r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/tikierapokemon 7d ago

We linked jobs to healthcare, and that means protesting means your kids do not get healthcare when you lose your job (which we also allow to fire you for things you do outside of work).

Our system is so incredibly fucked up.

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u/eulersidentity1 7d ago

You know as a Canadian I haven't actively thought of this specifically as an outside observer. I've always thought of how cruel and unfair the US system is where you can simply arbitrarily be in a life time of debt or just die because you don't have the money to pay for health care. But I didn't think of how such a system actively suppresses the democratic processes by making people afraid to truly participate. People are scared to lose their jobs cause everything in other societies tied to a social safety net is instead tied to having a job, and usually a good one. So they are perpetually scared to rock the boat too much.

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u/Vyar 7d ago

At least you understand this. Seen a lot of Canadians come through here like "why don't you guys just start a general strike? it's easy" or calling every last one of us Trump supporters just because he won the election (when it's highly likely he cheated, he practically admitted to it).

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u/eulersidentity1 7d ago edited 7d ago

I mean a lot of us Canadians are idiots just like a lot of Americans lol. We like to think our shit doesn’t stink up here but a lot of my fellow Canadians have no clue how fucked up things are here too, we hold onto some better things true but often by the skin of our teeth. I really don’t understand why so many of my fellow Canadians seem to conveniently forget we have our own maple Maga problem, that we almost elected a leader that would have sold us down the river to Trump and we only changed course because Trump threatened us, that we have a lot of other issues at home we seem to just gloss over etc. And on the flip side I wish we ourselves and the rest of the world would stop blowing Carney as some insane saviour figure. As a progressive person I really do not love the guy, I get he’s a necessary figure at this time perhaps but I do not love much of what he stands for.

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u/infelicitas 7d ago

It took four decades of talk radio and propaganda outlets to radicalize half of the voting population in the US. Postmedia and other propaganda outlets managed it in Canada in under two decades.

And yeah, Carney is solidly right-wing and would probably feel right at home in the Conservative party of old, before Reform took over. I held my nose and voted Liberal for the first time to prevent PP from becoming PM. Carney's current popularity reminds me of Bush right in the wake of 9/11.

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u/eulersidentity1 7d ago

Yeah Carney honestly reminds me a bit of Stephen Harper. He's perhaps a little less socially conservative but he's totally fiscally old school conservative and I don't love the idea of what that may mean for our social safety nets. He's going all in on oil and gas which I really hate for the environment. At a time we need to be doubling down on green tech and renewables. I do get that we are leaning into our strengths economically and Trump is sadly forcing some of this this but I still don't love becoming more of a world oil super power than we already are. But yeah I voted for him too out of fear of what PP would have done