Real putin Energy that one.
I would say Soloviev energy
But hey…no immigrants. Dumb as hell.
“the peace president” they said…No war they said.
“We will be welcomed as liberators.”
GW Bush Admin
& they wonder why we call them fascists.
This is why.
Meanwhile, in reality, they are terrified of letting Puerto Rico become a state because it might threaten their delicate gerrymandered hegemony in Congress by adding two more senators and one or more representatives. This “map” is the fever dream of a lead-poisoned, terminally MAGA moron.
I don’t understand why they automatically assume that PR would go democrat.
Both democrats and republicans believe Latinos owe allegiance to the democrat party.
I don’t know if owe is the right word, but yeah, both parties assume they’ll go democrat and I think that’s a smug assumption typical of the elites. Granted trump was a dick to PR during hurricane Maria, but if he actually responded appropriately he’d likely have a lot more support than either party would realize. I think they should either be a state or gain full independence, this in between seems unfair to them. (And I feel that way about all of Americas territories subject to taxation without representation)
So, most of them then…
Putin and other tankies showed the way so why not.
Putin is not a tankie; the dude is a literal billionaire who participated in gutting the USSR. How well did the haute bourgeosie fare under Lenin or Mao?
Perhaps he wasn’t a stalinist around the time of USSR’s deflation but he sure is like Stalin reincarnated today. And seeing as we are in lemmy, I need the feel to remind everyone that that is an extremely bad thing to be.
I’ve had multiple conversations with people here on Lemmy who seem to be under the impression that Stalin was a great dude who really just wanted to best for everyone, freedom and riches!
This is the point where you’re an extremist without knowing that you’re an extremist
Being an extremist means having any more nuanced view than “stalin just loved doing evil things for absolutely no reason”
Stalin was a communist revolutionary who played an integral role in the creation of the USSR. Putin is a liberal counterrevolutionary, who is partly responsible for hypercapitalist modern Russia, the two are not comparable at all.
If by “he sure is like stalin”, you mean he employs violence to maintain and consolidate power, that’s every state ever, that’s kinda how states work.
Settler state wants more land to settle
All this talk of expanding the USA from everyone is… concerning.
Also this map includes Iceland, northern Sicily and the Faroe Islands. What?
Totally not fascist.
This is how it begins. You keep calling territory that isn’t yours your territory until it sounds normal to those that you have created a cult or pact with. Then it doesn’t seem so abnormal when you decide it is yours.
People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.
The tyranny of countries more free than US. Only one thing to do. Yes, that is destroy them not copy them. Why would you want to adopt a better system when you can destroy theirs and claim yours was the best all along.
People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.
I keep seeing liberals roll this one out, despite spending the last six months shamelessly pandering to conservative voters. Can’t imagine why a Democrat would lose an election with this strategy. “You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! Oh, um, vote for me, I actually love strong border policies and Israel is the Best and transgender athletes are a big problem, tee-hee! Fuck, fuck, fuck, you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot!”
Love how true this is yet is currently at -19.
Liberals can’t cope with their election loss, in which their parties strategy was to court people who would never vote for them in the first place instead of their base who they actually secretly hate and just pander to for votes yet will never do anything for because it counters their donors wishes.
Legitimately what is wrong with these people?
They want a fascist leader and to invade their neighbours?
They know how that historically ends right?
Like the “you won’t let me say a slur so I’m gonna be a nazi” thing was kinda supposed to be an overly reductive meme, but this guy’s just out there living it.
They know how that historically ends right?
lmao, no
Difference this time is it’s overwhelmingly the most powerful military in the world as the aggressor, with nukes :/
May the gods have mercy on us, and prevent these fuckers from trying this.
Or they do, but correctly identified Adolph’s greatest mistake for conquering the world:
Being Germany instead of America.
It was invading Russia.
This time the US is best buds with Russia.
the US is going to turn into the same thing as Russia, a Kleptocratic, ultranationalist, fake-religious gangster state, right now they’re getting ready for the 1990s version of Russia where public assets, infrastructure and industries are carved up and sold to private interests, IE Oligarchs. Trump wont live long enough to see the end result, but America’s next mini-Putin will make his play in about 10 years or so.
The actual issue was being easily invaded by land. The rest of the world’s superpowers would need to invade us by sea, and even in the 21st century, keeping supply and logistics chains open across the ocean is actually pretty hard in a war with a peer who has more capacity to STOP your naval and airlift capability than you have of defending it.
No no. It’s not invading Russia that’s the mistake. It’s invading Russia IN THE WINTER.
An interesting thing about this map, the way these lines are drawn would all but guarantee conservative victories for a long, long time.
A bunch of extra, barely inhabited states, to give two extra electoral votes and a handful of senators to conservatives. I wonder if whoever drew this is aware that most Canadian conservatives are closer to American Democrats than American conservatives.
Assuming the conquered territories get a vote is a bit of a leap.
Yeah, any questionable voting are will get Puerto Rico’s
outside of the far right / populist MAGA copycats in the People’s Party of Canada, and a certain strain of Albertan Separatist types. Most Canadian Conservatives are leftists compared to the US parties.
even Pierre Pollievre who canadians are labeling as a Trump puppet, is openly supportive of many policies the GOP would crucify people for, like abortion, gay marriage, etc.
Good eye. Ontario is left as is so I guess they want another California in terms of population to seat ratio.
They know how that historically ends right?
They don’t know anything about anything. That’s the problem
Lol… For them it never ended… Just a minor setback with 60 years of regrouping
They know how that historically ends right?
To be fair In the US’s case, when a fascist invaded a neighboring country they ended up robbing half of the Mexican territory. The better comparison would be taking what usually happens when the US invades any country, and then imagine that happening inside the US. You don’t shit where you eat.
Cartels already killing Mexican government officials, journalists, activists, the competition, the Mexican armed forces. Do they really want the cartels to declare the american equivalent as fair game?
Yes, because the people cheering for this don’t see themselves as potential collateral damage.
Well, I’ll say that no one, No one will be able to defeat the US militarily,
so it will end when the country tears itself apart in a civil war. Not when the Chinese or Europeans are at the gates of DC.
And is America better off with 12 (or how ever many) more states? And lefty states to boot. Lotsa luck fellas.
It would be ten, and also 3 territories.
I count 14 and 3 territories. NS, NB and PEI are small, but there. And Newfoundland and Labrador have different labels and so I’ll assume they are separate states because that’s completely stupid.
Keep in mind this is a bullshit flight of fancy from people as clueless as they are evil.
Yall really dont understand what a trillion dollar budget really means.
Canada and mexico would be extremely easy, in the scheme of things, to annex.
My friend, this very likely starts a world war.
There’s nothing easy about that.
Why wouldn’t they just slowly snipe you to death whike you waste trillions after the initial conflagration?
Totally aside from the economic collapse initiated by internal and external strife over this.
How come they want a little chunk of Mexico and all of Nicaragua, but they don’t the rest of Mexico?
They need somewhere to deport people to obviously/s
Canada, Panama and Greenland (Denmark) should not worry. Every single fucking loser MAGAt will have a copy of Cadet Bone Spur’s 1968 doctors note excusing them from military service.
Seeing as they mention America’s 250th birthday I am going to mention that the average lifespan of an empire is 250 years.
Yeah. This empire will last less than Liz Truss’s term as Prime-Minister.
But also most empires didn’t live in the age of instant global communication and endless propaganda power and surveillance.
Yes, I am sure all existing empires will now last until the end of time.
I hope not. But they’re definitely gonna be a lot harder to take down.
I don’t mean to say that, but they might be much sturdier.
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I’m surprised they didn’t just stretch the northern states to consume Canada. Perhaps they are afraid of giga Michigan and it’s immense power.
BC is gone 🥺 As are NWT and Nunavut.
No idea what CL/CD (in BC) and MK (NWT) and KW (Nunavut) are supposed to refer to.
