Trump doubles down on annexation threat, says Canada would be ‘cherished state’
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One thing I despise about the US (gun violence and healthcare inequitability aside) is how it measures the value of everything in money.
It's culture is a commodification machine. Nothing can just be beautiful for the sake of being beautiful, it has to be made into a side hustle somehow.
Most Americans are married to their jobs and have little work life balance relative to Canadians and Europeans.
There is a remarkable amount of mental gymnastics done by people trying to gaslight themselves into thinking this is what they want, even though most would be happier and healthier with more time off.
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Haha, I want a t-shirt that says : Stay mad about the poutine tarrifs
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Statscan has the estimate at ~41.5 million as of the end of last year.
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I disagree with only one point there: while America as a political entity is like a crazy crackhead, it's like a very heavily armed crazy crackhead. Treat the prospect of being invaded by the US the same way Ukrainians treated the prospect of being invaded by Russia. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst, because the US military is really good at wrecking whole countries even if it sucks at occupying them.
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And are they just going to start shooting normal people at random? Canadians look exactly and sound exactly like America. The US Military is really good at wrecking a country but who cares when we can cross a border you can't defend, mingle perfectly and start guerilla attacks against major infrastructure?
This war is not just tanks vs planes and ships vs submarines. This would end violently for America.
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If I have to fight for my country and defend it, then I'll happily do so.
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Most of the people I'm around are not rich by any means, but they are not living paycheck to paycheck. Rising cost of living is worrying, but manageable. They can afford to pay even the littlest bit of attention or concern, but they don't. Because then they would have to admit that things are collapsing around them week by week, and that's too frightening for them.
Frankly I'm tired of justifying the behavior of the average American with infantilizations like we are some lower form of life without sapience. At some point we have to own up to it, even if it's painful, even if all we have is ignorance, cowardice, and apathy.
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This plan leaves out the fact that the majority of Canadians don't want to join. They may have their challenges right now, but there are some things they aren't willing to give up, like nationalized health care and national identity. I suspect many Canadians will fight to the death over this, the same way Americans would fight if forced to join Canada. They are our neighbors and that's about as close as people want to get.
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Beautiful reference and mention of an insightful writer and author .... now I have some more reading to do. Thanks!
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At this point, I'm seriously wondering what the Reichstag fire will be that will prompt the US to conjure up an "enemy without," steamroll several sovereign countries and blockade the Mediterranean and most of the Atlantic.
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Excuse the naive question please, but how will Canadians know each other?
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That doesn't matter at all when you're actively attacking infrastructure and not people.
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Yeah I realized that as I was typing it. Our population grew so damn fast. Granted, three million or so of those don't have citizenship or permanent residency, and are a rotation of temporary students or workers. A lot are expected to leave (a lot are also expected to becomes PRs)
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Live close to the border. If I see Canadian tanks rolling through my town, I'm throwing them flowers
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So you are saying (assuming every US resident will go along with this) that we just have to take out about 10 American's each?
I like those odds.
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What's in it for Canada? Expensive ineffective healthcare? Why would they go for this?
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What a hell of 4 years that await us...
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I wouldn't call Canada's work/life balance good, but it's still better than America's.
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Multiple fronts I'd imagine.
I'd easily imagine Mexico declaring and starting to fuck shit up at the southern border.
Depending on when it starts, potentially embargoes from Europe. (Right now I think they're still too skittish, but if Trump invades after he's spent another year or so destroying international relations, I don't doubt Europe would slap embargoes on him. At some point, those countries that host American bases would tell them to fuck off back home which in the short term would be bad for Canada since it would be reinforcing the American military, but in the long term destroying America's global reach.
I'd accept casualties if it meant taking care of American imperialism long-term.
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Honestly, Canada is a terrible target from a guerrilla warfare perspective. We have vast areas of emptiness that locals are familiar with but are dangerous if you don't know how to survive there, many pocket communities that could easily hide insurgents and weaponry, lots of farming, which means lots of nitrates, a populace that can easily disappear into the American general population, and enough of an identity to not want to be absorbed by a different culture.
I don't think we could stop America from invading and occupying, but we could make Vietnam look like a walk in the park. So, who's up for another couple decades of occupation?
