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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Nations, like individuals, do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any Nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

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WIST Quotations · Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union) - Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | WIST QuotationsNations, like individuals, do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any Nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue. In 1945, Roosevelt delivered the SOTU as a written message to Congress, not as a speech.

I do try to buy American-made whenever I can.

But it has nothing to do with nationalism. It’s more like supporting your neighbors. And that benefits me, too.

And yes that includes Canada and Mexico.

But I’ll even look for made in Washington State over other things.

#neighbor vs #nationalism

A compelling account of how white nationalists are strategically infiltrating the wellness movement. By co-opting its language, aesthetics, and products, they attempt to normalize their ideology, build community, and recruit.

aljazeera.com/features/longfor #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #Nationalism #Extremism

Al Jazeera · How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness movementBy Mark Hay

Look, I'm not psychic. I can't tell you whether or not Donald Trump is going to *successfully* annex or invade Canada; although I will say that given the *vast* disparity between Canadian and US military capabilities, it's highly unlikely Canadian leaders would risk letting it get far enough to see "U.S. Marines marching on Quebec," so folks waiting for that before they deign to take this seriously are more or less promising to do nothing to prevent this. What I can tell you is these nazis do *not* have a sense of humor, the establishment portion of the America First fascist movement has been openly building the ideological arguments to seize Canada and trying them out in public settings for several years, and watching everyday Americans fall right back into a pattern of ignorant nationalism because they're pissed off at Canadians for booing our anthem in response to Trump's threats, doesn't give me faith in the idea that this is just another doomed-to-fail Trump fever dream. This is real, and it *is* a scandal that the Very Serious PeopleTM in America are not only failing to oppose it, but not even taking it seriously enough to discuss it.

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Trump’s Threat to Take Over Canada Is a Scandal

"There are numerous reasons why Trump and his government’s pervasive blathering about turning Canada into the “51st state” shouldn’t be dismissed as a “Madman Theory”-negotiating tactic, or as performative MAGA trolling. During a private phone call last month, according to a Friday New York Times report, Trump “told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation.”

Lately, Trump — a man who would never try to do anything world-historically rash like ending democracy in America — has told every news camera that would listen and broadcast his message to the world that he would like to rule Canada, one of the U.S.’s most vital allies. It’s not just Trump blurting it out: This has become the position of the United States federal government; his White House press secretary and his Homeland Security secretary are now, too, calling Canada “the 51st state.”

“Canada could do a lot more. Canada has been taken over, Bret, by Mexican cartels,” top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, bizarrely, told Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday, attempting to justify Trump’s tariffs. (At least Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt practically admitted the tariffs are about forcing Canada’s annexation.)"

As I've mentioned elsewhere, over the course of the past ten years I've spent warning people that the American establishment right has become an full-blown, openly fascist movement full of people who literally admire the Nazis, I've received a tremendous amount of pushback from too-clever-by-half people with college degrees insisting that I can't call what has now become the America First movement "fascist" because "they're not pursing an aggressively expansionist nationalist policy." Setting aside the fact that Americans are so drunk on bipartisan nationalism that I strongly question whether or not these folks would recognize it in the wild (a fact borne out by watching our establishment largely laugh off Trump's threats to annex Canada, seize Greenland, and carve up Ukrainian resource rights with Russia) there can be little question that the Trump regime is in fact "pursuing an aggressively expansionist nationalist policy" now that he's back in power; which stands to reason - after all, by necessity the Nazis didn't start invading Europe until they'd already seized political control of Germany because that's how wars work. Furthermore, the idea that Trump is not doing so until there are "boots on the ground" in Toronto is absurd; America has long been proficient in exercising soft power and flexing our economic might to transform other countries into puppet states and colonial extraction zones for American corporations - we just don't *usually* do it to countries full of white people, so the American media complex gives it little notice.

Finally, for those still clinging to the idea that there is no *reason* for these Nazis to want to invade Canada, let me be blunt. Climate crisis is real, as the entire planet burns the Pig Empire is openly entering a phase of rampant climate imperialism, and Canada is not only predicted to be less affected than the US by climate change in the short term, but they also have vast supplies of fresh water, heavily forested land, and natural resources extremely valuable to the billionaire tech company fascists actually running the Trump administration. Of course, a US discourse that ignores climate crisis and pretends corporate power doesn't control US politics, probably isn't going to mention that and would prefer to stick with "Trump cray tho."

Yahoo News · Trump’s Threat to Take Over Canada Is a ScandalBy Asawin Suebsaeng
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@grammasaurus @gregggonsalves they're called "quacks." Have the unpleasant experience of dealing with just one of those, it can throw your faith in medicine completely out of whack. Some will never trust it again and others will become even more grateful for real Doctors. That's where the split between the educated blaming the system and the uninformed blaming medicine takes place, opening the door for politics. Why? Capitalism? A healthy nation is a strong nation, right? Seems like a nobrainer, what the current #POTUS would call, "common sense."

Via #BylinesScotland, Mar 06, 2025

“The #EuropeanMovement was established in 1948 by #WinstonChurchill and other prominent #European leaders to promote European unity as a way to defend #peace, #democracy and #liberty against #authoritarianism, #nationalism and #imperialism. That mission remains as important as ever, and we are keen to stand up for those values and stand by our friends and partners in #Canada, as they strive to defend them against #Trump’s assaults"

bylines.scot/politics/europe-p

Bylines Scotland · Strengthening the European Union-Canada relationshipEuropean Movement International seeks creating a European Movement Canada

I remember when I was a kid they taught us the neutered version of This Land is Your Land in music class, minus the more explicitly socialist verses that are the best damn part. And I guess their way of "balancing" it politically if parents in our conservative district complained by also teaching us Lee Greenwood's shit-awful God Bless the USA which I hated back then before I even realized all the ways it sucked.

#CharacteristicsOfFascism

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
"Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays."
From: "#Fascism, Anyone?" by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine.

February 28, 2025: President #Trump to sign executive order making English the official language of US

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#Nationalism #WhiteNationalism #StolenLand #Colonialism

USA TODAY · President Trump to sign executive order making English the official language of USBy Joey Garrison

@ferret

Any Leninist who is against boarders, nations, and nationalism completely is a Leninist who is illiterate to any of Lenin's writings regarding nationalism, where he explicitly endorses nationalism among oppressed peoples as a means for them to achieve self-determination, and vehemently opposes the chauvinistic, ethnocentric, reactionary and bourgeois forms of nationalism. #socialism #communism #nationalism

Reference: "Lenin on the National Question" : marxists.org/archive/lenin/wor

What is the AfD? Germany’s far-right party, explained.

In the weeks ahead of the German election tomorrow, the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) consistently polled around 20%.

For the first time, the AfD poses a challenge to mainstream parties’ longstanding strategy of isolating the far right.

mediafaro.org/article/20250222

The ConversationWhat is the AfD? Germany’s far-right party, explained
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Excited for Canador vs. Statestherin in the 4 Nations cup. Expect the most exciting hockey since the ‘72 Summit Series, proving that sports and politics are inextricably linked.

Also, since sports are political, remember that the NHL as an organization folded to the most minimal pressure from anti-LGBTQ individuals and canceled support for pride nights. Go Canada!

A quotation from Bierce

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patriotism,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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