• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    i was wondering around Berlin once upon a time. in the park behind the parliament.

    a slightly overly helpful german said “excuse me. are you lost?” i mumbled “no no, not really”

    they walked beside me for a bit and said “ah you are english. i will take you to the parliament it’s just over there”. and i agreed

    then they said “your boys died for my country” which really took my breath away

    so yeah we got your back cananadia. that’s what we do when the fundamentalists kick off. even if we have to die

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        23 days ago

        And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.

        I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.

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          23 days ago

          As the EU mostly does not decide population based but with equal votes per country that wouldn’t be an issue.

          The larger issue is the fact that the European and US regulations clash in a lot of things so it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.

          But otherwise: We would absolutely welcome you.

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          9 days ago

          I’m glad for it. Although the federal election is looming in the near distance. I really hope bootleg T***P (I just call him PP) doesn’t get elected.

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    23 days ago

    FWIW, most people in blue states would probably have your backs too. The province most at risk would probably be Alberta, which… is Alberta

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    23 days ago

    France here, our mainstream media is currently either billionaire-owned and pushing Trump and Musk admiration or publicly owned but influenced by our current government (Macron and co.) which does everything possible to cosy up to billionaires so they haven’t yet (and probably never will) called Trump a fascist or Musk a neo-nazi.

    You came and died in France during two world wars in the 20th century but I’m afraid France as a nation isn’t gonna have your back in this timeline - except if we manage to elect a real-left government next time.

    Good luck!

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    24 days ago

    Northern Brit here: we have to have each other’s backs. The only way we’re getting off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride is together ❤️ we can do this.

    Resist. Rebel. Revolt. ✊

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    23 days ago

    Most Americans have your back too…it’s just our messed up voting and education systems that let the lunatic fringe gain all the power. For a representative democracy, it really doesn’t represent the people.

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      23 days ago

      Hell yeah, im just waiting for a blue state to announce intention to secede and join the EU. But that might be messy.

      ;(

      A messy dream.

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    24 days ago

    From the UK and personally, 100% yes but not sure I feel the rest of the population would agree. I mean, a lot of us turned our backs on the EU and there’s a lot of cross over with US right wing nutters.

    However, I would believe that when push comes to shove, we would be generally willing to defend Canada, Australia and NZ over anyone else, and then European countries at the next level. The reaction in support for Ukraine was pretty universal here and there are still lots of donations and support that is not shared with any African, Asian or Central/South American countries having similar problems.

    Basically, you’re white so yes you can count on us!

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        23 days ago

        That’s a very good point and can’t believe I didn’t think of that! Surely the British army would have to protect “his majesty’s realm” or some bollocks like that.

        I just read that Canada hosts Britain’s largest overseas base, although it seems to be for training purposes.