I run a virtual IT training business out of Canada and LinkedIn should be my market, but I just can’t do LinkedIn any more. I’ve been posting stories from the people writing about the coup, but I get crickets.

I have a teensy network and small reach anyway, but the willful blindness of rich, American, “influencer” security and IT people who continue to post bland, everything-is-normal crap while their US president and his technofascist hellbeast dismantle their government and conspire against Ukraine, Canada, Europe, and, well, everyone with Putin is just making me vomit.

Yes, I’m GenX. I was a teen when nuclear annihilation was a daily possibility. I’m trained to be cranky and vocal and pissed off. I also have a degree in modern European history and a lot of IT experience.

The US coup, the technical dismantling of all government data security structure, exposing allies’ intelligence along with citizens’ private data to the banal evil of the Muskenjugend, and Musk taking control of every US government department all at once without any legitimate power, should have created a firestorm of professional resistance. At the very least there should be some tiny sound of disapproval. Some concern. A “tut.” But there’s just…nothing. Business as usual. Pre-programmed messages to increase “reach” as if any of it matters any more.

I’m just horrified. Sickened.

#Canada
#KickAtTheDarkness

30-day pause on tariffs?

An entire nation forever on probation but never having done a crime?

Living with the gaslighting abuser forever finding something new to punish us for?

Dying by a thousand cuts?

I’m glad for the farmers, and steelworkers, and autoworkers. But he doesn’t keep promises. The point is to keep us guessing.

And at the end of 30 days it’s a non-zero possibility that there will be no US government to deal with.

So I’ll just carry on not buying American.

The Orange Menace will now go off and rattle the EU while his lord and master, Herr Musk, dismantles the US government. And Canadians will keep a weather eye on the storm brewing to the south.

In the meantime, I’ll go look for Canadian businesses to buy from.

🍁 True. North. Strong. Free.

#Fascists #Coup #KickAtTheDarkness

Bruce Cockburn
Lovers In A Dangerous Time

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#CanadianContent #KickAtTheDarkness #BeforeBNL #TeenageLoveDuringTheColdWar

Joining Kindle Unlimited last year has paid off. Once I read a breakdown from an author about how it made financial sense for them — so I wasn’t taking some kind of advantage — I was all in, and it’s been totally worth it. I’ve read so many books that I might not have risked spending money on, but that have turned out to be great.

Like this one, which is basically “Gay Romance in the Time of Zombie Apocalypse.” Unexpectedly fun.

#KickAtTheDarkness #KeiraAndrews

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