There is plenty of room for nuance, there’s just no nuance to be had.

I’m guessing it’s a split between considering the govt an enemy but not the people, along with people who think it’s nearing-but-not-quite an enemy.

Unfortunately, the military technically answers to the president.

Oh boy, I’m sure that’ll help with the extreme rise in right-wing ideology and leadership worldwide.

You are slightly and temporarily increasing the spacing between atoms/compounds in the stick. This spacing will effectively travel like a shockwave of “pull” down the stick.

kinda. It depends a bit on how we handle some of the stuff. Firstly, despite saying he wants to make Canada a state, he could make it a territory that gets 0 votes, which is straight up bullshit but exactly how it works. If he does make it a state, there’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Every state has gets 1 vote per representative. Senate has a fixed 100 members (2 per state). House currently has 435 members, divided by state population. If Canada is brought in as a single state, it would beat out California in size, but not by all that much. If we simply increased the house to accommodate the new state, Canada would have a bit over 52 electoral votes. If we add Canada’s 52-ish electoral votes to Kamala’s count, she still doesn’t have the electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Similarly, adding Canada’s 52-ish votes to Hillary’s count means she still loses. Literally giving Canada’s votes to the Dem candidate does not affect the last few elections results in a meaningful way. In fact, it would change almost none of the elections we’ve had in the last, like, ever.

However, that assumes they simply give Canada new reps, rather than redistributing the current ones. If they did a redistribution, electoral votes would be taken from the largest states. Any states with 3 electoral votes can’t have that reduced at all, and those with like 4-8 are unlikely to get the count reduced. Redistributing will affect California the most, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and so on. It’s… harder to analyze how that shift would shake out, but I wager still not particularly favorable shifts for blue states in general, meaning dems can’t actually expect an increase of 50-ish in that case, which means even less of a chance of flipping any results.

However, perhaps Canada gets split into a bunch of individual states rather than all one. If we assume each province-state gets 2 senate members and they collectively get 50 house members, you end up with 70 electoral votes (ignoring territories). If those all swing blue, Trump still wins 2016 and 2024. Both of those become far closer (2016 becomes 302 to 306 and 2024 becomes 296 to 312), presumably uncomfortably close.

And that’s assuming they all vote solid (D), actually get voting rights, voting is still free and fair, and voter suppression hasn’t become even more outlandish by then.

Anyways, our electoral vote system blows real bad.

This is going to be the weirdest part of any history book. People reading and trying to understand why the US suddenly turned on and invaded their close ally of Canada in a failed annexation attempt immediately after watching Russia struggle a similar (though less surprising) annexation of Ukraine, which the US helped fight against.

Yes, but the president can pardon any federal crimes.

Yeahhhh, but what if someone in charge of the US sides with them instead of against them.

Bruh a literal full coat of arms change wouldn’t register to him. He’s dumb as fuck.

The US might legit get worse unless there were several near-simultaneous Luigi events. We have a bad habit of using those types of situations to just increase big brother’s overwatch and create more privacy/freedom invasions against the populous.

That said, if the US gets worse at the safety of everyone else’s democracy… I’m willing to take that sacrifice.

Settle for a hand and you can be handsome.

It’s a bit of both. They (often) think globalism is being pushed by the jews for the sake of… jews gaining power? The reason tends to change from person to person, but the point is they often think globalism is a Jewish plot.

There’s a weird thing with “conquest”, pulling the ladies, and being somewhat deviant that’s tied to manliness and straightness for some reason.

If you can, please do.

It should have triggered that years ago.

Feels like it took far too long, but glad it happened

Oh dear God. What kind of stuff are we inadvertantly spreading?

That’s not quite true. A bell curve will put a ton of people right at the average, or within one standard deviation.

Ah