• Encephalotrocity
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    1812 months ago

    Professor Maxine Welkers of the University of Toronto Economics Dept. explains, “Given Americans’ low literacy rates, costly health insurance, and how much animal shit their FDA allows in their food, Canada annexing the U.S. is really more of a humanitarian gesture.”

    That line is gold.

  • Match!!
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    562 months ago

    i don’t want to be in a country with Ohio though

    • sincerely, an American
        • Denvil
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          92 months ago

          Hey now, Cincinnati is great. We got chili, we got King’s Island, we got a museum with dinosaurs and a lot of historical stuff too, we got Graeter’s Ice Cream, not exactly unique to Cincinnati but we have a baseball and football team that we feel very strongly about even if they don’t always meet our expectations, we got one of the best zoos and botanical gardens in the United States, while it’s not technically Ohio, we have the Newport Aquarium right across the river, we got all kinds of stuff!

          Including corn. God we love corn.

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            2 months ago

            oh, I’ve heard all about your Cincinnati “chili”

            • Denvil
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              Positive things I’m sure. If you don’t enjoy Cincinnati chili, are you even living??

              Right guys? Right??

              (We also enjoy regular chili, my company has an annual chili cookoff. Not Cincinnati chili, just regular chili)

                • Denvil
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                  32 months ago

                  Well not really. It is kind of ground beef soup, with a lot of spices added to give it it’s signature flavor. This chili, spaghetti, and cheese is a three-way. If you add beans in the chili (or onion), then it becomes a four-way (or I guess just… chili with beans in it if you put it on anything else?). If you put BOTH beans and onions in it, then it’s a five-way.

    • Rentlar
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      92 months ago

      Easy fix: Dig an Ohio-sized hole, fill Lake Erie back up with water and call it the Gulf of Intelligence.

    • Rhaedas
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      262 months ago

      They didn’t say they’d be keeping the people.

      • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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        142 months ago

        just a portion of magats voting would be enough to ruin canada within a decade, unless it’s made only a ‘territory’ with a just single riding (like yukon, nwt, and nunavut each have)

        • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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          We could let them be a territory for a 150-200 years like they’ve been letting Puerto Rico sit as one. However long it takes for Puerto Rico, add an extra 50 years.

    • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      172 months ago

      Imagine Canada owning the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park.

      We would be undeniably the most beautiful country in the world.

      • @rabber@lemmy.ca
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        102 months ago

        Canada already is undeniably the most beautiful country in the world. We don’t need Yosemite lol

    • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      I will take the American doctors please. But not their healthcare system.

      Also anyone who is cool and not a narcissistic sociopath is invited too. The rest can be left out of the deal.

  • HellsBelle
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    332 months ago

    “But then Trump went and, to use a macro-economic term, ‘shot America in the dick’. So now it’ll be easier to just buy the whole place.”

    The greatest line Carney will ever utter.

    • @jaybone@lemmy.zip
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      82 months ago

      I would love to be taken over by Canada. Can’t we just give California, Oregon and Washington the Canada please? Like all these MAGAs in the Midwest just love to talk so much shit about California and how terrible it is and how it sucks, so why should they care, right? You’d think they would welcome the idea, right? Oh but we have the big economy, and the ports, and grow a bunch of food, and make a bunch of technology. 🤔🤔🤔

    • @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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      92 months ago

      Some of the states are cool. Let MAGA have their own states, so they can find out for themselves how their experiment sucks.

  • @mcqtom@lemmy.world
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    162 months ago

    This is like going to the adoption agency and asking for the meanest, most disruptive child and then adopting that one.

  • @RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    132 months ago

    MY BODY IS READY.

    I’ll chug maple syrup. Learn to ride a moose. Whatever it takes. But please make this happen.