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Yes but apparently fighting fascistism is mildly inconvenient so they’re not going to do it.

I only mentioned writing to representatives because the original poster was so keen to do nothing. Anything’s better than that kind of apathy.

Ok but there is quite a way between going oh I don’t like what’s happening on social media and blowing yourself up.

Write to your representatives and make it extremely clear that if they want to be reelected they will stand up to Trump.

Massive protests, the No Kings protest were good but then you all kind of just gave up. Nothing violent but just a stubborn refusal to go along is all that is required. Boycott companies that support Trump, don’t buy the next iPhone (it’s basically the same phone every year anyway), don’t go to FIFA, don’t go to the Olympics, go to as many town meetings as you can and raise points of order and complain. Make it even possible for the powers that be to ignore the situation.

Just imagine you’re a French dock worker complaining about industrialisation.

Given the fact that the navy were quite happy to kill a bunch of unarmed civilians and then come back a second time when some of them didn’t appear to be dead enough, doesn’t give me a lot of hope that there’ll be a lot of conscientious objectors in the military. My view is that if you’re already looking at the military as a career option you’ve got a certain opinion about killing and that opinion is that it’s okay to do it as long as someone else gave you the order. Absolutely no need to think about the legality of the order either.

Advocating moral responsibility for your actions is kind of a prerequisite of military service.

Canada itself should start a military exercise where it practises laying landmines. No need to practise picking them up though, there’s plenty of time for that later.

This will probably be effective on Trump because he’s an idiot. Everyone else knows it if you want someone dead you don’t tell them about it first.

It would be worth it tonwact him run. I doubt he can.

Oh I see so now he’s angry at everyone. Not that I think that America should be able to get Greenland but even if I did it’s not as if say the UK or France has any say on the matter, so why are they being tariffed?

The international cabal of chicken farmers is really worried.

But those countries that don’t agree with you taking over Greenland would be by definition in conflict with the United States. So I doubt there would be any trade happening anyway.

He really is a pudding brain.

Yeah but I can totally see the Trump administration forgetting about that part and just leaving their foreign ambassadors out to dry.

So his excuse is people were joking about the US invading Greenland and so naturally they started joking about the US invading Iceland.

Yeah that tracks, a totally innocent comment that no one could possibly take offence to in any way. Except of course the US is threatening to invade Greenland so it’s not really a joke. More statement of future intent.

They’re really doubling down on this narrative of “this technology we’re making is going to kill us all, it’s that awesome, come on guys use it more”

Good maybe people will stop using it then. What am I saying they bought a Tesla of course they’re going to keep using it.

I just want Starks phone in the first Iron Man movie (I don’t think it was ever a real product) but as a modern smart phone.

You know that guy that died from eating all of the big Macs. There is no justice in the world there really isn’t.

I remember the iPhone keyboard being an embedded part of the OS so you couldn’t swap it out for a better one. But what exactly is bad about it?

Alternative history is sort of difficult because we don’t know what the capabilities of those powers would have been. In order for the Nazis to have won the war a lot of people on both sides would have needed to make quite radically different decisions.

However it doesn’t take much theorizing to suggest that Nazi Germany would have probably had nuclear weapons in that scenario (the Germans were moving in that direction towards the end of the war, but were never really able to make much progress because by that point they were losing badly and didn’t have the resources anymore).

I can’t see how Japan would have ended up with nuclear weapons though. So I suspect a certain amount of power imbalance would have existed.

You could say that some of the national borders as they exist right now are needlessly artificial.

Take Spain and Catalonia for example. The only reason that Catalonia is not an independent country is because Spain won’t let them be. There’s no real reason other than Spanish national pride and if there was a war between the two you could classify it as a civil war or you could classify it as a war between two countries, it’s entirely a matter of opinion.

But I don’t think that US politics has any real bearing on whether or not that happens. Political instability in the United States doesn’t really lead to any obvious change in internal politics for other countries. External policies obviously would change but not internal ones.

A slight nitpick but Japan didn’t side with the Nazis. They had their own thing going on with China and simply saw the Nazis as an opportunity for some payback. It wasn’t like they really bought into the Nazi ideology as didn’t really apply to them. The Italians were all in on it though.

Had the war turned out differently there would have been a radical cultural difference between Nazi controlled Europe and Japanese controlled Asia. In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.