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[–] 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Don't do it, Canada.

You'd suddenly be expanding your population 8-9x over (even factoring a war in), and at least 40% of the newly minted Canadians would 'think' and vote like Albertan roughnecks.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My High School mascot, from New Jersey, was literally a Canuck.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I was like, "that's crazy, like what would that logo even look like, a Mountie? A woodsman in flannel?" - because there's no image on the wiki article.

    Then I found this old article which contains the funny backstory, and explains its definitely a woodsman, and used to be a pine tree..

    “Look, I was always embarrassed by our symbol,” says assistant principal Ralph Sorrentino, a North Plainfield football player in the ’50s. “We had a mascot dressed as a tree. South Plainfield had a tiger.” It was a particular problem when they played the Metuchen Bulldogs. “You know what dogs do to trees,” he says.

    So in the early 1970s North Plainfield’s teams became the Canucks—woodsmen who cut down trees.

    https://njmonthly.com/articles/towns-schools/theyre_lumberjacks_and_theyre_okay/

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, IIRC, it was a bearded woodsman holding crossed axes, or something like that. Maybe it was an axe over one shoulder.

    The "Little Canada" is also pretty questionable too.

    North Plainfield is just across a tiny river and North of Plainfield. Plainfield has a very high black population and pretty fucking ghetto, at least on Front through 4th st. (I lived on 4th Street for six months... the first murder of a new year was right on my front lawn. It was a drive by... stabbing. My mom immediately moved us to North Plainfield and just by crossing that little stream, we went from counting crack vials, on the side walk, on my way to school, to manicured lawns and all white neighbors that wave. So North Plainfield was making a comparison of itself to Plainfield as Canada to the U.S..

    I am still not sure how to take that.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    American idiots voted in a convicted felon, alleged child rapist, and prolific pantshitting dictator. They voted this guy in even after he'd tried to overthrow their government the last time he lost. They WANT what's going on.

    I don't want them to be part of Canada's voter base.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    I learned French in high school.

    I'm ready to accept my new governance.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ya, we don’t want Florida, you can just sink it.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    should be either Nueva España or Nova Hispania

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Giving Colorado, Montana, and part of the Dakotas to the natives is cool but I do feel like the majority of other tribes are getting sort of shafted by comparison. Honestly, Cheyenne population is so small after the Sand Creek Massacre and similar events that they don't even make up 1% of native populations. The Navajo, Cherokee, and Alaskan Natives, for example, each measure in the hundreds of thousands. About 8,000 people self-identify as Cheyenne and only 800 speak the language.

    https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-dhc-a-aian-population.html

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well, one thing the U.S. and Canada have I'm common is their shitty treatment of natives.

    I wouldn't expect much in that direction.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Looks perfect, I'm in! Whene do we start?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If God would have only saved the Queen then this could've been ours. /s

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    America's like the only place where if we were invaded, we'd cheer on the invaders.

    Canada you need to take this shit over, save us from Republicans

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Ew I don't want to be neodutch.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    thank you i am not sharing a province with utah

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure I'd want Dominion to include Texas, Louisiana, Florida, or Carolina. Not sure about Virginia. Aren't they mostly MEGA cultists?

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    OK but if you assimilate all land you've left nowhere to exile the undesirables that aren't happy with this arrangement. If your leadership's policy popularity is 50%, your country should split.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Uhh, can we change Huron to Michigan? Please?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's better with Iroquois names.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Michigan is an Ojibwe name. It means "Large lake"

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