@Adorable_Sergal For someone like me, very much looking in from the outside, this election of yours seems very much like one in which to put the smaller issues aside and think about where you stand in the *big* few questions.

I don't follow Canadian interior party politics and I'm not up to what's decided at what levels of government in the Canadian political system, but I'm pretty sure that with most smaller issues, getting back to them in a few years won't be a disaster.

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(6/6)

... continues to play a key role in that. Therefore, all #Technofeudalist and authoritarian media, Social or not, and in particular #US based, should be...

placed under observation, banned if need be.
All powers and levels if government of the remain ng democratic nations must join the #Fediverse. Society must once again own its social media platform 2)

2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114184767266576206

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

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(5/n)

... conventional weapons.

As in the 1930's, a #fascist movement has been siwing division where there should be unity.

We must never forget, as in any war, the war that's being fought against #Authoritarianism is a #hybrid one.

The #FourthEstate...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

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(4/n)

.. taking a wrecking ball towards the #West.

If the rest of the globe, in particular #CEUM, work much stronger together, there is a good chance that the #TrumpeanTariffs'-induced #GlobalDepression2.0 might yet be averted.

However, this is not only a war of trade and...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

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(3/n)

... They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them."

The #TrumpTariffs that will result in #TrumpeanTradeWars, if this collision course is maintained, are the complete opposite of what the founding fathers had in mind.
#tRump is...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

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(2/n)

... way before the much cited Art. 5.:

"Article 2

The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being...

@kim_harding

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(2/2)

... area while adding the dimension that alwas had been missing, a #DefenseUnion, from the ashes of #NATO.

As #JustinTrudeau said, the ... Dumbest Trade War in History.

The intentional(?) destruction of the #US superpower by the #MAGAmerican Regime might yet proof a boon for a European renaissance and a more multipolar word than the autocrats Trump, Putin, Xi hoped 4
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117427200013920

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@kim_harding

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(1/2)

And #SigmarGabriel is right!

#Canada and #Mexico, while having a lot of indigenous roots, AS well as Asian and African, the majority of people have ancestral roots on the European continent and speak one of its languages.

But things should not be hastened, the #EuropeanUnion did not start as such.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114237101442358153

IMO, starting with a fast-track implementation of a free-trade area...

@Snowshadow

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(8/8)

... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself; it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."

primary source:
https://fee.org/articles/mercantilism-was-monarchys-planned-economy/

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@Snowshadow

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#Mercantilism

(7/n)

... of economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the #French #king, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]."

"#Mercantilism as a System of Power

What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...