For 2026, I’m thinking about will Carney pass anti-privacy pro-technoligarchy online handover-identification-to-access-content laws and about the US midterms: how rigged they seem (eg, ICE-related voter suppression) will be my cue of the likelihood of 2028 election rigging and Trump (if still alive) defying another law and taking a 3rd term. I expect Ukraine/EU vs Russia/USA to renew the ongoing nature of that conflict surrounding the invasion of Ukraine. I also expect the Israeli/US/UK genocide in Gaza to stay its horrible course. I don’t expect, but hope that the EU will take steps to distance themselves from US tech, versus pass favourable legislation for them. I expect the ‘Canada as 51st state’ rhetoric to increase a bit. I’m not optimistic and hope to be wrong. I wish people would wake up sooner that fascism is here and put up a resistance to it (beyond an enlightened minority on the Fediverse, for example). My takeaway from 2025 is this: For most of my life, people have asked “how would WE respond if fascism/ Nazism rose today?” well, we are now watching that question play out in real time, most notably involving the US regime. Hitler never had social media…
For 2026, I’m thinking about will Carney pass anti-privacy pro-technoligarchy online handover-identification-to-access-content laws and about the US midterms: how rigged they seem (eg, ICE-related voter suppression) will be my cue of the likelihood of 2028 election rigging and Trump (if still alive) defying another law and taking a 3rd term. I expect Ukraine/EU vs Russia/USA to renew the ongoing nature of that conflict surrounding the invasion of Ukraine. I also expect the Israeli/US/UK genocide in Gaza to stay its horrible course. I don’t expect, but hope that the EU will take steps to distance themselves from US tech, versus pass favourable legislation for them. I expect the ‘Canada as 51st state’ rhetoric to increase a bit. I’m not optimistic and hope to be wrong. I wish people would wake up sooner that fascism is here and put up a resistance to it (beyond an enlightened minority on the Fediverse, for example). My takeaway from 2025 is this: For most of my life, people have asked “how would WE respond if fascism/ Nazism rose today?” well, we are now watching that question play out in real time, most notably involving the US regime. Hitler never had social media…