Donald Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

You should watch Perun's "All blingm no basics". Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is expensive.

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

Nuclear proliferation is always bad. I don't give a damn about the second cold war.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Well a lot of what he does is distraction. But yeah I think he wants Canada (even though it would shift things left, which he hasn't thought about and likely won't acknowledge).

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

it's a distraction, but it's also very real. everything is a disraction from everything else. they'll get away with whatever they're allowed. use what power you have to sabotage the things you can and do your best to have faith that someone is doing the same for the things you can't help. i with there was more to do. i really do. but right now the biggest, most dangerous force in the battle between good, evil, and indifferent are the indifferent. we're stuck out here desperately trying to convince the indifferent that the news media is fully captured and that the onslaught minorities say is happening is really happening

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

No one said it was good. I said you're too late. The proliferation is happening regardless.

[tunetardis@lemmy.ca]

Hans Island and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, respectively, for anyone head-scratching on this one.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Well, by that account... There's a bridge linking France and Brazil.

[pivot_root@lemmy.world]

It's not going to shift things left if Canada was annexed. Even if they were given voting rights (which is doubtful), their population is both a magnitude smaller, and Alberta exists.

[alexstarfire@lemmy.world]

Yea, everyone knows it'll be Monday. The worst day of the week.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

How much was the election won by? Pretty sure it was less than 35 million.

[grte@lemmy.ca]

Countries don't have brothers, they have interests.

[pivot_root@lemmy.world]

They can influence the popular vote, but that legitimately means nothing as far as elections are concerned. If they give the entire country 2 electoral college votes as a state, it's voter base is effectively irrelevant to the outcome of any future election.

Should Canada be annexed, they would more likely be given one vote per province, which is 13 votes. With a couple of their provinces being heavily conservative already, as far as shifting things left goes, that would be more like 10 votes. And for context, the state of Florida has 30.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

Fun fact: we used to have a secret one the Americans gave us.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

If i were Taiwan or Iran or Ukraine it would be my top priority.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

Turns out people were pretty good at guessing what the end of America would look like.

[woodscientist@sh.itjust.works]

You're assuming Canadians will be immediately granted American citizenship and representation. Most likely, Canada would become a US territory like Guam or Puerto Rico, and kept that way for at least a generation.

[mummifiedclient5000@feddit.dk]

Certainly true for the US.

[eatthecake@lemmy.world]

It's sad that all I can do as an Aussie is buy some real maple syrup. It also says a lot about what Canada gives to the world. There's a damn good reason that Americans put the Canadian flag on their backpacks. We say here that New Zealand is to Australia what Canada is to America. They are our better, kinder sibling, the ones who didn't join the war, the ons with more honour and integrity. Go Canada.

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

Trudeau should suggest that the US become Canada's 11th Province.

[someguy3@lemmy.world]

Administratively it wouldn't be one state, it would be 10 states because of the 10 provinces. You have 10 provincial governments that run pretty much the same as state governments. If you didn't do that you'd have "state" level, and then a second State level, before you get into counties and lower. Canada can not run as one state, as states are set up.