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Trump, kindly go fuck yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

All I can say is freedom isn't free. Maybe that's something Canadians need to learn, I don't know - I don't really want to assume. But I got a cascadian flag tattoo on my left arm like a soldier's patch for a reason. I've been thinking in neomedieval military terms since I was a teenager at an alternative high school in the late 2000s.

Freedom needs to be constantly defended. If you can't give up any kind of tribute to a governing authority or series of governing authorities to defend it for you or don't find any existing entity as authentically defending it then you frankly have to defend it yourself. Same principle for arguing in favor of participatory democracy - if you don't participate in democracy in some meaningful way you are bound to lose it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Not a snowballs chance in... in.... Canada?

Those are actually decent odds.

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

with the foreign interference report in the news in canada, canadians need to be reminded that america is also foreign actor that intereferes with our country's affairs. They are just as Malicious as the Indians, Chinese and Russians. At least the intereference that comes from the EU is still in our own interests, unlike the robbers, theives, killers, and hopeful Suzerian's of the others

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Its almost as if nobody realised decades ago that putting all our eggs in one super nation state basket for world protection, a super nation that had been known to have Hollywood politics corrupt to its core, was a bad, bad idea...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Trump is a total fuckwit. No way we’re becoming American. I kindly invite any Canadians who want to be American to GTFO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Shouldnt even dignify the orange moron with an answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Trump must have visited bumfuck nowhere Alberta and extrapolated that to the rest of the country

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Trump lied about anything and everything. It's impossible to call him out on any of it because he is so good at creating these bullshit headlines. Inflation, Ukraine, healthcare, abortion, doesn't matter, if he needed to say something in the campaign to win he said it.

Now in a short time, we will know what he is actually up to, but for now, he generate so much bullshit that becomes a cls command. The media, headlines, social, all his bullshit. Everything he said before, cleared off the screen (front page).

The man is an literal technocrat with extreme skill: Techno: skill Crat: power

He has everyone wrapped around his finger. Well played Mofo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Well yeah, that was obvious from the start.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I specifically immigrated to Canada from America. I refuse to go back.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

xmunk is ours now trump

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Canada can come down here and burn down the White House. Again.

I'll provide the marshmallows.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irony that if the reverse happened so much would actually improve for the ex-Americans, Canada, and most of the World.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Only the northern border and the coasts. The rest is pretty unfixable.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I prefer Elizabeth May's invitation to California, Oregon and Washington.

USA can stay red, impoverished and ignorant. The adults in the room can get on with Nation Building.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (6 children)

In the past, Trump has accused Canada of accepting a $100-billion subsidy from the United States. It's unclear exactly what he is referencing, but it may refer to the trade deficit between the two countries.

But on Tuesday, that purported $100-billion subsidy rose to $200 billion. CTVNews.ca has reached out to Trump's media office to clarify what the $200-billion figure represents.

"I love the Canadian people, they're great," he said. "We're spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. … We can't do it forever."

It sounds like what is going on here is, Trump is doing the normal Trump thing of starting with a conservative narrative (austerity, cutting off moochers) and brazenly lying about the state of the world to fill in the blanks of that narrative, knowing his supporters are happy to live in a fictional world, knowing he can't be called out on it in a way that will matter, knowing that it will get people to continue paying attention to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Last time they lived in a world of alternate facts, is it so hard to believe that they've evolved into alternate reality?

They are looking more and more like Russia every day,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The $200B, I assume, is a made up portion of US military budget "assigned for the protection of Canada". Perhaps it is the value of Canadian auto/timber/dairy industry, not just exports, but I doubt it. It is a made up number nonetheless.

In other thread, while there is unanimity against 51st state idea, there is desperation among Canadians/politicians on staying the US empire's bitch. He's made the exact same threats against Europe. NATO kicking out the US and also joining SCO is the right move to isolate the demonic evil US empire's reign of terror on the world and "its allies". Clinging to being US's colony by desperately increasing the level of sycophancy to its wars, is path to worse domination/subservience. The "freedom and democracy" rhetoric for subservience must stop immediately, because democracy is a complete joke. Israel first rule in US, and US first rule in colonies, is not functional politics.

Canada joining BRICS and SCO as a military alliance with protection from North Korea, Russia, China would eliminate the "US burden from protecting Canada". Canada buying Michigan would protect auto industry. Offering Provincehood to any US states would allow those states to escape their crushing share of federal debt, and escape oppression that Trump wants to impose on them. World needs to move on from US empire, and shifting trade and military alliances would address Trump's complaint about Canadian exports, or make them realize that Canada is far more useful as a bitch than independent.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

β€œWhat do they want from me? I'm good-natured. I'm good-hearted. I'm good-looking. Every day, I'm out there trying to make the world safe. For ~~Germany~~ America. I don't want war. All I want is peace. Peace.

[singing and dance number start]

A little piece of ~~Poland~~ Canada, A little piece of ~~France~~ Greenland, A little piece of …”

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If Canada were to be annexed into the United States, it would rank as the third most populous state, and the second largest in terms of GDP.

As it is the second largest country in the world, it's size would be unmatched by any U.S. state. In length and girth.

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