politics
Thursday, March 6, 2025
there's an argument to lump in the surrounding VA/MD suburbs with DC, and form a Colombia state
but even on its own, (exluding the federal district where no one lives) it's quite populus
Puerto Rico has 3M citizens in it
probably closer to 4M now
oh nvm, it's actually trending down
it peaked at 3.8
uhhhh, the repopulation rate of Puerto Rico, is 0.9
that's actually absurd
that's South Korea tier
idk, if he is he is
Most pms tend to be from Quebec because they get more of the french vote and that tends to matter
I think Harper was from Alberta though?
Harper was from Toronto
the other important place to be from
Jordan Peterson getting so addicted to Drugs he had to go to Russian to get put in a coma because he couldn't stop doing drugs still is amazing to me
a few years back?
Yeah, he is going to win unless trump really does some crazy shit and he takes a really weak stance on it
Cons did not come out hard against the whole thing
Libs did
so the libs got a boost in the pollls, because most Canadians are annoyed at it
depending on the province
I think its more the "here is a 40% increase in money for no reason"
I think if you asked a lot of Americans if their entire net worth would just magically go up 40%, but your state is no longer apart of the US, you'd get a decent chunk of young people, who are the most likely to care about a bunch of free money, who also would vote for it
free money is a powerful motivator
Friday, March 7, 2025
Replying to Rusp #rusp.
that's interesting, backs up the overall sentiment I observe (even though I trust polls fuck all)
my 40% number was just from open census/college data + some Spooky math trying to deduplicate it
so this tracks with that as well
it's the same reason young people in Europe want to stay in the Eurozone/Schengen
even though opinions on the EU overall are mixed
There's just no reason why you'd want to arbitrarily restrict yourself to Canada when the amount of choice and opportunity open up so drastically when you have access to America as well. Even if you like where you were raised in the provinces or end up sticking it out in Vancouver/Halifax/Toronto or wherever
It makes minimal sense to have borders between the US/Canada, but when you drill into what a realistic balance between the states and provinces would be, it really only makes sense in the context of integration/annexation, because you can't decouple the two really
Quebec is the odd one, because they can't be decoupled yet are culturally non-homogenous with the rest of N.America
but, given the choice between straight independence and a Texas like arrangement, I think the later is probably more stable long-term, even if the Greater US isn't going to continue to placate them with French language concessions that Canada is currently subject to
this being 50-50 is really comforting
half of your country isn't retarded Pika
yeah it really is boomers holding you back
and if it ends up being a $1.00 CAD ---> $1.40 USD swap, that would be such a massive economic incentive
especially after any future economic downturn
Did everyone see the democratic congresswomen smash dance btw? Didn't see it posted above in my quick glance through https://youtu.be/QVb2qPF8tHE
Saturday, March 8, 2025
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