Then there’s this:
The real action starts at 8:00.
It would be interesting to know the percentage of Democrats who support those ideas vs the more traditional, Bill Maher types, who oppose them. Is it high enough that the party needs to cater to them to win elections? Or would they be fine (or better off) to focus on rational policies instead of woke crap?
In your state it’s probably the former, if half of what you say is true (which I’ve no reason to doubt). Makes my blood boil, that kind of shit, I hope it never becomes like that here.
The UK is already infected. Hope it doesn’t spread.
Out of curiosity, would you also be fine if another country anexed an American state (as long as the people who live there would want it, of course)?
Transgenderism in public policy, specifically public sporting events, has extremely low support from all public polling data available. It’s an 80/20 issue, or in that ballpark.
Voter ID polls in similar favorability ballparks. I’m not sure about DEI, but it was a centerpiece of the national election for president that was just won by Trump.
These are all issues that people like much less when polled on the actual policies and NOT whether they like a vague and lofty-sounding idea. Sort of like gun control, where the devil is in the details.
Something tells me the UK might be regretting giving all of their guns up now, as a two-tier society backed by harsh speech controls is being formally established.
Remind me, where are you located?
Not a state, that’s too big of a can of worms. If the Northern Marianas Islands wanted to, say, rejoin with Japan, I wouldn’t see a big problem with it.
Yeah, just another step forward in the destruction of a once great kingdom. I’m glad I’ve been there before walking tents took over.
Portugal.
But how is the US annexing a country different from a country annexing an American state (or the whole Nation really)?
Like, Maine going to Canada, or California going back to Mexico.
Perhaps I’m missing something but your stance seems a bit hypocritical in my view. Meaning no offense, so I hope it doesn’t come off as such.
Portugal? Don’t be getting any ideas about taking Brazil back! That’s OUR hemisphere of influence now.
In practical terms I’m talking about self determination and the concept of nationhood.
Greenland is not Danish in any real sense, and it is part of North America. It would be very similar to my Northern Marianas example, if they really wanted to join Japan.
Greenland would probably gain more from joining us in practical terms. We could give them Buccees and a Chik Fil A, and we could finally find out what a thermonuclear explosion does to a glacier when we turn the interior into a bombing range.
If the US wanted to annex one of Denmark’s administrative regions or the entire Jutland peninsula, that would be a more analogous situation to what you’re talking about.
Canada is a country, or at least I think the King of England allows them to kind of act like one. I’m not itching for them to join, but it does make a lot of sense if Canadians wanted to. Quebec is the only cultural outlier, otherwise they are way more similar to us than you are to Spain.
I wouldn’t worry about that, they don’t have any more gold. Still, we have a million of them here now (1.044.606, to be precise). In a population of roughly 10 millions, that’s a fucking lot.
Ok but it makes about as much sense as Maine joining Canada, a country Mainers (at least currently) probably have much more in common than, say, Texas.
States who were previously owned by Mexico also have more in common with it than Greenland with the US. I highly doubt anyone, even the Mexicans who reside in those states, would rather have it belong to Mexico though - but I don’t think Canadians or Greenlanders would want to belong to America either.
While I agree that Canadians are basically no different than Americans, what sets them apart in my opinion is their stance on public heathcare and education, which seems to be as culturally ingrained as it is here in Europe. A good chunk of them mention just that.
Anyways, thank you for clarifying your position.
The same could have been said about Louisiana not being American in any real sense. Or Texas. Or New Mexico. Or Puerto Rico. In fact, one could argue nowhere in the US was it American in any real sense until the US said so.
So is Mexico.
Louisiana is part of the USA because of Old Hickory and the Tennessee Volunteers.
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I can assure you that many Mainers are completely willing to join Canada.
Canada could still keep their failing healthcare system, in theory at least. Maine has a similar system called Mainecare. Good luck finding a doctor or getting seen ant the ER. Other states have similar systems.
They would be a weird state but nothing I see is all that incompatible except for their gun laws, which don’t work with a 2nd Amendment.
I thought it was because of Jefferson and the acquisition of it, as part of a territory that would include other states besides the one that would become Louisiana, in 1803.
Maybe Elon should apply his DOGE genius on ICE.
And they speak French because Acadians from N. Maine wanted to experience swamp ass year-round.
A lot of the information you’re familiar with has filtered through a French lens.
I’ll let my HS US history teacher know. Let’s throw the Louisiana Purchase in with Flat Earth Theory and a staged Lunar landing.
Would we ever do this is the US? Damn those woke Europeans.
So fucked up.
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Or Cuba.
The French and the Belgians have done it a while ago. Austria too, if I remember correctly.
The thing is, it’s not a burqa ban, despite what people crying ‘‘Islamophobia’’ might say. It’s a face covering ban, as people hiding their face pose security concerns. People can’t walk around with a ski mask either.
Were law makers trying to target the Burqa specifically and had to find way around it? Maybe, but the security point is valid in my opinion.
They definitely have an interest in preserving their culture and drawing some clear lines of what is acceptable and what isn’t.
Of course, so do we. We need to ban taco tuesday.
Didn’t the Portuguese go to a lot of trouble to get Arabic words out of your language after the last big Muslim occupation in Europe?
A lot of crooks in the USA take full advantage of normalizing covid masks. You can always spot the Democratic Socialists from a mile away with theirs, and typically MANY other visual signals of their beliefs.
Anyway, Le Pen is banned from running in France. It sure seems strange how populist leaders against woke Socialism always end up getting charged with crimes, banned from ballots, locked up and shot at.
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