Can someone ask r/askconservatives how they feel about this plan?
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lol @ New Hampshire
Also, that would be about 37% of the US economy. California making the highest percentage at 14% of the US economy while New York would be in 2nd place at 8%. The least impactful would be Vermont with 0.2% (for got to include Rhode Island). However, I think this would wreck the world economy with the financial hub of the US (New York City) who manages the investments of world's reserve currency (dollar) would switch from US Dollar to Canadian Dollar. The US would also lose access to the Pacific and a considerable amount of military force stationed in the West Coast states.
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Congratulations you just gave the fundamentalist nutters all the icbm silos.
Yeah, uh, they already have them.
Plus there's tons in the listed areas?
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The question is, would Canada want that? I get the feeling that most of us living north of the border just want to be left alone and we would send you all the thoughts and prayers we could spare and wish you all the best so long as you let us be.
Yes, they absolutely want it - minus the dumb fuck part of Canada (is that Alberta?) - west coast and north east USA are highly educated, powerhouses in industry, and basically pay for the welfare queen red states. It's so fucking crazy how the east coast and west coast are held hostage by all that land in the red states
OK, Alberta becomes part of America.
Why would I want to join Canada???? I don't do well in the cold smh my head
-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).
-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).
-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).
-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.
-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.
-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.
-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.
-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).
-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.
and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).
(We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)
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Hand me the sharpie, you missed Chicao
Then hand it to me, you missed the g
WI and MI want in on that, for sure
Well, MI at least
As somebody from Wisconsin I will say that I don't approve of us being excluded, but I also can't blame them.
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MI voted for the orange bad man so... no...
I can tell you that a large part of that was as a spite non-vote against Harris due to her not speaking up against Israel. Less about supporting Agent Orange, and more about not supporting the genocide of Palestinians by the very large arab and Muslim population in SE Michigan.
spite non-vote
lol... well that non-vote got you a president who is absolutely going to be a lot worse for Palestinians than Harris.
I had and observed several arguments with single issue Palestinian crisis "voters" who flat out refused to hold their nose and vote for the obviously less damaging candidate before the election.
so sit and spin, if you are an American and either didn't vote, or you voted for trump; you have nothing to say worth listening to...
I'm sure all the dead Palestinians will thank you while Trump is pouring petrol on the genocide fire
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.
Get Virginia too!
Fuck that bougie ass state. Entirely occupied by weapons contractors. Leave them in New Honkia
I was just hoping to be Canadian.
Y'all are going to regret taking Arizona. And, frankly, everything in California not in view of the coast.
We should give Texas to Mexico just to spite them
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Lol I love how New Hampshire is just left out. Now how am I gonna get my New Hampshire clam chowder?
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Also: why not give Texas back to Mexico? It'd solve their obsession with "the border problem."
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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
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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Is the US losing just about all of the top universities in this "trade"?
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.
Didn't a group of separatists already try this in the 1800's?
How did that turn out?
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If you go by recent province/state wide election results:
Alberta, Saskatchewan and probably Manitoba go to Jesusland.
... And Colorado and New Mexico, and Illinois become exclaves like Kaliningrad.
CO+NM is exceptionally fucked because its landlocked, and almost in a Lesotho situation (being wholly surrounded by a single other country) were it not for Mexico...
Though I guess Illinois would not be much better off as Jesusland would likely claim it owns all of Lake Michigan beyond 50 miles of Illinois' shore.
And Virginia actually went for Harris, so that's also part the United States of Canada.
Colorado and NM should totally join Mexico, they'd be better off there
I'd love this to happen just so the USA can steamroll Canada into their backyard.
