“Very, very senior” officials in the Trump administration have had secret meetings with far-right Canadian separatists trying to shake the foundations of the country. The covert meetings between high-ranking U.S. officials and the Alberta Prosperity Project come as a widening rift appears between Canadian leadership and the White House. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a speech in Davos, Switzerland, last week to call out President Trump for creating a “rupture” in the existing world order.

Archive article: https://archive.is/9FsBL#selection-723.0-727.336

    • Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I remember watching brexit thinking “damn they really are that stupid?” only to see Trump elected here shortly after. The fascist slide didn’t start here and when it takes over the rest of Europe we’ll all be sitting here watching yall “handle it” with all that empty bravado

      ETA: Americans are showing up in public in the tens of millions knowing our government and our next door neighbors are well-armed lunatics who would love to exercise their power over us at the drop of a hat. I, too, believed that since 99% of the people I talk to aren’t fascists that we’d have the numbers and the resolve to do something, but we’re still missing a key ingredient in getting everyone on the same page at the same time

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      Americunts

      So cringe 🤣

      I hope you’re as brave as the people over here who have been martyred. We have a feckless opposition party, which basically means that the people are on their own, and we’re up against the most advanced military in the world. Until now, the brown shirts have been terrorizing an entire state. What would you have us do? I voted, I begged and pleaded those around me to not vote for fascism.

      I am not defending this hell that 77,302,580 people welcomed in with thunderous applause.

      You really need to come up with something better than Americunts though. 🤣

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          It’s fair to hate our government, it’s fucking awful. It’s fair to hate the magats, they are all vile, despicable people. It’s not fair to hate the people who are trying to do good, who are trying to kick the fascists out.

          Hate the fascists, not the anti-fascists. You can do a lot of damage to the people fighting the regime by lumping us together with the neonazis.

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          Maybe it’s because we don’t use the word “cunt”, like at all. So any sort of disparagement that includes “cunt” sounds a bit silly to us (perhaps it’s just me?)

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            Fair enough, suppose it depends where in the world you are. Australia certainly has a different take on the word.

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          20 day old account rage-dumping on the only people that can change it for the better, lol. Blocked.

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              Unblocked to point out that you’re such a butthurt little girl you just went and used three alts to downvote every comment I’ve made in the last three days.

              Clearly account age does not inversely correlate to maturity.

              Explain again how smart you are? You did it with the same three accounts all in the same half hour like that shit’s not public.

              But seriously, THANK YOU for letting me know it got to you, and for exposing your alts:

              FeddedUp@feddit.online
              zeroConnection@programming.dev
              RibbidRabbid@sopuli.xyz
              GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world

              EDITED TO ADD: oh my god, you’re even upvoting yourself with all four, lol! Explain to me again how you’re anyone’s better when you’re not even secure enough in what you say to leave your own votes unmanipulated. Damn dude, that is seriously pathetic. I pity you.

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                  Dude, I’m looking at your post history votes, all your comments you regularly upvote with your own alts.

                  Tell me about all your friends again, lol.

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      Last I heard, Trump’s own actions were tanking the popularity of his European equivalents across the board. Reform UK for example peaked in the polls about a year ago, and have been dropping ever since.