• Reality_Suit@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I live in the US and I will suffer, but I really want the rest of the world to give us hell. Fuck Trumpler and president Muskrat.

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        Maralago, then Disneyland, from there, probably Texas, Alabama, the bad Carolina and then Montana. The animaniacs should jump into a cool song for this.

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          once canadians/Europeans/ S.americans stopped vacationing there, florida will probably be dead before that happens. since retirees dont benefit the state in anyways, and is more likely to soak up all the tax money anyways indirectly

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      As long as they don’t cut off gas to the PNW. Almost all the natural gas we use comes from Canada, and the majority of the voters there didn’t vote for this.

      That would be fucking brutal, no heat or cooking gas.

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          Gas is terrible until the power grid goes down in the middle of winter.

          Electric should definitely be the main go to but we should all have gas hookup for a backup heat source in my opinion.

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            That’s excessive compared to the extremely low risk of a blackout in developed countries (excluding the United States which has regular blackouts). To illustrate:

            US households spent 5.5 hours without electricity on average in 2022. Excluding major events like hurricanes, the number drops to 2.1 hours.

            German households spent a whopping 12.2 minutes without electricity on average in 2022.

            A portable gas heater, blankets and a camping stove are completely sufficient for the average person considering most longer power outages last for a couple of hours at worst. Exceedingly rare longer blackouts will always have a government aid program, such as a heated gym with free food, near your location.

            The only one’s who should really prepare for blackouts are:

            • the government
            • people who live hours away from civilization with very limited infrastructure connecting them
          • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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            Until you discover that the gas infrastructure and your home heather need electricity to function. You better have an old fashion gas stove as backup that you can use until gas pressure drops too much. You could get bottles of gas and a camping heater but every year people die because they use these indoors and get CO poisoning so be careful.

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        4 hours ago

        Just the thing to enrage the masses. It’ll be hard but the only thing that might change the mind of of MAGAt is suffering.

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    Trump said Monday that “vast amounts of fentanyl got poured into our country” largely through Mexico and from China, and he encouraged car manufacturers to build plants in the U.S. to avoid the upcoming tariffs.

    If the media actually did their jobs, they would add the context that the US seized all of 20kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year. This claim is, according to the US government’s own numbers, absolute bullshit.

    They would also note that in order to enact these tariffs without involving Congress he has to invoke a “national emergency”, which is the only reason why he’s suddenly all about stopping fentanyl.

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      building manufactuering plants takes years, and it probably wont happen anyways, because the high cost of importing materials, and paying much higer wages.

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      They would also note that in order to enact these tariffs without involving Congress he has to invoke a “national emergency”, which is the only reason why he’s suddenly all about stopping fentanyl.

      This was actually new news to me, and I watch the news every night. Thanks for sharing this!

      I was imagining scenarios where people were free-basing maple syrup or something.

      This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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      The media is doing their job. It’s just that their job is to normalize fascist rhetoric.

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        its called sanewashing, all of the MSMs have been doing this with trump.

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      6 hours ago

      their [job]

      The majority of America doesn’t listen to things that don’t reaffirm their beliefs.

      If a news outlet doesn’t tell the people what they want to hear, another news outlet will.

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      Well said! Exposing truth through the US propaganda lies.

      It’s too bad 90% of the people meant to read this statement won’t because they’re being lied to. :/

      Trump can go choke on a bag of dicks.

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    “Vast amounts of fentanyl enter the US through Mexico from China. This is why we must slap a 25% tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel.”

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    As a Minnesotan, that would be very bad news for anyone here enjoying having relatively okay power bills. Unfortunately I have to agree with Ford; we totally deserve it.

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      4 hours ago

      I mean yeah, your country is threatening our countries sovereignty. I hope our leaders do anything in their power to stop that from happening. Sorry man. Most Canadians feel the same way.

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        As you should. I’m from the US and what our President is doing is inexcusable. The US are definitely the baddies here.

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    I live in the US. I hope the world destabilizes our very flawed government and “democracy”

    A two-party system is barely a democracy.

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    I would love to see short brief interruptions.

    Not enough that period due, but enough that it’s a huge pain when computer systems go down and network switches have to reboot.

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      They are all on battery or gas backups. They would need to be weeks long outages to kill any data centers.