It's about as authoritarian as you can get and not only did the tech community ignore it, they outright supported it.
Sites like Parlor were shutdown over night by companies like Amazon for simply having the wrong politics.
This is something that for many is something they've not yet seen before in their lives (global allegiances shifting like this), and especially something that has not been a partisan issue at least from an outside view.
Signed, a European and erstwhile committed Atlanticist.
Just you wait....
Rob Braxman has been teaching privacy, degoogling and what not for a long while without all that political preaching.
Trump is the best president Canada and Mexico have had, for decades.
A really healthy dose of nationalism has arisen in both countries. Plenty of proposals for development, that wouldn't have been considered two years ago, are on the table today.
Did you know that Canada has inter-provincial trade barriers (such a dumb thing)? I just did, because of this recent tariff ordeal. Tearing them down is on the table now. Good!
Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.
This is plain wrong. There's literally a Wikipedia page created 18 years ago documenting the well-publicized Mexican Drug War between the Mexican government (supported by various governments) against all the cartels. Literally thousands of soldiers and police killed.
"Source: Wikipedia" as well.
Your comment is everything that's wrong with the "smaht" people of this era.
This is truly unprecedented, these guys are the cream of the crop of narco in Mexico. This would have never happened if not for Trump's pressure. Thanks, President Trump!
"Hurr durr where's muh wokepedia reference ..." oh yeah, you got me there pal :'(.
1: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-27/mexico-e...
https://www.newsweek.com/secret-us-drones-led-arrest-notorio...
Hint: often police and drug dealers ostensibly fight here and there while politicians and bureaucrats at the top and some police departments have their own deals with them.