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[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also: why not give Texas back to Mexico? It'd solve their obsession with "the border problem."

[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because Mexico already has enough problems without having to deal with Texans?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But think of all the oil they could sell to the US!

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

You move that gods damned line to include Michigan. Right fucking now.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nope. Move to a real blue state if you wanna come. MI has betrayed us too many times. We don't need that in New Canada.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

As a Michigander myself I fucking demand this also

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

You guys decided to vote for the fascist.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The entirety of Michigan? Or should the Upper Peninsula stay a part of the US?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

/c/CartographyAnarchy is leaking

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You can have islands that belong to countries, why not land locked enclaves! (Yes I under logistics and such)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if we just take the empty parts of WY and MT to connect CO?

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On behalf of California, we accept this proposal, and we accept Canada as our new federal government.

I also propose we officially refer to the remainder of the US as "Dumbfuckistan".

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

ITT: People pretending that Oregon, Michigan, and probably Washington don't have a huge population of total fuckos.

Carve a line down the coasts. You don't want the whole state. And while you're at it, take the lakes and Chicago

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Canada also has its own population of total fucks. We keep them in the prairies. However like those states, it might be leaning more towards wanting that?

Disclaimer: not a source, just an ass on the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Accepting pleas from other comments here, Canada could get away with about this. And if they have the whole Pacific border, I'll also throw in Hawaii for free.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We should give Texas to Mexico just to spite them

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Having Arizona would be a big L for Canada

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hm. Went with cutting Washington and Oregon in half rather than full take. Pretty bold, but makes some sense.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

I hate so say it, but you should grab Michigan and Wisconsin. Much like a girl I used to know: We can fix her, and she has huge lakes that I find appealing. Or something like that.

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[–] phoenixz 40 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Seriously, why isn't the Canadian government offering US states to join them? It would be the perfect response to Trumps bullshit.

You want Canada to submit to the US? Hey Oregon, California, and the others, wanna join us instead?

If California leaves the US it would fucking bankrupt the US.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Washington State: "Come on! We're right there. Are we a joke to you and just here for you to shop?"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man I'd love to see the civil unrest in the red States when they don't have us new Yorkers to give them their welfare payments.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Same from the west coast. If only cali oregon and washington could just be a west coast alliance separate from the rest of the problem states.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

If you go by recent province/state wide election results:

Alberta, Saskatchewan and probably Manitoba go to Jesusland.

... And Colorado and New Mexico, and Illinois become exclaves like Kaliningrad.

CO+NM is exceptionally fucked because its landlocked, and almost in a Lesotho situation (being wholly surrounded by a single other country) were it not for Mexico...

Though I guess Illinois would not be much better off as Jesusland would likely claim it owns all of Lake Michigan beyond 50 miles of Illinois' shore.

And Virginia actually went for Harris, so that's also part the United States of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Actually, only 19% of Albertans would want to join the US according to this poll . I'm surprised too. It really looks like these people are a loud minority. Or that at least being more conservative doesn't necessarily mean wanting to become part of the US.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

lol @ New Hampshire

Also, that would be about 37% of the US economy. California making the highest percentage at 14% of the US economy while New York would be in 2nd place at 8%. The least impactful would be Vermont with 0.2% (for got to include Rhode Island). However, I think this would wreck the world economy with the financial hub of the US (New York City) who manages the investments of world's reserve currency (dollar) would switch from US Dollar to Canadian Dollar. The US would also lose access to the Pacific and a considerable amount of military force stationed in the West Coast states.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Why would I want to join Canada???? I don't do well in the cold smh my head

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).

-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).

-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).

-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.

-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.

-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.

-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.

-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).

-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.

and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).

(We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Excuse me but that incorporation of California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia gets in the way of the glorious Long Chile Project. We shall be having words.

(By all means do take MN, CT and WDC tho.)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Where can I vote for this proposal?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Solving the problem is dissolving all borders so the working class isn't divided into easily managed nation states.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

WI and MI want in on that, for sure

Well, MI at least

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Milwaukee and Madison at least..

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Trump: Fine, they can have California for all I care.

Advisors: Sir, if California were its own country it would be the world's 6th largest economy.

Trump: How about if we just send all the Mexicans there with some beautiful rakes?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

They are already here. Who the fuck you think does the farming?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Is the US losing just about all of the top universities in this "trade"?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where they’re going they don’t need no universities.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Michigan belong to Canada

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Australia can come too. THE END!

Edit for the young ones: this is older than YouTube. It was a flash animation which was like a 2d game engine that ran in-game cutscenes in your web browser because that worked on slower internet speeds than video.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Poor Colorado

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

THANK YOU for including Minnesota.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm neither American nor Canadian but from what I've heard, maybe hand Alberta over to the US?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can someone ask r/askconservatives how they feel about this plan?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

NY thanks you for your support. What’s the pizza/poutine exchange rate like these days? Haven’t been up north in years.

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