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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I have a trade offer for Canada. America gets Alberta, Canada gets New England, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific, and Puerto Rico.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Canada will take California as well

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That’s part of the Pacific.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 points 23 hours ago

I should have been more spacific.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think we'd need a laneway across Alberta so B.C. isn't cut off. Maybe encompassing the oil fields?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

need a laneway across Alberta

They'll get so little land that the trans-canada highway will probably suffice. I do not agree in rewarding the colonizers who genocidally settled North America from the Clovis people, but the current administration has arbitrarily decided on that, so that's the law -- it's theirs, apparently, and more importantly, it's not available for the people of Marlaina Smith to try and take with them.

Ultimately, they trade in their passports and get a plane ticket. That's the only deal they deserve.

I'd GLADLY accept a People Swap, thogh, where we take in wonderful Minnesotans in exchange for the stupidest of our demented flatlander contingent.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

our demented flatlander contingent.

I love the ambiguity of being flat earth believers or people living on flat land. great work.