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    From where I sit on Canada’s western end, I honestly expect America to never have a legitimate/meaningful election again.

    As in, over the next 4 years the GOP will erode the election system such that it becomes equally as meaningful as elections in Russia or North Korea - theatre and a thin veneer of legitimacy, but nothing more. That the GOP will work things such that they will never “lose” another election, making America a permanent one-party state, no matter how many people would want them out of power.

    The scary thing is, Canada risks much the same if “PeePee” (Pierre Poilievre, of the Canadian Conservative Party) gets elected. The man is a snake-oil salesman who is always eager to tell you what the problem is and who is to blame, but who almost never had any solution for the problem. Even his “axe the tax” shtick is a “solution” in desperate need of a problem to solve, will hurt working-class Canadians far more than it will help them, and is only meant to reduce taxation on the wealthy.

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    Plus, they still have slavery! In the constitution it says slavery is not allowed, “except when incarcerated”. There are states where incarcerated people, convicted by a corrupt justiciary system, are forced to work without pay.

    Plus, they just elected an autocratic hate and fear spreading idiot who is a puppet of Putin and does everything in his power to make the US an even worse oligarchy.

    The world isn’t just watching, the world is watching in extreme horror and disgust.

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      The world isn’t just watching, the world is watching in extreme horror and disgust.

      To be fair some are looking for ideas, the Americans are not the only ones with issues.

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      We have slavery in our everyday lives without being incarcerated, we are debt slaves, we are wage slaves without freedom of movement.

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      Plus, they just elected an autocratic hate and fear spreading idiot who is a puppet of Putin and does everything in his power to make the US an even worse oligarchy.

      Oh sure, but we do that with every President. Trump’s a Putin Puppet. The Clintons Shill for China. Biden bent backwards for Israel. They’re all deeply in the bag for the Saudis.

      That’s before you get to Musk or Gates or Bob Iger or David Solomon absolutely leading our national leadership around by the nose

      The world isn’t just watching, the world is watching in extreme horror and disgust.

      They’ve been watching since Nixon. But they still keep cashing our checks, so they can’t be that upset.

      Guys like Starmer and Truduea and Shultz were lining up to kiss the ring as soon as the election results came in.

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    It took centuries for the Roman Republic to fall. At some point in time, they were past the point of no return without themselves even realizing it.

    I think we are in that position now. We have been on the decline for more than a decade now, and have had several opportunities to correct or reverse course, but the wrong decision is made at every opportunity because it’s far easier for powerful influential people to increase their power, wealth and status at the expense of everyone else and suffer no consequences for doing so than it is for them to sacrifice their own power, wealth, and status for the benefit of the collective. Are we past the point of no return? I’d say an argument could be made for either yes or no, but we are undeniably closer to the precipice than we have ever been as a nation since the Civil War (which never truly ended).

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    The American people voted a traitor into power that actively works for a hostile foreign power to destroy their country. And yet they can themselves patriots. Pathetic.

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    It’s not the laopards. Its they themselves who cut off their noses to spite their own faces. Bcos Gaza. Lofl.

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        They chose to make Gaza worse but also make the county worse because the alternative wasn’t as good as they would have preferred

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          Gaza worse? Biden already set the bar in hell. Supposedly a cease fire is in the works, and if so and Israel abides by it (the latter unlikely) liberals can go fuck themselves for eternity for constantly refusing to listen to the left. It’s liberals fault they’d rather lose to fascists than embrace any leftist positions. I for one will never ever vote democrat again country be damned.

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            That ceasefire is all smoke and mirrors. If tiktok does end up getting banned, the moment they go dark is when that ceasefire will come to an end.

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              The democrats represent their donors, not the working class. They never listened in the first place why start now?

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      They’re asking if a civilized country would deny healthcare. They’re not calling themselves civilized other than they have healthcare and the US does not.

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        it’s deeply embedded colonialism, and you are making excuses for it. they could have said compassionate or made some appeal to practicality. “civilized” is practically a synonym for white, which is to say a way to distinguish the colonizers from the savages.

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          You just sound triggered and looking to be mad about something.

          Both countries are products of colonialism and despite knowing the history of both and all of the horrors, Canada is looking a hell of a lot more civilized in 2025 than America. Does Canada have legalized slavery as a form of punishment?