With the USA trying to get Alberta to separate, and spreading lies about how unfree Canadians are compared with Americans and how many would love to join the USA, while constantly threatening to annex our entire country, attempting to crush it economically, and claiming Canada isn't a real country anyway, it certainly feels like the USA is our Russia. It's certainly our most immediately dangerous enemy right now.
What gets me is that mainstream media seems incapable of fact-checking or pushing back against false claims when showcasing seppies and I don't know why.
I swear to fucking god I'll do everything I can as an American to support Canada, sabatoge, spying, painting fake military installations on concrete, whatever.
Yeah you're on a list now... Palantir already scraped your comment and IP address and once the war with Canada starts you will be tracked as you go about your life. Once you even try to act on your comment you and people around you that know about your plans will be hunted down and relatively quickly. What happens after that I do not know.
This is what the USA is like now. This is the supposed freedom that the constitution guarantees. You're better off defecting to Canada and joining their military, but then be ready to kill your fellow Americans.
Just me having to make this comment just shows how far gone the USA is. I mourn for what it used to be. Absolute insanity, the past 10 years has been a nightmare for me at least. We are here now, fuck the USA government.
homie I have full on profiles of behavior and syntax analysis to keep me perma banned from conservative spaces I've agitated at in the recent past. I'm on a lot of lists.
Palantir already scraped your comment and IP address
That's not how it works.
Comments are public to begin with, accesible via an api. All gov is doing is running an instance. No need for the scraping nonsense - it's expensive and inefficient.
Well would palantir "scrape" the message and attach it to the file of the person associated with the account. Then it would be easy to search all the context regarding the individual? From my understanding palantir is just a large search engine for law enforcement?
Palantir is a software developer. Its software is really good at sorting out data. And while a message can be attached to the username, that username on its own is not really useful - so don't attach it to your real ID.
Canada won't take almost all American that try to go there. Unless you can buy your way in, with what, a 10 million dollar investment in the country is it?
According to this it seems that it's transitive so it goes back all the way to the 1600's as long as they were a Canadian citizen or (before either 1947 or 1949, depending on province) a British subject living in Canada.
This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.
As an Australian my shit government will just grab pearls, bend over and back USA as they've done every other fucking time, so I'm apologizing in advanced for our shitty government not being vocal about supporting Europe, Canada, Cuba etal
Are you thinking of Savatage? They're a heavy metal band that you don't hear much of anymore because a good chunk of them are playing in Trans-Siberian Orchestra 4-5 months a year.
There is a reason why Canada signed a 100 year defense pact with them, and it wasn't Canada being totally selfless.
Ukraine has given the formula for a much smaller populated country to resist an aggressive neighbor with a massive military and economy and far larger population.
Drone warfare is the answer and for a fraction of the cost of the US military Canada can leapfrog them in capability and truly secure the country from any invasion.
Nuclear weapons as well, Canada has no choice but to slowly move forward to gaining these weapons as the ultimate deterrent. Being threatend by the US of a military occupation and annexation is enough to justify this. I never in my life thought I would have even considered any of this.
Trumps goal was to change the world order, which is a strange goal when his country was alone at the top, now he has weakened America to a point they will no longer be the world's super power. The debt crisis is just beginning and Americans are in for some very tough years ahead.
Worst president in history and it's not even close, and the crazy part is the amount of people cheering him on while he dismantles the country.
The same can be said, to even an higher degree, about most other NATO countries. Some European countries spent the best part of the last 1000 years in conflict to what are now their closest allies.
History tells us why we should never go back to the historical normal.
32 Comments
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 3d
With the USA trying to get Alberta to separate, and spreading lies about how unfree Canadians are compared with Americans and how many would love to join the USA, while constantly threatening to annex our entire country, attempting to crush it economically, and claiming Canada isn't a real country anyway, it certainly feels like the USA is our Russia. It's certainly our most immediately dangerous enemy right now.
Corvid_Moon@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3d
What gets me is that mainstream media seems incapable of fact-checking or pushing back against false claims when showcasing seppies and I don't know why.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Russian propaganda is apparently one hell of a drug.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 3d
I swear to fucking god I'll do everything I can as an American to support Canada, sabatoge, spying, painting fake military installations on concrete, whatever.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 3d
Thank you. But for right now, vote. We'll worry about the rest soon enough.
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
Yeah you're on a list now... Palantir already scraped your comment and IP address and once the war with Canada starts you will be tracked as you go about your life. Once you even try to act on your comment you and people around you that know about your plans will be hunted down and relatively quickly. What happens after that I do not know.
This is what the USA is like now. This is the supposed freedom that the constitution guarantees. You're better off defecting to Canada and joining their military, but then be ready to kill your fellow Americans.
Just me having to make this comment just shows how far gone the USA is. I mourn for what it used to be. Absolute insanity, the past 10 years has been a nightmare for me at least. We are here now, fuck the USA government.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
homie I have full on profiles of behavior and syntax analysis to keep me perma banned from conservative spaces I've agitated at in the recent past. I'm on a lot of lists.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 2d
That's not how it works.
Comments are public to begin with, accesible via an api. All gov is doing is running an instance. No need for the scraping nonsense - it's expensive and inefficient.
As for IP... That's just not how it works.
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Well would palantir "scrape" the message and attach it to the file of the person associated with the account. Then it would be easy to search all the context regarding the individual? From my understanding palantir is just a large search engine for law enforcement?
Illecors@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1d
Palantir is a software developer. Its software is really good at sorting out data. And while a message can be attached to the username, that username on its own is not really useful - so don't attach it to your real ID.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 2d
Canada won't take almost all American that try to go there. Unless you can buy your way in, with what, a 10 million dollar investment in the country is it?
Not applicable for me, I'm not going anywhere.
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
Canada has citizenship by descent from a Canadian citizen and the rules were recently loosened so tons of Americans are applying to prove their descent from a Canadian citizen: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html
Last I checked, the processing time for all those applications was 33 months because so many people were applying.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 2d
I actually have one. It was a couple of generations back though.
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
According to this it seems that it's transitive so it goes back all the way to the 1600's as long as they were a Canadian citizen or (before either 1947 or 1949, depending on province) a British subject living in Canada.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 2d
I will have to tell any family I have that might want to emigrate at some point thanks for the information I can't believe I didn't know that.
I am going down with the ship.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
may not help, but check this out, it's some of our programs etc. for people looking to come to Canada. https://ircc.canada.ca/explore-programs/index.asp
If you do find something that works, just keep in mind that our gov't, like most, can be terribly slow in processing things. Good luck!
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
humm I have Canadian ancestors but it's something like 4 generations back. 3 at best.
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
It appears to be transitive so if you can prove a link back to them, every descendent counts as a Canadian citizen.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 2d
As an Australian my shit government will just grab pearls, bend over and back USA as they've done every other fucking time, so I'm apologizing in advanced for our shitty government not being vocal about supporting Europe, Canada, Cuba etal
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Is that a black metal band?
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d
Are you thinking of Savatage? They're a heavy metal band that you don't hear much of anymore because a good chunk of them are playing in Trans-Siberian Orchestra 4-5 months a year.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 2d
If that was so, saying it on a public forum is not a great idea.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I've made worse statements.
Malica@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d
skozzii@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 2d
There is a reason why Canada signed a 100 year defense pact with them, and it wasn't Canada being totally selfless.
Ukraine has given the formula for a much smaller populated country to resist an aggressive neighbor with a massive military and economy and far larger population.
Drone warfare is the answer and for a fraction of the cost of the US military Canada can leapfrog them in capability and truly secure the country from any invasion.
Nuclear weapons as well, Canada has no choice but to slowly move forward to gaining these weapons as the ultimate deterrent. Being threatend by the US of a military occupation and annexation is enough to justify this. I never in my life thought I would have even considered any of this.
Trumps goal was to change the world order, which is a strange goal when his country was alone at the top, now he has weakened America to a point they will no longer be the world's super power. The debt crisis is just beginning and Americans are in for some very tough years ahead.
Worst president in history and it's not even close, and the crazy part is the amount of people cheering him on while he dismantles the country.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
It's not strange when we have a fucking fascist demented narcissistic president though
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2d
Well why wouldn't he? The USA is playing the exact same game Russia was playing before it invaded Ukraine
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 5 pts · 3d
The aberration really was been post-WW2 period where Canada and the US were close allies.
Most of the history had been mostly friendl-ish neighbors.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
The same can be said, to even an higher degree, about most other NATO countries. Some European countries spent the best part of the last 1000 years in conflict to what are now their closest allies.
History tells us why we should never go back to the historical normal.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2d
Nah, Europe was on another level.
The US already returned us to the histotical normal, were just friendly neighbors now.
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3d
Accurate
faizalr@fedia.io · -7 pts · 3d
Zalenskyy is strange.