• bss03@infosec.pub
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    10 hours ago

    I doubt they’ll take #Arkansas, so I’m screwed either way until my familial duty is complete.

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    14 hours ago

    Yes. One million times yes. Let’s watch the GOP fucking implode when the largest GDP State (CA) leaves their ass. It’s insane they are whining about our fires… Idaho was far more on fire this year than us in California. And that was all forest, not literal neighborhoods that 100% raked their fuckin leaves.

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    12 hours ago

    As someone who lives in California, I would love this.

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      10 hours ago

      We’d love to have ya!

      Have a chat with Hawaii, okay? Mom wants to go before she dies but she won’t go with Trump in charge. Get them on board and event the flight’s domestic. Woot!

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    15 hours ago

    Here’s a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.

    please save us from Y’All Qaeda

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    15 hours ago

    Speaking at a press conference last week in Ottawa, May called out the president-elect, saying, "Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you? You think we want to be the 51st state huh? But maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California? Oregon? Washington?

    I live in California and I’d like this. But then the USA would never have a non-GOP president ever again and that’s against my conscience.

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      12 hours ago

      The “United States” is done anyway, there’s no way, ironically, to make America great again.

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      14 hours ago

      Washington would fit right in. Western Washington is already a lot like British Columbia, and Eastern Washington is already a lot like Alberta.

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              12 hours ago

              News to me, same crazy people all over. But as Canada’s punching bag, feel free to take it out on Alberta.

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                  I get the idea, but you have not lived here since 82. I have to travel a bit in the prairies and let me tell you a lot of Canada makes cowtown look like a progressive paradise. Is it worse now, yeah. Is it as bad as say a town in Manitoba or Saskatchewan? Nope, but we Canadians don’t like to think of our countries slide into right wing populism out side of Alberta.

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      10 hours ago

      Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.

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            I don’t have a strong opinion on Chicago, I’ve only spent a few days there and it was downtown in a cold snap in February. There were some nice things to do but it was expensive and overall I’ve had better experiences in other cities. I liked it better than my wife did, she hates the cold. I on the other hand like to go snow camping (without her).

            The people in the rest of the state hate Chicago because it dominates the politics, and the few Chicagoans I know aren’t a fan of the rest of the state. For awhile I lived in St. Louis but worked across the river. I still have to drive across Illinois pretty often. It’s flat fields of corn and thunderstorms in the summer, and frigid and hostile in the winter. I don’t really hate Illinois by any means and I didn’t choose to move away - I was only two and my parents moved to the Netherlands. I actually like Champaign/Urbana, I have lots of connections there. I still wouldn’t choose to live in Illinois though.

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      I mean, as a Canadian I would say come on and get this going. Hell Alaska can join as well.

      Then tarriff the shit out of Trump for anything being shipped through new Canada from China lol.

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    It’s funny how much more favorable the comments are on this compared donnie’s original comments.

    Canadians on joining the US: “oh hell no!”

    Americans on joining Canada: “me too please!”

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      16 hours ago

      I don think you’d have to become part of Canada to join the Commonwealth so maybe there’s a chance?