• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    On behalf of California, we accept this proposal, and we accept Canada as our new federal government.

    I also propose we officially refer to the remainder of the US as “Dumbfuckistan”.

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    3 months ago

    ITT: People pretending that Oregon, Michigan, and probably Washington don’t have a huge population of total fuckos.

    Carve a line down the coasts. You don’t want the whole state. And while you’re at it, take the lakes and Chicago

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      Canada also has its own population of total fucks. We keep them in the prairies. However like those states, it might be leaning more towards wanting that?

      Disclaimer: not a source, just an ass on the internet.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, East side of the cascades in OR and WA is extremely conservative. But they are currently hopelessly outnumbered.

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        You don’t have to take states in their entirety, you know. No reason you can’t split them up

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      Eastern Washington people have been wanting to separate from Western Washington for a really long time. Western Washington is like “well fuckin do it.” But nobody actually tries to secede because EW’s dependent on WW’s economy.

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    Accepting pleas from other comments here, Canada could get away with about this. And if they have the whole Pacific border, I’ll also throw in Hawaii for free.

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    3 months ago

    Oh man I’d love to see the civil unrest in the red States when they don’t have us new Yorkers to give them their welfare payments.

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    Solving the problem is dissolving all borders so the working class isn’t divided into easily managed nation states.

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    3 months ago

    Is the US losing just about all of the top universities in this “trade”?

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      3 months ago

      Nobody’s going to go there after abortion is banned.

      Nobody wants their prince or princess saddled with that.

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      Losing CA alone would make the US possibly not even a world power. NY and CA gone, the US Would be a thing no one really has a reason to think of talk about. Suddenly all the movies would be about aliens landing on Canada or blowing up Canadian national landmarks.

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          It’s never worked and never will, that’s the whole point of the Civil War. The military wouldn’t just sit back and do nothing, and states that try to leave wouldn’t have a professionally outfitted military. My opinion, if anyone really tried, a few handcuffs would end their attempts.

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    3 months ago

    Trump: Fine, they can have California for all I care.

    Advisors: Sir, if California were its own country it would be the world’s 6th largest economy.

    Trump: How about if we just send all the Mexicans there with some beautiful rakes?

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    3 months ago

    Australia can come too. THE END!

    Edit for the young ones: this is older than YouTube. It was a flash animation which was like a 2d game engine that ran in-game cutscenes in your web browser because that worked on slower internet speeds than video.

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    NY thanks you for your support. What’s the pizza/poutine exchange rate like these days? Haven’t been up north in years.