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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/37312904

He wasn’t joking.

Summary

Stephen Miller, former Trump advisor, called birthright citizenship a “financial scam” and national security threat during a Newsmax appearance.

He claimed, without evidence, that undocumented immigrants exploit it to access “unlimited welfare” and that foreign governments use it for espionage.

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case related to Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship.

Miller dismissed the 14th Amendment's intent, ratified in 1869 to reverse Dred Scott, and echoed extremist views like “remigration,” advocating for the forced removal of non-European immigrants regardless of citizenship.

“My question to Canadians is simple: Is Pierre Poilievre the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump?” Carney said, referring to the Conservative leader he disparaged as a career politician.

“I have managed budgets before. I have managed economies before. I have managed crises before,” added Carney, who served as head of Canada’s central bank during the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the governor of the Bank of England when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.

“This is a time for experience, not experiments,” he said.

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In a post-scarcity society, manufacturing would be cheap. Goods are easy to come by, keeping us comfortable and fed. We can spend our time at other pursuits, such as the development of futuristic technology. Some economists argue that such abundance is impossible. Cheaper food, they suggest, will grow more mouths to feed. For data, on the third hand, we already have a post-scarcity economy. With current equipment, it is nearly free to copy data. One original movie, song, game, or program... can be distributed to the internet overnight. Access to these services would be universal.

Predictably. Moneyed interests enforce artificial scarcity. Legions of programmers, lawyers, and other hacks extract payment from anyone sharing in the culture. They dont care who they exclude, only maximizing their own share. The U.S. legal system changes its rules to suit the powerful. For example, The Copyright Act of 1976, bought by bribes from Disney Company, expanded the length of copyright from 56 to 75 years. Now its over 100 years.

100 years is too long

What about living memory? Show an elder -- say a 70-year-old human -- one of the best movies they saw 50 years ago. Maybe they have an important perspective! But that classic movie may be inaccessible. Better content gets more expensive, and older content gets rarer. Lastly, the elders die. Those cultural moments, connections between real life and stories still locked away a century later, are lost.

Printed books fall apart. Ancient tombs decay. But data is cheap. Lets protect it!

one track has protestors, prisoners, and a couple kids on it now.

not gonna say what's on the other track

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25142642

And if you're not sure why so many people on Fosstodon are considering moving, there are some links in the reply.

Nanaimo Infusion festival welcomed U.S. visitors with food trucks, live music and a pub crawl

Schnetter and his friend Zach Prigger are both from Washington state, but said it's their first time in Canada. "As things keep progressing, it's like watching a trainwreck, you know?" Schnetter said of the U.S. president's actions. "Like, where, when is this going to end? When does this stop?

Whoever is prime minister after Monday will inherit all the challenges that were present before Trump returned to the White House — from the cost of housing to the climate crisis to the opioid crisis to the various forces that threaten democracy in the 21st century — and they'll have to lead this country through a moment of incredible stress and uncertainty.

They'll have to contend with a president taking unprecedented actions. The global economy may tip into a recession. The prime minister will have to make a dozen major decisions that we can currently only guess at.

This moment in Canadian history has been cause for reflection and patriotism. It has inspired a competitive election and may drive a higher-than-usual rush to the polls. One way or another, the result will be consequential.

Still not out of the woods for frost, but I transplanted the non hardened broom corn and planted some more seeds with them. I also transplanted a couple Marigold and Nasturtium starts with some seeds as well.

I left some space between the tall ornamental grasses as I’ve gotten a cold frame to install on the block above this narrow bed.

during the sketch show’s goodnights, Myers’ slogan tee — unveiled after he unzipped his vest — was accompanied by the actor mouthing “elbows up,” a reference to Canadian hockey icon Gordie Howe’s slogan toward aggressive opponents on the ice.

“Fascism doesn’t like to be ridiculed; it likes to be feared,” he concluded. “Satire is an important tool in the toolbox to say that this is not normal — that the cuts [Elmo]’s making are not normal.”

transcription: adora: "truth or dare?" catra: "truth" adora: "i dare you to kiss me" catra: "you better believe im not here to lose" glimmer: "she didnt even pick dare"

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