the only thing I like about this is it gives me a better idea on the percentage of nutters. Probably and equal percent are the ones dreadfully afraid the way dems an left talk about taxes and regulation being desperately needed. then figure idiots who are deciding between the the clear and present worst choice and the not great choice to get them over the goal line.
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30% wish Canada would annex the US.
The scary thing is, there are Canadians who want that too
Yes. They call themselves Conservatives.
I'm surprised its not ~30%
It seems to be the magic number you can get any survey of US residents to agree to no matter how ridiculous.
If you aren't hitting that number even the crazies think it's a bad idea.
17% of Americans can take off,Β eh.
17% of Americans are uneducated and don't really know the consequences of war.
But why though? To seize their strategic maple syrup reserve?
So basically just the deepest fascist base supporters.
So 17% of Americans are our enemy
The question then becomes: will the other 83% be our ally and stop this 17%?
Based on the apathy and avarice of your average american that helped put their country in its current state I doubt very much the majority will lift a pinkie.Β
They are not even fighting for their own country. They are too busy watching The Burnt Peanut and hiding in their basements which ice will soon be visiting them as well.Β
Guess they never heard what happened to people considered dissenters by the Nazi govt during WWII.Β
It will be a blanket way of filling Alligator Auschwitz Death Camps at a rate so fast it will make oneβs head spin. All it takes is a sniveling ice coward to point and say dissenter! Poof you are detained. Wake up america, your life depends on it.
17% are willing to say that they WANT Canada to be part of the US. Only two-thirds are willing to say they would prefer Canadian independence.
What percentage would really care if their stated preference was not reality? The ceiling is 2 out of 3. The ceiling. That is as good as it gets.
What percentage would lift a finger to resist US dominion over Canada? What percentage would actively resist or take on any level of effort and or risk at all to prevent it? Dramatically less.
If the US invaded Canada, what percentage of Americans would choose to support Canada over their own county even if the invasion was illegal or immoral? Clearly, the majority would support their government. In that scenario, what percentage of Americans would you consider to represent βthe enemy?β
And if you think I am being too harsh, letβs ask the question from a different angle. What percentage of Americans are doing anything at all to reduce the threat to Canada right now? I mean, doing anything at all? Only 2 in 3 can muster indicating it as a preference in answer to a question.
Many people reading this will insist that they did not ask for this. What percentage of those voted against Donald Trump in the last federal election? That number is less than one third. That is an easily verifiable fact. Less than one in three did the absolute bare minimum to stop the second Trump term from happening. That means 2 out of every 3 Americans did nothing back then. What are they doing now?
You need to revise your 17% number in your first sentence up dramatically. I am not hopeful that they answer to your second question hits anything close to double digits.
Well, only 66% said they didn't want the USA to invade Canada. So no, we won't have the support of 83%. We'd be lucky to have 40% actually speak up on our behalf, and even fewer would act.
So what percentage of them would like Canada to annex the US?
Me me me!
Promise? π«¦
I kind of want an American to ask me all butthurt why I don't want to join the US, just so I can use the 11th province line.
I don't want them to be Canadian either though. We have enough problems with Alberta. Pulling in any state will be even worse.
Yeah, if they actually took that up, d'oh!
Exactly, too many magats even in "blue" states
There's a fair minority in Canada, too. If it wasn't for the whole 10x our population thing maybe it would be fine.
California has about the same population all on it's own. Just the empty part of New England or Hawaii might be a good addition.
Oh ok I'll do it:
Bwaah bwaah
Bu..but whhhyy don't you wanna be Amewican?!
... Well, why don't you want to be the 11th province.
Since I know you're one of the good Americans, it's not really going to answer the question of how they'd respond, since I'm honestly not sure.
I've had acquaintances actually asked this while down there, I'm not making it up.
Oh I don't doubt that they were asked. Americans of that breed are simple creatures. America good. Elsewhere bad. Why would you NOT want to live in the good place with freedoms and GUNS!?
That's it. That's literally all the thinking that goes into it. You're not missing something. They are just extremely stupid and propagandized into believing that the rest of the world is literally on fire and covered in the blood of babies at all moments.
They'd quickly change their minds if they knew how expensive the gas prices would get after they invaded and their oil refinement infrastructure gets hit like Russia's has been.
17% is more than one in six. That number sounds uncomfortably high.
I know perhaps two dozen Americans who are friends, current and former colleagues, or family. It's disturbing to think that statistically there are perhaps 3 or 4 that don't think that the country that I love, that is my home, that has allied with them and sacrificed for that alliance, should exist. That I should bow to their power. It's psycho shit.
Most likely the other half of the roughly 30% of Americans who represent the MAGA coalition think that annexation would be doing us a favour - elevating a bunch of ungrateful socialists to the American standard of living or something like that.
I think it's hard for people in other countries to realize how deeply propagandized Americans have been for their entire lives. They are relentlessly taught that the USA is the greatest country and the only place anyone in their right mind would want to live, and that the USA brings freedom to the world, even as they suffer bad working conditions, crappy housing, a violent society and poor education and healthcare. They believe they are the only country with true freedom, even as they're allowed to embrace a range of political views all the way from neoliberalism to fascism, murdered by brutal armed police, and imprisoned at the highest rate in the world.
So some of these will be so steeped in the propaganda that they genuinely believe US invasions are doing other countries a favour.
I wish the worst towards all of those who wish to invade us. So fucking sick of these imperialists.
I'd challenge this 17% to tell us three things they know about Canada that aren't sports related.
Not American but I'll try
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It's cold
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don't mess with the moose or the geese
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... ah fuck
You fuck with us ya get the moose or the goose
I guess it serves as a data point indicating what the percentage of Americans who will agree to the craziest shit available on the opinion poll answers is up to now. Seems to me it was as low as 10% not too many years ago.
That's actually encouragingly low, in light of their usual appetite for smiting enemies.
1 in 6 is not low.
they will all die in the yukon and the high artic trying to take it. theres a reason why most of alaska is uninhabitable.
85% of the Canadian population is within 100 miles of the US border. Why would they go to the high arctic?
66 per cent of respondents want Canada to remain an independent nation
Huh. The 33% implied in the text is weirdly double the 17% reported. Who are the delusional 16% who want to take over the country, but without using a word they can't pronounce or define?
There's a graphic in the article with a breakdown, 17% are "Not sure"
While that's normal for surveys like this, it's also annoying. They're unsure about if they want a war with their next door neighbour?
Some people are just too alienated from things and when asked about their opinion, they're like 'errr I don't know, not sure', and that's usually not because they understand the matter but are unsure of it, but because they don't understand the matter at all
Usually that also includes "didn't respond"/DR/NR. I would assume this was a multi question survey and that 17% includes at least some DR/NR.
No, they're not "not sure", they're just cowards unwilling to voice their opinion because they know it's morally objectionable.
It's possible many of that 17% are 'not sure' because they failed to understand the question and couldn't be bothered to read it twice. They are Americans.
Why is this showing percentages in a positive light compared to their obvious negative?
One because 17% is shockingly high and two because 66% of people wanting them to remain independent it's shockingly low. There's no positive here at all.
I mean yea 17 is 17 too high. No win here⦠But it feels weird to log 17 like it was 71.