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  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • We should really be both breaking up into regions/countries that make sense: 

    • “Cascadia”: British Columbia, Oregon and Washing State
    • The Maritimes and New England
    • Quebec 
    • The South

  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • That’s basically what AI is tho. It’s a misleading term for the evolution of auto complete.

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • If he’s old he’s not going to understand…plain and simple. My boomer mom is completely unable to grasp privacy no matter how I explain it to her.

    The reason you want security is because of scams and viruses…generally not because the government is trying to bust you for something you’re hiding. 

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • Yeah…although he’s often a thoughtful dude and he’s surprisingly knowledgeable about politics…he’ll always be the bloviating sensationalist.

    We’re in strange times…and who knows what will happen…but these separation anxieties on both sides of the border are just heightened because of the age we live in.

    I spent years in British Columbia, and if you ran in my circles you might actually be convinced that the Cascadia movement had legs, for example. It doesn’t…it just goes to a fever pitch when the other people are in charge.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • Sure it can…Minnesota and US-wide. Even though voter turnout in that state is relatively high…the last federal election saw higher than average Republican turnout and lower than average Democrat turnout.

    Furthermore, voting intentions for Trump have fallen dramatically in Minnesota for obvious reasons…while voting against him has seen almost the same rise.

    Additionally, voting for Trump isn’t the same as being conservative…there’s are very large cohorts of people who were for example: low information/previously apolitical, the Trump left, and independents and libertarians…it was a motley coalition.

    I’d put actual hard conservative support in Minnesota in the 30-35% range. There are far too many people who would benefit from cheaper and higher quality healthcare and education immediately to maintain a number anywhere near 47%.

    It’s not a secret that Republicans and conservatives in general can win elections with these low numbers…and round we go.

  • Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis'

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  • You’re saying he’s doing it for the money? Or that by virtue of being rich he was always doing it for the money?

    I have another song for you.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • The whole thing is silliness to make a point…like Alberta separation. But…

    …I wouldn’t be so sure with this positioning of Minnesotans, or any Americans, so far right of Canada. The American system has been gerrymandered and moved away from democracy in various ways…to the point where the actual people might be more aligned with Canada than you believe.

    The only hardcore sticking point, in my estimation, would be guns. It would be a non-starter for too many on both sides.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • I mean…it’s Jesse Ventura…but it’s hyperbole to make a point, I’d imagine.

  • Former Minnesota governor says state should seek to become part of Canada

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  • It’s no more silly than Alberta joining the US.

  • I consider myself as a left-libertarian who supports limited government and direct democracy. Can left-libertarians support limited government?

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  • Totally depends on on what you mean by “limited government”. If you mean “small for the sake of being small”, or “I want the government out of my life”, then you’re likely something else…closer to a right libertarian…or what many folks (incorrectly) just call a libertarian.

    Also depends on what you mean by “left” and “direct democracy”.

    All these terms are fraught and we need more info to answer you.

    If you mean “I want to vote on everything and I don’t trust the government to make decisions”, when you say direct democracy…then you’re basically a crazy person. Direct democracy works great with a small coop…not when it comes to government of any size. What happens when you have direct democracy in a government is the people pass conflicting laws and half of them can’t be exacted…and more terrible things like that.

  • Nearly half of countries on Trump’s Board of Peace banned from entering US

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  • If we’re being pedantic…Eastern Europe isn’t Europe proper. If we’re stretching “Europe” to mean the EU, Kosovo isn’t in the EU.

  • [US Treasury Secretary] Bessent Makes Tone Deaf Claim Canadians Want to be American

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  • Lol…maybe 20 years ago.

    Don Cherry got high on his own farts and outed himself as a bigot before he unceremoniously exited the limelight.

  • [US Treasury Secretary] Bessent Makes Tone Deaf Claim Canadians Want to be American

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  • Doesn’t exactly have his finger on the pulse of Canada…or even Alberta.

    There is a minority of conservative Canadians - generally the gun nuts, and now the anti-vax right - who bloviate about separating every time there’s a Liberal Party Prime Minister…it’s been happening since the 70s. They’re stupid…they rotted their brains watching American political entertainment. The same Maple MAGA morons forget all about separation and suddenly get all patriotic the second there’s a Conservative Prime Minister.

    They’re truly idiots, just like MAGA. They’re currently losing their minds over Mark Carney…a PM who’s governing to the right of anything their last candidate promised. He should be their wet dream…but they don’t care about outcomes: They treat politics like the WWE…they don’t give a shit or know anything about policy and it’s effects. To them politics are as nuanced as a match between Hulk Hogan vs The Iron Sheik.

  • Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’

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  • Hyperbole aside…the fascists have already taken strong steps to suppress, disqualify and gerrymander away Democratic votes to extend the large advantages they already had.

    Before Trump Dems needed to be +3 to win, when he was elected they needed +5…just to overcome Republican cheating. We’re looking at as much as a 10% margin required going forward.

    42%, if that’s even a real numberr, coupd more than enough to secure a victory. This isn’t even accounting for the fact that Trump and his cult will just change the numbers if they lose.

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • Yeah…I agree…but both things are true, IMO. It made sense at the time, and in hindsight it was a mistake.

    Some folks act like he was awarded the prize after the drone strike escalation…which isn’t strictly true.

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • This is a comments section…not a bibliography. I’m stating public facts…very easy to check.

    You haven’t said anything that makes me believe you’re interested in making an argument or would make it worth my time to spoonfeed you. I’m not making obscure statements.

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • Absolutely. If she was installed as leader I would predict a brutal civil war without heavy ongoing “security” from the US.

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • Yeah…it was based mostly on rhetoric but also early policy…which isn’t nothing. Close to…but still. He did things like sign an executive order to close Guantanamo and laid out a plan to stop the Iraq war. We know what actually happened…but we also know that it wasn’t solely his decision to reneg.

    It made sense because of how hawkish everything had been up until then. There wasn’t a sense that he’d essentially become a lame duck in the first midterms…and that he’d do so much for the hawks and get nothing in return.

  • Trump: ‘We shouldn’t even have an election’

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  • The only reason he hasn’t is Democrat capitulation. They should have forced a crisis long ago.