But electing judges turns them into politicians with the power to give themselves more power without checks and balances.
Basically it removes the independence of the judiciary, and in the process erodes democracy. Ironically.
The premise here is that Trump loses but refuses to back down, attempting to forcibly claim victory. If Trump legitimately wins, there is a different path. Then...
Assuming multiple systematic failures occur simultaneously, including any of: actual voter fraud, fraudulent electors, congress refusing to certify, a captured supreme court acting in favour of Trump, or actual insurrection on or before Jan 6th.
I actually expect the US Military to step in. Every member is sworn to uphold the constitution. But if the constitution has been discarded, then I'd expect them to step in to restore it.
Failing that, the US likely fractures and we leave the Republic phase.