All this ~~stupid~~ talk about Canada becoming a 51st state reminds me of this video from Radio Canada (CBC) in the 60s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70-WzzTW3jc

The last man in the video: ''I don't think (is it a good idea to become American), because we are already Americans. Our funds are Americans in Canada, you are in Ville-Marie (downtown Montreal) Square and it belongs to the Americans. Every corporations are here are Americans. I work for a company that claims to be Canadian, but the higher ups are all Americans. I don't see the reason to become Americans, it's American money in here.

Interviewer: ''so, we are already Americans''

Man: ''we are Americans, we speak french but we are already Americans, what do you want?''

Just because the colour and the political ceremonies are differents don`t mean you are different. Look at the military ~~base~~ collaboration and the economic linkage.

We are already annexed.

Operation Olive Branch (an organization well known to raise fund for Palestinians by being sponsored by content creators) in hot water for reporting former volunteers to the FBI for cybercrimes and harrasment after the volunteers went on tiktok speaking about their negative experience with the organisation and it's lack of transparency in where funds are going

Brother people are burning to death who fucking cares

The Eaton Fire has jumped the 210 highway and in the process burnt down a significant portion of Altadena.

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the future is what we make it

Remember when California voted against prisoners being not reduced to slavery this election?

Well it's to maintain a Penal unit, but that`s not really news since California fires are yearly events.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s1-5042174/wildfire-california-firefighters-prison-program

I know a lot of people are making fun of Trump for his claims about annexing Greenland and Canada, along with threats to Panama over the Panama canal and claiming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, but from a geo strategic point, it absolutely makes sense. I know that sounds crazy but hear me out.

With global warming, more and more of the Arctic will be explorable, and more shipping routes will become viable. There are also huge amounts of natural resources available there, including an estimated over 400 billion barrels of oil, and lots of mining opportunities. Over 100 mines opened in Greenland since 2012. Currently, only five countries have a recognised claim to the Arctic: the USA (through Alaska), Canada, Denmark (through Greenland), Norway (through Svalbard), and Russia. Russia currently have by far the largest claim, and the USA gaining control of Greenland and Northern Canada would eliminate some of the biggest competition from within the USA's own alliance, getting the USA closer to parity with Russia. Only Norway would remain as a third party. As for shipping lanes, further control over the Panama canal, the Gulf of Mexico and the Northwest Passage in the Arctic would advance the USA's position.

Do I think the US will actually annex Greenland and Canada? Probably not, but they definitely will get some access to their resource claims and shipping lanes, further vassalising Denmark and Canada. The talk of annexation is just to put the US in a better negotiating position and create public outrage. If Trump pulls this off, he's securing the USA's geo strategic future for the long term in the Arctic.

Artic Competition - Foreign Policy dot com - 19 October 2024

While this isn’t “news” in that this event happened decades ago, but it’s worth noting that when Carter handed over the Panama Canal, it wasn’t an event that went largely unnoticed at the time. To the contrary, it was actually a huge deal. The American population didn’t like it (in the same way they didn’t like Biden pulling troops out of Afghanistan - only bad in that it’s a blow to “national pride”). Reagan and other Republicans criticized Carter for it on the campaign trail. And while I wouldn’t say it was a decisive factor in getting Reagan elected, it certainly played a significant part of it.

Europeans submitting to utter vassalage of the most brutal empire on Earth and then being shocked when threatened with being brutalized is so funny to me.

What did you expect???

Zuckerberg ends independent fact checking on Meta

Meta moving moderation teams to Texas from California

Meta and Amazon donate $1 million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund

Welcome to neo-feudalism. Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk are playing court politics for King Trump.

As a non-American and self-proclaimed enemy of the United States of America, I'm pro-annexation of Canada and Greenland. I hold this position for one reason only, my map-brain is tired of the post-1991 borders and wants to see some new borders. South Sudan, East Timor and Montenegro are pretty much the only changes, and they're really not exciting. Give us massive swathes of land changing color on the map.

It's fucking funny to see the fascists over at r/Europe and /2westerneurope4u being completely surprised and annoyed that the EU isn't pushing back harder against Trump's threats, and asking themselves why the clown entourage of Don Jr. and co were even allowed to enter Greenland. They know very well that if it was Putin saying these things, it would've sparked a media frenzy, and politicians wouldn't shut up about it. Hell, if one of Europe's lap dogs made such threats against papa Amerikkka, they would've been made persona non grata by the state department within 0.4 of a femtosecond.

CW: Transphobia

Facebook etches out a specific exception for calling LGBTQ people "mentally ill"

Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), said on Wednesday (8) that social networks will only continue to operate in Brazil if they respect the laws in force in the country, regardless of “threats and tantrums from irresponsible leaders”.

“Here in Brazil, our Electoral Court and our Supreme Court have both shown that this is a land that has law. Social networks are not a lawless land. In Brazil, [social networks] will only continue to operate if they respect Brazilian law. Regardless of the bravado of irresponsible big tech leaders,” he said.

“We can't talk about the world, but in Brazil, I have absolute certainty and conviction that the Federal Supreme Court will not allow the big techs, the social networks, to continue to be used intentionally or culpably, or even just for profit, to spread hate speech, dangerous ideologies such as nazism, fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia and anti-democratic speech,” said the magistrate.

It's worth remembering that Moraes ordered a temporary ban on social network X in Brazil in August 2024, after billionaire Elon Musk's social network failed to comply with a series of Brazilian judicial orders. In October, the platform complied with the rules and resumed operations in the country.

Hahahahhahhah

After Trump refuses to rule out military force to take Greenland, European Commission response at today's briefing:

"We're looking forward to working towards a strong Transatlantic agenda with the next US administration towards common goals and issues of key strategic interests"

https://xcancel.com/fbermingham/status/1876960394624835586#m

'We're still here,' says Lula about coup attempt on January 8, 2023. The President signed a decree creating the Eunice Paiva Award for the Defense of Democracy. - Brasil de Fato (Portuguese only)

Keep hearing a justification of invading greenland is that climate change makes it easier to access more oil....that will further contribute to climate change.