The compromise is adding the proper pronunciation of the letter Z to the kindergarten curriculum, and highschool gets French courses.

"I'll be aboot time you say zed correctly!"

Can some of us, uh, join you though?

I assume certain short-term things will get better with anyone less crazy than Trump, but I agree the US is no longer reliable for anything long-term, and no other country should deal with us on the assumption that we'll give up certain short-term advantages for a long term stability within our sphere of influence. It's not even that the US was "good" (though I imagine the next hegemonic power could easily be worse), but across administrations, the US was generally intelligent about how to leverage its influence but retain enough goodwill to continue to do so indefinitely.

Was it worth it?

Southerners: "Yes, but we get to abuse brown people again!"

For him and his administration? Yes, it was worth it. Destroying that was the entire point.

U S perspective here.

I keep remembering that oath our armed forces repeat so much: "... To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

What in the flippin' hell do these bastards gotta do to be considered "domestic enemies"‽

Because apparently directly provoking all our neighbors to attack us out of self defense, or allying with friggin' Putin, along with a million other treasons, aren't qualifying enough? Who over there is gonna actually protect and defend the Constitution and the People of the United States of America?!

Because dammit we haven't lived this frickin long, through countless crises and bullshit, just to get shot or bombed by a Canadian we should've been sharing pancakes and beer with!!!

FULFILL THAT OATH YOU LIKE TO RECITE SO MUCH. OR COUNTLESS INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE OVER ORANGE CALIGULA'S EGO.

Preventing a shit show like this was literally why the second amendment was written

Fuck off with that bullshit. We have no interest in losing our freedom, healthcare, safety and rights to save the usa.

Maybe you should try fixing your own house.

Also, there are 10 provinces and 3 territories.

I'll keep my sovereignty, Healthcare and safe children, and defend that with my life.

Try to do something and see how your army does against 30 million insurgents who you can't tell from your own citizens. You couldn't beat Iraq, wouldn't be good against Canada, nato and the commonwealth.

Elbows up

Suggesting that invading and annexing a country is an "enticing offer" if they're given voting rights instead of becoming an enslaved resource colony is a hell of a take... "But it'll be good because the USA will benefit!"

Stop sanewashing a horrific invasion with selfish American-centric reasons. I'm trying to say this in the nicest way possible but this is one of the reasons the world despises the USA right now.

I see these types of comments constantly and it blows my mind that some Americans think this is reasonable and not a deeply offensive and ignorant thing to say.

Yeah, that's the thing. Even if you buy the idea of Trump's policies (which TBH have a few grains of truth), the implementations of them are so full of nonsense. Like, ok, get Canada into the US, let's just roll with that for the sake of argument... It might make Canada and the US stronger, like the openness between the states does. It would consolidate many federal functions. Canda could retain their culture like individual states do. Sounds plausible.

...And your plan is to get them to join as one state, and only if they grovel to you, by harassing them on Twitter, offering zero details? Like, what world is he living in?

Thanks to Elections Canada it's actually a lot better than the states. We also get answers sooner. There's nothing like an American election to make Canadians thankful for Elections Canada.

Christopher Tidus just did two hour and a half long podcasts with a guest. He never has guests. The guest is a veteran that has teamed up with a data analyst and a computer geek. They have the data. The election was stolen. They used every single method from kicking voters off the eligible elector list, to vote switching, to ballot box stuffing. The election was a sham that shows a clear Russian Tail.

https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs

https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0

I sure as hell wouldn't want the job of securing logistics in the northern woods with a bunch of angry Canucks running around.

couldnt stomach a fight against dirt poor cavemen

And yet, you think you haven't succumbed to American brainrot.

Hi, you’re not invading us. If you do - everyone dies. Canadians are extremely fucking petty. If we can’t have what belongs to us - no one is getting it. We’ll uranium the waterways, and burn our own power stations. We will burn our earth and torch the sky before Yanks take one square centimetre from us. You will see.

Just a reminder to non-canadians that a core part of Canadian identity has always been not being American. It’s a quasi-colonized pov. Make it real and it will be life-or-death for many many folk.

The US' infrastructure is incredibly weak and vulnerable, and there are about a million(!) Canadians living in the US -- and that doesn't include dual citizens which is probably double that.

So it'll be nothing for Canadians living in the US to fuck shit up in a major way. How many refineries do you think the US can lose before people can't buy gas anymore? Those Amazon warehouses look pretty flammable. Datacentres would probably burn pretty good too. How long will it take to replace those high-power transmission line transformers? How is the East Coast going to power itself when Canada stops powering them? How are US airports going to operate when there's small drones continuously overhead? In fact given the hub-and-spoke design of US air travel, only a few airports need to be droned to completely shut down air travel across the US, including shipping. On a final note, only a few hundred grams of thermite can melt of hole through a wing or a fibreglas hull, so a lot of VERY expensive billionaire and government hardware can be reduced to ash with nothing but a small drone and a pissed-off Canadian.