You can also set up local AI alerts (AI here is mostly used for facial recognition) e.g. to alert you if your MIL comes around uninvited, or if your kids sneak out at 2am, and so on.

That sounds awful. I’d rather just not, and avoid that mindset altogether.

I think they enjoy it.

Don’t buy anything from Amazon.

Not to mention that Trump keeps directly threatening Canada and declaring his intention to annex (seize, invade, occupy) the country. To make propaganda for the US regime in this situation is treasonous.

I think it refers to helping ICE “build trust” with the public - in other words, they want to be paid to produce propaganda for ICE.

Traitors.

*turdulent

If it does happen in front of them, people like that will think the victim must have deserved it because “they’re only going after the criminals.” And they’ll stick with this until it happens to them, whereupon they’ll think they’re the unique and first example of injustice and mistreatment of someone who didn’t deserve it.

Oh dear. They’re still attempting appeasement. Surely if we give him the Sudetenland military bases he’ll see that we’re being reasonable and stop there.

We need to figure out how a smallish, largely unarmed population could make a large, heavily armed force wish they had never met us.

What are you referring to? Please provide a link.

Can someone just give him some kind of VR video game and tell him he’s in the control room of a real invasion?

Maybe someone told him it was all white and inadvertently made it appealing to him.

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Should have put the parking brake on.

Oh, and you can count on Trump to keep a promise, right?

Anyway, I don’t even see a pledge. I see a dishonest expression of regret:

“I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force,” Trump said in a speech to government and business leaders in Davos. “Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh good.’”

That’s the energy of an abusive partner: “I don’t want to hurt you, but you’re giving me no option here.” It’s how they settle their conscience right before they hurt you.

is the US in democratic peril?

Maybe ask the people of Minneapolis.

Well, only 66% said they didn’t want the USA to invade Canada. So no, we won’t have the support of 83%. We’d be lucky to have 40% actually speak up on our behalf, and even fewer would act.

I think even many Canadians don’t think it through. If we survive the initial invasion we will be deprived of education, healthcare, freedom of movement, democratic representation, autonomy, resources like water and electricity, employment and money. Some of us would be pulled out of our homes and disappeared or killed, particularly if we’re vocal critics of the USA. We would be closely watched and guarded and met with violence at the first sign of resistance or noncompliance. Our children would be indoctrinated in school. Our scientific institutions would be shut down. Our friends and family, particularly anyone who is not a straight white cis Christian conservative, will be in constant danger. It won’t be just an administrative handover that allows Canadians to get on with their lives. It will be brutal and punitive.

Yeah. I just wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my name to a slice of that dreary blandness.