To be fair, one of the big trade issues the US is mad about in the auto industry is Canada allowing Chinese EVs into their market. I feel like Canada is fighting for EVs (less so now with Carney), we just have a giant thorn stabbing us in the side.
What are we supposed to do, not defend ourselves? China isn’t making annexation threats against Canada. They’re terrible on human rights records, but they’re less overtly dangerous to Canada than the U.S. is with sharing a border. I can’t see any future where China tries to annex Canada.
Thanks! That makes sense, I did some research and was guessing the same thing.
They tend to get within 1-2% of the actual vote on election day, so I wouldn’t say pointless. They can certainly miss a tight issue, but trend lines are meaningful too.
I’m curious, any reason for Motorola specifically? I would say they’re still a U.S. company, and in many ways no better than Apple.
I apologize for linking to a U.S. website, but here’s a polling average for the midterm for those curious: https://www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ballot-average-2026-nate-silver-bulletin-congress-polls
It looks like Trump’s party is indeed behind right now at least.
I think it’s worth clarifying that this comes alongside countries with a weak 4th estate. One of the notable connections between countries that are more critical of their own democracy, is actually having a stronger independent 4th estate to keep that democracy accountable.
That is, it makes sense Russian people would also have very high approval of their government and believe it’s democratic, which by Pravda (best source we have) they do. I don’t think this reflects reality, rather it reflects a powerful state apparatus that pushes for social harmony over information freedom. It’s easy to be less critical when your only news source can’t mention Tiananmen Square for example.