• TeoTwawki
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    20 hours ago

    its like he saw the intro to the original fallout game and decided he wanted to make ww3 happen.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    What about the Americans, are they for it too? I mean theoretically yes, otherwise they wouldn’t have voted for him, but in practice he didn’t talk about it before the election.

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      i’m just trying to survive. I vote in the federal elections and send emails to my reps that do nothing. At the local level everything seems twice as expensive as it was four years ago and getting money is twice as difficult so that occupies most of the energy i have.

      It’s ridiculous, asinine and terrible what is going on at the federal level. Canada and Mexico have been our allies for a very long time. I love Vancouver BC especially. But what can I do? I have joined local orgs they just want money.

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      US dissident here

      in favor of the opposite

      please Cananda annex us for our sakes and the world at large

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      To play devils advocate, Trump did not campaign on this exact kind of rhetoric. He campaigned on a lot of hateful rhetoric for sure but nothing about specifically annexing Canada. I only say this to argue that it’s conceivable that people voted for Trump but do not want to annex Canada.

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        Same? Nope. Good? Hell yeah, their voters are way more liberal than ours there could a hell of a lot of electoral votes that will be deeply blue.

        Obviously I’m joking but it’s clearly not something that is thought through.

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          Yeah, it’s funny if they just capitulated though enough of their populace could overturn Trump and turn us back to democracy.

          If that’s the route please Canadians do that.

          I will never turn against allies. This is so dumb.

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      23 hours ago

      At 7:30 in the video, it’s shown that 6% are in favour of annexing Canada using political and economic pressure, and only 2% in favour of using military force.

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      If you had asked before the election, I’m pretty sure 99% of the public including MAGAs would’ve considered the notion an absurd joke.

      After Trump vomited up the idea the first time, I’m pretty sure 99% of MAGAs are now sincerely and blood-thirstily in favor of it. Everybody else is either horrified if they’re paying attention, or still considering it a joke if they’re not.

      Edit: “99% of MAGAs” might be a pretty cynical guess. However, I think it’s dangerous to underestimate the effect of Trump’s cult of personality on this topic.

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        Its less about the number that agree, its moreso the ones that disagree still respect/fear donald enough that their stance is pretty much “if thats what donald wants” or “if we need to take Canada to make America great again, so be it”. They simply can’t abandon their king or admit that he wasn’t who he seemed to them.

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      They are mostly asleep. Until it directly affects them in a negative way, most people won’t care enough to take direct action. It is just another bad thing happening to someone else. Like Ukraine and Gaza.

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        The Trump voters are asleep, and perhaps also those who abstained from voting, but those of us who voted against him are very much awake, and very much tired. So fucking tired…

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        Which is why Canada and EU target red state products first in the counter tariffs, and red states really didn’t like that.

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      I haven’t talked to a single person who I’ve heard ok with the idea and I live in a very red area. I can’t imagine there are a lot of people who would be actually for it

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      I saw some numbers posted last night where it was only 1% in favour, 9% if Canada votes on it and the rest opposed or undecided. Admittedly, they didn’t supply a source and I didn’t question them on it but, considering 13% of Canadians want it to happen, those numbers seem slightly suspect.