• rabber@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    And nobody in Canada wants this because 70 million americans voted for Trump

    I’d way rather join EU so we get smart people coming into the country

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      We do share a land border with Denmark. We settled a border dispute with Denmark on Hans Island. We also have France just a few kilometers off the coast of Newfoundland in St Pierre and Miquelon.

      We should use that as a path to EU membership

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      I think it’s on the State level not the whole US. I’m fine with that.

      Would like New England so we can have it unite with New Scotland to form the New United Kingdom and have Prince Albert(a) from New Brunswick be it’s Monarch’s consort and patron explorers, like Columbus but British so a British Columbia, to sail the seas to claim New Found Land and Labour to teach New English to New France until they can have Nunavut anymore.

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    As a Texan, as much as I want to be a Canadian, I would not wish my asshole neighbors on my friends to the north.

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    We don’t want US people seceding to Canada. Enough of their individualistic, manifest destiny, American exceptionalism poison mindset. I don’t want any more of that ideology to infect Canada any more than it already has.

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      any more than it already has

      So many people I know get fuming mad at the idea of higher taxes because they think their income is going to be given to the poor. It’s the same ‘one good move away from being a millionaire’ mentality that drives voters in red states.

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        I want my taxes going to the poor! Society does better when we raise the floor, like how raising minimum wage also means that everyone else gets bumped up or how it’s cheaper to house the homeless and help them join a workforce as opposed to leaving them out on the streets.

        But more specifically I want the ultra-rich to actually pay their fucking taxes! They have the money, they can pony and help a little.

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    I’ll beat this drum again: I would fully support a program where we exchange equal numbers of MAGA loyalists in Canada for trained doctors, engineers, and tradespeople looking to escape fascism.

    The Americans have already shown interest in this with their idea of importing white South Africans. Is this an impossible idea?

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        That’s the perfect meme, because I do feel guilty about how this fucks over my friends and family in the US. But as they don’t seem motivated to fix their own country, I feel like this may be a good way to at least help some people

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    The US people wishing one thing and their stupid government doing exactly the opposite. Name a more iconic duo!

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    Whatever it takes for USians to get healthcare. No country is as barbaric towards its own citizens as the Unites States.

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    Sorry, but you’re not welcome.

    Person-for-person, maybe; but with very few exceptions, we don’t really want or need US territory.

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    This just in: 1 in 5 Americans deported to Salvadoran prisons, selection is random

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    It might be only 20%, but compared to the proportion of Canadians willing to become part of the US being 13%, I find this rather hilarious.

    I’d love to see this broken down by state.

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      I’ve suggested that the entire NFC North could just become Canadian providences. Parts of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois already feel like Canada anyways. Also we’d dominate the CFL!

      Full disclosure: I live in Michigan.

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        I’d love for that.

        However, as a Canadian … seeing Michigan go red broke my heart.

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          Unfortunately the red sections of Michigan stayed red, and the large groups of voters in the blue sections bought into the whole “genocide Joe” bullshit. The actual vote totals showed that red votes stayed pretty level with the 2020 and 2022 numbers, while blue voters just didn’t turn out. Hopefully this is a fucking wake up call.

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    I’m not sure they realize how different it is. I think even the Democrats would find it too liberal.