They are assuming they will heroically conquer Greenland first. Then there seem to be about 10 other countries on the USA’s “to invade” list. The USA is a sick country.

Calling it a joke is too charitable to this fascist.

The USA also has a deeply ingrained sense that every problem can be fixed through violence, if you just kill the right people the right way. A good chunk of the public may react by demanding escalation.

They happily murdered Iraqi civilians in the streets for years. The guy who shot Renee Good is a former US soldier in Iraq. I don’t think the US military is actually full of courageous individuals who will take a stand against illegal orders based on a rock solid morality.

I can’t see Carney committing troops. He seems firmly committed to appeasement, which never works and will signal to the USA that Canada is wide open for the taking. His whole “elbows up” thing magically melted away the day after he won the election.

“The Canadian Armed Forces are not initiating any new operations at this time,” said government sources, adding that Canada stands “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the people of Denmark and Greenland, which is an autonomous Danish territory.

Standing shoulder to shoulder kind of requires actually standing shoulder to shoulder though. Otherwise it looks like calling “I’m right behind you” while running the other way. And this doesn’t send a strong message of solidarity to the USA.

It’s really important not to discard functional hardware now, even by throwing it into recycling. It’s more useful intact and may not be replaceable forever.

Someone needs to show Trump different maps.

They also seem to think “fuck at least 2/3 of America”.

He knows the Europeans will put up a token, face-saving resistance but have no enthusiasm for a full-on shooting war. Unfortunately this may be a correct assessment. But Europe and its allies still have the power to disrupt the US economy, and should seriously plan to do so if the US doesn’t back off.

I was thinking more that they’d like the idea of better surveillance of their own population. If that happened there might be an incentive for them not to make it affordable to own capable hardware.

But if you’re right about what you just said and China of all places ends up democratizing tech around the world, that will be something of a silver lining.

That’s why they have to make the hardware unobtainable. This is well underway.

Most of us already are, when you consider how much Amazon hosts.

I hope China keeps manufacturing affordable computers and doesn’t go all in on the cloud too. There might be profit in selling computers, but I bet there are politicians in the CCP who would love to have everyone rent cloud computing that’s more easily watched and controlled.

There are plenty of smart tech workers without the first clue about morality or human rights. Outside of tech these people are ignorant and naive. That’s why so many techbros become libertarians and stumble into fascism. It’s cluelessness and a basic lack of curiosity to discover the world outside of tech.

I assume there is no line for an illegal order, since Trump has purged military leaders who don’t think Trump’s word is law.

Its large but the Canadians are mostly concentrated in pockets near the border.

I assume his bleeding from not being hit by a car was less severe than the bleeding of the innocent woman he shot to death unprovoked.

The USA is becoming an enemy of NATO and would sooner attack its traditional allies than defend them. And it’s looking like the rest of NATO may just chicken out if the USA attacks a NATO member state. We really need a new defensive pact between Europe and other countries in the Americas, particularly Mexico and Canada, independent of the USA. But the USA is aggressive and militarily stronger, so it’s a bad situation.

In other comments they revealed themselves to be a full-blown Nazi just trolling.

Its a very useful line. You can use it to justify anything at all.