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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yes thank you for reminding everybody who knows the truth that you're an actual jackass. Everyone else is deluding themselves, it's driving us crazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The irony is that America is more likely to split up into at least two and probably more countries before any territory a added to the existing boundaries. I give America les than three decades before it splits up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Blessed day, Commander

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

We don't need anything from the Untied States. I encourage everyone to continue to avoid buying products made in the USA.

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

There’s a great scene in a movie with Joe Pesci and a baseball bat.

I fantasize about Trumps fascist face being on the receiving end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

The same way France was a province of Germany? #occupationBloodbath

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he is serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state

It seriously ticks me off how news organizations are referring to trumps actions.

It's always cutesy, nice, polite.

Trump doesn't want to "add" Canada, he wants to annex it, invade if necessary. This is a hostile dictator talking about destroying our country and I think we should choose words that describe a little better what the fucker is trying to do

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I agree that, generously stated, “reporting neutrality” is completely bogus these days. Everything is so nonchalant.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Neutrality favors the oppressor

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hyperbole favours the unintelligent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 49 minutes ago

For it to be a try it would need to be false.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

We should but this is a US outlet so... They can't be biting the hand that feeds.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

That's what a free media is supposed to do!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

I've used the word "conquer" for this, but even then that makes it feel kind of like a board game.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, please continue to unite Canadians against the conservatives before the election

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

A lot of conservatives i know think trump is right and that Canada is being subsidized by the US. One has even started to claim he will move to the first province that joins the US

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

So... by joining the us... they think that will stop subsidizing the US? Have they not seen what california already does for half of the country?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

I didn't know I had this many walking amongst me. Of the ones I've spoken with they seem to share these values:

They seem to hate that Ontario is forcing "gays" on kids at such a young age. I'm assuming my friend meant teaching about accepting people from different backgrounds, as I don't think sex education applied to the age range he was referring.

They think they're being taxed too highly (that's fine).

They think US Healthcare woes are exaggerated. One said that you don't really pay that fee, it's a different fee and it's not that much. Another said: I don't go to the hospital that often.

They think life will be better in the States with all the untaxed dollars they'll have.

(I will reiterate that these are just the ones that I've spoken with) I'm just wondering why they don't just move there. If you hate being Canadian so much start the process of emigration ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

No we do pay that much. My job apparently pays $9000 a year for me to have health insurance, and I still have to pay $170 a month for it. Plus deductibles, co-pays, and other bullshit.

Anyways, how much are yall even taxed that’s “too much”?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m just wondering why they don’t just move there. If you hate being Canadian so much start the process of emigration …

I get it, immigration takes time and some of them may not have the skills or the means to do it, or to do it quickly....HOWEVER, in the meantime, if they have no allegiance to this country, they should show some dignity by refraining from voting and refraining from doing everything they can to screw up the country for the people who actually DO care about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

I have always found it hugely ironic that these guys are supporting a US administration that will only make it harder for them to immigrate to the US.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

“In fact, we don’t want them to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state.”

So he DOES need things from us. If he didn't need us he'd just walk away and not trade with us. But why would he he want us as a state if we didn't have something he wanted?

He DOES need us, our workers, and our resources but he doesn't like that we're our own sovereign nation. He needs us but he wants us enslaved and controlled.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Canadians would teach the United States the meaning of insurgency.

Given how impotent the US was in the face of resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, how would they be able to cope with an insurgency where all the enemy combatants can blend in and walk among them?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

American: "Hello there!"

Other "American": "Hi! How are you?"

American: "Great, and yourself?"

Other "American": "Good! Great weather we're having, eh?"

American: "What?"

Other "American": "What?"

American: *eyes the other "American" suspiciously*

Other "American": "Aw shit, my cover is blown." *Stabs American*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

If it come to blows all Canadians are going to need to forget their EhBC's.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

And, best of all, walk among them in the continental United States. A vast, sprawling country of crumbling infrastructure just waiting for a saboteur's gentle nudge, awash in easily-accessible guns, and demonstrably populated by sheep who can be panicked into decades of self-destruction by a couple of buildings getting knocked down. Who haven't experienced war anywhere except as entertainment on their TV screens in centuries.

Here's hoping that even Trump's idiocy has a limit before it comes to that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The Canadians would also find no shortage of Americans willing to help them, as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As an ABC voter, I'd like to thank Donnie for the help in during this crucial time of the election campaign. 🍁💪

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

ABC Vancouver?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Trump insists that Canada needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs it

Sounds like a bad ex-relationship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

US programming for war on Russia and China, amplified by all Canadian media/parties has been very successful. The US's promised destruction of Canada has very little pushback from Americans. The Canadian political consensus of closer ties to Europe only works if Europe(+Canada) has closer ties with China. Otherwise, Europe will choose to suck up to US's larger market instead of Canada, and in colonial sycophancy olympics, promising the US to help screw Canada over is path to get tariff exemptions. Europeans have same CIA programming that we do. A completely mental self destructive attitude towards Russia.

As Canadians, we have the exclusive choice of protecting our sovereignty and prosperity or remaining programmed into US empire's warmongering enemy manufacturing.

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

Sorry bud but Canada shouldn't swap out one dictator for another, and hopefully intelligence will prevail this election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

None of our electoral choices have a practicality of Canadian survivability through deprogramming Canadians from their US programmed hatreds. Multipolarism is not choosing submission to a new (unipolar) dictator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

We do not need to trade with countries that do not share our values to be successful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Everything he says is a lie/confession.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Schrödinger's Truth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

this is off-topic, but i have to bring it up somewhere because it's been on my mind... i haven't seen any discussion about what he intends to do about quebec (i'm sure there is discourse happening in french-speaking parts of the internet). but, like, french is our second language, and quebec is very serious about maintaining their cultural heritage.

if canada, theoretically, were to become a state does that mean he gets to erase french-canadian culture? or does french become a second language of the US?

he obviously hasn't thought about this, because nothing he says or does is backed by any reasoning. but i just wonder wtf he thinks quebec is, and whether he cares about the culture there being kept

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

How Putin of him!