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[–] cheeseburger@piefed.ca 97 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 69 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 35 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

"It'll be our beautiful 51st state!"

🎃

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 22 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

More like the US will be bought by Canada.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

I too like to help people out but I don't know if we'll survive absorbing Florida and Texas while remaining a federal democracy. We already have Alberta and it's difficult. 😅

(AB canucks, this is a joke. Please don't get mad at me. If you still do, I apologize.)

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Just take the northeast (NY, VT, CT, MA, NH, RI, ME), and the west coast. The rest won't complain.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago

Please do, I would rather be Canadian these days.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 10 hours ago

A few more states would be happy to join I'd say.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

The PNW would complain.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

Ugh. Try living here!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If Canada got rid of FPTP, proportional representation and ranked voting across all its provinces (Texas and Florida would become provinces) and federation (get rid of the monarchy), Florida and Texas would be much less of an issue.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

For sure. That said PR isn't a panacea. It solves a legitimate issue but it doesn't solve the orthogonal and serious problem of democracy's tendency to represent large capital.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

One can only hope. Just think of it as a renovation project.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Is Canada that big on charities? I know they’re well known as being pleasant and kind, but are they so pleasant and kind that they’d accept a catastrophically bankrupt welfare country as their own?

There no expected ROI on America for decades!

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 3 points 7 hours ago

They can just own it like a colony. All the control, none of the financial responsibility.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 89 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We need a government with the balls to nationalize this shit, and charge for every single gram that's being extracted. And do the same with every other natural resource, including oil.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Oooooh, best we can do is let corporations rape and pillage the land, and make citizens pay for the whole operation through taxes, sorry.

[–] anguo@piefed.ca 30 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget about the cleanup after they're gone.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

Right right right, thank god the peons will pay for that too! Can't hold anyone accountable now, can we?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 6 hours ago

They won't leave. It's inexhaustible. Best learn to live with the pollution!

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s trickle out economics.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

Trickle down economics, because they're pissing on you.

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 88 points 12 hours ago

"Inexhaustible"

Humans: hold my beer

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 53 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 31 points 9 hours ago

It's funny cause it's true. Trump wants to invade Greenland and Canada; it's not just because he's a piece of shit dictator. He's after resources for his cronies.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 51 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Great! Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.

Ah! Someone who's familiar with Alberta oil & gas extraction.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

…AND BC lumber, AND Ontario steel, AND maritime fish, AND everybodies’ water and minerals, etcetc

I call it “outsourcing profits”.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

So extract all the value and give it to rich ppl while leaving everyone else to clean up the mess left behind?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That’s a perfect description of Carney’s MO.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

You're showing your bias. That was Canada's position well before Carney was on the scene.

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[–] Zealotte@lemmy.zip 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Are you folks interested in some freedom!?

Asking for your neighbors to the south.

/s, just in case it wasn't obvious.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I know there's been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there's not enough lithium! It's never been true.

It's one of the most abundant elements out there, it's everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn't going to be enough, people go looking, and it's abundant.

Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

I don't actually remember any articles that claimed there were lithium shortages in that there isn't enough on the planet, but rather that China is the only country with a working supply chain.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

It’s one of the most abundant elements out there

I mean, it's not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.

Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Incoming reclassification of maple syrup as a WMD.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

“This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 hours ago

Finally, good news for people with bipolar!

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Don't tell trump

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

And it belongs to the people of Canada. Right?

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago

This shit really bothers me.

Wow that's great for the people.

Well yes, 3 of them

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 5 points 32 minutes ago

“Almost inexhaustible”

Humanity: Hold my beer.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I hope y'all don't mine it with child and slave labor like everywhere else.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This isn’t the fascist states of america.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lol yeah but it's still a capitalist system, bud.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

That's right, we got that sweet cheap desperate-educated-foreigner-being-paid-peanuts labour instead

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

We have significant lithium mines in Australia, we produce the most lithium in the world presently. Zero child or slave labour.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Time to invade. After all what yours is ours. I wish I was joking.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

We know and that’s why we’re getting a citizen army of 300,000 and we’ll party like it’s 1812 part two electric boogaloo.

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