• @Hobbes_Dent
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    Don’t fucking give them eggs, the ones left who care will be satiated because they got cheaper, promise fulfilled, and the fascism will accelerate.

  • @[email protected]
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    Can’t wait for the glorious clusterfuck of a CA-EU-UK-CN-JP trade aliance. Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China. If SK follows Japan, there won’t be an NK anymore. Putin’s regime will collapse as his wartime economy implodes, while EU gets it’s cheap gas back plus cheap Chinese EVs too smoothly transition.

    EU could ensure it’s own security through independence from the very nation it needed to protect it (US). This would also basically completely contain Trump too.

    Rip up the US copyright/patent laws and stimulate the economy, cut off support for US vassals like Israel, cut the US off from Five Eyes, and if they do so much as peep, no more cheap shit and we put nukes in Canada.

    Polish cavalrymen riding alongside English royal guards rattling sabers of glorious Chinese steel.

    Daily Military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, but to the south-east of Taiwan :)))

    Probably hopium though. EU itself will splinter before long.

    • @jaybone
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      This is pretty optimistic.

    • @[email protected]
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      Alienate all your allies speedrun

      Jokes aside, why? There literally is no good reason to piss of people that like you and are willing to work with you

      • @[email protected]
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        Destroy the economy, collapse any remaining faith in democracy, sell the nation to the highest bidder.

        It’s going to be the biggest and most destructive form of disaster capitalism we’ve ever seen, mainly because they are the very people who are engineering the disaster in the first place.

      • @Hobbes_Dent
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        120 minutes ago

        That’s what he’s already done.

    • @shneancy
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      63 hours ago

      i’m honestly terrified. the last thing the entire planet wanted was a puppet orange for a fascist billionaire having all the nuke launch codes

      • @jaybone
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        33 hours ago

        Maybe this time, they will save us from the Nazis.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 hours ago

      How do you think we feel? We ARE the USA.

      …and 70M+ of our own voting dipshits shot our own foot!

    • @rayyy
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      83 hours ago

      Putin’s long plan is coming together magnificently. He started with just one useful idiot, expanded to the whole Republican party and a third of the U.S. population.

    • @[email protected]
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      134 hours ago

      Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.

      Would be hilarious if it happened.

    • @ByteJunk
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      83 hours ago

      Come join us! We have wine and baguettes, I’m sure we can make it work.

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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    2610 hours ago

    I accept your offer of an egg. Thank you for your sympathies. Also for the egg.

    • @jaybone
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      13 hours ago

      Egg is life. Egg is love.

  • Arghblarg
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    That’s OK, Canada has enough eggs on its own I think.

    If not, I guess it’s finally time to get a few chickens! We’ve been meaning to anyhow.

  • @aeronmelon
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    1610 hours ago

    Look at this lottery winner out here passing out eggs.

  • no banana
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    1110 hours ago

    Hey, whatever happens at least we’ll have eggs.

    • @jaybone
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      33 hours ago

      Eggs are for closers.

    • @perviouslyiner
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      UK has equivalent of $3.35 for 12 medium free-range. What’s it like over there?

  • @MissJinx
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    710 hours ago

    I’m sorry if it’s a dumb question but It’s honest, Isn’t canada somewhat under UK still? Wouldn’t tbe US have problems with UK too if they keep pushing? Have no horse on this race, just asking coz I’m dumb

    • @[email protected]
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      Not really. They’re part of the Commonwealth, an association of former British colonial possessions, and “recognize” the British monarch as their own monarch. The monarch (King Charles, currently) has a representative in Canada known as the Governor General. They do a ton of stuff like appoint Prime Minister, heads of the Provinces, dissolving parliament, etc.

      However they almost exclusively can only act when asked to by Parliament or the Prime Minister. They also do ceremonial stuff. They do have some emergency power however it’s never been used in the post-independence era.

      Basically no, not really. King Charles (King of Canada) could technically try and like dissolve the parliament or something but it would cause a constitutional crisis that would probably just end up removing the whole Canadian Monarchy thing.

      But they are strong allies.

      • @[email protected]
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        The Governor General actually has veto power over legislation and basically everything, with the catch being if they’re too annoying about it Canada will just get rid of the monarchy.

      • Arghblarg
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        Am Canadian, I have wondered this as well – could we ask the UK and rest of Commonwealth to help us out if things get too bad? I hope so… but I don’t think there is any obligation to come to our defense ala NATO if things get shooty.

        • @[email protected]
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          If the UK hadn’t done Brexshit, there probably could have been a way to add Canada to the EU as an associated member, like Norway, Switzerland, etc…

          • @MissJinx
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            wow calm down there bill gates, don’t come rubbing your wealth in our faces.

        • Obinice
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          could we ask the UK and rest of Commonwealth to help us out if things get too bad?

          The UK need not have entered the last conflict against aggressive fascists when and how she did, but did so as much out of a sense of obligation to one’s friends and the moral right as anything. When conflict loomed, the UK made a defensive pact with Poland, when she could have easily just sat back and watched.

          The same is true of Canada. We are no longer an empire, no longer a large and powerful nation, but if and when the US eventually takes direct aggressive military action, the UK, backed by the Allies of the new Millennium in Europe and beyond, will come to Canada’s aid.

          To do any less would be to side with the fascists.

          Thinking of the USA’s current lying, deceitful leader, and their increasingly aggressive moves, I’m once again reminded of Chamberlain’s address to the nation…

          We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any country could do to establish peace, but a situation in which no word given by Germany’s ruler could be trusted and no people or country could feel themselves safe had become intolerable. And now that we have resolved to finish it, I know that you will all play your part with calmness and courage.

          As such a moment as this the assurances of support that we have received from the Empire are a source of profound encouragement to us.

          …Now may God bless you all and may He defend the right. For it is evil things that we shall be fighting against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution. And against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

          And if you’ll forgive me a little more quoting of particularly famous speeches, this line about the new world comes to mind also…

          we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

          Even if one of us falls, the others will step forth to their rescue and liberation. Freedom from fascism is a universal right, and we will enforce it until we no longer can ♥️

      • @MissJinx
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        humm got it. At least you guys do have many allies if the crazies invade

    • @[email protected]
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      79 hours ago

      They’re supposed to. I have no idea aside from logistics why we still have the monarchy. King Charles ain’t doing shit.