@brianbilston Yup. I’ll have some of this, also.

I guess I need to remind myself that no other country on earth can make America change its trajectory. That change MUST be internal. And so demotivating and disempowering Americans of goodwill is deeply counterproductive.

We need to cut each other a bit of slack, and also grow a little thicker skin to survive what’s clearly ahead.

It is incumbent on the rest of us to acknowledge that there are groups within the term “Americans” who have always been locked out of the privileges and wealth that US global dominance has afforded the majority. I often force myself to think of these oppressed minorities as kind of like generational hostages, because it reminds me to except them from my anger.

But sometimes I fail to do that. And I apologize. 4/

It is incumbent on those well intentioned Americans to understand the effect of American hegemony. And while they may be dedicated anti-fascists, they also need to acknowledge that along with the privileges of power and global dominance that hegemony has afforded them, comes a level of collective responsibility not to abuse that power.

3/

Meanwhile, what a lot of Americans - even very well intentioned ones - probably cannot conceive of is that the rest of the world experiences the effects of American power as monolithic. We never get the opportunity to vote in your elections, but we pay in insecurity and financially when a terrible American president is elected.

When your president threatens other nations, we don’t (and can’t) stop to specify ‘not all Americans’. That is absurd - because we don’t experience you individually 2/

I want to speak about how we speak to each other. Mostly because I am as guilty as anyone else of generalising, and I suspect that even as my very intelligent American friends know that when I shit talk about “Americans”, I don’t necessarily mean them. It still stings on a visceral level - especially if they are fighting like hell personally to try and get their mad king out of power. 1/

Nothing could be simpler than offering to supply them coffee and pastries with a warm, polite Canadian smile and poisoning hundreds of them en mass.

Because Canada is a huge country with a lot of underpopulated space, and we seem so friendly.
It would be so fucking easy to lull an occupying force into a sense of security and then slit their throats while they sleep.

Canada has a very small and pretty depleted military. I have heard - and this is just chatter - that applications to join it have gone up. But I think it would be infinitely more effective to organise something closer to a civil defence force.

Canadians should absolutely learn guerrilla tactics.

The truly obscene thing is that, if Donald Trump had simply kept his economic promises to his MAGA supporters, they wouldn’t give a shit about the Epstein files.

His greed and the greed of the people around him is so outrageous, it’s impossible to hide.

I think this will be his downfall.