California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.

Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

    • skeptomatic@lemmy.caEnglish
      232·
      13 hours ago

      It’ll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
      So I’m Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
      Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
      The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I’ve mostly ignored their plight of “different culture” but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it’s part of the greater Canadian culture.
      The Alberta “separatists” are different, they are more like traitors.
      Citing stats like, “Alberta (oil and gas province, the “Texas” of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!”, which is true, as a total sum.
      But the morons don’t understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they’re not getting fair share…
      Epitome of greed.
      They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They’re even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
      They’re not taking that away from our country, and it’s worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
      They’d go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.

      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Yep, and the equalization payment garbage really sums up the right-leaning mentality that’s pushed on society lately as well; if the results aren’t immediate, it’s not worth doing. These traitors scream about how they pay more than other provinces and get nothing back. The fact is they get a lot back, it’s just not immediately apparent.

        Equalization payments help “have-not” provinces who need the boost, which strengthens those provinces. Strengthening the “have-nots” makes Canada stronger as a whole and more united, which very much helps Alberta (and every province). The “fuck you I got mine” attitude that gets pushed by Conservative gov’ts is a toxic cancer that’s spreading through the population and makes it easy for them to push their division politics, like Danielle Smith does. You’re meant to get sucked into it to fight the culture war so you don’t look up and fight the class war.

        • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          also, if we didnt just let these multinational oil companies just siphon off all the profits and leave messy orphaned wells for the public to clean up, albertans would be better off

          If they had started a sovereign wealth fund like norway, instead of shipping all the profits overseas, they would be better off…

          I would actually support oil and gas if it actually benefitted the nation.

          Canada got rid of the british, but not the corporations that are the true colonizers still extracting from the land and the people and sending the wealth overseas

          • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            The Heritage Fund was our Noway fund, it was just mismanaged to the point of nonexistence. Smith “brought it back” but I suspect it’s going to just be a slush fund to increase pension payments for the first couple years after dumping CPP to make it seem like the APP performs better.

    • quips@slrpnk.netEnglish
      142·
      14 hours ago

      China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.

      The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        13 hours ago

        One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn’t think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn’t expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments.

    • evol@lemmy.todayEnglish
      13·
      17 hours ago

      We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers

        • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
          31·
          16 hours ago

          Or maybe a parliament with proper representation instead of this stupid system you’ve got going right now.

          • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
            10·
            15 hours ago

            That’s realistically the only fix for gerrymandering. It’s a powerful weapon, and I don’t foresee the two parties honoring any agreement not to use it.

            • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
              5·
              13 hours ago

              It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.

              At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we’re over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.

              Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn’t require an amendment or anything complicated.