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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm down for that. I live in California, being a Canadian province would double Canada's population and more than double its GDP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I think there’s a lot that we could offer each other. I’d personally love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

This is a horse shit idea. I don’t want the culture here to be watered down. I’d be wary of any state wanting to join confederation, and also concerned about the uptick in immigration from the USA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I, an Arizonan, would gladly become part of Mexico. A quarter of my heritage is there already.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'll offer you the state of New York. You can have the tax base of NYC. I'm sure most of New England minus New Hampshire would be down with this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Even NH could join up, and straight go the same way that Quebec enjoys.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Issue: Canada exterminates natives, proving extreme racism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

The inuit have their own area which is basically all of the northern part of Canada

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Actually id rather just break the united states into smaller countries.

Finding common ground and priorities with such a large populace is so non-productive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

There's an argument for states rights and a smaller federal government.

Individual Canadian provinces enjoy more Autonomy than your average US state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

States' rights can be great when you agree with the policies, but I'm personally harrowed by stories of state government showing obvious contempt for their big cities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

So i need to move?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can we have California? I want their movie industry to be Canadian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

A lot of filming is done in Canada anyway because cheaper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

warof1812 has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It’s me. I’m the 1 in 5 Americans. I would so much rather be there than here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 seconds ago

I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, but, I would much rather Americans actually came together and fixed their own shit rather than bailing on hundreds of years of work by leaving.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh grow a pair and start setting shit on fire.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

if yall could do the white house again like last time it'd be much appreciated

[–] CanadianCarl 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That was the British, in 1814.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Huh. Read up on it and yeah that's a more accurate description of "who" burned down the white house since it was British generals

In retaliation for US aggression against the Canadian (then) colony, which I guess is where the misconception comes from

In my defense my US public school history education was pretty dogshit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Make sure Krasnov and his little dog Vance are in it though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

honestly fair enough lol

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

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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