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This American Putin wanna be is going burn it all down isn't he.
I like Americans (to a point), but FAFO, we burnt the Whitehouse down before.
Get me out of here :(
We should burn it down again. I want to march on Washington with Canadian flags, and American flags, and signs that say "Save America" if the US police/Military gun us down it might make the Americans wake up and eject their dictator. It's an existential threat to humanity. We can't afford to wait.
I'm actually thinking of buying a gun, which is crazy because I've been opposed to them my whole life.
A few years ago, I got my RPAL because I thought I was going to inherit my dad's rifles. (Turned out that he gave them to my uncle a decade before he died, but oh well.)
The process was fascinating, because it made me realize just how different the gun laws in Canada are, and how much responsibility is drilled in from the start. It also made me realize that a lot of the recent gun reform bills are unjustified bullshit.
Anyway, I have the paper and knowledge, but no guns. Don't particularly want them either, although it may become necessary very soon.
Trump became President and thatβs when I decided to become a gun owner.
The most effective weapon in Iraq was IEDs. I would never advocate anyone learning how to make one, but if you wanted to defend yourself from an American invasion this is how the Iraqi resistance did it
Me too. I donβt think guns are usually necessary but it seems like the US is swiftly moving towards violence against the exact demographics of people who are my friends.
Drone. Buy a drone and learn to use it well. Join a club. Learn how to navigate. Lots of us have guns. Multiple guns. You can have one of mine.
This. Maybe our government can make a deal with Ukraine and buy low cost drones?
We should be courting a weapons deal with Ukraine months ago when all this started. We are each in the same boat right now. Working together would only help each individually.
If I were the government, as a contingency plan I'd have a shipping container full of weapons in every census block in the country.
Sure, we'd lose the battle, but that would make holding Canada impossible.
There's already roughly ΒΌ of the Canadian population that has a registered firearm. That's like. Nearly 10 million people. If half of them decided to actually go guerrilla, and a good portion of the rest of the population decided to run support. It could easily be an un-unfuckable situation for the US.
I'm right there with you. Never thought it would happen, but here we are.
I'm just now starting the process of getting a PAL. We're going to buy a shotgun and some sort of rifle and a good scope. I don't know anything about rifles and best calibers so that's going to take some research.
You don't have to worry too much about calibers, it's basically splitting hairs. 12gauge for the shotgun, and for the rifle go with what can be found everywhere: 308, 30-06
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I assume most of those rounds are going to be about the same for the meat on the receiving end. I have to look at see what rounds are allowed at my local shooting range and pick from that.
Yeah they all (centre fire calibers) do the same thing when it comes down to it. Swedes hunt all their moose with a small 7mm round. Take a look at the ammo available in walmart, Canadian tire, the countryside gas station and choose one of those. Nothing fancy
Check your local hunters association, sometimes they will run PAL training for free/by donation
Same
Gonna need you to do it again. It's the only way to get the orange stank and Russian bugs out.
Two different situations. That was before the us had sunk trillions of dollars into its military.
And into tech companies to track you everywhere you go, that'll be the real tough part, how do you plan any action. Then the military and the heavily armed police forces know exactly who all was involved.
Palantir was literally started just for this.
They sank a lot of money into Vietnam and Afghanistan too.
Still different. They are way more advanced than us. And we have way less grit than either of those groups. The viet were willing to live in spider filled holes in the ground. Afghanistan had been at war for years when the us went in so they were hardened already. I think if the current administration had been in power during either of those wars, both countries would have been crushed. The political winds in the us have shifted towards extremism. Trump could totally throw us in concentration camps right now and genocide the entire country and I'm thinking he would get away with it since there would be no backlash at home. Half the people down there would be able to do the mental backflips to justify it and the other half is broken and weak. I genuinely think that Trump can do whatever he wants at this time and get away with it. He's already purged enough of the government of people with integrity that by now, he is untouchable. We are in danger beyond belief and nobody really seems to be alarmed enough.
You speak for only for yourself. You may be soft, but not everyone is the same as you.
Come on man. 99% of us grew up in conditions that are soft and easy. I've seen extreme violence on a daily basis, but I can still be certain that whatever violence I've encountered would be puppy piss compared to what other people in the world go through. It's led me to be soft. And unless you live in some enclave of extreme suffering somewhere in canada nobody knows about, you are probably just like me. Probably even softer seeing as you lack the self awareness that would allow you to be honest with yourself about what you are. I dunno, maybe you're in the military or something?
Another difference is Canada has a long undefended border with the US and the citizens for both countries can look and sound the same. That guerrilla war wouldn't stay in just Canada.
I completely disagree
Trump only won a small portion of the American voting population our problem is people don't vote, not that most of them support this.
I think if it ever actually came to those lengths Congress wouldn't support it. Congress decides if we go to war, not Trump.
We need your help.
We will try to help, we don't want to see this for the American people either, it doesn't do anybody any good, but there really isn't much we can do, but we will try.
But Americans need to stand up against this, they are destroying your government systems piece by piece.
I think most Americans would actually let us, honestly.
Just make sure you catch the President in it this time.
World would have been a better place if Madison had gone out hot.