Here's what would happen if Canada joined the European Union
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This should totally happen. I struggle to think of anything that would be made worse by adopting European laws and customs.
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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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We grant you the rank of EU member, but you are not in Europe.
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I would laugh myself to death.
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We can pass a law saying Canada is part of Europe and Google, Apple, and Microsoft will change their maps.
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Yeah I didn't get that part either. If we say we want to be part of the EU and in the end we only improve trade with the EU why is that worse then saying we only want to improve trade relations and only improve trade relations? Don't get why this guys would be "dismayed" unless he doesn't really want more trade with the EU.
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Yup. Which is why this only makes me want to Canada to be an EU member even more.
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A conservative US owned newspaper may have some bias.
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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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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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I see you haven’t read the article either, because otherwise you’d know that it doesn’t even answer the question directly, but instead goes to great lengths theorizing about every possible outcome, no matter how unlikely it is.
The TL;DR was my own opinion, but if you actually make it through this piece, I’m fairly sure you’ll agree.
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People float the idea of Australia joining the EU every so often too, but much the same we'd be a second class country basically handing money over to Germany and France for the sake of it.
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Eh, continents are entirely a socially-constructed category. I mean, how can Mexican America and South America be one continent when there's no land route between them, yet Europe and Asia can be two continents? The Americas are on different techtonic plates, which similarly is enough to earn India the designation of subcontinent. And where's the cut-off between big island and continent? Bigger than Greenland, and smaller than Australia is all we can say.
Anyway, what I'm saying is that with just a quick redefinition of the continents, which already don't make sense, Canada can be in Europe.
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Doesn't matter. The requirement is to be "a European country", not "a country in Europe". What "European" really means has been left deliberately ambiguous.
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Yeah, that's absolutely not how this works.
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Canada and mexico should form a union that's called Super America. And america isn't part of it.
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Aviation, Shipping, Telecom, there's loads of regulations in the EU..
it isn't the existence of regulations in the EU that annoys me, as standards, when done right, massively-reduce the "tax" of needless-waste, & needless-harm, ..
.. rather, it is the standards being decided by things other than globally-elegant effectiveness & globally-elegant efficiency.
Politics has NO proper place in government, yet humankind has handed the world to be outright-RULED by the coalition between political-machiavellianism-of-parties & moneyarchy, using their friend legalism for leverage against Justice ( the fight between legalism & moral-law is millenia-old ), & now physical-force/bullets has sided with the extremists of all sides, to "help" the world resolve to their victory, too..
Sooo many dimensions of this stuff going-on, now..
Anti-strategy, all of that.
No matter: The Great Filter should finish doing its thing by the end of this century, & if anybody is left alive, then they will have grown-up, completely, as a population.
if, though..
.. sigh ..
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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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There is precedent (Cyprus, as well as Turkey previously wanting to join).
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Yes, English, Spanish, and whatever the Quebec speak.
