• eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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    It’s funny how much more favorable the comments are on this compared donnie’s original comments.

    Canadians on joining the US: “oh hell no!”

    Americans on joining Canada: “me too please!”

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    Sooo, as a Canadian, I’m pretty sure I have the authority to speak for all of us, and as much as I’d love to have you all, I’d rather not tempt fate and accidentally start a war.

    Also, Indiana, Idaho, South Dakota and Wyoming, you’re expressly not allowed in.

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      You’re not going to allow states that don’t border you but you’re okay with Montana? And I wouldn’t say North Dakota is a bastion of progressivism either.

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        Pfft. Everyone knows nobody really lives in Montana. They just pretend they do on paper so they can incorporate LLC’s there and put license plates on their dirt bikes and quads. Montana’s entire population is actually in Kentucky and Florida.

        Just think of all the moose you could farm in that space, or whatever it is the Canadians want to do with it.

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      I think Alabama is one where the feeling is mutual.

      I wonder what Hawaii and Alaska would think.

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    Minnesota welcomes Canada with the traditional poutine and tatortot hotdish border potluck

    Please don’t leave us behind

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      Do you remember that time Minnesota annexed the upper peninsula? Yeah crazy, but that means we get to be Canadian too

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    Yes. One million times yes. Let’s watch the GOP fucking implode when the largest GDP State (CA) leaves their ass. It’s insane they are whining about our fires… Idaho was far more on fire this year than us in California. And that was all forest, not literal neighborhoods that 100% raked their fuckin leaves.

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      I don think you’d have to become part of Canada to join the Commonwealth so maybe there’s a chance?

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    Here’s a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.

    please save us from Y’All Qaeda

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      It is the fact that the US is a republic that is the problem. If any US states join Canada they do it as a province of the federation.

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        I refuse to have anything to do with having a m*narch on my money 😤

        I’m fine with being a province, but it’s republic or bust

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            That’s it, I support the Quebecois now! They’ll understand the value of a good guillotine, at least

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          Isn’t a guy on your money had a child from an underage slave or am I mistaking him with some other slave holding hero of the country?

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    I think each individual state should be able to choose whether they stay in the US or not. Every ten years, the citizens of the state voted. If you vote to leave, you can’t come back for ten years. It would take place at the same time as the census.

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      Yes, the one aspect of the civil war that I have never agreed with was that a stare can not choose to leave the Union. If a terratory can vote to join the Union, I see no reason why they couldn’t vote to leave it. On that note, I would also support the idea that the other states should have the right to vote out a state they no longer want in the Union.

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    If the whole “annex Canada” stuff was just a distraction, this might become a reality, fascists like Trump are highly irrational, and might give them the 3 most western states, especially California.

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      Am Californian, would seriously consider joining Canada.

      Trump could reflexively say whatever (as he does) but so much cargo comes through here his business people wouldn’t let him do it. Too much of a tariff risk.