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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

Surely they could work out some kind of citizenship trade with 'muricans looking to escape.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not all of them. I know a few that genuinely believe this would be a good thing. They're mostly far right conservatives though, who wish they could immigrate to Texas or whatever, but can't because the US does not actually want them. So to them, it feels like a backdoor option. Full on trumpets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Good point. But the upvote is for β€œ trumpets β€œ lol!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just don't understand where these people get their information. I haven't been able to find any verifiable facts that make statehood a good idea or would save any money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Verifiable facts are not part of their thought process.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I hear they'll make you an honorary citizen and even provide you a new home if you show up at the border with gun and declare you are a foreigner who wants to live in America!

Also,

Fuck. These. Fucking. Piece. Of. Shit. Little. Fucking. Goofs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

tbh, i am wondering is it really "small minority", or just "small part" of the minority that we heard/seen.

how many of them are staying quiet but secretly want to join the USA.

bottomline, it is still scarying me that PC still poll 37+%

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I believe the correct term for them is: Fucking Losers.

Doors are due south. Kindly fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

They are welcome to fuck right off to the USA any time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Those Albertans can fuck right off to the States then, can't they?

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

I propose a trade. Alberta for the Western and Northeastern states.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

As a Californian, please. Also, don’t give up Banff/Jasper as part of that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do they even know what they are signing up for? (American style health care, school shootings, DOGE, etc?)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

All they care about are

  • Lower Taxes
  • Religious Extremism
  • Guns
  • Petrol

Let's be real, most of those folks are probably traditional white Bible Belt Conservative that would love to go back 60 years in the past.

We really need to be careful though because the left in the US underestimated those and their money and influence, we cannot do the same here and let them sneak their way into power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Also living under a fascist authoritarian regime.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Post to remember to come back once there is a non paywall link so I can comment beyond the content of the headline

Edit:

Holy shit the guy in this article has got to be the stupidest person ever interviewed.

The Albertans who want to be the 51st state can consider themselves met, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I had paywall remover scanning just waiting for someone to archive it

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

A.K.A. traitors.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish these people would just move down there instead of dragging the rest of us with them into their pit of misery.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same! I went the other way to escape this craziness - now I risk ending up right back where I started.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yup. They can sell all their property and move, but they ain't taking any land with them.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're free to leave any time you want, the border is right there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair, recent events like https://lemmy.ca/post/41181182 and https://lemmy.ca/post/41102961 or https://lemmy.ca/post/41065802 or https://lemmy.ca/post/41091031 suggest it'd be harder for them to move over to the US now than it used to be. At least as Canadians.

Most likely, the only realistic option they have for moving to the US would be to attract someone and marryH^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HH

The only realistic option for them is for Canada join the US as a single country. Which is still wildly unrealistic. But it's all they have, sad as it is.

That being said, if a future option opens up - say from a new treaty provides an option where they irreversibly renounce being Canadian in return for getting US citizenship - I wouldn't necessarily say no to that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I'm sure they'd love to live in the Dakotas. Bye!