How does the Tienanmen Square massacre fit into Marxism-Leninism ideology?

And who wrote about this “stage” of Marxist-Leninism that makes capitalism is legal and labour unions are illegal? Would that be the ruling party that’s dominated by billionaires?

Splitting hairs is what tankies do when they get called out for their bullshit. Also giving bullet point lists that are thinly veiled propaganda and are exhausting to debunk.

Have you served your military? Or are you an American armchair soldier?

If you served in Afghanistan you’d know Canadian soldiers was there. My cousin was involved with diffusing IEDs. So if we know how to diffuse IEDs you think we might know how to make them? We have knowledge of effective tactics to use against the US military because we were in the same war you were. That’s what being an ally means, but you wouldn’t understand that because you only care about money.

Ukraine builds drones with a range up to 2000KM. You know Ukraine, the country Trump is trying to betray along with Canada? I’m sure they’ll build some for us. How far away from Canada do you live? Americans shit their pants when there’s a couple of civilian drones flying around in New Jersey LOL.

How willing are you to get out of your armchair to fight in a war of betrayal? Here in Canada, we won’t have a choice. How long will you want to see young people being brought back from Canada in body bags? A year? Five year? Decades?

There is no enemy like a friend betrayed. We know your strengths and we know your weaknesses. You obviously know nothing about us.

Is your brain so twisted you don’t see the President of the USA saying he wants to annex my country?

That’s real, it’s not propaganda. He said it. I’m looking at the words of the of the President of the USA, what are you looking at? Fox News?

And the only scenario where I’ll be going to the US is if there is a war, and I’d only be going there to blow shit up. I don’t give a shit about how nice you think your country is, if your president betrays us (as he’s constantly saying he wants to do) I’ll be doing everything in my power to destroy your nice comfortable life. That’s what war means and you need to start looking at this for what it is. This may be a game for you, but it’s our country for us. We will defend our country through every means available to us.

That “half of NATO” has nuclear weapons.

The US hasn’t experienced a war on it’s own soil in living memory. Americans shit their pants when they see a couple of drones over New Jersey. And Americans don’t have the will to endure a long drawn out occupation even when there’s an ocean between them and a war. Canadians will endure it, because we would have no other choice.

This would be a war of betrayal. Trump would need to have Elon Musk purge the US military of anyone with even an once of honour and courage. Currenttly Trump is demanding Canada to defend the US border for him. The US would need to defend it’s border, and that’s a long border. You’d also need to have checkpoints in the US where soldiers will check your papers because Canadians would be trying to infiltrate the US and hit the soft targets everywhere. There would be raids on your houses to find and Canadians or any sympathizers. How willing are you do have these things happen?

Because it would be betraying an ally, the US would have zero allies in this war. Canada would get lethal aid from Europe and likely from Asia too. And Canadians know how to make an IED. Because our soldiers served in Afghanistan. Alongside the US military that’s going to betray the soldiers it fought alongside a few short years ago. And why? Because of the whims of a deranged old man? So you might have a slight morale problem.

While you’re looking at troop strengths on spreadsheet, we’re looking at the willingness of Americans to do what would need to be done for decades to succeed in occupying a neighbouring country. We only need to outlast you, while you need to have the will to watch young people coming back from the north in body bags. For decades.

The chance of the US winning a war like this is basically zero.

Then why won’t Pollievre even look at the intel on who in the CPC may be a foreign asset?

It took weeks for Pollievre to come out as being on Canada’s side in this trade war. It’s only when his chances of winning an election started evaporating he did that.

Pollievre is only Canadian when there’s no other option for him to get power. That dude has collaborator written all over him. He’s only for Vichy Canada.

Probably Putin too. A war on the North American continent would collapse the US economy and remove the US from doing anything on the world stage for at least decades. Maybe forever.

He doesn’t want to own all of Panama just the canal. Also interesting that he’s not threatening to annex Mexico, wouldn’t that look even better on the map?

What is it about countries to the south that makes Trump not them to be part of the US, while with Canada he does?

There’s derangement all around on the internet. We’re all a bunch of weirdos.

My brother doesn’t go on social media at all (he’s a wise man) and so isn’t influenced by internet culture war bullshit one way or another. I once asked him what he thought about The Last Jedi. He didn’t like it. Why? It was boring.

Most people just want entertaining and fun movies. What’s wrong with that? The internet would have you believe that movies are supposed to be in your face about pushing cultural changes. But most of the time they fail to do this, and only succeed in generating a lot of views and money for culture warriors. In the end they only help the opposition to the changes they’re promoting because pushing those messages in lazy ways feels lame and boring to audiences. Then the culture warriors twist it so that a movie that’s merely lame and boring is something more sinister.

What you see on the internet is not actually representative of what most people think. I think we should assume Disney does a lot of market research and isn’t only looking at internet arguments when deciding how to market movies. Look at the trailers for Rise of Skywalker we can see the results of that research, My brother’s opinion was probably prominent. People don’t hate strong women in movies, they don’t hate Rey as the culture warriors would have you believe. They didn’t like that Rey didn’t do anything in TLJ and they wanted to see her do some, you know, action stuff in an action adventure movie.

The culture war shit hurts entertainment regardless of which side it comes from. Instead of having a Star Wars trilogy with three solid action adventure entries, we have one in the middle that claims in it’s marketing to be about strong women but actually relegates women to support roles if the movie is considered from the context of an action adventure movie. The final entry has a woman taking on a large role in action scenes but is hated by both sides of the culture wars. Which makes everyone taking either side in this look like a bunch of idiots to anyone that’s just going to a Star Wars movie looking for fun action adventure.

TL;DR: Y’all are a bunch of deranged idiots just trying to spite the “other side” and ruining the fun for everyone else.

It would be lame.

Making an entirely new character would be far more different and interesting.

Making a character that’s attempting to transfer over the affinity people have for an existing character while also being a new character is just gimicky, manipulative, and above all else, lame as fuck.

And it’s not about the character being a woman. Gladiator II was lame because it retconned Lucius to be the son of Maximus and it was constantly being like “you like Maximus, so you should also like this dude!” Naw, the only character in that movie I liked was the new character played by Denzel. The other characters were just a weak imitation of characters from a much better movie.

I think it’s a tail wagging the dog situation, really. They don’t care about the Pirates movies, they’re just using it as an opportunity to push their weirdo narratives.

They want to get views and monetization monies so they will latch onto anything they see as popular and inject their narrative onto it. Talking about popular things expands the number of people the algorithm will recommend their stuff to. The narrative is there to capture the audience and keep them coming back.

Once you have a group of weirdos together they will start trying to one-up each other with their weirdness. Eventually a few will cross the line and start making death threats, swatting people, and sometimes even mass killings can occur. It isn’t about the Pirates, it’s about proving to the rest of the group how devoted to the weirdo “cause” they are.

Two days ago he had the head of NATO with him in the Betrayal Room of the Oval Office and he talked about annexing Greenland.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/03/remarks-by-president-trump-and-nato-secretary-general-mark-rutte-before-bilateral-meeting/

The press was there (of course) so there’s video of it, not as shouty as the Ukraine betrayal, but Trump is still busy with betraying every single ally of the US.

Are you so delusional with American exceptionalism that you don’t think it’s possible for democracy to end in US.

You’re going down the exact same path that many other countries have. In all likelihood there will still be elections in the US as there are in Russia. But you should expect the elections in to be rigged in the same way as they are in Russia.

He’s already convinced a lot of people that the elections are already rigged, so it’s likely they will “fix” what he’s called a rigged system.

Media control is already well underway, same as Putin did.

You’re the one being overly influenced by social media when you’ve been so brainwashed by extreme American exceptionalism that you don’t even understand the concept of countries anymore.

Just think about what you’d do if a foreign military invaded your country. That’s the same as what other countries will do.

We’ve heard Americans say “we’ll be greeted as liberators” before. No you won’t. You’ll be greeted as a foreign military invading a country. Americans will die if you don’t get with reality about this. There won’t be an ocean between you and this particular war. There would be a probability that you’ll become collateral damage in a drone strike.

In MAD, nukes are launched when against an existential threat to the nuclear power.

I agree, but I’m not confident that Trump understands that.

We saw in his meeting with Zelenskyy that Trump is afraid of Putin. He doesn’t have any concept of honour and respect. He thinks respect is the same ad fear. So we need something to make Trump afraid.

In such a scenario we’d affect Congress by making it one of many targets in a war. Americans need to stop thinking of this as a fun little thought experiment and start thinking of it how it would really be: a bloody war on the North American continent that will directly impact you.

We Canadians don’t exist just to be just tools of American politics, no matter which side of those politics you may be on. We’re a country and we will defend our country through any means available. We don’t want to be part of some bullshit Electoral College that was devised by your bullshit slave master “founders”.

Yeah he’s not considering consent of people in other countries at all.

Smells like victory.

They can’t shut them off. They can do something like MS is doing with EOLing Windows 10 tho. No more security updates, which in this case means they’d over time become more vulnerable to adversary ECM jamming.

They could cut off a country from getting parts needed to keep the planes flying which is actually more significant. It wouldn’t be easy, but a country could replace the computer systems in a jet. A military has it’s own technicians maintain their equipment and they would understand which signals are needed from the cockpit to make the plane work.

The Lockheed Martin could shut down the planes thing is FUD and isn’t convincing anyone in the know. The potential for cutting a country off from resupply is real, and the US has done that to Ukraine, a country in the middle of a war.