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[-] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago

They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

Canada is where all the illegals live

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

and my illegals!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mrgoomoos is alreading bring the fentanyl. A little goes a long way.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This thread did not disappoint

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If you watch Fox News then yes but if you actually look at the figures, it’s fucking nothing

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I think they were speaking ironically.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it's even in the picture.

But what people don't get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there's no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C'mon people.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe the scale of the bridge is off, just like the size of Alaska is. I think someone from Texas drew this map to make themselves feel better.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In Canada's defense, that is in significant part, handguns. If you keep a long gun with you, as long as it doesn't hit their 10,000 J (7375 ft-lbs) muzzle energy limit


and if it's in your glovebox, I assume that whatever you have isn't doing that


and doesn't hit their specific restrictions on upper receivers, you're probably okay.

A NATO 5.56 mm rifle round looks like it has a muzzle energy of about 1.8 kJ.

That'd let you carry an elephant gun.

If you want a semi-auto rifle...goes looking

Looks like they exist in 500 Auto Max.

https://gunsamerica.com/digest/big-horn-armory-ar500/

I imagine that one of those would be okay. Looks like the ammunition is sold in Canada.

EDIT: If you want something that you can shoot one-handed, maybe a short bullpup rifle with a barrel of at least 470mm (~18.5 in), which is apparently their "handgun"/"not-handgun" divider.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

Yes. VERY. I have encountered three people in the wild who actually believe that Alaska is an island. The best time was when I was traveling with my kid and they said we were from Alaska to a group of people in an elevator. One of the kids in the elevator said "can you drive to Alaska?". the mom told then her , "they can't drive to Alaska because it's an island! and that's why there at the airport!" To which the DAD replied "ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS? WTF." 

That was pretty good.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I've done that to my ex wife in public a couple of times.

I learned that someone being hot does not compensate for stupid.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago

It's because Alaska has migratory patterns, that's why it's sometimes southwest of Texas, other times it's right next to California.

How are you going to build a bridge that moves that far, dumbass?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Alaska doesn't like being tethered, it will just buck around and turn the whole Pacific into a churning gyre. The wildness would have to be beaten out of it first. Don't worry though, that's being worked on.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too. That’s where the delicious pizzas grow, right?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana

The food wood be amazing

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I'd pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Pfft. We all know that map isn't official.

The reason you can't build that bridge is because Alaska is farther southwest near Hawaii, and there is a big wall around them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, ambushing anyone on the street, out of context, is extremely likely to get a dumber answer than normal.

This would make a good study, actually. Ambush people on the street and quiz them. For the control group, quiz them immediately, on the street. For the experimental group, take them to a more relaxed location, allow them to sit, give them a minute or two to get collected, quiz them and measure the difference from the control group. You can do it with easy, medium, hard questions.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

And why didn't they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would've been a lot less controversial.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We wouldn't have that problem if they would just voluntarily surrender their sovereignty and become the 51st state smh

...Edit: hopefully I don't need the /s but there it is anyway

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

A very modest and reasonable proposal

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

During the Mexican-American War the US secretly bribed Alaska to sneak up behind Mexico and eat Mexico in one big gulp.

Then the US put Alaska in a box to quarantine it because it started to get sick. This is what you see illustrated on many maps because it was historically a very important moment to US geography.

Eventually Alaska got too nauseous, threw Mexico back up and crawled back on top of Canada.

What a lot of people don't realize though is what made Alaska so sick wasn't Mexico, it was that Alaska mistook Texas for part of Mexico and took both Mexico and Texas in one bite, and it was only the extreme toxicity of Texas that made Alaska so queasy.

Ultimately the plan of course backfired, Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska (Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it "Mexicalaska") and this upset the rest of the US and caused riots all over the country for weeks... and unfortunately for architects of the Alaska Ambush, Alaska was not big enough to dilute the corrosive bigotry of Texas in order for Alaska to keep it down permanently.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Bravo, I love this kind of 'analogy taken too far' creative writing =D

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yes.

But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Just more governmental waste!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That would be a very long bridge, probably too long to biuld. Notice the size of lake Ponchartrain by New Orleans, which is 24 miles. This would be a bridge hundreds of miles long. It's likely not feasible, sadly.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Not with that attitude! What has become of us? We used to do big things like put monkeys on the Empire State Building.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Alaskan lobby doesn't want mexicans there, whether they're new or not

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.

That's about 235 miles.

The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.

However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico.....

We TOTALLY could.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That'd be a long bridge.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid

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