Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I think most of the populated areas of Canada, have more interest being associated with their direct neighbour across the border, than with either "Canada" or the "US"
Spooky, unironically, its the opposite
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
you will have the most support from the praries and north BC
where <10% of people live
I strongly disagree
no you misread what I said
Oh I see
I mean that Vancouver has more interest having cross-border policies with Seattle, than they give a shit about "Canada" or the "USA"
they wouldn't want to be annexed, or lumped in
I can agree with that more
but if the meme wasn't a military takeover, but was a 10-year economic zone structure, with greater border cohesian and cross-nation service recipricity or w/e
I still think Canadians would majority refuse and be mad about it regardless
way less than even the EU
I think NAFTA was the farthest Canadians were okay with
if we wanted to absorb Canada, I think we could do it, Trump is just memeing obviously
but it would be a 20-year process minimum
You have more military than the rest of the world combined
I think you could absorb literally any country with enough effort
Cultural absoption also possible, but you would have to effectively destroy Canada worse than Canada has already destroyed Canada to do it
The problem is, we'd have to make the US more attractive as a country first, right now we're both in decline (albiet Canada faster than us)
Also I think US absorbing Canada would make you guys be purely blue forever, so I do not think Trump actually wants that
unless you trust the redditors who say this was the last election ever, then it does not matter
Republican/Democratic voting patters always normalize to 50/50
that's not a reason to not enfranchise more states, or split up current ones
Canadians also would not give up our health care system
If we made ours better they would
Our system SUCKS
You would have to make yours taxpayer based
also ^
Dialga is unirronically right
you aportion the EVs they'd get, Trump still eeks out a win
I think if Dems ran anyone other than Kamala, Canada's electoral votes would have pushed it blue
they ran the worst people both times he won
Hillary also did not lose by as much
I just think over-time, our stupid system pushes the parties to 50/50
and Canadians don't have some gene in them that makes them different from us
Idk Spooky, we are looking like a Bloc Quebeqois second place win
we are built DIFFERENT
Honestly, Quebec would be the only reason I'd like trump to take Canada
I want to see him have to deal with them
He'd release them
first thing
They'd 100% insist on being independent, and also many other provinces would
No, he said he wasn't
I feel like Toronto would unironically be the most opposed
Vancouver, Quebec The Maritimes, the Interior, the Far North, and the Indian tribes
could all be reasoned with
in his press conference
He can call an election whenever, I assume its going to the maximum though
Oct 20th
is the date it has to happen by
so then or sooner
if they no confidence vote him, (which would require NDP to actually flip) then he'd be done
NDP already said they won't
which is further tanking the NDP into irrelevancy
NDP is just playing both sides ^
NDP is playing neither side, thier base is furious
My read is he thought he'd get concessions to stay loyal, got none of them, and then backed down anyway
There is a reason Bloc is likely going to be second place, behind Cons winning and Libs in third
they'd need more votes Dialga, it's no-confidence of the current party in power
We literally have a year Dialga
if he stood down
there is a chance they could save official opposition
Bloc winning second place is kind of a meme, but there is a real chance
Quebec mainly votes Lib or Bloc, and all the lib voters are voting bloc
We will know more in July/August, since Canadian election cycles are really only 2-3 months