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I live in the US and I will suffer, but I really want the rest of the world to give us hell. Fuck Trumpler and president Muskrat.
If other countries decide to bomb or invade us, please start with the south east
Maralago, then Disneyland, from there, probably Texas, Alabama, the bad Carolina and then Montana. The animaniacs should jump into a cool song for this.
once canadians/Europeans/ S.americans stopped vacationing there, florida will probably be dead before that happens. since retirees dont benefit the state in anyways, and is more likely to soak up all the tax money anyways indirectly
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As long as they don't cut off gas to the PNW. Almost all the natural gas we use comes from Canada, and the majority of the voters there didn't vote for this.
That would be fucking brutal, no heat or cooking gas.
It's always the right time to switch to heat pumps and induction stoves. Gas is terrible.
Gas is terrible until the power grid goes down in the middle of winter.
Electric should definitely be the main go to but we should all have gas hookup for a backup heat source in my opinion.
That's excessive compared to the extremely low risk of a blackout in developed countries (excluding the United States which has regular blackouts). To illustrate:
US households spent 5.5 hours without electricity on average in 2022. Excluding major events like hurricanes, the number drops to 2.1 hours.
German households spent a whopping 12.2 minutes without electricity on average in 2022.
A portable gas heater, blankets and a camping stove are completely sufficient for the average person considering most longer power outages last for a couple of hours at worst. Exceedingly rare longer blackouts will always have a government aid program, such as a heated gym with free food, near your location.
The only one's who should really prepare for blackouts are:
- the government
- people who live hours away from civilization with very limited infrastructure connecting them
I agree, though here's my anecdote from the PNW.
We've had a couple storms this winter. One of them I lost power for 4 hours, but a friend of mine in the next town over was out 4 days. And some didn't lose at all, so it varies. Power outages like this aren't too rare every year.
It doesn't bode well for our freezers, but we don't get cold enough to be anything other than cold and inconvenient. Easily remedied by temporary solutions you mentioned.
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Until you discover that the gas infrastructure and your home heather need electricity to function. You better have an old fashion gas stove as backup that you can use until gas pressure drops too much. You could get bottles of gas and a camping heater but every year people die because they use these indoors and get CO poisoning so be careful.
Are you sure you're not thinking of generators? All the popular propane heaters in the US have CO shutoffs. There's not really a point to using a heater outdoors in the first place unless it's one of the huge ones that take a 20 pound tank and very obviously shouldn't be used indoors.
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worst comes to worst, they would.
Oh I'm sure. And Trump and other MAGA would look on with glee because they hate the PNW.
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Just the thing to enrage the masses. It'll be hard but the only thing that might change the mind of of MAGAt is suffering.
The MAGAts know that the PNW doesn't like them, and will happily watch the PNW suffer, unfortunately.
Oh, good idea. I'll pass it to my MLA.
Sounds like a good way to get them to rebel
Trump said Monday that “vast amounts of fentanyl got poured into our country” largely through Mexico and from China, and he encouraged car manufacturers to build plants in the U.S. to avoid the upcoming tariffs.
If the media actually did their jobs, they would add the context that the US seized all of 20kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year. This claim is, according to the US government's own numbers, absolute bullshit.
They would also note that in order to enact these tariffs without involving Congress he has to invoke a "national emergency", which is the only reason why he's suddenly all about stopping fentanyl.
The media is doing their job. It’s just that their job is to normalize fascist rhetoric.
its called sanewashing, all of the MSMs have been doing this with trump.
They would also note that in order to enact these tariffs without involving Congress he has to invoke a “national emergency”, which is the only reason why he’s suddenly all about stopping fentanyl.
This was actually new news to me, and I watch the news every night. Thanks for sharing this!
I was imagining scenarios where people were free-basing maple syrup or something.
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Only about 1% of fentanyl in the US comes across the Canadian border. Where is his rage and attention for the sources of the other 99%
Ah yes, manufactured rage to bypass regular checks and balances and do whatever he wants.
I was imagining scenarios where people were free-basing maple syrup or something.
Are you not? I guess, if you've never had Canadian maple syrup I understand
What do you call that thing where they pour syrup on ice and then roll a stick in it? I had that once. It's kinda like drugs.
Maple Taffy
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If the media did their jobs, they would be discussing how the amount of drugs available is not the reason for the drug epidemic, that addiction and mental health are linked more deeply to socio-economic problems, including structural economic problems, issues of social mobility, the destruction of the social fabric etc.
their [job]
The majority of America doesn’t listen to things that don’t reaffirm their beliefs.
If a news outlet doesn’t tell the people what they want to hear, another news outlet will.
building manufactuering plants takes years, and it probably wont happen anyways, because the high cost of importing materials, and paying much higer wages.
Hmm, maybe Trump could do something to reduce the cost of importing materials from other countries to help this along?
Well said! Exposing truth through the US propaganda lies.
It’s too bad 90% of the people meant to read this statement won’t because they’re being lied to. :/
Trump can go choke on a bag of dicks.
“Vast amounts of fentanyl enter the US through Mexico from China. This is why we must slap a 25% tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel.”
Trump voters just hear "foreigners bad".
I don't think many Americans even consider Canadians to be foreigners.
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I live in the US. I hope the world destabilizes our very flawed government and “democracy”
A two-party system is barely a democracy.
Good thing you don't have to worry about that two-party system anymore!
... AND cutoff the Starlink contract.
Vermont imports a quarter of its electricity from HydroQuebec. We’ve made it very clear this past weekend what we think of the administration. All the same, I completely understand.
As a Minnesotan, that would be very bad news for anyone here enjoying having relatively okay power bills. Unfortunately I have to agree with Ford; we totally deserve it.
I mean yeah, your country is threatening our countries sovereignty. I hope our leaders do anything in their power to stop that from happening. Sorry man. Most Canadians feel the same way.
As you should. I'm from the US and what our President is doing is inexcusable. The US are definitely the baddies here.
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Californian here. Is Canada's offer to buy us still on the table?
Well now we can wait for a discount.
awesome
I would love to see short brief interruptions.
Not enough that period due, but enough that it’s a huge pain when computer systems go down and network switches have to reboot.
They are all on battery or gas backups. They would need to be weeks long outages to kill any data centers.
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