• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    I wouldn’t mind becoming a part of Canada so long as I still can get my financial aid for college. That, and we make it so anything coming in from Asia to the US has to either go to through us and we make them pay a little extra for it, or it be sent along another route.

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      -Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).

      -Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).

      -Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).

      -Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.

      -Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.

      -You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.

      -Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.

      -Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).

      -The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.

      and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).

      (We couldn’t find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    Australia can come too. THE END!

    Edit for the young ones: this is older than YouTube. It was a flash animation which was like a 2d game engine that ran in-game cutscenes in your web browser because that worked on slower internet speeds than video.

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    Oh man I’d love to see the civil unrest in the red States when they don’t have us new Yorkers to give them their welfare payments.

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      Same from the west coast. If only cali oregon and washington could just be a west coast alliance separate from the rest of the problem states.

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    Accepting pleas from other comments here, Canada could get away with about this. And if they have the whole Pacific border, I’ll also throw in Hawaii for free.

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    7 hours ago

    Trump: Fine, they can have California for all I care.

    Advisors: Sir, if California were its own country it would be the world’s 6th largest economy.

    Trump: How about if we just send all the Mexicans there with some beautiful rakes?

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    9 hours ago

    Solving the problem is dissolving all borders so the working class isn’t divided into easily managed nation states.

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      As somebody from Wisconsin I will say that I don’t approve of us being excluded, but I also can’t blame them.

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        I can tell you that a large part of that was as a spite non-vote against Harris due to her not speaking up against Israel. Less about supporting Agent Orange, and more about not supporting the genocide of Palestinians by the very large arab and Muslim population in SE Michigan.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes. Need Michigan or Detroit area if alternative is to destroy big 3 auto industry.