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Court records show the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Canada, to execute a search warrant at Cottle’s residence
Bad Canada. Stop helping those who threaten you.
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I mean… It’s not like the signs weren’t there.
Elon hadn’t fully committed to his right-wing heel turn in 2013 when the model S arrived in the Canadian market. Back then he was far less forthcoming with his opinions in general and was largely known as a leader for the promotion and advancement electric car technology, rockets, and PayPal.
It wasn’t until 2018 that he tweeted about the British cave diver being a pedo after helping rescue 12 trapped boys in Thailand, and became a lot more public with his “based takes” from then forward.
It’s easy to say with hindsight that the evidence was always there, but there was a time (not that long ago) when he wasn’t in our news cycle everyday. And when he was in the news back then, it was generally for more positive reasons.
None of this is a defense of Elon. I deleted my twitter accounts the day he bought it. But I have sympathy for people who made a purchase decision for car that should last them a decade+, especially if they felt they were doing it for the right reasons, who now regret it given whose pockets they’ve lined in the process and wouldn’t chose to do it again now.
I wouldn’t minimize the comparability when there are such blatant examples of Trump utilizing Nazi propaganda like the Big Lie and the demonization of an out-group, like the Nazi’s antisemitic populism, to gain power.
Prior the Reichstag fire, the Nazi’s electoral high point was 37% in 1932 (or 31% of Germans at 82% turnout), compared with Trump at 49.8% last year (or 31.8% of Americans at 64% turnout). The point being that you don’t need a significant buy-in from the people to elevate leaders with dictatorial motives. You simply need a triggering event which they can use to justify their consolidation of power permanently.
Also, if the desire is to avoid authoritarian leadership, I’m not sure military coup is the play. I know the American Armed Forces swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, but it seems that would get real tricky once you’ve overthrown the Commander in Chief, in defiance of the Constitutionally mandated chain of command.
One paved the way for the other.
They didn’t start out with extermination on day one. Before that they failed an attempted coup, stripped Jews of their rights, forced the emigration and deportation of Jews, and had to build up the capacity of the future death camps.
Their point is to recognize the rise of fascist authoritarianism before we’ve reached the holocaust stage.
Reagan with the “brave mujahideen fighters” from Afghanistan at the White House.
America has a history of arming its future enemies. Deeming the cartels to be terrorist organizations will make special ops and drone warfare permissible. The Mexican president knows this move invites more violence on her country, not less.
Fuck this guy. He’s always been party above country, too late to change his tune now. If he’d had any integrity at all, he wouldn’t have voted to acquit Trump while simultaneously saying he was guilty.
Don’t forget clever names for bills that will die in committee.
Time for a new opposition party, ffs.
That fucking watermark…
Can we please resurrect FDR, we need a newer deal.
Stop believing your lying eyes
He’s literally bought the social media platform that Trump used to control the (inter)national discourse for four years and modified its algorithm to suit his interests. He’s copied Trump’s tactics of maintaining media coverage by pushing out enough insane shit to capture the daily news cycle attention. His notoriety comes from his wealth and not an elected office, so we will never stop hearing about him for as long as he owns twitter and the media has the attention span of a gnat.
The etymology section of your link suggests different:
The demographer, anthropologist, and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L’Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term third world (tiers monde), referring to countries that were playing a small role in international trade and business. His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed the clergy and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively (hence the use of the older form tiers rather than the modern troisième for “third”). Sauvy wrote, “This third world ignored, exploited, despised like the third estate also wants to be something.”
But you’re right in that the term began to be used far more widely during the Cold War for political alignment.
Her entire message was “I’m Biden, for a new generation”. “I can’t think of single thing I’d do differently”, other than put a republican in her cabinet. And with as much time as she spent with her, it was probably going to be a Cheney, cause they’ve always been so popular with the American electorate…
Biden was nearly net negative 20 favorability when he dropped out, with almost two-thirds of Americans feeling the country was on the wrong track. Incumbents do not win with those numbers, especially ones who can’t put together coherent sentences after 8pm.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema censured by Arizona Democratic Party executive board over filibuster vote
Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, adding drama to tight Senate margin
Manchin not backing Dems’ $2T bill, potentially dooming it
Sen. Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party and registers as an independent
And more recently… Manchin, Sinema block Democratic control of NLRB
Just like what Democratic party leadership wanted…