• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    Sorry, if we’re getting this fiddly trying to explain how “they’re not extreme extreme right, just extreme right!” it’s not going to cut it.

    Canada doesn’t want Minnesota. Not even the “good bits.” Americans are just going to have to sort this out for themselves. If individuals want to become Canadian there’s an immigration process they can apply for, they don’t get to just declare their chunk of America to be Canadian and bypass all that.

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      10 hours ago

      I mean, you definitely don’t speak for all of us, there, although you’ve worded it that way.

      Anyway, the real obstacle is that they legally can’t leave the US.

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        10 hours ago

        And they can’t legally join either. The Canadian constitution would need to be amended and ratified by at least seven provinces representing over half the population. That is never going to happen. Not for an American state that’s far to the right of Canada politically (ie, any American state).

        Canada decides whether a new province is let in. Not Americans.

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            56 minutes ago

            They were 37% Trump voters in 2024, so I wouldn’t bet on it.

            Besides, I think it’d be unfair to the Turks and Caicos Islands, who are at the head of the “tropical Canadian island province” queue if they want it. Hawaii should wait its turn.