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  • He added he respects Trump’s concerns for American workers and about fentanyl.

    I wish the world outside the US trumpist media bubble would stop parroting this obviously bullshit “concern” about fentanyl. Drug addiction in the US is not a result of foreign agents. It is a mental health problem with social and economic roots. If fentanyl disappears today, it will be replaced by something else tomorrow. The trumpist framing of the issue is not only a bullshit pretext to circumvent USMCA but also actively hurts addicted people and their families. It’s just shit. Stop touching the shit folks.












  • One thing many Europeans tend to forget is that Islam is pretty much a European cultural tradition too. Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania are European countries. If Cyprus were reunited it would also count as one of the countries with a significant Muslim population. And there are traditional non-immigrant Muslim minorities in other places, like Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia. And of course, Muslim immigrants have lived long enough in European countries like France and Germany to start having legitimate claim at being part of the cultural fabric of those countries too.


  • EU/Canadian dual citizen here: full membership doesn’t make sense. Deeper integration to the point of having a customs union would probably be quite reasonable. I’m not sure about free movement of people however because the two parties have different attitudes to immigration. Canada cherishes immigration and cultural diversity, and considers it to be a defining national characteristic. Multiculturalism is quite literally baked in our constitution. European attitudes on the other hand, let’s just say, I don’t miss them. Beyond that, I don’t think Canada needs the Euro (and the stability pact straightjacket) any more than it needs the USD.