With the way things are going Canada may not be a haven if Trump tries to annex it.
The more accurate analogy would be The Handmaiden’s Tale.
Absolutely terrifying. And once the underground railroads fire up to bring women refugees to Canada, I’ll do my part to help.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We may not have heavy weaponry, but we have the bonus of looking exactly like any other American.
He’ll have to face a lot of dead American soldiers. I will die a Canadian. And asymmetric warfare is available to anyone these days. Just look how The Ukraine has held off the Russian invasion for three full years with a fraction of the resources and manpower.
inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I think a lot about 9/11 and asymmetric warfare. Bin Laden spent ~$100k and won. America has spent how many trillion since?
We just need to hit the people in power where it hurts. There’s a lot of ways to do that but we’re running out of nonviolent options.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
we’re running out of nonviolent options.
We send so much of our natural resources in an almost of completely raw state beyond our borders. Why not enact a law demanding that it be in its final format prior to consumption?
They want oil? Refined gasoline and diesel for vehicles. Or plastic particles for vacuum-forming. Or actual plastic parts for assembly.
They want wood? Lumber processed into its final usable form - beams and studs and plywood only.
They want wheat? Processed and ground into flour and bagged for use.
Rinse and repeat for every raw resource imaginable that comes out of Canada.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 week ago
They aren’t really off with 1984. “The department of peace” being the department of war and all that. Pro Women’s health actually being anti women’s health.
It’s so gross…
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 week ago
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I mean he wrote it after his experience in the British Ministry of Information during WWII. That reality arguably already existed when he wrote it and he just put it into terms that made the contradictions obvious and stole a plot to make it into a full length novel about how communism is bad and scary.
1984 is supposedly a cautionary tale about what would happen if the Communists won, and yet it was based on his own, actual, Capitalist country and his job serving it. It’s really no wonder how we got here, they’re just expanding the same tactics and rhetoric into new territory.