Security? From who? Russia?

Is this Wan Video I2V? Cog?

To others wondering what that is: locally runnable image/video generation is kinda having a moment, right now.

Is this account real? Seems like an odd name.

Isn’t Trump’s whole stance anti immigration/emigration?

Fair.

Ukraine as a state is probably “gone” in a shitty deal though. One half is too restricted, indebted, and small to ever recover, the other half either a devastated vassal or (honestly more ideally) part of Russia. At least Afghanistan would ostensibly stay a state after whoever invaded it.

What ever happened to Bannon’s feud with Musk? He fell in line, I guess? Or just fell out of Trump’s sphere?

I like how there’s not a horde of American’s definding America on Lemmy.

Even elsewhere, in more conservative forums, it seems more like trolling, not kool-aid drinking, gaslighting, or being an “American Tankie.” There’s little whaaaboutism, is what they wanted.

So, yeah, Canada, come at us. Please.

As far as I’m informed people there don’t like and don’t trust Russia and Putin.

Not anymore. Much of America is stuck in an information space that sees Russia/Putin as oppressed by liberal propaganda, like they supposedly are.

Much of America doesn’t care, or will see warped versions of this news.

Look at poll exit interviews of Americans, or more recent focus groups. We don’t “see” the same realities anymore, and it’s getting worse.

Wherever you are, friend, beg your country to block or regulate Twitter/Facebook/Tiktok and point to us as what happens when you don’t.

Hey, uh, if he wants another state…

What about Puerto Rico?

I’d love to hear the excuse against that vs. Greenland and Canada.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_annexation_of_Canada

The primary reason for the annexation were Canada’s natural resources, considered vital to the American military effort in the Sino-American War.

The tipping point came in 2072. As the U.S. escalated its exploitation of Canada’s resources, her people took to the streets. Protests and riots erupted in several Canadian cities and an attempt to sabotage the Alaskan pipeline by unknown forces was foiled, but provided the U.S. Government an excuse to officially annex Canada.

When pictures of the atrocities committed in the name of the United States made it over the border, they sparked unrest and protests from the American public. Both sides thoroughly armed, it had little impact on history, as former Canadian land provided much-needed resources for maintaining the war effort, and the country was overrun.[Non-game 5][Non-game 6]

In a statement to the press, Buzz Babcock, commander of U.S. forces in Canada, cited security concerns as the primary reason for the annexation. He also stated that “Little America” was always the property of the United States and the U.S. military announced the official annexation of Canada on June 3, 2072.

Even among the military, the annexation was met with mixed reactions. For some, the act was considered criminal.[5] Open warfare between the opposing armies across the former nation commenced, with the Yukon becoming one of the many fronts alongside Anchorage in the Resource Wars.[6] Despite the outcry, the military initiative forged ahead. Propaganda portrayed the annexation as a “liberation”, with comic series such as Tales from the Front and cartoons such as Armor Ace and the Power Patrol championing U.S. occupation forces while vilifying Canadian resistance; for instance, the villainous “rogue robots” of the Yukon Five in the Armor Ace board game Cold Steel were explicitly described as part of the “Yukon Uprising.” Vault-Tec in particular sought to bank on the annexation as they began building and advertising available Vaults in “newly-annexed Canada.”

Fallout is supposed to be over-the-top dystopian parody, but here we are.

Just… don’t show any of this to the administration, hm?

Supporters likes kickback from oil subsidies, fossil fuel deregulation, and supression of competitive technology. That’s the angle.

…Maybe solar/wind companies should name themselves things like “Exon”

If today (this and the Gaza plans) would have been in Idiocracy, Mike Judge would be in jail for sheer… everything.

How do people see this in their feeds and go “yep, that’s cool”? Because apparently, a lot of people are totally fine with this.

It’s just not being covered.

Attention is everything, folks. Palestine protestors could be mowed down on Capitol Hill, and if its blotted out by everyone’s feeds… Well, it hardly even matters, it terms of policy and public opinion.

What’s incredible is that, apparently, about 40% of America and at least some of the world will be convinced this is not happening at all.

As it’s happening.

We have cameras in freaking space, entire institutions dedicated to tracking this for years, basically the entire world networked, and people aren’t going to believe what’s happening right in front of them!

These all have broad public support

That is a big assumption.

Many Americans are climate skeptics or “agnostic,” even more are environmentalism agnostic. People who don’t have to personally deal with social security, slow internet, paying for college, weed, unions, personally going through the criminal justice system and such are often not very supportive of those issues. Reproductive and lgbtq rights are extremely partisan and framed entirely differently for different groups.

Most probably know healthcare is screwed up. But even then, many young people have not experienced serious issues (for themselves or others), and many still have a bad image of universal healthcare. And I know small business owners that are rightly concerned about tax increases.

It’s not that these ideas wouldn’t have appeal if conveyed, but the message is just not getting though.

These are my Florida neighbors lol.

It’s all just hysterical climate alarmism, even when a hurricane is coming in…