Please include Colorado! We are a blue island in a sea of red. However, I wouldn’t mind having the Canadian border close enough to escape over. Please don’t build a wall!
Wanna drive the MAGAts crazy? Canada should voluntarily offer to join the union but on the condition that the US has at a minimum successfully transferred to use of the metric system for a full five years.
I mean, a big part of that is being a smaller country. Great powers acting the way they do has way more to do with them having geopolitical power than with the people who live in them.
That said, I do admire Canada's relative lack of toxic nationalism.
One of the smartest things y'all ever did was tell Rupert Murdoch to fuck off when he tried to set up a TV station in Canada. That prick has ruined multiple countries now.
It's not part of our being, ya know? We look at the USA and they are so obsessed over themselves, their flags, their patriotism, their bibles and sh*t.
Like I've never seen Canadians dress up in our flag and stuff ya know? But now? Well... lol!
The USA is incredibly divided now. It's always been messy but it's way worse than it used to be. The jingoism and religiosity from right wingers has gotten worse during my lifetime and feels like a reaction to those of us who are more critical about our history gaining more cultural power. It sucks.
Yeah, but this joke stopped being funny years ago. Your institutions are figuratively and literally falling out of the sky and you might just take the rest of us with you. You can't just move here when it gets bad. The time for silly japes is over, buddy. Fix your shit.
I've got friends and family members who are part of those institutions and are under fire from Trump and Musk. I'm estranged from several other family members because of their support for MAGA. Trust me, I don't need to be told how bad it is.
The thing that really gets me (and yes I'm picking on you for no good reason) is that it isn't a dark joke. A dark joke is talking about what Us targets to blow up in a future guerilla war. I just want to let you know, and I'm being very serious here, things aren't going back to normal after this
I get why you might not be amused, but for us fantasizing about getting away from the violent mouthbreather cousins to join a saner country is indeed a dark joke.
And I don't expect things to go back to normal. I know by the time this is over Trump will have fucked us for the rest of my lifetime.
It was always funny joking about having California and Maine and New York join Canada or vice versa. There are people here who will never step foot in the US again. And yes, we are a petty bunch of cunts, but we're not joking anymore. We are going to rejig our entire economy as a result of this.
Forgive me if I'm not terribly sympathetic. We still get Fox news up here. We've got plenty of our own lunatics being fed the same shit. We both have it easy compared to Ukrainians, Afghanis and everyone now not getting their AIDs meds.
I'm not asking you to be sympathetic. As I said, you have a right to be pissed. But liberal Americans are under assault right now. You're right we don't have it as bad as the Ukrainians or Afghans (yet) but it's still really fucking bad. Moments of levity are part of what's getting us through it
We're starting to talk about building our own nuclear weapons here. Same thing in Europe. I went from hanging out in Buffalo having a great time to genuinely worrying about whether I'm going to lose my job or even my country because 30 million Americans read below a fifth grade level.
I get it. Trump's mistreatment of Canada is one of about 500 things enraging me right now.
I'm just saying don't assume we're oblivious to how bad it is. I deal with these assholes all the time, but when your country is being eaten from within by fascists it's not as simple as "fixing your shit".
The thing is, and you're right it isn't easy, but fighting fascism in your own country isn't easy, but for the love of god, try something. Thousands of cars get torched on the streets of Paris when the gov't so much as sneezes.
I would argue add Colorado and North Carolina, because then Canada ends up with almost every STEM company and university with a top ranked STEM program.
I have a look from the outside and this is the fact for the UK, USA and Canada because I'm German.
On the other hand the right and far right politics have a great overlap at Europe and the USA. It looks like an international union of nationalists.
Every country has cults, some more some less.
The decentralisation of the American evangelical churches is one part of the problem. The predestination theory, which ends in hype for successful or simply rich people as god's blessed people, is another. 🤷
The colors should be reversed. Also the red country (which should be blue) should also have Colorado and probably Utah which is conservative but isn't full of assholes.
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It’ll never happen.
We're not like the Yanks.
One of the smartest things y'all ever did was tell Rupert Murdoch to fuck off when he tried to set up a TV station in Canada. That prick has ruined multiple countries now.
Like I've never seen Canadians dress up in our flag and stuff ya know? But now? Well... lol!
We haven't been this united in my lifetime!
Agreed!
Let us have our dark humor. We need it right now.
And I don't expect things to go back to normal. I know by the time this is over Trump will have fucked us for the rest of my lifetime.
I'm just saying don't assume we're oblivious to how bad it is. I deal with these assholes all the time, but when your country is being eaten from within by fascists it's not as simple as "fixing your shit".
We don't need cults here.
On the other hand the right and far right politics have a great overlap at Europe and the USA. It looks like an international union of nationalists.
Though I don't Canada is susceptible to cults as the yanks.
I can't say I've ever heard of any cults here, or know of anyone in cults. It helps to be a secular country.
The decentralisation of the American evangelical churches is one part of the problem. The predestination theory, which ends in hype for successful or simply rich people as god's blessed people, is another. 🤷
I agree!
Or better yet, give it back to the people who lived there.
But that'll be like Israel giving back the land they've already taken.