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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 minutes ago

Minnesota is basically already there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Calling Elizabeth May a lawmaker is the most credibility the federal Green party has ever gotten

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

What a Sucker Punch ! I like that

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

I am Soooooo down for this!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

:O take us away pls

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt they'll take #Arkansas, so I'm screwed either way until my familial duty is complete.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

NWA here, yeah our guv'na is a fascist demon ready to put all non white christians into concentration camps

[–] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago

Not just three, all the Blue States would like to switch to province.

[–] Lucidlethargy 41 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Take Oregon and Washington and the USA is left without a Pacific Coast...LOL!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Keep it down. We don't want them figuring it out! (Also Alaska)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

I live in WA and I want this more than anything.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

If anything was really done, I assume it'd be just opening up (+incentivizing) immigration. Skilled labor/health/money probably will still be huge barriers, so I think the most effect it could have would be brain drain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

I remember seeing something similar in the W days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map

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[–] xmunk 6 points 12 hours ago

Hey... don't forget Vermont!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who lives in California, I would love this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

We'd love to have ya!

Have a chat with Hawaii, okay? Mom wants to go before she dies but she won't go with Trump in charge. Get them on board and event the flight's domestic. Woot!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying, "Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?

I live in California and I'd like this. But then the USA would never have a non-GOP president ever again and that's against my conscience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

At some point it stops being a game of "save everyone", and starts becoming "save as many as you can".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The "United States" is done anyway, there's no way, ironically, to make America great again.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Washington would fit right in. Western Washington is already a lot like British Columbia, and Eastern Washington is already a lot like Alberta.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

North Carolina please

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

no fair man. illinois. illinois.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Also lived there, also hated it. Never again

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As a Washingtonian, I would LOVE for this to happen. It’s a shame she’s joking.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

I mean, as a Canadian I would say come on and get this going. Hell Alaska can join as well.

Then tarriff the shit out of Trump for anything being shipped through new Canada from China lol.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 23 hours ago

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!"

[–] [email protected] 48 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

entire west coast: let us in!

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