• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    19 hours ago

    You know, in my future fiction project, the annexation of Canada into the USA was going to be a careful, gradual and deliberate process over the course of many years… But I guess I was forgetting that the USA’s political system isn’t exactly built to encourage that type of long-term thinking, and this type of crude, kneejerk, ill-conceived attempt at coersion was really the whole time the muuuuch more likely route the USA would take if it were to try to annex Canada.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      19 hours ago

      We are in an insane timeline. Trump could…

      • Invade and grab Greenland
      • Invade and grab the Panama Canal
      • Have troops (or the DEA or whatever) violate Mexico’s sovereignty, cross the border, and target “the cartel assets” and due to incredibly imbecilic fuck ups - they destroy random villages and slaughter innocent people.
      • [When it comes to Canada - I don’t know what’s plausible]

      And we are only on the 14th day of Trump’s presidency. If Netanyahu figures out the right things to say to Trump - the US could end up going to war with Iran because Trump is a delusional moron with little connection to reality.

            • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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              3 hours ago

              Around the same time as this JasonDJ person got defensive about misgendering me, someone on Lemmygrad got defensive about misgendering someone else, after I called them out on it. Why do cis people feel so entitled? They get told they’re being disrespectful or hurtful or that they’re making people uncomfortable, and they just immediately, reflexively have to make up some sophistry for why they actually Don’t have to respect trans people’s wishes, needs and boundaries After All!