Four in five Canadians strongly oppose the idea of joining their neighbours to the south, and a majority, 78 per cent, are concerned with the rhetoric Trump keeps pushing.
So 20% of Canadians are traitors and/or idiots. Probably the FUCK TRUDEAU flags and bumper stickers crowd who complain about their first amendment rights.
There’s a baseline 20-30% of all polls taken over the world that is made up of hateful nutjobs and conspiracy theorists
There could be someone running for office who has figured out how to solve all the world’s problems for free, and that 20-30% will vehemently oppose them.
“Why should we solve the world’s problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!”
I have long said that even in a Utopia you would have people unhappy about the way things were.
This is the premise that makes Iain M Banks’ Culture series of novels so compelling.
Even though it is a massive interstellar Type2 society that is “fully automated luxury communism” many people are going to be problematic, angsty, and childish. The result is an always interesting plot.
A more thorough exploration of someone living in a relative utopia but being a long streak of misery by nature is Delaney’s novel Triton. Main character is a jerk and you get to explore why, while extremely cool things are happening all around.
But what about the freedom to lose one’s life savings to an insurance company?
It’s needs to be 100% of Canadians. Those who don’t oppose us becoming the U.S. aren’t Canadian, and can kindly GTFO of this amazing country.
20% Russian bots/Elon bots
I’m having a hard time finding the link to the poll itself…
But I suspect that the poll had distinct categories for “strongly oppose” and “oppose”.
So either the article is lumping the two responses together (which would be shitty because they explicitly say “strongly”) or it’s likely that the number of Canadians who are open to it is <20.
From previous polling I’ve seen, it was around 13% who were open to it. Not even saying they would, but merely open to the idea.
I’m hoping that the 20% includes mostly people who are just opposed (but not strongly). Still idiots, but not likely traitors.
78% is considered almost a statistical impossibility for these kinds of things. This is the polling equivalent of “every last person”.
Can we stop posting this headline? Again and again and again?
It’s not news.
If a sizable portion of the population did want to do something stupid, that’d be news.
This is… It’s not even propaganda. It’s just a waste of our limited time and emotional capacity for idiocy.
Americans also overwhelmingly oppose Canada becoming 51st state
I for one support my state becoming part of Canada
Hell, I wish my own state wasn’t a US state.
No shit, no one wants this. Why would we??
The guy down the street from me with a giant “Trump 2024” flag probably wants it. Fucking traitor.
Sounds like a great target for egging. Bonus points for being topical.
As a US-ian, I really wish you guys would keep reminding us that if you did join the US, you’d be a 51st state slightly larger and left of California.
The GOP wants nothing to do with Canada. They cringe every time they think about ya’ll voting in our elections.
Fr - who, with the minimum amount of decency, would want to be part of this?
Well No Shit. Why would anyone want to buy into the hot mess we’ve got going right now?
What sane person would want to be under the control of the Orange Turd.
would they take us as the 11th province?
Sorry, you’re already the 47th oblast.
Hell. Don’t take the whole thing. Just move the boarder to the 45th parallel as opposed to the 49th.
No
How about just Oregon, Washington, and California? Please?
No
Develop a public healthcare system and we’ll talk.
Meanwhile Puerto Rico sitting over there like what about us!? We’re supposed to be the 51st state!
No shit!
What?!? Why don’t they want to have most freedoms?
They’re already tired of winning!
Do 22% of Canadians live in Alberta?
The reasons for opposing becoming the 51st state were loss of Canadian identity, culture and sovereignty at 81 per cent, the difference in health care systems at 68 per cent, concerns over safety with the differences in gun laws and the legal system at 60 per cent, and concern over U.S. politics and governance just below with 58 per cent.
Fellow canucks looking out for our material conditions.
There shouldn’t have been a poll in the first place
A whole bunch of Americans oppose it as well!
why are they still writing these articles? do they think we changed our minds since last week? we said no the first time, you can stop asking us every 5 days. pretty sure most of us would rather die in a concentration camp than accept american rule
