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[–] HoMaster@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

Include Colorado and Hawaii.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hate so say it, but you should grab Michigan and Wisconsin. Much like a girl I used to know: We can fix her, and she has huge lakes that I find appealing. Or something like that.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't Wisconsin like a cold version of Alabama?

[–] knexcar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

No, I’m living there now, and the city I’m in feels like a wannabe California (aka liberal, techy, high housing costs, etc)

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sucks. But Look at that map. Those lakes are fairly important. Well either that or do a Robert Evans plan and just nuke them.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Bump for nuking the so called "Great" lakes

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Is the US losing just about all of the top universities in this "trade"?

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

Where they’re going they don’t need no universities.

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Nobody's going to go there after abortion is banned.

Nobody wants their prince or princess saddled with that.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 21 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Why would I want to join Canada???? I don't do well in the cold smh my head

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 37 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).

-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).

-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).

-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.

-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.

-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.

-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.

-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).

-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.

and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).

(We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Imagine how much worse all of those statistics will get once they absorb large chunks of the US!

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

I can assure you that the vast majority of Canadians are well aware of that fact and totally disinterested in become part of the US or taking on any part thereof.

Americans joining Canada would have to give up their guns and other weapons, compete that training and licensing processes, and if successful would have the revocable and modifiable privilege of owning a very small selection of approved guns. They would have to accept that religious freedom in Canada, which is much higher than in the US, means that you are free to practice your religion in any way you choose as long as it doesn't effect anyone else's rights and you are free to have no religion at all. They would have to accept that it is settled law in Canada that a woman's healthcare decisions are between her and her healthcare provider and none of anyone else's business. They would have to accept that everyone has the right to marry, has had the right for decades, and that the only thing destroy traditional marriage is traditionally married people. They would have to accept that free speech in Canada does not include racism or hate speech. Most Americans would not fit in in Canada and we are not interested in becoming Americans and giving up the things that make us the best country in the world.

Not really. Canada's getting all the states that are doing the heavy lifting in those shitty numbers. If not for them, every metric would be worse.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is this an unlabeled bad joke that's too close to what an actual idiot would say in real life?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

We are on Lemmy, so it's mostly still save to assume the first case

I actually liked the joke too

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Australia can come too. THE END!

Edit for the young ones: this is older than YouTube. It was a flash animation which was like a 2d game engine that ran in-game cutscenes in your web browser because that worked on slower internet speeds than video.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh man I'd love to see the civil unrest in the red States when they don't have us new Yorkers to give them their welfare payments.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 14 points 12 hours ago

Same from the west coast. If only cali oregon and washington could just be a west coast alliance separate from the rest of the problem states.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 9 hours ago

I wouldn't mind becoming a part of Canada so long as I still can get my financial aid for college. That, and we make it so anything coming in from Asia to the US has to either go to through us and we make them pay a little extra for it, or it be sent along another route.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

michigan is obviously already canadian _

I’m a Canadian and my dream is to one day fake my death and move to Minnesota where I can live in a small cabin away from anyone.

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 43 points 17 hours ago (14 children)

Accepting pleas from other comments here, Canada could get away with about this. And if they have the whole Pacific border, I'll also throw in Hawaii for free.

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Having Arizona would a big L for Canada

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You'd have to create a corridor through Southern Idaho and Northern Utah to join the new state of "New Mexirado" with the rest if you removed Arizona... Hard work, but I believe it could be done.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

As a New Mexican, I approve either of these options to join Canada

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but how else do they get Colorado and New Mexico?

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Hm. Went with cutting Washington and Oregon in half rather than full take. Pretty bold, but makes some sense.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago

Theres citylife washington and middle of nowhere washington. Occasionally middle of nowhere washington likes to throw fits in the city to support trump because they have nothing better to do

Though i guess that goes with cali as well. Lots of the non cities in the west coast just really love trump despite reaping all the state benefits that are very non-republican.

[–] greenhorn@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Eastern Oregon is already trying to join Idaho anyway

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We should give Texas to Mexico just to spite them

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You forgot Colorado. But yes.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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