Our Prime Minister has multiple scandals worse than anything Trump has done so far... From groping a reporter to multiple instances of blackface to firing the attorney general because she investigated a company who gave bribes to Moammar Gaddafi to nearly a billion dollars going to a 2 person software consulting firm to fake charities giving him and his family members millions of dollars and much more. Yet somehow we're held up as an example of democracy and the US, which defends democracy all over the world somehow isn't...
Trump has already done quite a few crazy things since his inauguration. And I'm judging that by what I'm hearing from people who are directly affected by his actions, not by what I'm hearing from the media.
Yet you did not mention one single thing. The thread to which you replied did.
Not really.
> get us out of the Paris accord when the world is rapidly heating up
Is anyone on pace to meet those targets? Canada isn't.
> try to put RFK Jr, a vaccine denier, in charge of our health,
Our health minister is a random politician who took poly sci and history...
> rename the goddamn Gulf of Mexico
Things get renamed all the time... It's not crazy.
> people born on American soil are not necessarily Americans anymore
Jus soli is the exception in the world and in history. For example, every European country has jus sanguinis...
> launch hourly raids to deport people
Enforcing laws is the normal state of affairs in the world...
> many of whom are actually American citizens?
I doubt this one, got any proof?
Canada's civil society collapsing does not mean that the USA's civil society is not. Perhaps they both are?
I think that the social fabric in both countries can take the punishment for a decade or two. It will be some time before they collapse.
The only thing I find crazy about the US right now is the media reaction.
Defending borders? Jus sanguinis? Only 2 genders? Cutting spending? Tariffs? Literally so normal it's boring.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
If that explanation doesn't land, there are other site guidelines which maybe make the point more directly, such as "Don't be snarky", "Edit out swipes", and/or "Omit internet tropes".
India, one of the poorest countries by per capita GDP met its target before deadline. Better than looking at others, US need to ensure that it meets its own targets. Because its the sole super power and at an international level without US leading sustainability, there is no hope for the rest of us.
I think it would do no harm to know that the Earth had a glaciar era (at least, I am not sure it was more than one), 10 times more carbon dioxide than now at some point and that weather always changed in history. All without humans being involved. Do not take as facts the propaganda of "it is humans and only humans who are making the temperature change".
If I am not wrong the greenhouse gas for carbon dioxide is a small percentage (I do not remember if it was 3%, from which only a fraction is generated by humans). The water vapor (which is a greenhouse gas also) accounts for like 90% or more, by the effect of the sun in the water, and noone talks about this in the media. Also, the most catastrophic models are usually chosen instead of other alternative models.
There are also multiple reports of how data was deliberately hidden or manipulated: https://www.libertaddigital.com/ciencia/que-es-el-watergate-... (in spanish, some evidence of manipulation about the climate change, which was conveniently renamed from "Global warming" at some point, bc in the last 20 years there has been no such "global warming"). I think there was a record in the mass of ice registered in Antartica in year 2017 if I am not wrong...
Smells really bad all this story at this point, to be honest.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4835388-brazil-pre...
Lula is no friend of democracy.