Hey why did you downvote this @urist@lemmy.ml !urist@lemmy.ml ?
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Thanks, this makes sense!
While I'd personally contend that a shutdown wouldn't normally be considered "completely going off the rails" I can kinda also see the other point of view - not wanting to add to the current level of craziness.
Oh, I agree! I just wanted to say if that was the sole stumbling block to moving closer to the EU, then your idea would prevent that from blocking everything else.
Absolutely, agreed. The issue here is that Canada may not qualify, as we're North American rather than European. (While it's true that we're right next to Greenland and the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, neither territory is part of the EU but rather both are considers "overseas" territories of EU members, so being next to them doesn't help extend the definition of "European".)
Also see https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement/briefings/23a2/_en.htm - Morocco is just below Spain and Portugal as you can see on this map, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco#/media/File:Morocco_(orthographic_projection,_WS_claimed).svg - but it was rejected membership in the European Communities. Sadly, based on geographical criteria alone, the case for Canada being "European" is much weaker than Morocco or Turkey.
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Back in the day, I had high hopes that the CPTPP would evolve into something similar to the EU with its own version of Schengen.
I like this idea. If we're just associating rather than becoming full members, that'd also give us more leverage on things like (for example) not adopting the Euro.
Funny how no one seems to know why a shutdown is worse, while AOC can clearly explain why agreeing to fund the bill is worse (as per https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5194630-ocasio-cortez-schumer-government-shutdown/ she explains that it hurts the position of Dems who won house seats in Drumpf territory by explicitly supporting SS, Medicaid/care, etc.)
Actually, I see a parallel here to the Obama era, when then Speaker John Boehner broke with the rank-and-file GOP to support a clean bill avoid hitting the debt ceiling limit (as per https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/11/boehner-backs-down-republicans-debt-ceiling )
So generally the leadership tends to be more likely to throw support to the other side and avert shutdowns etc. I don't entirely get why but it seems like a fairly stable trend from both sides.
Definitely not the case that all USians are following the current mad prez...
Heck, Canada remains a favourite for many from the US still, see https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/12/donald-trump-transphobia-us-family-seeking-asylum/ (and good luck to them!)
I wanted to ask - Where on the fediverse are people seeing this? I took a quick peek at lemmy.world/c/politics and lemmy.world/c/world (in particular https://lemmy.world/post/26969666 ) and I didn't see anything like what this post is describing there.
A lot of the comments from this post point to examples from Spez's site or Musk's site, which would make more sense to me. But lemmy? C'mon..
This is wonderful news. Closure for those families at last.
I'm also grateful that the decision to search at this landfill also went differently than for the Brady landfill two years back.
Yeah, not disagreeing. There are other differences too (debt ceiling - which has never been breached, vs shutdown - which is becoming a regular thing, if it isn't already) - but my hot take is that these differences weren't enough to prevent whatever "staticism" Schumer felt.