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‘IT WAS MEANT TO BE!’ Trump Trolls ‘Great People of America’ Let US Take Over Country and Serve US. Fixed it for you!

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Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.

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Ackshually it’s only Hectoring if you drag them behind your chariot, otherwise it’s just sparkling heckling.

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That reminds me, Troy deserves a rewatch soon. Love those fight scenes.

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Isn’t that movie notoriously terrible?

For whoever is interested in reading it, I quite liked the Peter Green translation. Fair warning though, it’s quite long, longer than the Odyssey.

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I never said it wasn’t a word; it means bully. But hectored doesn’t mean bullied the way we use that in English—it would mean to create a bully.

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Nope. It’s an out-of-use term, but it is definitely a synonym of bullying.

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The link to the “ing” version in their first link does support the use in the article. TIL also.

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Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.

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I’m actually kind of glad to see this. Should drive turnout for Carney.

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Should drive turnout for Carney.

Ah yes another liberal who’ll fail to defend our countries borders, another Trudeau but this time with pizzaz.

If there ever is a war with the US I sure as shit want access to real firearms, none of this 3 rounds per mag headache we got now.

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And how, pray tell, is a “real” firearm going to help defend against the most technologically advanced army in the world, who can take you out from half a planet away without you ever seeing anyone until you are ginsu-bladed in half (reference: https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-used-drone-carrying-knife-missile-to-kill-al-qaeda-chief)?

We don’t need more firearms in personal hands when it comes to our national defence, we need alliances, a better standing army, and probably some form of nuclear deterrence. Thinking you’ll make any meaningful difference with your personal firearm and a couple of hours on the gun range is the exact same magical thinking 2FA nuts keep using while the US government takes their rights and freedoms away.

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And how, pray tell, is a “real” firearm going to help defend against the most technologically advanced army in the world,

Their tech is pretty advanced I’ll give you that, but i sure as hell know if people had more access to firearms we could actually have a chance to defend ourselves from such a threat.

Our military is a joke technology & armoury wise, simple and plain, the more people who stand to defend the better.

We don’t need more firearms in personal hands when it comes to our national defence

This is where we differ, I fully believe South Korea has the right idea to train all their children in CQB and to safely handle firearms given how close North Korea is.

The same should apply to Canadians, we have a potential threat down south and a small handful of people actually know what they’re doing.

we need a better standing army, and probably some form of nuclear deterrence.

I 100% agree however, I don’t think we’ll ever see this in our lifetime with another Liberal leader.

Thinking you’ll make any meaningful difference with your personal firearm and a couple of hours on the gun range

A couple hours at the range is better than no hours at the range.

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You misunderstand.

Yes, one Canadian with an assault rifle can’t do much against 5 American drones.

But one Canadian with an assault rifle can do much against 5 off-duty American soldiers relaxing in a restaurant.

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Yeah… nah. I don’t want school shootings as a trade off to a hypothetical American invasion, plus, pp would fucking bend over and spread to trump. A handgun or a 30 round mag won’t make a difference.

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don’t want school shootings as a trade off to a hypothetical American invasion

So hypothetical school shootings are better eh? Keep in mind I’m not pushing for the Canadian version of the 4th amendment, as you see in another one of my comments I encourage proper safety training beforehand.

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I can’t think of a more helpful thing he could have said.

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Canada could use another few provinces… California, interested?

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Territories

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We’re interested. Oregon, Washington and Hawaii is onboard too.

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Woah now, don’t leave out us southern Canadian friends in Minnesota. We have the Mayo Clinic, Lake Superior, and hot dish.

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Minnesota voted for Trump no?

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Then make an alliance with Mexico (and countries in Central and South America) and 2/3 of America will be surrounded by hostile territory.

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The south has always been hostile territory, if you aren’t their brand of white Protestant.

We need a new Society of No-Homers.

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Alaska should be Canada’s but only if we eject the Alaskan maga faction.

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He is not trolling. He is genuinely threatening our sovereignty, and we are taking that seriously. The United States is an enemy nation.

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He got elected because people thought he was trolling, and thought it was funny. Now he’s actually doing those things, and worse. So why would anyone not take these threats seriously?

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Are you guys arming yourselves via a rearmament program like pre WW2? Because you should be if you take him seriously. The best don’t tread on me animal is a porcupine. Defensive

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I don’t think you truly understand the meaning of elbows up.

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If the US invades, there’s no amount of rearming that would stop them from completely destroying us. Acquiring nukes would be our best bet.

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Yeah, it’d be a three day special military operation. Just like when Russia took Ukraine.

Americans are extremely averse to casualties and pain. We could make an invasion hurt. I doubt they’d be able to endure a genuine war that genuinely enters their homeland. Not for long.

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The US military has always proved to be very vulnerable to guerilla warfare, they’ve lost a few wars due to guerilla warfare. Canadians know their landscape and they know how to hunt and shoot, they’d put together an excellent guerilla force, and they could easily blend with American soldiers. They are also comfortable with the cold. A MAGA invasion of Canada in the Winter will be like the Nazis invading Russia. Also, all of Europe will suppport Canada.

A good portion of the US military will refuse to follow orders to invade, and resign, defect, or go AWOL, and whoever is left will be nearly universally unmotivated to invade Canada. Many military leaders will work behind the scenes to sabotage the illegal invasion. Those disenchanted military personnel will find the competent, experienced military that HitlerPig fired, ready and waiting to build a strong, motivated military force to oppose MAGA on Canada’s behalf.

In addition, 2/3+ of America will never support the invasion of Canada for ANY reason, and will align with Canada. HitlerPig will be forced to waste resources dealing with the uprising at home, distracting him from his foolish invasion.

Any HitlerPig military operation will be defined by virtuosic incompetence, which is his most reliable characteristic. He will be fighting his own military and citizen population every step of the way.

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The porcupine’s only weak spot is its face. Which is why the pine martin eats the porcupine’s face. Not sure how that affects this metaphor but it’s a cool nature fact.

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