The idea of Canada joining the EU has got renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the country with high tariffs

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      9 days ago

      If you’ve been paying attention over the last 2 weeks, literally anything can happen at any time. We live in the age of miracles and horrors.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      Things like that seem to take years. Meanwhile in any sane world you’d expect US to return to sanity in four years

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        9 days ago

        That already happened four years ago. Since then there has been an insurrection, women has lost rights and a former President was convicted of fraud and was indicted for many more crimes. The American people voted that criminal into power despite knowing all of that. The US got a taste of sanity and decided they didn’t like that and chose batshit insanity.

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          rather, the male-supremacists & the passive-white-supremacists voted against Harris, handing the victory to Trump.

          The Dems living-in-Hopium, Biden hanging-on-too-long, gutting Harris’s opportunity, etc, didn’t help any, but the root on-the-ground-truth, is that no boomers, nor any machos, were voting for any nonwhite woman president, & that swung the votes FAR harder than the left-press was willing to believe.

          G-D itself sees, its law ( what a Soul/Continuum sows, that-specific-Soul/Continuum reaps, no matter what, still is Universal LAW, though, so … this world chose to “blow its brains out” through its anti-accountability/anti-responsibility addiction, & that is going to be playing-out through the rest of this century, until it’s all done ) sees/enforces objectively, so no-matter-what-believers-pretend, objectivity’s getting enforced.

          Objectivity is the single “religion” that all ideologies/prejudices/“religions” prohibit from being valid.

          Who’s bigger: Universe or collective-human-ignorance??

          Natural Selection’s going to display the truth…

          Universe moves-on, & if we won’t grow-up, then we haven’t any place left in Universe.

          Show me ANY faction who holds that truth to be their center?

          Just as a herd of herdbeasts who stampede off a cliff don’t get Universe’s “undoing” that, so they can have a special extra-chance … we don’t either.

          Countless worlds, strewn through coundless universes-of-this-kind, in an endless-stream…

          Our narcissism is the root-problem: “God revolves around us: God is going to glorify us, God exempted us ( only this-faction! ) from having to grow-up! We only have to be making-believing!”

          is humankind’s most-normal answer.

          Ever tried arguing with a junkie who’s nearly-dead, about saving their life instead of taking more “junk”?

          Humankind’s behaving like that junkie…

          Sometimes you just have to let-go, witness, & move-on…

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            I think you may have internalized some of the “male-supremacist” rhetoric yourself.

            In your wall of text you’re showing a tendency to blame everything on Harris, while you seemingly consider Trump the default choice. Why is that? Why did Harris have to earn your vote while Trump didn’t?

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        Anybody who believes that Trump will tolerate any 2028-election to toss him out from power … is foolish.

        Sorry, but it’s true.

        The 2024-election was the FINAL chance the Dems had, & the fluffed themselves in their Hopium, & when it failed, they make-believe that they’re somehow going to be “allowed” to take the country back, later??

        Idiocy.

        It’s too late.

        Construct survival in the actual remaining-context, & then US Civil War Part2 ( which should begin around 2028, -/+ 1y ) will be more-survivable.

        Remain within Hopium, & … getting butchered in the coming tsunami-of-violence in North America becomes starkly more-likely.

        I’d prefer people be realists, & survive…


        Kaizen,

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      9 days ago

      To join the European Union the country must be located in Europe. I don’t think Canada will fill up this criteria.

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        French Guyana would like a word! Maybe we should just join an already existing European country.

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        It’s totally a technicality but we share a land border with Denmark via Greenland. It’s literally just a rock cut in half in the middle of the Arctic but it counts! (Hans Island)

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          You’ve just identified that Canada needs Greenland to not separate from Denmark, XOR we’ve lost our opportunity!

          : p

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        Apparently it’s super easy to change the maps. If the Gulf of Mexico can be renamed, we can rename the top half of North America to West Europe.

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        9 days ago

        Move around some tectonic plates and they’ll be here in no time. (Canadians, you might want to get under a sturdy table for this one.)