Always a great sign when your geopolitical neighbors quietly start planning for you to go full fascist.

Hope that involves a plan for letting lgbt folks immigrate to safety instead of apologizing 80 years later like they did to the casualties of Nazi Germany who were denied safe passage

I've already checked. I've got enough qualifications that I can just migrate to Canada.

It'll be nice to teach them about what their summers are going to be like.

As an American, please nuke us if Trump wins the next election.

I'm both curious and personally invested on what their outlook on refugees would look like. I've definitely considered the possibility of having to flee to Canada as a trans woman, but I guess the question is how legitimately I'd be able to enter the country and whether I'd have to go into hiding once I get there.

I'm genuinely confused as to why, knowing that the Conservative/Republican brand has always been to serve big business, deregulating while also lowering taxes for the wealthy while cutting services to working class families, why people en masse would vote for them.

I get it, 2 sides of the same coin and all that jazz, but one side of the coin is just greedy, while the other side of the coin is greedy and is actively stoking the fires of a civil war.

We need electoral reform to avoid the same in Canada. The official opposition is actively siding with fascists.

I'm guessing the whole world has been doing some hard mulling since 2016...

I don't blame them. As an American I'm mulling the same.

I just hope their plan includes an asylum path for Americans sick of this doubling-down on ignorance. Not to say Canada isn't without their dumb dumbs either...

Build a wall and make us pay for it!

let me in. LET ME IN!!!!!

Is it them taking a hard right authoritarian shift?

I'm not all that worried about authoritarianism in America, for this reason: America is a big country full of lazy, entitled fucks who hate their jobs. And our police are the most lazy / entitled / job-hating of them all.

You are never, ever going to get the number of dedicated spies / censors / secret police you would need to pull off authoritarianism in America; they'll absolutely cut taxes and cut social services, fuck up the economy seven ways to Sunday, and let overseas strongmen run roughshod over smaller countries, but that's what they're about. Even on the limited occasions where Americans do dabble in policing thoughtcrime - the recent spate of book censorship for example - it's half-assed and sloppy and only ever meant as a means to some other end (in the case of book bans, destroying public schools), never something people are actually that excited about in its own right.

So yes, we certainly have to worry about Republicans winning things because they're going to make everybody's lives miserable in a hundred different ways if they do, but authoritarianism is beyond their power to pull off.

Dump money into military spending, border control, and refugee assistance.

I mean, Canada might get there first, right? I feel like we both are not doing so hot.

It sucks that that’s where we are but it’s smart.

I for one welcome our future Canadian overlords

University of Ottawa national-security professor Thomas Juneau said many Canadians might find it far-fetched to talk about Washington falling drastically out of step with Canada.

Let's also pay some attention to the fact that Canada may be about to fall drastically in step with the US Republicans at the next election.

I hope the U.S. is mulling ‘game plan’ if Canada takes far-right, authoritarian shift.