• bss03@infosec.pub
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    2 hours ago

    I doubt they’ll take #Arkansas, so I’m screwed either way until my familial duty is complete.

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    4 hours ago

    As someone who lives in California, I would love this.

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      3 hours ago

      We’d love to have ya!

      Have a chat with Hawaii, okay? Mom wants to go before she dies but she won’t go with Trump in charge. Get them on board and event the flight’s domestic. Woot!

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    Yes. One million times yes. Let’s watch the GOP fucking implode when the largest GDP State (CA) leaves their ass. It’s insane they are whining about our fires… Idaho was far more on fire this year than us in California. And that was all forest, not literal neighborhoods that 100% raked their fuckin leaves.

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    8 hours ago

    Here’s a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.

    please save us from Y’All Qaeda

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      3 hours ago

      Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.

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          @KuroiKaze@lemmy.world

          @doingthestuff@lemy.lol

          Well obviously not everyone as I love it but im ok with you guys not wanting to be there. I have a feeling if you don’t like chicago you would not like toronto.

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

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      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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              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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                  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.

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    Hey, take illinois. Its connected via the great lakes, and we may be #12 in terms of GDP, about 50-60%% of goods travelling by rail or road through the US have to go through us.

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      I mean, as a Canadian I would say come on and get this going. Hell Alaska can join as well.

      Then tarriff the shit out of Trump for anything being shipped through new Canada from China lol.

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      I don think you’d have to become part of Canada to join the Commonwealth so maybe there’s a chance?