Damionsipher
@Damionsipher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs 1 week ago:
The Emperor has no clothes. What a fucking joke this clown is.
- Comment on Canadian leisure travel to U.S. down 40% in February, Flight Centre says 1 month ago:
Kinda wild given how the backlash to tariffs only started to escalate about 1/3 of the way into the month. Yeah, we’re pissed.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Property tax is the mechanism through which the taxes are gathered, but funding is through the province. This is very different than how allocation happens in most states, where schools are directly funded by their catchment area.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Yes and. How most of the US funds their school system is super fucked up. Here in Canada, primary education is paid for by the province, and school funding is based on student enrollment numbers. This translates to much more equal levels of education, regardless of how wealthy a given neighborhood may be. I was shocked to find out that schools are paid for by catchment area taxes in must of the states - it makes the history of redlining so obvious when the is literally a “wing side of the tracks”.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
A 500t nuke could take out the white house, capitol hill and not too much fallout beyond.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
Canada does not, but if the US wanted to unilaterally attack and occupy our land, there’s very good reason to believe we would look closely at all offers to move nukes from the EU, China, or Russia into Canada, and even potentially use them. We burned down the white house once - next time it might need to be the entirety of DC…
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
I hope the NATO push would be stronger than simple arms supplies, if nothing less based on the likely crumbling of the alliance. If it were to fall it’s very conceivable Canada would strike deals with the Chinese, or even Russia to maintain its independence. Protected guerrilla warfare regardless, which the USA does not have a great track record, especially considering it’s never tried it with as well armed and aligned nation as Canada.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 2 months ago:
It would be an invasion and occupation. Very very few Canadians would cooperate with the annexation, and more than likely it would look something more like Afghanistan or Ukraine, but with much better equipment being provided to resistance forces.
- Comment on US justice department tells prosecutors to drop NYC mayor's corruption case 2 months ago:
The swamp was actually the legal system preventing the corruption of politicians. How dare society prevent elected officials from taking bribes, manipulating the government to their advantage, or undermining democracy. /s