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Reflections on a Cartoon Xit-Show

(Some venting from spending time on Xitter, digging out the Xit from the gutters, and getting disgusted by the trolls defending Trump’s pathological stream of lies by accusing Carney of lying.)

Canadians have shed blood to defend Americans.
Repeatedly throughout history.
Without hesitation.
Without calculating a bill for the cost of saving American lives.

Those days are over, permanently, because Americans have devalued Canadian sacrifices on your behalf.

When Americans were devastated by fires, Canadians didn’t equivocate.
Canadians rushed forward to help you manage a disaster and save lives.
When Canada was devastated by fires, you threatened litigation.

Canadians will never again willingly shed blood to protect Americans.

Many Americans may not care about that now, but you will.

Americans will learn to care while drowning in the regret of being alone in a world that has become openly hostile to anything and everything American.

Within the span of less than one-tenth of your nation’s history, Americans have successfully returned it to the dust from whence it came. Americans are about to become the world’s beggar, but most can’t see that yet. Americans (and Trump supporters worldwide) won’t see that because they refuse to see how broken they have become.

Don’t believe me on that score, though, because Americans have a simple litmus test to measure their sanity against by asking themselves a simple question: “How many children have died to protect unrestricted gun ownership?”

Think carefully about your answer because it speaks volumes about the state of your potential dysphoria.

The rest of the world prioritizes its children. No other nation chooses weaponry over children.

America is a sick, broken nation, and that’s not a recent development. Still, it is an unprecedented fall from grace, made even more unique by the degree of spite-motivated self-immolation.

Congratulations on such an expedient life cycle that so quickly makes way for the rest of the world to develop without the burden of your fascist tendencies.

None of history’s despots were so willing to self-immolate so publicly and in such a horrifically surreal manner.

Even North Korea is embarrassed for America and Americans.
That, in and of itself, is already incredibly pathetic, but that’s not rock bottom for Americans yet.

That’s what elevates this cartoon xitshow from sad into truly tragic.
EPIC tragedy.

THE SHATTERED ALLIANCE: America Has Betrayed Canada For The Last Time

By today’s count (26/08/26), Americans have about 40 days of reserves left. Iran is deliberately ensuring American citizens learn to feel the pain of its government’s arrogance and overreach.

Americans could have avoided this, but it was inevitable.

You just took the wrong fork in the road and decided to repeat history instead of forging a new one in a world united by a common vision for human progress.

Nobody wants this because we all take a hit when the American economy collapses.

You just needed a kick in your complacency.

The fork in the road that you most recently missed was a Bernie Sanders presidency… and that, to the rest of the world, is where the tragedy of America went from Bush dark to Trump dystopia.

Americans really should have heeded Eisenhower.
Americans really should have defended unions when Reagan began their destruction.
Americans really should have fought for universal health care, realistic gun legislation, and prioritizing the people over the plutocrats, but you didn’t… and now, the entire globe is suffering.

The entire globe isn’t going to sit back and watch you let the Tech-bro empire consume the world.

Nothing in the immediate future spells anything but significant hardship for the world and extreme hardship for American citizens. For those who abstained from voting in the last federal election for whatever petty reason you had, you really didn’t fully consider your actions. I bet you’re beginning to understand that now.

Our world is on fire. There is no room or patience for this Trump Xit.

The longer Americans take to resolve his nightmare, the worse it gets for the entire world, and as some Americans may be seeing, the entire world is becoming united in giving America and Americans a huge middle finger.

You can change that, though, by being serious about your protesting, instead of making them social events… because that shows you haven’t quite grasped how this is a fight for your own lives.

How do we stay hopeful when fascism is on the rise?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “How do leftists stay hopeful/resilient in times like these where fascism is on the rise and history is repeating itself?”

History has shown us that fascism always gets beaten back when the public realizes how much less they like fascism than the chaos of democracy. Every time and after enduring a period of suffering under the rule of despots, voter turnout makes a strong comeback as fascism encourages the apathetic non-voters to rethink their strategy of staying home.

Think of fascism as a lesson in consequences where people need to suffer enough to realize just how precious the delicate balance of freedom is in society and how vital the sausage-making process is, no matter how boring and dry it may otherwise seem.

People eventually learn they prefer to get off the couch and go to the polling stations to cast their votes for people they want to trust to represent their best interests. They also eventually learn that no matter how much the fascists want to paint their opposition as being identical to them, they’re not. The fascists inevitably piss off the people enough to go to war against them, and that’s precisely what Trump and Musk are inviting from the world.

They’re poking a tiger, and they’re going to get burned while they set the world aflame.

The only real question left on the table is, Just how much more pain will the people endure before the riots break out?

This isn’t even about being hopeful because we already know, just like everyone who’s been pushed past their limits, that once the anger takes over, there’s no stopping it. That neighbour who’s been pissing you off with their loud music invariably gets an earful that may embarrass you afterward. Still, it’s an emotional explosion that can’t be controlled during its moment of emotional release.

My guess is that if Luigi Mangione gets the death penalty, that might be the final trigger before all hell breaks loose. It’s hard to tell because Americans seem able to tolerate incredible horrors without doing anything substantial about them.

I know that if I was living in Flint, Michigan, for example, and I had a kid who died from the poisoned water, I would have pulled a Luigi myself. If a kid of mine were gunned down in a school while my local representative did nothing to institute sensible measures to prevent this from happening again, I’d lose my shit.

As it stands right now, from what I’ve been put through on a personal level, I’m already doing everything I can to keep from doing something stupid while attempting to resolve an issue in the most civilized manner possible. As it stands, the bullies responsible for destroying my life are behaving as if they’re going to walk away without suffering any consequences for their actions as they tell me to shut up and die quietly.

I know I’m not the only person at the end of their rope, and all it will take is the right match to set this nightmarish dystopia ablaze.

People like Musk will have to come around or beef up their security because it’s only a matter of time before their arrogance blows back like a nuclear bomb in their faces.

“Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution necessary.”

The trouble with this dynamic is that millions of people have to be pushed to their breaking point before they realize how much less pain there is in risking death in a revolution than to continue enduring a walking death in slow motion toward oblivion.

This is all just history repeating itself.

It’s not new by any stretch of the imagination.

Those who refuse to learn from history force us all to replay it, and we all get uglier about it each time we must endure the stupidity of people who refuse to read the writing on the wall.

The only salient aspect of hope in this mess is that we can avoid the worst chaos before returning to sanity.

Would hastening societal collapse do more harm than good?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Attempting to increase global problems to bring societal collapse sooner, would that do more harm than good?”

Societal collapse is, by definition, the most harm that can be done.

It may seem like the easiest way to address the rampant corruption we see today, but there is no guarantee against a new and next-generation form of corruption taking root in the ashes of the old. The odds are greater that a new form of corruption will be even more corrupt because they will have better learned how to protect themselves from reprisals.

If you look at the responses to Brian Thompson’s execution for crimes against humanity, there is no remorse being displayed by the monsters among us. They feel righteous anger at having been assaulted so violently.

Their response to a situation where their victims strike back is to hunker down with increased security measures.

They learn nothing from random acts of violence.

It may be the case that destroying all of them at once will eliminate the currently most powerful of the corrupt among us. There are always new generations following who are eager to outdo their forerunners.

Indeed, this generation of corruption defining the ownership class is a case study of learning from their prior mistakes. It is precisely why they have essentially co-opted all media.

The best thing we can do is build from where we are while learning to embrace values and contribute to solidifying the social contract we share.

We must stand up against the corrupt in whatever way we can. We must also be evident in our statements so that the world understands how violence is treated as a last resort after all other options have been exhausted. This is the only way to minimize the destruction of everything we have built together. This is the only way to preserve and protect the best of what we want for our society and our children’s future.

From Marvel’s Loki Series