• ctkatz@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    i’m going to take a counter argument here. the united states should annex canada and buy greenland.

    why?

    because the population of canada is more than california.

    because there are 48 democratic senators.

    because canada and denmark are both more left leaning than california is.

    see where i’m going here? canada and greenland gives dems enough people to force through their agenda through the house and senate. and with enough backlash there’s probably going to be a lot of gop senators who aren’t going to be senators in 2026, probably enough to hit 69 which would be the minimum to remove trump from office. probably enough to impeach that little lickspittle vance too. and then enough votes for a democratic president (since the house would be run by democrats, 3rd in succession is the speaker of the house) to sign bills giving canada it’s “independance” and return greenland to denmark.

    if trump wants it that badly, then lets give it to him.

        • CircaV@lemmy.ca
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          7 hours ago

          If the US annexes Canada, ex-Canadians will use the 2nd amendment to take Canada back. It’s the stupidest fucking idea ever. Canadians don’t want to be Americans, the only way it could happen is through violent forced annexation. And then the US would be caught up in a perpetual war of insurgency on the continent.

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            4 hours ago

            I know that. I’m just going off what OP said.

            make them a territory of the US like PR.

            The people of PR can’t vote in our elections unless they move to the mainland. Same thing would apply here. Not that Canadians would allow that to happen. And quite a few Americans would join to help them.

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      1 day ago

      So you want to forcefully exploit people in other nations for your own benefit too, just in a different way to Trump.

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      1 day ago

      Chances are that if the lonnie and donnie show annex Canada that the idea of free and fair elections would be over. Or, if they were to somehow come out of such a scenario with free and fair elections, they do something to rig Canada so any progressive majority would be blunted (just like it is already) by the Electoral College.