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    Meanwhile, in reality, they are terrified of letting Puerto Rico become a state because it might threaten their delicate gerrymandered hegemony in Congress by adding two more senators and one or more representatives. This “map” is the fever dream of a lead-poisoned, terminally MAGA moron.

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        Both democrats and republicans believe Latinos owe allegiance to the democrat party.

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          I don’t know if owe is the right word, but yeah, both parties assume they’ll go democrat and I think that’s a smug assumption typical of the elites. Granted trump was a dick to PR during hurricane Maria, but if he actually responded appropriately he’d likely have a lot more support than either party would realize. I think they should either be a state or gain full independence, this in between seems unfair to them. (And I feel that way about all of Americas territories subject to taxation without representation)

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    All this talk of expanding the USA from everyone is… concerning.

    Also this map includes Iceland, northern Sicily and the Faroe Islands. What?

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      They need somewhere to deport people to obviously/s

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    I’m surprised they didn’t just stretch the northern states to consume Canada. Perhaps they are afraid of giga Michigan and it’s immense power.

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      BC is gone 🥺 As are NWT and Nunavut.

      No idea what CL/CD (in BC) and MK (NWT) and KW (Nunavut) are supposed to refer to.

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    This is how it begins. You keep calling territory that isn’t yours your territory until it sounds normal to those that you have created a cult or pact with. Then it doesn’t seem so abnormal when you decide it is yours.

    People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.

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        The tyranny of countries more free than US. Only one thing to do. Yes, that is destroy them not copy them. Why would you want to adopt a better system when you can destroy theirs and claim yours was the best all along.

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      People who voted Trump in are actually fucking stupid.

      I keep seeing liberals roll this one out, despite spending the last six months shamelessly pandering to conservative voters. Can’t imagine why a Democrat would lose an election with this strategy. “You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot! Oh, um, vote for me, I actually love strong border policies and Israel is the Best and transgender athletes are a big problem, tee-hee! Fuck, fuck, fuck, you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot!”

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        Love how true this is yet is currently at -19.

        Liberals can’t cope with their election loss, in which their parties strategy was to court people who would never vote for them in the first place instead of their base who they actually secretly hate and just pander to for votes yet will never do anything for because it counters their donors wishes.

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    Seeing as they mention America’s 250th birthday I am going to mention that the average lifespan of an empire is 250 years.

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    I love how even unconsciously they can’t take Mexico. I know it’s most probably racism, but we still prevail prior to come back.

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        Not joking. The USA can take Mexico anytime, but they hardly could keep it. Also, the USA does not rule in Mexico, at least not openly. If you take that USA meddling in other countries affairs is enough to call it a colony, well, then everyone in the world is a colony of the USA. NAFTA was a trade agreement, but it was contingent to whatever is agreed between governments, not whatever the US government says. The renegotiation of NAFTA, the USMCA, is proof of this. If the USA government thinks countries in the world do not have options to trade, it’s their mistake. At this point they can be replaced, but that doesn’t help anybody in North America.

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          If the USA government thinks countries in the world do not have options to trade, it’s their mistake

          Any country that is not prepared to get the Venezuala/Cuba/Iran/Russia/North Korea treatment will do what the US tells it.

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            That’s getting old by the hour and I hope it keeps happening like that. What the US government keeps doing in Cuba is globally despised. Cuba just joined BRICS, and at least I hope they can profit from their new trade partners.

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    Canada, Panama and Greenland (Denmark) should not worry. Every single fucking loser MAGAt will have a copy of Cadet Bone Spur’s 1968 doctors note excusing them from military service.

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    Legitimately what is wrong with these people?

    They want a fascist leader and to invade their neighbours?

    They know how that historically ends right?

    Like the “you won’t let me say a slur so I’m gonna be a nazi” thing was kinda supposed to be an overly reductive meme, but this guy’s just out there living it.

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        Difference this time is it’s overwhelmingly the most powerful military in the world as the aggressor, with nukes :/

        May the gods have mercy on us, and prevent these fuckers from trying this.

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            the US is going to turn into the same thing as Russia, a Kleptocratic, ultranationalist, fake-religious gangster state, right now they’re getting ready for the 1990s version of Russia where public assets, infrastructure and industries are carved up and sold to private interests, IE Oligarchs. Trump wont live long enough to see the end result, but America’s next mini-Putin will make his play in about 10 years or so.

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            The actual issue was being easily invaded by land. The rest of the world’s superpowers would need to invade us by sea, and even in the 21st century, keeping supply and logistics chains open across the ocean is actually pretty hard in a war with a peer who has more capacity to STOP your naval and airlift capability than you have of defending it.

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      An interesting thing about this map, the way these lines are drawn would all but guarantee conservative victories for a long, long time.

      A bunch of extra, barely inhabited states, to give two extra electoral votes and a handful of senators to conservatives. I wonder if whoever drew this is aware that most Canadian conservatives are closer to American Democrats than American conservatives.

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        outside of the far right / populist MAGA copycats in the People’s Party of Canada, and a certain strain of Albertan Separatist types. Most Canadian Conservatives are leftists compared to the US parties.

        even Pierre Pollievre who canadians are labeling as a Trump puppet, is openly supportive of many policies the GOP would crucify people for, like abortion, gay marriage, etc.

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      They know how that historically ends right?

      To be fair In the US’s case, when a fascist invaded a neighboring country they ended up robbing half of the Mexican territory. The better comparison would be taking what usually happens when the US invades any country, and then imagine that happening inside the US. You don’t shit where you eat.

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        Cartels already killing Mexican government officials, journalists, activists, the competition, the Mexican armed forces. Do they really want the cartels to declare the american equivalent as fair game?

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          Yes, because the people cheering for this don’t see themselves as potential collateral damage.

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      Well, I’ll say that no one, No one will be able to defeat the US militarily,

      so it will end when the country tears itself apart in a civil war. Not when the Chinese or Europeans are at the gates of DC.

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          I count 14 and 3 territories. NS, NB and PEI are small, but there. And Newfoundland and Labrador have different labels and so I’ll assume they are separate states because that’s completely stupid.

          Keep in mind this is a bullshit flight of fancy from people as clueless as they are evil.

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      Yall really dont understand what a trillion dollar budget really means.

      Canada and mexico would be extremely easy, in the scheme of things, to annex.

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        Why wouldn’t they just slowly snipe you to death whike you waste trillions after the initial conflagration?

        Totally aside from the economic collapse initiated by internal and external strife over this.

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    IS THAT SICILY!? Please maga cunts do try to go there. Sicilian people are ready to luigid you out this world, do you remember that pussy baby mike lynch?