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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 55 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

"It'll be our beautiful 51st state!"

🎃

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

More like the US will be bought by Canada.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I too like to help people out but I don't know if we'll survive absorbing Florida and Texas while remaining a federal democracy. We already have Alberta and it's difficult. 😅

(AB canucks, this is a joke. Please don't get mad at me. If you still do, I apologize.)

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Just take the northeast (NY, VT, CT, MA, NH, RI, ME), and the west coast. The rest won't complain.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

Please do, I would rather be Canadian these days.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 weeks ago

A few more states would be happy to join I'd say.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Washington and Oregon at least are part of the West Coast, and I don't know how much Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas would complain. Outside of urban areas the country seems to be pretty red regardless of where you go, and those states are definitely not known for being very urban.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If Canada got rid of FPTP, proportional representation and ranked voting across all its provinces (Texas and Florida would become provinces) and federation (get rid of the monarchy), Florida and Texas would be much less of an issue.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

For sure. That said PR isn't a panacea. It solves a legitimate issue but it doesn't solve the orthogonal and serious problem of democracy's tendency to represent large capital.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh. Try living here!

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As a Texan, I find your joke insulting. Primarily because it's typed instead of being a video and I have no clue what it says.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

One can only hope. Just think of it as a renovation project.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is Canada that big on charities? I know they’re well known as being pleasant and kind, but are they so pleasant and kind that they’d accept a catastrophically bankrupt welfare country as their own?

There no expected ROI on America for decades!

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 weeks ago

They can just own it like a colony. All the control, none of the financial responsibility.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that already allocated to Greenland? So 52nd it is!

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 3 weeks ago

I bet their president can't name 9 states. This isn't even a jke