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At this point I refuse to believe this is real life. We are in a simulation run by shitty AI
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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that feeling is called dissociation btw
Why would Canada join the US, only to be rewarded with a shitty health care system and a low national minimum wage?
I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.
Put me on whatever list you wish.
Orange Nero is full of bullshit, Canada is not a red run welfare state.
This man shits worthless click bait out of his mouth daily, why does media fall for it?
What do you want them to do? Not report on the most powerful man in the world? They need to report this, people need to see it
Fall for it? They're grateful he's made their job insanely easy. They used yo have to investigate things and then risk running afoul of the powerful. Now they just have to print whatever the latest outrageous bullshit comes out of Donald's mouth and reap the clicks and ad dollars.
What's in it for Canada? Expensive ineffective healthcare? Why would they go for this?
Don’t forget the gun violence
Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?
I'm not seeing the upsides for Canada.
How would a whole country be a single state? Wouldn't it become 13 states (or however many provinces/territories Canada has)?
No no, that would give too many senators to people who understand the value of universal healthcare. Can’t have that.
Giving them more than two senators might lead to a senate that isn't perpetually gridlocked. That makes them dangerously close to being able to pass progressive legislation instead of nothing but mandatory funding bills with 37 pages worth of riders and pork.
Everyone assumes Canada is super liberal country just because of universal healthcare. They forget that Alberta is basically snowy Texas, and the other prairie provinces have more in common with the Midwest than New York.
This plan leaves out the fact that the majority of Canadians don't want to join. They may have their challenges right now, but there are some things they aren't willing to give up, like nationalized health care and national identity. I suspect many Canadians will fight to the death over this, the same way Americans would fight if forced to join Canada. They are our neighbors and that's about as close as people want to get.
Yup, already had the "flee or stand and die" convo with my partner a few weeks ago. I am firmly willing to risk death to defend the progress we've made as a Province and Nation. We aren't perfect and are early in the process but we're trying to recon with our history of colonial genocide and embrace a truer multiculturalism which the US refuses to even acknowledge. We have made commitments to the health and well-being of all citizens, not just the productive bodies which fuel the markets. It's incomplete but aspirational and walking it back would be a disgrace.
The American democracy is an outdated shambles that has fallen into ruin and I will not be bound by it by choice. There is no freedom or opportunity the USA can offer us. Only more oppression on rights we already have enshrined.
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I think he seriously under-estimates how many Americans will side with Canada, with force.
Now that's heartening to read.
I can imagine we'd end up with a bigger army than the US if Canadian service guaranteed citizenship
Live close to the border. If I see Canadian tanks rolling through my town, I'm throwing them flowers
Poppies. They'd love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.
He also hasn't considered the destruction that 30 million occupied dissidents (from a country known for their prolific war crimes) can unleash on their oppressor.
Statscan has the estimate at ~41.5 million as of the end of last year.
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If I have to fight for my country and defend it, then I'll happily do so.
What a hell of 4 years that await us...
We hope only 4 years
More flooding the zone. He won't do this. He is just stiring up more media to distract from him pickpocketing the whole country. His real deviousness is the sovereign fund play. He wants to take taxpayer dollars, which he is actively trying to raise for everyone making less than $500k a year, and put it into an investment fund that buys American stocks. Effectively, he wants to take money from 99% of Americans and just give it to the largest corporations. Everything else he is talking about is just distraction from that fact.
He doesn’t treat his own states any good why would Canada fare any better
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