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Missed this entire game but… LEAFS WIN! LEAFS WIN! 🎉

Let’s gooooooo! Welcome aboard!

It’s not super active yet. But I always post a GDT and there are a few of us talking shit there every game. It’ll probably be super slow tonight though b/c of the 10pm et start.

Hey there!

You don’t need to log in to lemmy.world to view or interact with the content there. You can follow/subscribe to communities there by searching for communities and they’ll appear in your home/subscribed feed. You can also make posts to those communities.

But, you can only create communities (‘subreddits’) on your home instance.

Edit: even without subscribing, communities from other instances will appear in the “all” feed. You can also vote and comment without subscribing.

And just to answer your question about accounts, your account is specific to your instance. You can’t log into lemmy.world because you don’t have an account there. So, accounts aren’t shared between instances but content is shared (as I described above).

Same. It drove me mildly crazy because I couldn’t get rid of it then at some point it went away and I forgot about it.

Shit, sorry. Archive.today was still cooking when I posted it. I tried a bunch of different archives and couldn’t get anything to work either.

The MAU counter at mastodon.social reset. It happened at about the same time they had an issue and had to recover data so I think it was related to that.

I don’t know if this’ll be removed but self-posts without news articles aren’t allowed here (rule 2).

Is there a community for content like this? Like a focus on our participation in activism/resistance? Even if not here, this is amazing and something I’d still like to see somewhere.

Willy hats!!

I’m sure many are looking to cut out US suppliers. I think the gov’t would still have to allow time for the transition though because it’d be an enormous shock to anyone that wasn’t.

The delay was to allow businesses time to alter their supply chains. They’d still need the time.

Define “win a trade war.” If Trump’s definition is ‘Canada becomes non-viable as a country and agrees to become a cherished 51st state,’ then the US can’t win a trade war either. The US has a much larger economy and can inflict more damage on Canada, but the US still can’t “win” in the extreme way you’re talking about. ‘No one wins and everyone suffers’ is basically a defining characteristic of trade wars.

Just in the auto industry, half a million Canadians would lose their jobs. It’s easy to say that you shouldn’t “concede” symbolism when you’re not responsible for people’s well-being. Again, there was always going to be a face-saving gesture. Your expectation that there wouldn’t be is unrealistic. Agreeing to some border theatre nonsense (to help solve imaginary problems!) that Canada would’ve done anyway had someone just asked nicely is not a big deal. Canada didn’t need an economic threat to… join a task force that was a Canadian proposal to begin with. The only reason that didn’t already exist is because ~0% of the fentanyl getting into the US is coming from Canada.

Well this is always the case everywhere. But 99.9999999% of the time, you don’t have to worry about the US reneging on its end of the deal on a whim. Every country knows that the other country could announce tariffs any time. But they typically have reasonable assurances that they won’t. Trump offers no such assurances beyond “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

And?

Canada and Mexico have no control over this.

“We’re entering into a trade war because you might in the future go back on not having a trade war and start a trade war!”

And you’re talking about this like there are no costs to Trump or the US for doing this. There are. He blinked because it was going to cost him. As much as he can say, ‘this is a necessary sacrifice,’ he’s not personally willing to sacrifice a goddamn thing. Those costs will increase over time and skyrocket as we approach midterms.

But it was announced and formed based on Trump talking points after the 2024 election.

Yes, they said “this fucking moron keeps talking about imaginary border shit. Let’s just pass this and hopefully it shuts him up.”

But that would’ve happened even if he didn’t sign the tariff order. You’re attributing it to Trump signing the tariff order and saying that Canada has just conceded it. That’s not true.

I’m so here for Trump cratering Poilievre’s election chances 😎

There is no possible world where Canada fights a trade war with the US and has a complete and total victory where Trump admits utter defeat. That’s just fantasy. In international political disputes people are always given the chance to save face – that’s just how shit works. The “what about a month from now” argument would also always be true. Even if he announced a permanent end to tariffs he could still announce tariffs tomorrow.

Trump stared down Canada and Mexico and lost. He caved. It was obvious that he was caving when the White House started softening their messaging midday and saying that everything was just a big misunderstanding. The only concession he got was the ability to save face. Mexico re-announced an already in-place commitment. Canada announced some symbolic nonsense. That $1.3B in your original comment was announced more than a month before Trump took office.

He already has Fox News. We don’t need to help polish his losses into victories too.

Tomorrow it will be. I still won’t be buying it.

He also said that Canada is unfair and doesn’t take US agricultural products:

The United States is Canada’s largest agricultural trading partner, buying 59.2 percent of Canadian exports and supplying 57.0 percent of Canadian imports. In addition, Canada is also the leading agricultural trade partner of the United States, when exports and imports are combined. USDA

It’s nonsense. He’s just making shit up. US Banks are already here doing what they want to do here: lending and investment. He’s talking about having branches for personal banking. It’s seriously just some bullshit he made up.

He basically just got “solutions” (read: cheap theatre) to two completely imaginary problems. The banking thing is nonsense that he made up and US banks don’t even want.

Trump caved, Trump lost. It was pretty apparent he was caving earlier today when the White House starting calling this whole thing a misunderstanding – and when Mexico agreed to do something they’ve already been doing for two years so Trump could spin it as a win.

That $1.3B wasn’t demanded or promised today. They did it preemptively in mid-December to avoid this whole situation.

They committed $200M and bunch of drug/border theatre today. Basically just allowing Trump to save face for caving.

Yeesh. Read the room, Rav.