• @[email protected]
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    499 months ago

    Why is Quebec included? They don’t even want to be part of the country they are a part of

    • @greedytacothief
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      69 months ago

      I think it has to do with the st. Lawrence. But yeah the queebs are weird.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Although no-one likes the Québécois, and they don’t like anyone else either, their linguistic and cultural ties to Europe allowed them to bring the Civil Code, delicious pastries, and proportional representation to the Constitution of this new country.

      However they are now very resentful of the positive effect this had on the other States and a separatist Québécois party is trying to impose a Federal Pastry Export Moratorium.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        Could you say more about Quebec and proportional representation? I tried searching all I found were some articles about Quebec hating non proportional representation.

        I live in the US were as far as I know proportional representation is not a thing, which is incredibly useful to maintain the two party system. I come from a more civilized place with proportional representation and universal healthcare and it hurts so much to see how broken this country is.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Québec doesn’t have it, I’m European but I can only surmise that were they given a chance, they’d run with the opportunity to fix FPTP. Unlike the Anglosphere they are way less stuck with the “we have to democracy the British way” mindset.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            Thank you, it’s just crazy how bad the electoral system is in the US.

            Pointless side note: autocomplete wrote “electrical system” above and that is also true.

            • ferret
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              19 months ago

              idn dawg, I haven’t had an issue with the US electrical grid in the past ten years and the local energy companies are leaning hard into renewables.

              • @[email protected]
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                29 months ago

                https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/why-us-lose-power-storms/

                The US ranks 126 by percentage of renewable energy production in the world. Also this has nothing to do with the quality of the grid.

                You might live in an area where the grid is good, but a lot of the US is an embarrassment. Propane had a storm this winter that left a lot of people without power for several days. Texas is… Texas it can’t handle cold or hot weather. California’s grid main purpose seems to be starting fires.

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                  9 months ago

                  Texas shouldn’t be included imo, they decided to shovel feces into their mouth and can’t be helped, and cali is an outlier among the states

  • flamingos-cant
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    469 months ago

    No state that includes Quebec can be considered great.

    Also why is Utah highlighted.

    • @captainlezbian
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      The Iroquois confederacy wasn’t perfect but it was actually a far bigger influence on American governance than people act like. It was a major nation and should be treated as an equal nation to the colonizers similarly to how we are treating such folks as the Aztec and Inca Empires. Also it still exists which I didn’t realize until I was fact checking some statements before making them and found the website of The Hadenosaunee Confederacy. So yeah they’re still around and their influence helped shape one of the most powerful nations the world has ever seen.

      And on that note can we please rename Columbus Ohio to Hiawatha.

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        18 months ago

        Maybe we should speed up the land back stuff and restore the Haudenosaunee to its rightful place ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • @EvilEyedPanda
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    149 months ago

    Together we can kick out Nestlé and supply the world with affordable drinking water!

  • @captainlezbian
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    149 months ago

    Unironically it would be an immensely powerful nation. Good food production, good infrastructure, two of the three largest cities in the United States, many world class universities and research institutes, good mineral wealth as far as the industrialized northern hemisphere goes, lots of water, great commercial projection capacity, and a metric fuck ton of people. All without any of the dead weight states except Indiana. And all we’d have to do is deal with a bit of people who speak French poorly and a province that’s far more liberal than its insane government (ON, but swap province for state and that describes OH too)

    It’d also be an absolute powerhouse of workers rights

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      Why are you name dropping Indiana? Indiana ranked 20th in terms of state GDP, and has a higher GDP than both Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as higher growth. I agree that the mid west would be a power house, but I don’t understand why Indiana is a dead weight state.

      • @captainlezbian
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        29 months ago

        Because I’m an Ohioan who likes Michigan and I have to bully a neighbor. Also because the only place I’ve been to in Indiana since I was a teenager was Fort Wayne and you know what if you decide Ohio is worthless because you keep having to visit family in Dayton fair.

        Also because it feels like punching down to mock their government’s decision to bring back AIDS. But I will stand in solidarity with Gary alongside Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit as the great hellholes of the Great Lakes that actually aren’t even that bad anymore.

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    Trust me, you don’t want Indiana. You really don’t.

    If it comes down to it, carve out the lakeside and discard the rest. Keep the dunes and miss the crazy racist Christo-fascists…

  • 🦄🦄🦄
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    89 months ago

    You gotta hope Robert Evans doesn’t get access to those nukes tho…

  • @Betch
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    59 months ago

    Aw please don’t leave Atlantic Canada out, we’re good people I swear!

      • @Betch
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        139 months ago

        It’s super cold and we’re very poor but we’ve got big hearts and lots of fish :3

  • @KuroiKaze
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    29 months ago

    Lol NYC is easily the only really valuable thing here. Chicago and Philly are way past their prime.