politics
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
But that would not imply staying in power, unless you say "trump is trying to use this issue to stay in power" because he is not immediately stepping down as president early, which he has the ability to
at least I assume he can do it, since democrats were begging biden to do it so that you could have your first female president if only briefly
He said he was not running as leader again
In practice, it is only used two ways
one, normally, where the election is vaguely every 4 years
or two, as a power move "I want to do this thing, and I believe so strongly the public will support it so winning this election will be a mandate to proceed"
It in theory gives a governement who perhaps only won a minority government, but did enough to earn public support, to shift into a majority government by earning more seats, allowing them to pass laws easier
Since you guys do not really have the same notion of minority and majority government, such a system does not really make sense in the US, but it is logical for our system
I think the frustration is that 2/3 of the money was promised away while Biden was a lame duck president
and now Trump and the Dep of Commerce would rather control where it goes
the actual issue with the chips act, is still that the TSMC fab is a mess, and the federal government doesn't know what they want other than "China bad"
Thursday, March 6, 2025
^literally nonsense for the record
Pika, do you even want to keep Alberta though?
Nonsense in that this is the equivalent to some no name US senator saying they are going to do something that obviously will never happen
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Pika, do you even want to keep Alberta though?
I think the second a single province leaves, the country collapses
yeah but do you want Alberta specifically
ig I'm curious if you're doing tiers, which provinces do you actually care about losing
Alberta is more important
least important province is probably Manitoba
I assume at some level you'd be fine as long as Ontario and Quebec stuck it out together
can't lose the French charm after all
give her time
They don't
and I thought this was a politican, not some shitter lawyer
yeah this is literally nothing being advertised because its good for the US newscycle
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I assume at some level you'd be fine as long as Ontario and Quebec stuck it out together
If any province leaves, I think the country collapses. At that point, I would rather each province just become a micronation
as opposed to trying to form some weird coalition
For the record, I think if a single US state was allowed to leave (they would not be), it would also cause a ripple effect of at least a handful more also trying to leave
having a part of your country leave kind of distabilizes the country if its not the case where there is a natural border between the parts
I think you're right in that they wouldn't be allowed to, but I think the only reason it wouldn't work well for most of the US is that geographically, N.America is essentially just the continental united states
there's not larger system to become a part of
you're either the US, a US protectorate like Canada or Mexico, or one of the many shitter countries that produce drugs or bananas
any state leaving on their own would just become a 2nd Canada, where there's this implicit relationship that is one-sided
I would be interested in the theoretic list of states that would leave given being allowed to
because you know a lot of states would at least vote on it
none
Hawaii would be the closest
Idk spooky, I think if you sell it to them the right way
moreso than Texas
I think zero states/provinces benefit from being independent, other than Quebec
Spooky you cannot both believe that 30+% of Canadians would join the US and also not believe that random states would not at least consider leaving just to mix things up
and quebec only doesn't do it because they get so many concessions
Hawaii would
probably similar numbers to the 30%
I think you would get mainland US states that try it
not independent
Which ones depend on which party is currently in power
I think <1% of Canadians would be in favor of their province truely becoming independtend long-term, Quebec excluded
I think it's higher in America, maybe <5%
outside of Hawaii
where it's probably in the 20-30 range
I think the more likely thing is a bunch of states try to leave to form a coalition super mini country than pure independence I guess
A confederate states 2
now that has some appeal
I think the issue is, both political sides see this reality where they own the entire country
even conservatives with California, see it as an "occupied red state at heart"