U.S. declares war with Canada

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We've told our Canadian employees: "Hey, we love you guys, would love to see you at the company retreat but if you want to skip we absolutely do not blame you."
 
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Innula Zenovka said:
Dunno how accurate this, by someone who grew up in Canada, is but it's entertaining

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Today in Brexitland, March 14, 2025

Why Trump has miscalculated on Canada, very, very badly
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A lot of Trumpism makes me think of how so many Americans, my age and older, really had American Exceptionalism shoved down our throats in school. We grew up being told that we are the GREATEST COUNTRY EVER and this is a known fact and everyone agrees around the world! Conservatives really took this to heart and believed it. Any notion that someone might not want to be American is treated as absurd. The notion we could learn something from other countries is also treated as a perfect absurdity.

This talk of making Canada a State makes sense from this perspective but otherwise is dumb as hell.
 
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Oh Canada

16th March 2025 Canada is unlikely to really want to join the European Union, but here is a thought-experiment anyway * These are strange times for law and policy commentary. On one hand, there is …
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GoblinCampFollower said:
A lot of Trumpism makes me think of how so many Americans, my age and older, really had American Exceptionalism shoved down our throats in school. We grew up being told that we are the GREATEST COUNTRY EVER and this is a known fact and everyone agrees around the world! Conservatives really took this to heart and believed it. Any notion that someone might not want to be American is treated as absurd. The notion we could learn something from other countries is also treated as a perfect absurdity.

This talk of making Canada a State makes sense from this perspective but otherwise is dumb as hell.
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A Hungarian emigre history prof I used to know, back in the days of the Cold War, had a theory that the US, like the USSR and, to a lesser extent, France, were countries based on ideas, in the case of the US, some "self-evident" truths. Indeed, the constitutions of both the US and the USSR left it open to other countries to join their respective unions, if their people accepted (by means of a rigged referendum in the case of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) the self-evident benefits of that particular political union's ideology.

Furthermore, he suggested, since these unions were based on "self-evident" truths, superior to other, less fortunate, nations' arrangements, it follows there must be something wrong with people who didn't see the advantages of joining these unions and accepting their self-evidently superior constitutional arrangements, or at least going along as subservient allies with what the respective metropoles wanted.

The EU, in contrast, was an attempt to prevent any more of devastating wars that had raged in Europe twice in a century, by ensuring that the economies of the various members were so intertwined that there would no longer be any point in fighting about who owned particular areas rich in minerals (initially iron, steel and coal) since everyone would have access to them.

The various European countries that previous had held extensive overseas empires had, by the second half of the C20th, divested themselves, or were in the process of divesting themselves, of them, but the USSR and the US, because of the self-evident truths inherent in their founding ideologies, found that unthinkable.
 
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1742379149
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The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.
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This is a great sign. </sarcasm>

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French nuclear attack sub mysteriously docks in Nova Scotia, 300 miles from US border

Rumors swirled that the FS Tourville arrived in Halifax in response to Donald Trump’s annexation threats
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A French nuclear-powered attack submarine left locals bewildered after it surfaced in an eastern Canadian province, just 300 miles from the U.S. border.

The French Navy Suffren-class submarine, the FS Tourville, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia earlier this week.

Baseless claims quickly spread online that it was in response to Donald Trump’s annexation threats after the president repeatedly called on Canada to become the 51st U.S. state and named departing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “governor.” Those rumors, however, were quickly quashed.
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EDIT: Just realized this came out about week ago. So couldn't have been all that big in the sense of news.
 
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Free said:
This is a great sign. </sarcasm>

www.independent.co.uk

French nuclear attack sub mysteriously docks in Nova Scotia, 300 miles from US border

Rumors swirled that the FS Tourville arrived in Halifax in response to Donald Trump’s annexation threats
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk



EDIT: Just realized this came out about week ago. So couldn't have been all that big in the sense of news.
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Because Trump never posted an all caps rant about it on Pravda Truth which is, sadly, our media's current definition of "newsworthy."
 
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