• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, Canada takes Minnesota and the great lake state, and the east and west coasts form their own countries might not be the worst outcome in 10 years or so.

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      I think we’d need a laneway across Alberta so B.C. isn’t cut off. Maybe encompassing the oil fields?

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        need a laneway across Alberta

        They’ll get so little land that the trans-canada highway will probably suffice. I do not agree in rewarding the colonizers who genocidally settled North America from the Clovis people, but the current administration has arbitrarily decided on that, so that’s the law – it’s theirs, apparently, and more importantly, it’s not available for the people of Marlaina Smith to try and take with them.

        Ultimately, they trade in their passports and get a plane ticket. That’s the only deal they deserve.

        I’d GLADLY accept a People Swap, thogh, where we take in wonderful Minnesotans in exchange for the stupidest of our demented flatlander contingent.

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          our demented flatlander contingent.

          I love the ambiguity of being flat earth believers or people living on flat land. great work.

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    100% Fuck No!

    There are way too many Americans that will not adapt to Canadian culture. Even on the left there is heavy “American exceptionalism” brainwashing and they love guns and Jesus way too much.

    Remember that 1/3 of Americans wanted to do something other than Trump. 2/3rd wanted him or didn’t give a shit enough to vote.

    If Americans want a better life, they can move to Canada.

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      It’s hilarious seeing you put American liberals in the same sentence as guns and Jesus.

      You know damn well the Trailer Park Boys was a documentary, and that there’s many a modern Canadian conservative more deserving of the ire.

      “America is bad” is more a trope than reality — you highlight the most sensationalist atrocities while ignoring the inconceivably large land and goodwill dividend that so many actual Americans embody.

      A Canadian was just arrested for sexually assaulting 100+ American girls. Things like that and oh idk, Canadian disappearing of folk, kidnapping of First Nation children, items like the Somali affair where your peace corps murdered a teenager etc — so much criticism is only deemed valid one-way, when it’s a more toiling nation-state scrounging its fist and shouting “you’re the baddie and Canada’s better…”

      — the sweet irony of that being you’d claim American exceptionalism there as well.

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    Carney should send some kind of delegation down there. You know…nothing official. Just to “talk”.

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      I’d be curious to see how many are actually expatriating to Canada right now from the US.

      Whenever anyone left of The Homelander gets elected to office, there are waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit, and the problem with this narrative from the right is that if they want to go somewhere further right than the US already is, they would have to go to somewhere like Russia… which is exactly what a couple did, ending predictably. The rest are too chickenshit to actually move to a place that doesn’t have the comforts liberal democracy has given them.

      But shit, Canada is a fantastic option if you’re trying to escape things like being sent to the frontline of a trench war and think that you shouldn’t be killed in the street for not having your papers, and they’re just a snowy fenceline away for thousands of miles. Is Carney drafting plans for a mass immigration?

      If he gets too many US refugees, will he have to make his own ICE to round up American immigrants? Can I at least ask my Canadian brothers up there to make sure it’s named ICE ICE BABY?

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        It would be funny if all the US emigrants ended up in Alberta and didn’t wanted to be again in the US.

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        waves of conservatives screaming about leaving the USA all over the internet and also getting on local news and shit

        The unfortunate thing with voters is that those most able to emigrate don’t vote Conservative; so all they can do is wonk at the press. When the lefties - typically better educated, as per the stats - want to emigrate, they actually have a chance.

        I’d like to see stats too, obviously.

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          Even more against conservative expatriates is the fact that they’re conservative to begin with is because they’re scared of change and new cultures and experiences, and expatriating anywhere would terrify them, they would never be able to navigate the requirements, background checks and interviews and even tests that often come with immigrating legally to another country.

          But many progressives have traveled the world, are educated and unafraid of integrating into new cultures and having new experiences. I’ve been all over Asia and even know people who would take me in and give me a room and a job if I showed up on their door they’re so warm and friendly to someone willing to do things like be quiet and listen and try new foods and learn and take off their shoes entering a stranger’s house.

          The only way conservatives seem comfortable in foreign lands is when they’re already wealthy so they can join some gated community of equally horrible people like the weird stories of gentrified neighborhoods in Mexico that are increasing. And the fact that so many of the people who enabled ICE in our country are retiring in Mexico speaks volumes that few people will ever read into.

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    California Washington Oregon and Hawaii are in too and I don’t want to debate about Hawaii because we need to band together for protection from this evil regime standing alone isn’t an option at this time

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      It’s not new, these stories have been around a long time. And yeah nobody takes them seriously, it’s more of a meta-political cartoon type joke that gets shared as a way of saying “People talkin’ this way right about now”.

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    I find it hilarious that this made its way to CBC. Usually they don’t stir the international politics pot like this.

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    I’m in. I love hockey, politeness, and poutine. I can handle winter and cold. I already know the anthem in English and French, because hockey. And I hate the Leafs.

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    Out of all the States, Minnesota is one of the few I’d have almost zero objection to welcoming in. “Minnesota Nice” and “Canadian Polite” are closely related (but somewhat different).

    Sadly, it will never happen. Adding a province requires re-opening the Constitution, and that’s not going to happen. (If you’re too young to remember, look up the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords)

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      Minnesota is already honorary Canadian and in my opinion, always has been.

      Constitutions are made up by people and people can change them. All you need to do is either get everyone to agree, or make sure the people who don’t agree can’t stop you. Trump chose the latter, and has completely ignored and dismantled the US constitution. Whatever comes out the other side is going to be very, very different. I’m not saying that we should do that. But in the face of an existential threat like that, I don’t think it’s beyond reason that we could, in fact, get everyone to agree. It’s amazing how staring mutual death and dissolution in the face can change the bitterest of rivalries into if not perfect alignment, at least a functional working relationship. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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    If Minnesota goes, I bet Wisconsin would be soon to follow after recent events.

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        If Québec would be open to making poutine with deep-fried cheese curds, it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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          With both fried cheese and fried potatoes you could call it Poutine deux frite.

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          I’ve been to Quebec. They’ll poutine ANYTHING. There are so many variations on the theme, nobody would bat an eye at that.

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      Nah, Wisconsin is too purple, sadly. This is the state, after all, that voted for the semi-sentient bucket of pig shit named F. Ron Johnson over Russ Feingold. Maybe Douglas County and blue parts of LaCrosse could sneak in there on the edge of Minnetoba undetected, though.

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        I don’t think Wisconsin is as purple as it initially appears. It’s just that the Republicans have managed to get a real stranglehold on that state.

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    Putin wouldnt mind some US states fragmenting and joining canada so maybe he’ll allow trump to allow it. It’d cause more carnage in American politics.