• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying, "Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?

    I live in California and I’d like this. But then the USA would never have a non-GOP president ever again and that’s against my conscience.

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      1 hour ago

      At some point it stops being a game of “save everyone”, and starts becoming “save as many as you can”.

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      15 hours ago

      The “United States” is done anyway, there’s no way, ironically, to make America great again.

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      17 hours ago

      Washington would fit right in. Western Washington is already a lot like British Columbia, and Eastern Washington is already a lot like Alberta.

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              15 hours ago

              News to me, same crazy people all over. But as Canada’s punching bag, feel free to take it out on Alberta.

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                  11 hours ago

                  I get the idea, but you have not lived here since 82. I have to travel a bit in the prairies and let me tell you a lot of Canada makes cowtown look like a progressive paradise. Is it worse now, yeah. Is it as bad as say a town in Manitoba or Saskatchewan? Nope, but we Canadians don’t like to think of our countries slide into right wing populism out side of Alberta.