He actually prefers to leave the bun off his burgers anyway. I’m not kidding.

Who sells all their US bonds, and stops recognising intellectual property?

European governments, citizens or China? All three don’t quite make sense. China would be out of nowhere, citizens don’t decide intellectual property, and EU governments may or may not hold significant treasury bonds, and have IP vulnerabilities of their own.

Who does?

You would think so, wouldn’t you.

It’s really more like Texas. Populous, rich and with major cities that are a lot more progressive.

Ah. Lemmy shits on Alberta in particular so much I get defensive, sorry. Canadian Lemmy seems to overlook the exact same shit in other provinces.

Maple MAGA exists, but it’s a pretty tiny minority. Even in rural Alberta most people are pro-Canada.

Yeah, seems like.

The problem is that the second part really isn’t true. They’ve been relied on for a whole lot. It’s very painful to move on, even if the relationship seems unsalvagable, and so there’s a lot of hopium out there about waiting this presidential term out and then everything goes back to normal.

You have to factor in how much more words matter to Trump than anything else. If I was Carney I’d probably sound the same - in public.

Yeah, Canada is the same.

They’re definitely invited to my imaginary post-NATO alliance, but I’m curious, why do you bring it up?

The question is which Carney was the act, right? The pre-election version, or the one after? Even if he is elbows-up, doing it quietly would be imperative, so it’s not impossible.

Well, for one thing, a car is a luxury in most of the world. Ask how people feel about riding on busses. Sometimes the answer is that they can’t for some reason, but usually it’s just that they prefer a private vehicle and no timetables.

For another, a good potion of the population isn’t actually struggling, and has Amazon or Temu stopping by to deliver dumb stuff from China all the time. Like, that entire sector, along with meal delivery, is all about spending surplus income. I’m not talking about the bottom quarter here.

Yeah, we definitely aren’t yet.

Do you actually live here, or is this just the theme park version of Alberta?

As a Canadian sure, but even together we’d be fucked. Europe is our main hope.

Individual mounties and city cops will be on the guerilla’s side as often as not. Resistance becomes possible because it will be against whatever new collaborateur occupation force, and there could still be a government in exile out there directing and giving it legitimacy.

Of course, we get to live in Afghanistan but with an even harder climate in this scenario. Yaaay. /s

… The arctic is huge, like continent-sized. If they take Greenland, they’ve taken Greenland.

This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.

That’s also not quite so spooky. Ask the average Joe how much of his salary and lifestyle he’s willing to give up to prevent it. The answer is almost nothing. We haven’t, because we don’t wanna.

Honestly just the nukes on loan would be enough. There’s zero standoff and light defences accross the border. We could supply the uranium or plutonium to make replacements, even.

Failing that, I really hope Carney is eyeing a redundant treaty in case NATO dies.

It really depends on timeframe suggested.

Ever? Yes, they definitely may.