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2 days agoSurely all of these problems would go away if teenagers would simply act rationally and do as they’re told. Has anyone tried explaining this to the teenagers?
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“I regret that so many people are offended.”
5·5 days agoSmaller populations make it easier to form social bubbles, I suppose. And this community in particular is focused on not liking something, so it’s easy to throw out a quick “ooh, I hate thing!” To get some positive engagement.
The mods have posted a followup about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qwt4pb/epstein_deleted_posts_and_our_thoughts_moving/
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.
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.
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.
Even that would still be bringing in an extremely right-wing population.
The by-county results are here, the twin cities have 27% Trump support. The lowest in the state, sure, but that’s still almost a third of the population that voted for Donald Trump.
That’s twice the Canadian national average from the same time period. Those two counties considered in isolation are still redder than the reddest Canadian province.
Minnesota voted 47% for Trump last election. It would be the most right-wing province in Canada if it joined. No thanks.
They’re extremely right wing compared to the average Canadian. 47% of their vote went to Trump last election.
Ask them if they’re ready to give up their second amendment rights to join Canada. Ask them what they think about socialized health care. Bet a lot of that eagerness to join will fade.
They should sort their own problems out, not try to get us to do it for them.
Besides, we don’t want them. Too many Americans.
The problem there, oddly enough, is that I wouldn’t have believed that headline. I would have dismissed it as a Beaverton article (Canadian version of the Onion) and not read it. Whereas this headline was sufficient to make me click on it to find out what his “hockey warnings” were.
“China will take hockey away from you!” Is such a completely deranged pants-on-head bonkers idiot thing to say that even now I’m still half convinced that this is parody that has somehow slipped through all the filters that are supposed to keep this serious.
The “moment” is the duration of the Trump administration.
Lots of people are keen to blame everything on Trump, imagining that if he would just go away everything would go back to “normal.” But Trump is not the cause of this, he is the symptom of this. America has been trending in this direction for many decades now, with increasingly corrupt and authoritarian/isolationist governments that the electorate has been putting into power. It’s not going to suddenly reverse if Trump suffers a fatal brain clog tomorrow. There might be a moment of respite but that’s not something to depend on as a long-term change for the better, only as breathing room to further prepare for America’s continued degradation.
It’s not really a “moment”, this is the cumulation of a long-term trend.
Do it, you fat orange pussy. You still don’t understand what tariffs are.
Nah, embarrassment makes him madder.
You’re regurgitating old US government propaganda and you don’t even realize it.
Ironically, this is also “don’t blame us, it was our government.”
There’s these things called “primary elections” you could be using to get better candidates.
There’s precedent. China made some trade deals with Nigeria and there’s hardly any ice hockey going on in Nigeria now.