Trump’s threats to Canada are not idle boasts and shouldn’t be taken as such. They call for a whole of society response.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    The only takeover Canada is risking at this moment is one from within. It’s insane there is anyone in Canada that wants to be part of the US… And apparently there’s a decent number of these idiots.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah it’s like 10%

      The CBC interviewed one of these people and that guy was basically only cared about money and though paying lower taxes would be better. Probably didn’t factor in paying more money for health insurance.

      But there was a guy nearby out walking his dog. When told what the interview was about he said “Is that what that rock over there is for? So we can throw it at him?”

      I think it’s just terminally online people that are greedy as fuck. But there isn’t much risk of that 10% taking us over. If anything, they’re the ones taking a risk if they express their collaborator bullshit publicly. 10% with soft support vs. 90% that are absolutely against everything they’re about.

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        10 hours ago

        Don’t underestimate the number of idiots that will vote to inflict pain on everyone. Fight it, if you can. Signed, a population learning the hard way.

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        15 hours ago

        We’re also underestimating how much Americans pay for insurance every month. It’s like a whole second rent. Which I guess we pay through higher taxation but then again, we don’t have to worry about setting up a gofundme if we get sick. Not to mention the secondary effects of this precarity: the whole premise of Breaking Bad for example doesn’t make sense in Canada.

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah so much of American culture is influenced by their terrible healthcare. Feelgood stories about people pooling together their money to help someone with their medical bills. It making sense to sue a family member for being injured in their house because it’ll mean their insurance will cover the medical bills.

          It’s really insane.