It’s blatant extortion now.

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    Lol. I actually support this.

    It’ll be worse for Canadians, but better for the US and therefore the world as a whole.

    I mean, imagine how all those Canadian voters can affect Congress.

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      Yea, if we practically look at an annexation of Canada, they’re a federal govt so each province would be wanting statehood realistically. Imagine how many liberal congresspeople we’d be getting.

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        😍

        Imagine all those electoral college votes!

        We’d never have another fascist president again!

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      It wouldn’t happen. The Republicans would either gerrymander the hell out of Canada in their favor, or Canada would just be another unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico - part of the US but no representation in Congress.

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      In such a scenario we’d affect Congress by making it one of many targets in a war. Americans need to stop thinking of this as a fun little thought experiment and start thinking of it how it would really be: a bloody war on the North American continent that will directly impact you.

      We Canadians don’t exist just to be just tools of American politics, no matter which side of those politics you may be on. We’re a country and we will defend our country through any means available. We don’t want to be part of some bullshit Electoral College that was devised by your bullshit slave master “founders”.

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        Sigh. Canadians are nothing but a bunch of armchair soldiers.

        Look at their military. Most of them are terrified of guns. There’s no world where Canadians are ever a significant threat to the US.

        If you’re talking about terrorism, all you need to be is designated as terrorists and any “resistance” you put up will be put down, fast.

        You guys are really out of touch with reality.