Closer to France than Hungary is, and they’re in the EU already.

RTFM

I went looking for that tweet a week ago and was saddened to learn it was fake

Anytime literally anything happens, they’re there to spin it to a PR pitch.

Like, I don’t disagree that it’s critical. I want it. FPTP is idiotic.

But the relentless single-mindedness is to the point where I don’t even need to check the username anymore. The fediverse is a small enough space that one person (or small group sharing an account?) can really saturate a channel.

Just to head the idea off at the pass: there is no material version of “90 day fiance” permanent residency for Canada.

If there is one thing I can promise you, it’s that you don’t have to tell Canadians not to fall for it. Annexation is a non starter, there is literally no argument that could be given regardless of validity. The fact that any promises are obvious lies is wholly irrelevant.

I think what people don’t understand is how incredibly petty Canadians can be.

The Canadian population will accept things getting 25% worse for themselves personally if it means things get 5% worse for the people that inflicted it. With these terriffs, there is an asymmetry of effect… But there is also an asymmetry in the amount of pain that can be stomached by the populations as well.

If the two countries find themselves dragged into an “economic winter”, there is one population significantly more familiar and comfortable with the idea of riding out the winter.

I can imagine the typical household plumbis will vex future archaeologists

Pokemon go to the polls

This but unironically

It’s always projection.

He’s not going to go

There are already plenty of parallels between how Putin seized power and Trump. If he’s following the playbook, a false flag should be coming down the pipe any day.

Admitting that someone you trusted and idolized lied to you, and then working against that former idol is hard. Heartbreaking, even… People will find themselves alienated by thir communities who still thinking it’s 7D-Chess. That is the consequences.

All or nothing ultimatums generally result in nothing.

That isn’t a conservative community, fyi

Accurately count the occurrence of the letters in a word of their choosing

When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was kinda a “fire sale” of government assets… They just got “sold” (effectively handed) to people who were favoured by the leaders of the time. This was how these Russian oligarchs came to be.

I think this is where the wind is blowing in the USA. Tear apart anything the government does and hand the responsibility for those things as private contracts, and to just hand those contracts to whomever seems like they’d be a good soldier.

Basically, rip all of the copper out of the walls, sell it at 10% market rate to the PayPal mafia, and then let them sell you copper-as-a-service.

I’m curious, on such a plate, what is even the point of the number?

No. It was a long winded way of saying “it’s not strictly necessary from a purely functional standpoint, but it is in reality because humans are mushy and irrational especially in groups”