These articles and polls, framing trump's deranged russo-imposed plans as a legit proposal, do not help at all.
They just normalize this fucking insane shit
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Yeah, it's frustrating to see anyone even bother spending time on this nonsense. It does just normalize the absolute insanity of what is going on - it's more damaging to publish this poll than to ignore it altogether imo.
Reporting on this just helps him.
Surprised its only 78% that oppose. What the hell are the 22% smoking?
They’re all from Alberta
Sovereign country not keen on being annexed by psycho neighbour, more news at 6.
Four in five Canadians strongly oppose the idea of joining their neighbours to the south, and a majority, 78 per cent, are concerned with the rhetoric Trump keeps pushing.
So 20% of Canadians are traitors and/or idiots. Probably the FUCK TRUDEAU flags and bumper stickers crowd who complain about their first amendment rights.
Yeah... These headlines are always so optimistic (probably because our media is owned by americans)
"Overwhelming support for canada. Nothing to see here folks!"
Uhhhh... 1/5 canadians are literal traitors to the nation. Stand on guard against these morons. Elbows up.
Polls generally are complete garbage.
If I become Supreme Leader of the US (it seems a lot more probable than it used to) I will make public polls illegal. If you want to poll people you need to do it in the privacy of your own home with the curtains drawn.
There's a baseline 20-30% of all polls taken over the world that is made up of hateful nutjobs and conspiracy theorists
There could be someone running for office who has figured out how to solve all the world's problems for free, and that 20-30% will vehemently oppose them.
"Why should we solve the world's problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!"
I have long said that even in a Utopia you would have people unhappy about the way things were.
This is the premise that makes Iain M Banks' Culture series of novels so compelling.
Even though it is a massive interstellar Type2 society that is "fully automated luxury communism" many people are going to be problematic, angsty, and childish. The result is an always interesting plot.
A more thorough exploration of someone living in a relative utopia but being a long streak of misery by nature is Delaney's novel Triton. Main character is a jerk and you get to explore why, while extremely cool things are happening all around.
I love that about the Culture novels: they are socially coherent. Banks is very keen on telling us about the psychology of this utopian society.
I once tried some Delaney but dropped it as psychedelic hippie scifi. I hope I wasn't unjust in doing that, but afair it was from that time. Maybe it even was Triton. It was all confusion ("tripping") and exploring a completely desire-based, erm, exploration.
Recently I read (and barely managed to finish) Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, which seems to fit into a similar category (Beatnik scifi?). It had way too many shortcomings, plus it was an old translation that only managed to make the latent racism/sexism more prominent. But it was also very inventive and captivating.
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But what about the freedom to lose one's life savings to an insurance company?
It’s needs to be 100% of Canadians. Those who don’t oppose us becoming the U.S. aren’t Canadian, and can kindly GTFO of this amazing country.
78% is considered almost a statistical impossibility for these kinds of things. This is the polling equivalent of "every last person".
20% Russian bots/Elon bots
I'm having a hard time finding the link to the poll itself...
But I suspect that the poll had distinct categories for "strongly oppose" and "oppose".
So either the article is lumping the two responses together (which would be shitty because they explicitly say "strongly") or it's likely that the number of Canadians who are open to it is <20.
From previous polling I've seen, it was around 13% who were open to it. Not even saying they would, but merely open to the idea.
I'm hoping that the 20% includes mostly people who are just opposed (but not strongly). Still idiots, but not likely traitors.
Can we stop posting this headline? Again and again and again?
It's not news.
If a sizable portion of the population did want to do something stupid, that'd be news.
This is... It's not even propaganda. It's just a waste of our limited time and emotional capacity for idiocy.
We should poll how many americans are willing for their state to be the 11th canadian province.
It made me lol, and not in a good way: why would there even be a poll?
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Americans also overwhelmingly oppose Canada becoming 51st state
I miss boring liberal America where our absurd bullshit was just ours and not leaking out into the world.
I for one support my state becoming part of Canada
Hell, I wish my own state wasn't a US state.
Which state is that?
All of them I believe.
Well No Shit. Why would anyone want to buy into the hot mess we've got going right now?
No shit, no one wants this. Why would we??
The guy down the street from me with a giant “Trump 2024” flag probably wants it. Fucking traitor.
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What sane person would want to be under the control of the Orange Turd.
would they take us as the 11th province?
Sorry, you're already the 47th oblast.
Hell. Don't take the whole thing. Just move the boarder to the 45th parallel as opposed to the 49th.
45 and flight?
I mean. Imo that's only fair. Sure they are getting one of the world's larger economics (WA state + Portland), they are also getting Montana, Idaho, and a good chunk of the Dakota's...
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No shit!
Do 22% of Canadians live in Alberta?
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