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0 points_zagj20d ago0 comments

> People have judged me for driving through the states.

Meanwhile it's perfectly acceptable, if not a point of pride, for Canadians to go to Cuba, which is not only run by an actual, kleptocratic dictatorship that imprisons dissidents for decades at a time, but is also the number #1 destination in the Americas for sex tourists, including child sex tourists, with the industry even tacitly sanctioned by the dictatorship ("jineterismo").

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Pxtl20d ago

Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada by force, and to punish Canada economically for not acceding to this desire.

_zagjOP19d ago

> Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada

Neither has the US. Trump specifically disavowed that every time he was asked (by the CBC). Meanwhile Cuba sent thousands of mercenaries to kill Ukrainians on behalf of Russia.

> punish Canada economically

Frankly, even as someone who opposes tariffs as uneconomic, given Ottawa's long-standing "constructive engagement" with the regime in Havana, even after they hosted Soviet nuclear weapons pointed at the US, even while they put AIDS patients in concentration camps, and even while they ran the island as a giant, open-air prison refusing to allow anyone to leave, it's really speaks to America's forbearance that it hasn't attempted to punish Canada economically, until now.

Pxtl19d ago

You can't be serious. Did you miss all that talk of 51st state and "governor Trudeau" or "governor Gretzky?"

> A reporter asked if he was "considering military force to annex and acquire Canada."

> "No," replied Trump. "Economic force."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-canada-51st-st...

"The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the world will be bigger, better and stronger than ever."

"If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them."

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-canada-annex/

We're into "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" territory here.

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