So....America....you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?
Get your shit together. Christ.
He's probably absolutely flabbergasted that his investment is paying off far better than he could have ever forseen.
True. But we're dealing with a toddler to the south. A move like this, as good as it is, is going to antagonize his annexation talk to the point where he might actually try something.
This is going to get worse before it gets better. But yes, I think we'll come out the other side a far better world without the U.S. as a superpower.
The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.
There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I'm sorry, Americans, but it's true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)
But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.
That's not all Americans. Heck, I'd say it's not even most Americans. But they're just really really loud and drown out everything else.
I'd hate to be the custom's agent posted there.
You're getting downvoted. But I agree with you.
Canada can accomplish most of its goals regarding diversifying its trade away from the U.S. without having to go to full EU status.
But I sure wouldn't mind having some of those lovely French nukes sitting on our southern border right now. If full EU membership is what it takes for that to happen, so be it.
multiple armed raids
I mean...technically....sure. But the two armed groups were never actually there at the same time. They simply came at different times to swap Whiskey and Schnaps.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Canada's food standards with regards to dyes and preservatives are already far closer to the EU standard than the American.
Trump doest see "allies".
With the exception of Russia and China, Trump sees everyone else as "client states".
Exactly my thinking as well. Super Mario Brothers was the game that made "couch gaming" popular for more than just kids. Adults were getting into it as well. I still have fond memories of my dad trying his best at it and thinking sticking his tongue out in the right direction would somehow help his jumping ability.
Without the NES, the couch-gaming scene as we know it wouldn't exist. And Super Mario Brothers was the game that brought it to the masses.
My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they'll be time to be "historians" in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.
I'm always reminded of the episode of How I Met Your Mother when Barney claims that he can never take a bad photo....