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[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be happy if we could just join the EEA. I want to be able to work in the EU.

[–] NewDay@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

I think it is not that hard for you if you are a Canadian citizen. The language is the real problem.

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Washington, Oregon, and California as Canada’s 12th province. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and the northern 20% of Illinois and Indiana as the 13th.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I only hear Americans pitching this idea. Canada doesn't want any of the states haha

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 1 points 29 minutes ago

The sane ones of us who live in those states are desperate. Soory

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian, I don't hate the idea.

In any case, it's clear that the USA is less "United" these days.... It's more just ... The States of America now.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

There's like a lot of shitty people even in those states. I love Washington but no thanks.

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Wouldn’t need to stick exactly to the current state boundaries. Trim off the eastern parts of some of those states on the west coast. And get enough territory to fully encircle the Great Lakes, extended enough to include Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, all of Michigan, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and parts of upstate New York.

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

Idk. I haven't met enough people from any of these states to have an opinion.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Well just look at how many of them voted for trump. People in canada would have never voted for that.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Which is all part of the EU. Sign me up

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

Why not? I would vote yes to allow Canada into the EU.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How about the US just becomes provinces 14-64? I'll gladly take anything else.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want more convoys? Ingesting the US will give you nothing but cancer. If it's not a city or a suburb, you're just absorbing indoctrinated fascism. It's pervasive.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

Yea, I'll take the top 20.

Mexico can take the bottom 30

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Nah sorry we're not taking the red states. They can be their own Christofascist hell elsewhere.

[–] MediocreBee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Can I raise you the proposal of Canada and Jesusland

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

this looks like a dragon head with cat / dragon torso and cat legs

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Alaska needs to be integrated though, don't want another Kaliningrad.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Good point, but it's an F'n red state.

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 21 hours ago

make a list of the ones y'all want we can work out a deal

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[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Is Canada having issues with sovereign autonomy? Why even sit at the table?

[–] RelativityRanger@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I mean we did kinda get our asses kicked in 1812 after we started a war the president would later say we were unprepared for.

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

Türkiye needs to get rid of its Erdoğan problem then.

[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

The EU 🇪🇺 is more than welcome to include Canada 🇨🇦 as the 28th member state 🤝

[–] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Wouldn’t mind it one bit

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At a minimum any states bordering Canada, including those bordering the 4 Great Lakes shared with Canada, should get a vote of which country to go with.

Pennsylvania is 100% included, and honestly if Indiana and Illinois go for it despite being on the “wrong” Great Lake, I’m not going to complain.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You can give us Buffalo any day. I love that city so much.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 187 points 2 days ago (9 children)
[–] sucius1@lemdro.id 2 points 21 hours ago

Jesus Christ, yes please!

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[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 83 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

One hell of a trading block and the EU GDP would leave the MAGA fucks in their dust trail.

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 95 points 2 days ago (13 children)

As a European, I think it would be pretty funny if, after Brexit, the other parts of the former Empire joined the EU.

But at least right now, membership is probably more of a meme - some solid cooperation and shared institutions would be amazing, though.

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[–] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Might be some geographical issues (perhaps of the ocean variety) with this proposal

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

new caledonia and french guiana are laughing it up from the southern hemisphere

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Well, Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean. Canada is just a slightly bigger island, slightly further away...

[–] el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is French territory just off the coast of Newfoundland too (see Saint Pierre and Miquelon), also Denmark is right next door because of Greenland. So while still pretty far fetched, there is some precedent for European territory in North America.

[–] dankm@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Canada shares a land border with Greenland on Hans Island.

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