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    1. Referring to a statement made by Ursula von der Leyen's spokesperson Paula Pinho of March 2025

    (“We are honored with the results of such a poll. It shows the attractiveness of the European Union, and it shows the appreciation of a very large share of Canadian citizens for the EU and its values,” said Paula Pinho, spokesperson for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, at the Commission’s Wednesday briefing, before adding that she “will not go into” a possible EU application from Ottawa.")

    1. The extremely delayed reaction and infighting in European politics and society during what is essentially a code red / five alarm fire in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has shown that many countries in the EU are willing to sacrifice another for time rather than face the reality that the EU and their way of life is directley being threatened, thus why we're seeing many countries in the EU having chosen to sit on their hands and wait, for YEARS at this point when the prospect of a third world war is closer than any other point in history other than the cuban missile crisis. When the chips are down, the EU for the longest time showed itself to be one that would rather point fingers, delay, and sacrifice others on the altar.

    Polish farmers blocking NATO weapon shipments and railways to a critical combat theatre over a dispute with European markets and Ukrainian Grain, Hungarian vetos blocking EU financial packages to Ukraine, Ukraine has very much become a litmus test for countless issues worldwide, everything from testing the strength of alliances and unions, to testing the rationality and morality of individual people. and the EU has been taking one step forward one step back for much of it, It took them until the US basically took a turn into a terminal illness of fascism, for the major power players, namely France and Germany, to step forward and acknowledge that there can't be anymoe of this sitting on hands they played for the last 3-5 years as our world swirls the toilet bowl

    in short, Yes, those eastern countries get subsidies, but its increasingly being seen as a bribe from one side to the other to keep them on the blue team. while hostile actors like the states with the parties I mentioned, just pocket the money while playing interference for the Russian mob state.___

  • The last time I set foot in Europe was in 2010, so it might as well have been a lifetime ago. the world as a whole of 2010 is completely alien compared to 2025

  • as others in this same thread have said.

    Canada even in its crisis mode facing the prospect of a hostile America, with its whole Canada First, Elbows up rhetoric, is still -extremely- "americanized". Our ideas of Liberalism and Conservatism are very right wing compared to Europe, much like how the US republicans and democrats are both right wing compared to say, a German or French parliament.

    it would take a very long time and a lot of pain and suffering in Canada to move away from the status quo. The NDP are the closest thing to a left wing party in this country and politically, they're on track to be absolutely eviscerated and effectively dismantled as a party in our election.

    I "grew up" with people online since I was a teenager, I've visited Europe, I had close friends fromthe UK, Germany Poland and France, I've had relationships with people from Ukraine and a Portuguese born UK, I understand the European values and customs... the thing is, people like me are a minority even in Canada. Canadians have grown accustomed to a hybrid system thats kind of like Europe and Kind of like America, and they dont want to fully switch to one team or the other.

    The problem is, that hybrid system is no longer tenable. and people are going to kick and scream for as long as possible before they realize they have to draw a line in the sand and choose a side.

  • I get it.

    but the "Free Speech Absolutism" that Vance is talking about, demands the right to call you a N****R without consequences. Or say that you need to be killed because X Y Z.

  • anyone who makes that decision is, consciously in the moment, understanding their life is over.

    ICE while in practice is acting like a secret police for the purposes of deporting undesireables of the regime, is still a federal police force, and a LOT of police are angry, trigger happy or bloodthirsty cokeheads.

    you shoot at them, they're killing you. end of story.

  • high level figures in the EU have repeatedly stated that while they appreciate the gesture, Canada wont ever be a member. So its best to abandon those pipe dreams. When it comes down to the details, the EU is a boys club for Western and Central Europe, they dont even treat their Eastern members as anything more than a buffer zone against the Russians,

    the EU isnt flawless either, Russia has infiltrated it with trojan horse governments like the Hungarian Fidesz party and the Slovakian SMER party, who embezzle EU funds and politically roadblock motions with their veto. Canada trying to decouple with the US just to dive into the EU is like running from a burning house into a house with a basement meth lab.

  • But JD Vance says you dont have freedom of speech.

  • legit conversation on my friend discord last night

    • hey did everyone see Kanye was on twitch?
    • no, I didnt know that, why'd they let him go on?
    • oh it wasnt very long, he was only on there for like 10 minutes before he got banned for yelling heil hitler
    • oh...

    Kanye skipped the lolcow phase and went straight to the horrorcow one.

    Superbowl ad of the guy lying in a dentist chair high on nitrious going "Umm, umm, umm" for 40 seconds. the kind of shit thats so stupid you cant look away from.

  • ml is unhinged. Its Tankies advocation for what they think is socialism, but they just end up regurgitating whatever the Kremlin propagates because they forgot Russia stopped being a Socialist country 30 years ago, and is a Capitalist Mafia state now,

  • only place I've ever been banned from here was not paying attention to which "channel" I was in since I dont fully understand how Lemmy works, and I ended up posting a comment to a thread I saw come up on the main page of lemmy.world when it was actually a lemmy .ml link, and people over there, most of them dont take too kindly to you insulting their Russian overlords,

    .ml by and large are too ignorant to recognize the Russians aren't their Socialist idols, they're just a Capitalist oligarchic mafia state. So you make one comment that is percieved as being targetting against the Putin regime and you're automatically assigned the label of a Pro Western NATOpill schill

  • the second you get flagged for ban evasion you are pretty much dead in the water. and you'll have to move on to drastic, expensive measures to get around it. like a new device and probably a new network

    even if your ban reason was false, if you make a new account, as far as they're concerned thats grounds for a non-appeal permanent ban.

  • r/conservative is just a rebrand and refugee camp of r/thedonald , mildly adjusted to accept the new wave "conservatives" across the world, like Supporters of Fidesz (Hungary, Orban), RN (LePen, France), Canadian Maple MAGA, the Russian Mafia State and their blood drunk Nazi Z-Tards, and all of those Joe Rogan / Jordan Peterson / Ben Shapiro types.

    Actual Conservatism is dead. its just Nazis and Fascists who hijacked the term for better brand imaging.

  • Lucky you, you got handled by a moderator who wasn't a raging Trump whore.

    I got permabanned after a week long ban for "threatening violence" when I suggested that if a Trump was elected (it was in Oct24) started directley Aiding Russia in their invasion of Europe, that they'd probably end up with a dead president. I appealed and suggested that I wasn't threatening anyone, and that whoever banned me, was politically biased and triggered. and they flipped out and perma'd me.

  • I was ahead of the curve, and got banned in October 2024 for Promoting violence when I said "If a president decided to betray America's allies, and start directley helping Russia in its wars of conquest, America would probably end up with a dead president"

    They basically told me to fuck off on my appeal, I had told them A) I wasnt threatening anything, and B) moderation is getting politically triggered and biased. and they permabanned me.

    and I have since been Hardware banned from my main PC and my work PC, I still want to go back for some of the niche communities that havent emigrated over here yet, but I really cant be bothered to go and fire up a 8 year old laptop or something just for fucking reddit. its a cesspit and getting banned is largely a blessing in disguise.

  • you probably need to use a new device and on a network you havent frequently used. Unique email addresses dont mean anything if you're logging in with the same browser with the same cookies and "digital footprint"

  • Reddit mods are fat slobs who can be easily duped, but Reddit algorithims will autoban you for making new accounts.

    I'm basically exiled from it until I decide to get a new device and sign in on a new network other than my home or my work.

  • Im curious what the immigration system was like 30-40 years ago with the commonwealth countries, you wouldnt believe the amount of people here in canada that came from the UK, NZ and Australia who seem to have been here for 30+ years. I would imagine whatever system people moved around in the commonwealth back then is good and now.

    also canadian immigration is a joke, you could buy your way in for 10, 20 grand at a shitpot immigration consultant and then take a low skill job, if it was ever about having desireable skills, it stopped being that way about 10-15 years ago...

  • Shit randomly getting blown up from IEDs, Drones and Grenade attacks, people being killed on the street, none of that is fine.

  • Russia is a dying country, and they're trying to graft the Ukrainian Population onto itself to buy itself another generation

    America is also probably a dying country, for different reasons, not population but resource. and they're trying to graft whatever resources they dont have in abundance , so they can survive another generation or two and shut themselves off from the world whilst they tear themselves apart domestically.