If he destroys the DoE, tuition rates will fall because there’s no more student loans and universities will have to compete on price
When we rebuild government, maybe it will actually improve service as we prioritize what is important now vs what was important historically
it means that the us empire is definetly going away soon.
He seems to have united the world… regrettably against us.
Also the word “bigly.” I use it all the time.
He brought defeat to the Canadian conservatives from the jaws of victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls
Look at that comeback 🤣
La Remontada!
I’ve picked up the gardening hobby and actually seem to be keeping up with it.
Nothing like a crisis where food is looking to be a concern to get ones ass in gear.
Ditto, never was into gardening but I’m going to try growing some herbs and tomatoes this year.
Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn’t elect their own Trump Wannabee.
Didn’t elect their own Trump wannabe yet.
Fascism is on the rise globally, so we must all be vigilant. There are enough warning signs that Canada could be just around the corner.
Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the correct choice.
I’d rather them make the left choice.
Ah, I get it. I really meant the “correct” choice.
Yea, we don’t want them to shift in the wrong direction.
Let’s hope Albanese can stick around.
This is what has me so depressed. This is a forever thing. They lost there for now, but they’re just going to get better at their manipulation as “they” have globally. Reich wing asshole billionaires have been solidifying control of all major media. It’s only a matter of time when fascism runs most major countries. :(
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
I’m just concerned the media landscape is so different now that we don’t have enough people living in the “same reality” to really ensure that. Hope you’re right though. Unfortunately no matter what I think we’re going to have to go through the worst of it before anything can change. :/
Exactly.
Authoritarians of all stripes love to lay claim to eternity.
We don’t have to believe them though.
Were it not for actual Trump, wannabe Trump was on track to win. It won’t take long for that to come back
The Conservatives increased their share of the vote compared to the last election (+7.5%), in particular among younger voters. The Liberals only scraped together just enough for only a minority govt because the vote for other parties plummeted.
From my European perspective:
- Countries are finally starting to push for independence from the US when it comes to defence etc
- The UK and Canada moving closer to the EU, increasing political and economic cooperation
- Brain drain from the US leading to American academics moving to Europe, bolstering our economy and research
- Hopefully seeing how fucked up the US is will eventually lead some people to reconsider voting for the far-right in Europe
Europe has a handful of upsides. The growing independence is great to see, as well as an increase in domestic defense budgets.
The AfD nutters aren’t reconsidering. They just see the deportations and go “yay”.
Yeah, but I don’t think the nutters make up the full quarter of the voting population currently willing to vote for them. Lots of them are protest voters who are just vaguely “against”. Besides, I don’t think it’d be the deportations making some people reconsider, but the sheer economic stupidity of the Trump government as well as their attitude towards Europe. I fully expect Americans to be far poorer and more miserable in 2-3 years and that might do wonders to dispel the myth that the far-right could “fix the economy”.
The ever-accelerating demise of the American empire will remove their fingers from every political and economic pie in the world, creating a small chance that something even worse doesn’t fill the gap.
Maybe then we can finally just focus on improving ourselves instead.
The way I console myself is by saying that likely, the only way the US elects a true socialist democrat (AKA Bernie Sanders / AOC) that can bring about a Brand New Deal, is by having the pendulum of American politics first swing so far to the right, that everyone with a conscience is forced to get out and vote in retaliation.
But the idea that we could simply vote our way out of a rising fascist dictatorship seems a fleeting fantasy.
We’re already going through the great depression v2.0, so FDR v2.0 should be coming up next, right?
I’m secretly hoping for another housing crash so I can afford a larger house and have my dad move in with me. Donald Trump seems to be my best chance at that
Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it’s a lost cause.
Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You’ve also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.
The economy could tank, but I don’t think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don’t have too much hope.
Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.
The Dems had a proposal in the works giving hedge fund instruments 10 years to divest from single family residential homes.
That would have helped immensely but it was blocked by corporate backed representatives.
I’ll keep the secret, I promise
The Canadian people are united like they have never been before. Canadian dollar as been rising. Canada is getting more doctors and high level professionals as some flee the U.S. Canada has been expanding trade ties around the world (exception is U.S.). Traveling Canadians are welcomed around the world.
It’s an accelerationist’s wet dream. Things are gonna get real bad here soon, and the best we can hope for is the when the backlash comes it will be swift and lasting.
The removal of DEI related protections at large corporations show who really was LGBTQIA+ supportive and who was just riding the trends.
And honestly, the way DEI has been handled in some cases really was not very good. I support the basic principles behind the movement but IMO the proper way to ensure that underrepresented groups get their chance is to address the problem at its roots - improved education, improved political representation, improved access to utilities and financial support and so forth. Hiring quotas are counterproductive. So I’m hoping that after the rubble settle and a new progressive movement eventually rises from the ashes it’ll have the opportunity to take a better approach.
Oh, you means liberals did something instead of nothing, and then it wasn’t perfect, so conservatives absolutely lost their goddamn minds, only to realize hey maybe we should do something, now let’s address the things the liberals wanted to address in the FIRST FUCKING PLACE?
Is that what you mean?
Chill out dude
Let.me know which bit I got wrong such that I should enhance my chill.
In my opinion you and the person you replied to probably agree on 80-90% of the same thing on this particular topic but you’ve come in swinging accusing them of being in cahoots with bigots.
It’s a fine line - getting tired of having to meet people where they are when they’re standing in the shit.
Good on you for having the energy to keep it up.
Thanks! Have an awesome day my man
We’re getting a heavy dose of “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
It’s become apparent to even people that normally don’t pay attention that, despite being less than we want, a lot of our tax money actually does go toward things that help the citizens.
Other than that, I got nothing. These policies, decisions, and the people making them are all a disaster that are going to take decades to repair.
Yeah. It also seems, at least where I am, to be attracting the attention of the “voting doesn’t matter they’re all the same” crowd. Serious consequences are hard to ignore.
