• KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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    Can we split California? Northern Cal just seems like it should be Canadian honestly.

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      No way man. We need all of California (where food grows anyway)! Mexico has tons of warm climate agricultural land. Canada has none!

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        Tons of agriculture in the northern half of California. I live in Sacramento, it’s like 95% people growing food. Hell, it’s even called the farm to fork capital. We’re a perfect fit for Canada! They can have the south.

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      Somehow the Carolinas get a pass. Why not CA?

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        I just want to be Canadian. Nothing wrong with Mexico but I don’t speak Spanish. But I can speak Canadian! Sorry.

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          Jay parlay France-says trey be-in. Jaytude in laycole, quart anss. Jem mepell Peggy Hill. Common tally voo?

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    10 months ago

    There ought to be a UN controlled buffer zone, to avoid the creation of monstrosity like Poutine tacos.

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        Well good news, the main providers of illegal firearms to Mexico is people from the USA so this solves that problem as well.

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          It solves the problem of giving them more guns and territory to claim? Cool idea!

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            No.

            The problem is solved by no longer allowing random people to buy heavy weapons. That is legal in the US, still, but with this proposal that would no longer exist

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              But there’s already millions of guns out there that won’t be going anywhere

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                Yeah, that problem will solve itself over a few years. The combination of ammo and the guns themselves being illegal makes it very hard for anyone but the craziest gun nut to own them.

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              10 months ago

              I do not think you have thought this through my friend

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    Can we tilt it a bit, maybe let Mexico have Oregon and Idaho and let Canada have Georgia and Florida? Canadians need a place to hit the beach in the winter without needing a passport, and some Mexicans would love to move somewhere where it never got hot. Plenty of Canadian retirees already live in Florida part time.

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        Could we maybe somehow still have Orlando and Daytona Beach? Like just that one part, where all the fun is? Maybe it’s an EEC free zone or something. We’ll give it to Greenland and Denmark as tribute, they are a bunch of bros those guys and gals.

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      Economically this is a huge win for Canada, Atlanta is the business heart of the south and Florida gets the tourism money

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      There are already so many snowbirds in Florida that its almost another canadian province.

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        Welllll we would debate the ‘canadianness’ of people visiting Florida. They’re probably Albertans. :-p

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          Won’t be many Albertans. Florida is kind of a pain in the ass to get to from Alberta, and you have to go through Pearson and nobody wants to go through Pearson.

          Albertans are mostly found in Scottsdale. Probably a little swath of the older ones in Palm Springs.

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            My arrogant-as-fuck realtor uncle has a place in Palm Springs. For at least my family’s case, you totally nailed it.

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        And every snowbird employs 20 Latinos who are there year round raising families. South Floridas demographics have higher representation from like 10 other Latin American countries before Mexican though, so maybe it should be it’s own sort of city state with the rest going to Mexico.

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    I speak passable Spanish, and Mexican food is awesome. ¡Con mucho gusto!

    Oh wait, I live in Seattle. Sounds good, eh?

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      Never forget, there’s some good fishin’ in Quebec.

      I’ll see you around bud. I’m going for a rip.

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        I don’t speak French tho. But I have good friends up in BC who have already offered asylum if needed.

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      Point Roberts area maybe, one of those “why is this a different country” places on the maps

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    10 months ago

    Map should say

    Gulf of

    • Mexico

    • America

    • Mexico

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    You’re close but the real answer is “countries are made up and we all own everything”

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    Please make Colorado a unified zone. I need maple syrup and tacos

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    Personally, I’d rather see the map of north America be as colourful as a map of Europe rather then less colourful than it is now.

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    California, Oregon, Washington and BC all need to be united under one country. Cascadia :)