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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah right, much more likely that either we’d get one vote for the whole country or no vote at all and be entirely taxation without representation.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Puerto Rico: Yo Canada! Wuzzup!

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• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bold of you to assume this administration would allow them to vote.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The part I find that should be the questions are: Would ex-Canadians be able to run for President ?

  They were not naturally born in US soil. So there would be like … 35 years where no ex-Canadian could run for president ?

  So why would a country want to become part of that deal ?

  To be forced into another country that they would have zero right to lead ?

  I would certainly say “fuck that” to that deal.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would ex-Canadians be able to run for President?

    Why not? The current president is from South Africa.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So why would a country want to become part of that deal ?

    Hawaii wasn’t given much choice.

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    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then why not Puerto Rico first ?

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We really did fuck them over, but I’m not sure it’s the best comparison in that I don’t think Hawaii had any real military of its own (it was a big deal in the late 1800s when they had commissioned a single new warship for the king to sail to neighboring island nations… during which time a coup) And not only did it lack allies, but multiple countries were simultaneously and openly vying to be the first to s

      Having said that, would Canada’s allies really do more than they did when Russia invaded Ukraine? Seems doubtful. George Orwell was horrifyingly prescient when he predicted the world nuclear weapons would lead to.

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh, my dear, Canada wouldn’t get any voting rights.

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  • Sorolainen@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats assuming that the current states are able to keep their voting rights.

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