I’m a dual Canadian-EU citizen and I oppose Canada joining the EU. I’m all for tighter relations of course but there are parts of the EU legal and economic framework that Canada should not have anything to do with.

Most importantly, the EU rules for state aid make it impossible to implement democratic socialist policies that remove sectors of the economy from the for-profit market. The public options that new NDP leader Avi Lewis is proposing to correct market failures become legally impossible. The bold ecosocialist policies needed to transition away from the planet killing economic policies, predicated on infinite growth, become legally impossible.

Beyond that, joining the EU means signing on to the Stability and Growth Pact and taking up the commitment to join the Eurozone. The SGP would have made even the left-liberal policies of first term Trudeau impossible. The Euro structurally ties the Canadian economy with that of Germany’s and its sclerotic fiscal dogmatism. (You’re goddamn right I haven’t forgotten how the Eurogroup treated Varoufakis’ reasonable proposals with contempt and condemned Greece to decades of unnecessary misery.) Canada does not need them.

Of course, if the EU were to reform and climb down from the doctrinaire neoliberalism that underwrites many of its most important treaties, I would be open to changing my mind. But as it is, nope, nope, nope.

Yes?

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Far right fuckface tries to make a point using a swastika.

Gus Fring meme.

We are not the same.

I hear you. It’s already stressful and doom-and-gloom for us outside the US, doomscrolling the latest Republican madness, I can only imagine having to live through it without the protective distance. Sorry, friend. You’re not alone, even if we sometimes bark at you when we should know better.

I apologize for touching the nerve, and I probably used a problematic word with “banal”. What I meant to say is that in the US this has (unfortunately) become normalized, horrific as that might sound. Just this Saturday you guys had 5: https://www.massshootingtracker.site/ and we didn’t hear a pip about them here in Canada, because it’s (horribly) not uncommon any more.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Shit like this is not banal outside the US.

It was a first probe. I look forward to when Chinese ships go back and forth to Iranian ports and the US has to decide if they are going to start WW3 for the ego of a narcissistic dotard.

If we’re going with “textbook definitions”, then let’s apply the “textbook definition” of what is acceptable political action against a government that enables a genocidal apartheid regime.

Textbook definition my ass.

https://youtu.be/3rKrvUortrc

Trump doesn’t respect anyone who has humiliated himself to him, like they’re not even people to him. He admires strongmen and grudgingly accepts the agency of people who have held their own (eg Carney).

Starmer is a non entity to Trump.

You have made your bed, now lie in it.

There is a very long tradition of gradualist reformist socialism, that goes all the way back to the 2nd International.

I’m going to say this one hundred percent unironically: this is why we need to be extremely serious about crushing actual antisemism in the west. When for example a western politician is saying the tired cliché that Israel is essential for jewish safety this is a horrendous indictment of their own country.

So protect your local Jewish diaspora community at all costs. Keeping them with us, keeping them from moving to Israel or some shitty West Bank settlement is a kind of very real Palestinian solidarity praxis.

Found the posadist.

Yup, and that’s exactly what we need for transitioning the entire grid to renewables. Mobile applications should be a marginal/convenience thing compared to actual infrastructure.

“You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them” Talleyrand, circa 1815

At this point, frankly, they get to. That’s what happens when you put your opponent on death ground. Israel has been blowing up villages in southern Lebanon, and have made known their genocidal aspirations for it, which are to be treated as credible based on their actions in Gaza. They put the Lebanese Shias on death ground. Now they have to pay the price of that mistake.

Hey take a load of this guy trying to make Trump and Israel be the honourable parties in this clurstefuck.

Israel should fuck off behind the 1967 borders and then we can talk about it being attacked. Trump should fuck off generally.

MAGA has no concept of soft power. They just don’t get it, do they?

For a bunch of far right fasicsts, it’s truly remarkable how the MAGA idiots and the Likud+ maniacs underestimate …nationalism.