I honestly don’t understand this compunction to break things that are already working fine.

Simple market capitalist mindset. If you’re not expanding, you’re dying.

Words do have meaning, they just want to be the ones who decide what they mean any given day.

And this dictionary change means “We want a casus belli to begin a military invasion of Mexico.” Literally throwing the Iraq playbook at it.

I find they’re usually just cowards afraid to stand both feet on anything, and/or self-aware of their ignorance so they give the “both-sides” spiel because it sounds pithy and intelligent.

I doubt they will reconsider their gun laws any time soon. In either case, the better way to resist invasion is enlisting in Canada’s professional army, not going off on your own to form a shabby militia.

In Canada self-defense is not a legitimate reason to obtain firearms, much less paramilitary activity. Of course you can just lie and say its for “recreation” and go to the range every now and then, which you should be doing anyway.

Additionally in recent years most self-loading rifles and all handguns have been made prohibited. You’re basically limited to bolt-action hunting rifles, SKS rifles with 5 round magazines, M1 Garands that cost $3000CA, and pump-action shotguns.

Sentence will be death by firing squad, no doubt.

Its a problem with basically all the post-communist states. When the soviet world collapsed it left a lot of early computer professionals, if not outright intelligence officers, out in the cold, and many of them turned to crime to support themselves. That fostered the environment of hacking and scams that exists today.

The one time my steam account was getting hammered with access attempts, they were from Serbia.

There is a strong undercurrent of chauvinism among conservative Americans. That America is one of the last bastions of freedom against the degenerate progressive-marxist-globalist movement.

It will still take some twisting of facts and provocation, but probably not as much as you might think.

Losers and suckers, that’s what Trump thinks of every single person buried there in his own words, regardless of their identity.

He probably thinks it would make a nice golf course if only we weren’t so touchy-feely and weak.

Why believe Congressional Republicans at their word when they say they don’t support this talk or don’t know where it is coming from? They’re collaborator filth. They will “suddenly” fall in line when something actionable is put forth.

I won’t say that this isn’t good advice, but I’ve always thought the subtext of this advice was

Please keep your money in The Market so we can keep leveraging it.

Please keep your confidence in The Market.

PLEASE don’t start a run on our banks and clearing houses.

Trying to time the market is risky, but ignoring your money isn’t zero-risk either. Nothing grows forever no matter how much Capitalism insists it does.

It didn’t matter if a German citizen supported the Third Reich or didn’t care and just wanted to run his bakery. Bombs still fell on his town, foreign troops still fought through his streets. This shit affects you whether or not you have the intelligence to comprehend it or the courage to confront it.

In the grand scheme of things Leon is just one of many douchebags. One that has been publicly grating to deal with for the rest of the gang. They’ve probably been planning an ouster against him for a minute, it’s just a matter of squeezing what use they can out of him in the meantime.

If it gets out of hand Elmo will be left holding the bag and likely forced out. The Trump admin will continue on like nothing happened, they won’t lose an ounce of support, and DOGE will just be a short footnote on our decline to fascism.

Bike cuck vibes

That is a lot of manpower that could be used elsewhere, were they actually a public service.

Its always guys that look like they extract peyote in their kitchen.

It is also about the theater, and the normalization of having the military physically putting their hands on immigrants. They want the National Guard of red states doorkicking for immigrants eventually, P2025 lays that out plainly.

Sell themselves as doctors and browbeat expecting mothers into not getting abortions. Practice anti-vax and woo.

The things a midwife from the 1800s might do, generally.

Republicans need indebted professional murderers for later phases of their coup.