185 points

Legitimately what is wrong with these people?

They want a fascist leader and to invade their neighbours?

They know how that historically ends right?

Like the “you won’t let me say a slur so I’m gonna be a nazi” thing was kinda supposed to be an overly reductive meme, but this guy’s just out there living it.

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95 points

They know how that historically ends right?

lmao, no

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24 points

Or they do, but correctly identified Adolph’s greatest mistake for conquering the world:

Being Germany instead of America.

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15 points

It was invading Russia.

This time the US is best buds with Russia.

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3 points

Difference this time is it’s overwhelmingly the most powerful military in the world as the aggressor, with nukes :/

May the gods have mercy on us, and prevent these fuckers from trying this.

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23 points

An interesting thing about this map, the way these lines are drawn would all but guarantee conservative victories for a long, long time.

A bunch of extra, barely inhabited states, to give two extra electoral votes and a handful of senators to conservatives. I wonder if whoever drew this is aware that most Canadian conservatives are closer to American Democrats than American conservatives.

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20 points

Assuming the conquered territories get a vote is a bit of a leap.

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Yeah, any questionable voting area will get Puerto Rico’d.

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6 points

Good eye. Ontario is left as is so I guess they want another California in terms of population to seat ratio.

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3 points

outside of the far right / populist MAGA copycats in the People’s Party of Canada, and a certain strain of Albertan Separatist types. Most Canadian Conservatives are leftists compared to the US parties.

even Pierre Pollievre who canadians are labeling as a Trump puppet, is openly supportive of many policies the GOP would crucify people for, like abortion, gay marriage, etc.

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16 points

They know how that historically ends right?

They don’t know anything about anything. That’s the problem

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They know how that historically ends right?

To be fair In the US’s case, when a fascist invaded a neighboring country they ended up robbing half of the Mexican territory. The better comparison would be taking what usually happens when the US invades any country, and then imagine that happening inside the US. You don’t shit where you eat.

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2 points

Cartels already killing Mexican government officials, journalists, activists, the competition, the Mexican armed forces. Do they really want the cartels to declare the american equivalent as fair game?

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4 points

Yes, because the people cheering for this don’t see themselves as potential collateral damage.

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5 points

Lol… For them it never ended… Just a minor setback with 60 years of regrouping

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2 points

And is America better off with 12 (or how ever many) more states? And lefty states to boot. Lotsa luck fellas.

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3 points

It would be ten, and also 3 territories.

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I count 14 and 3 territories. NS, NB and PEI are small, but there. And Newfoundland and Labrador have different labels and so I’ll assume they are separate states because that’s completely stupid.

Keep in mind this is a bullshit flight of fancy from people as clueless as they are evil.

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2 points

Well, I’ll say that no one, No one will be able to defeat the US militarily,

so it will end when the country tears itself apart in a civil war. Not when the Chinese or Europeans are at the gates of DC.

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-11 points

Yall really dont understand what a trillion dollar budget really means.

Canada and mexico would be extremely easy, in the scheme of things, to annex.

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7 points

My friend, this very likely starts a world war.

There’s nothing easy about that.

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4 points

Why wouldn’t they just slowly snipe you to death whike you waste trillions after the initial conflagration?

Totally aside from the economic collapse initiated by internal and external strife over this.

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68 points

How about we start by making Puerto Rico and DC states

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They don’t want to do that, those would both add solidly democratic senators, and likely permanently cost them the Senate.

Not like Canada and Greenland, which are notoriously conservative and would vote for Republicans consistently. Ignore the comparatively liberal policies, those aren’t related. Quebec and Greenland in particular are just chomping at the bit to jump on Republican mainstays like adopting English as the one true and official language of the US.

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39 points

They don’t want to do any of this. They want to propose ridiculous pipedreams that they cannot hope to accomplish, and wouldn’t enjoy if they did, because it distracts from their lack of ideas or morals.

Every conversation about Canada and Greenland is one you’re not having about sex crimes and class warfare.

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5 points

I think you attribute far more cleverness to them than they have. I don’t think they care if we’re concerned about their lack of morals or ideas. Why would they? All the information needed to know about that was publicly available before the election and it didn’t matter. The people who would care already know, and the people who wouldn’t… There’s no reason to distract them. Not that it matters, since they won and we can’t exactly change that.
I can assure you my snark here doesn’t reduce the amount of other conversations I’m having elsewhere. I can hold opinions on multiple topics at once. ;)

I wouldn’t put it past them to actually want this insanity. People said the same things about how talk of overturning Roe was just a distraction because it’s a “settled matter” and doing it would be insanity.

Imagine if they’re not actually playing 5 dimensional chess. Imagine if their platform is exactly what they say it is, and their dumb ideas are real. If they respond to claims they don’t have any ideas by saying they have the best ideas, and to claims of immorality by calling them lies and calling the accuser a pedophile.

I think people want them to be more clever than they are, because it means that people got duped, rather than their surface level idiocy being super appealing to a lot of people.

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They would need to make Alberta like 35 new states to prevent this from steamrolling any potential Republican elect

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Alberta may be conservative by Canadian standards, but I think they’ll end up as a collection of blue states if you did that. America is quite far to the right ward on average.

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To be fair, there are a lot of pieces of nowhere as extra states and likely Republican strongholds.

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53 points

This is how it begins. You keep calling territory that isn’t yours your territory until it sounds normal to those that you have created a cult or pact with. Then it doesn’t seem so abnormal when you decide it is yours.

People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.

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The tyranny of countries more free than US. Only one thing to do. Yes, that is destroy them not copy them. Why would you want to adopt a better system when you can destroy theirs and claim yours was the best all along.

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People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.

I keep seeing liberals roll this one out, despite spending the last six months shamelessly pandering to conservative voters. Can’t imagine why a Democrat would lose an election with this strategy. “You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! Oh, um, vote for me, I actually love strong border policies and Israel is the Best and transgender athletes are a big problem, tee-hee! Fuck, fuck, fuck, you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot!”

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Love how true this is yet is currently at -19.

Liberals can’t cope with their election loss, in which their parties strategy was to court people who would never vote for them in the first place instead of their base who they actually secretly hate and just pander to for votes yet will never do anything for because it counters their donors wishes.

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Meanwhile, in reality, they are terrified of letting Puerto Rico become a state because it might threaten their delicate gerrymandered hegemony in Congress by adding two more senators and one or more representatives. This “map” is the fever dream of a lead-poisoned, terminally MAGA moron.

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3 points

I don’t understand why they automatically assume that PR would go democrat.

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Both democrats and republicans believe Latinos owe allegiance to the democrat party.

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I don’t know if owe is the right word, but yeah, both parties assume they’ll go democrat and I think that’s a smug assumption typical of the elites. Granted trump was a dick to PR during hurricane Maria, but if he actually responded appropriately he’d likely have a lot more support than either party would realize. I think they should either be a state or gain full independence, this in between seems unfair to them. (And I feel that way about all of Americas territories subject to taxation without representation)

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2 points

So, most of them then…

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Yo, why do they want the Caribbean? They already have P.R. and they treat it like an S.T.D. they’re ignoring.

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16 points

They want more people to treat like shit.

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4 points

Earth isn’t enough?

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I kind of get the feeling Trinidad and Tobago might be open to the idea. /joke

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