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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.
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.
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.
sorry we got to do a purge first. we can’t be joining any canada until we deal with this problem internally…
Sorry, but you’re not welcome.
Person-for-person, maybe; but with very few exceptions, we don’t really want or need US territory.
I’m not sure they realize how different it is. I think even the Democrats would find it too liberal.
Yes all Canadians are famously liberal, great take
They wear speedos, I seent it!
I wonder which states the majority of these people are in.
It links to a map, https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-most-likely-secede-1870679 (archive: https://archive.ph/oGlKO )
Surprising that support in Alaska (36%) and Texas (31%) is so much higher than the national average, I’d have thought it’d be blue states leading, shows what I know…
Oh wait, those are just those most likely to secede. Not wanting to join Canada.
Yeah let’s take Alaska and complete the whole northern section of the continent!
Alaska does make sense because of their geographic position but Texas is definitely an outlier.
Texas is definitely an outlier.
Fuckin proper Dark Horse…
The big cities in Texas are pretty blue. I imagine they make up the 31 percent who want to secede.
Sounds exactly like texas north
I’ve suggested that the entire NFC North could just become Canadian providences. Parts of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois already feel like Canada anyways. Also we’d dominate the CFL!
Full disclosure: I live in Michigan.
I’d love for that.
However, as a Canadian … seeing Michigan go red broke my heart.
Unfortunately the red sections of Michigan stayed red, and the large groups of voters in the blue sections bought into the whole “genocide Joe” bullshit. The actual vote totals showed that red votes stayed pretty level with the 2020 and 2022 numbers, while blue voters just didn’t turn out. Hopefully this is a fucking wake up call.
As an American I felt the same way about Wayne Gretzky.
As someone in michigan, me too buddy.
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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
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
I think it’s on the State level not the whole US. I’m fine with that.
Would like New England so we can have it unite with New Scotland to form the New United Kingdom and have Prince Albert(a) from New Brunswick be it’s Monarch’s consort and patron explorers, like Columbus but British so a British Columbia, to sail the seas to claim New Found Land and Labour to teach New English to New France until they can have Nunavut anymore.
Meee.
Whatever it takes for USians to get healthcare. No country is as barbaric towards its own citizens as the Unites States.
Well, maybe North Korea.
Hey, stop insulting North Korea like that, at least Kim isn’t a complete dumbass with fake tan.
I’ll beat this drum again: I would fully support a program where we exchange equal numbers of MAGA loyalists in Canada for trained doctors, engineers, and tradespeople looking to escape fascism.
The Americans have already shown interest in this with their idea of importing white South Africans. Is this an impossible idea?
Europe could also send over our USA-lovers to MAGA-land. I like the way you think.
Yeah just put them all in a big dystopian hellhole, its basically what they want so you’re actually making them happy by doing it. They can worship billionaires while complaining about not having any social benefits and experience hardships like a bunch of repressed peasants.
Are we doing Escape from New York on a national level? I’m for it.
Fuck yeah!
They will cry about having their faces eaten off, but it kind of won’t be our problem anymore.
You just need to convince them that they are making it happen themselves.
And using a fishnet boat.
I’ve pointed out before that most of the MAGA-land folks in Canada likely currently don’t have a viable path to immigrate to the USA, see https://lemmy.ca/post/41215108/15425311 and https://lemmy.ca/post/41215108/15458003
But that doesn’t mean we can’t make one for them!
I imagine we could easily negotiate something like the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement, but between Canada and the USA - but with the additional condition that MAGA is a disqualifying condition for coming to Canada.
Like the TTTA, we should also allow the green card holders in.
Yeah likely would need to create a special system of refugee status or similar. Maybe around the concept of escaping “woke-ism”?
It doesn’t even need to be equal, TBH, although if we have a refugee wave we probably will need to restrict them from some of the housing supply.
Each refugee can keep 1 home for every 3 homes they build. Obviously one human isn’t building 3 homes, but if a squad of 50 refugees build 150 homes, they keep 50 and sell 50. This includes turning single family homes into plexes.
Im conflicted on multi-use buiness sapce. Either homes can be replaced with businesses at a ratio set by each city, but probably somewhere in the 1/5 to 1/10 range; or business are excluded from the sell 2/3rds rule (aka you could build a 4 plex with 3 homes and one business, than keep one home and one business, selling 2 homes)
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Ah yes, lets build houses with 0 code by people who are VERY unfamiliar with our climate
Sounds great till you put 2 brain cells together
The workers don’t define code…
Ive worked for a Sikh Indian on a 4 story hotel and he tried to bypass lots of regulations and did get caught a few times. I had to install door hangars on every door in the rented rooms after the drywall was installed.
Lots of moved electrical lines not on drawing and never added to BPs. So yeah, I call BS
That’s a case of someone not following code, has nothing to do with immigration status.
Thats just one case of many I had witnessed. Now take people who are desperate and you will see people cutting corners everywhere.
Plus, how many job sites have you personally worked on??
[Doctor with stethoscope confusedly swinging a hammer]
I mean, that’s in the end how it works, right? Immigrants take your houses/jobs/whatever, but they also make them, and actually at a higher rate than they take them for several reasons.
It’s just them all coming at once faster than we can build stuff that would be the problem. When an American asks me about emigrating on here, I say “bring an RV”.
If it’s dumb and it works, then you take the dumb and exchange it for the works, it’s not dumb, well, the dumb isn’t there anymore and now you have more works!!
We’ve got a bunch of cookers in Australia we need to dump too.
Make it crokadil and you have a deal.
That’s the perfect meme, because I do feel guilty about how this fucks over my friends and family in the US. But as they don’t seem motivated to fix their own country, I feel like this may be a good way to at least help some people
scientists are smart enough to escape first, no such luck for MS, AND BS of stem though, as were not “valuable” in for-profit stem industry.
I hope Canada can change this.
One challenge has been that many of our best-educated people have left for the US, which has blunted some of the economic trickle-down effects that should accompany publicly-funded research. So we incur the costs but yet not reap the benefits, which dulls public enthusiasm for supporting this.
It’s entirely plausible to me that this system has been upended and think we should reevaluate these choices to consider expanding funding for science not directly tied to industry and short-term benefits. But I don’t think it’ll be as easy as snapping our fingers
Can we have California? I want their movie industry to be Canadian.
Mmmmm. Have Canadians considered that these USAians might try to enter their country?
They may need to look at ways to prevent this, idk, maybe like building a wall? Or tariffs. Tariffs work for everything, though I don’t really know what they are and can only spell it because of autocorrect.
Stop giving Poilievre ideas. He’s already Trumping as hard as he can.
Oh grow a pair and start setting shit on fire.
if yall could do the white house again like last time it’d be much appreciated
Do it yourself.
honestly fair enough lol
This comment won the internet for today.
Make sure Krasnov and his little dog Vance are in it though.
That was the British, in 1814.
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
I say we storm the capital next winter! /S
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.
There’s an argument for states rights and a smaller federal government.
Individual Canadian provinces enjoy more Autonomy than your average US state.
So i need to move?
I, an Arizonan, would gladly become part of Mexico. A quarter of my heritage is there already.
