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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Candian here.

Do not come north.

We cannot house and feed you. Most of you will die of exposure the first winter you are here.

If you have thoughts of coming here with guns and taking our homes or food by force know that most of us outside the cities are armed, we're just not so scared that we constantly show off our guns and feel no need to go prepared for combat to buy donuts or groceries.

So, Mexico is your best bet, if they will take you. I bet you'll be glad that all the talk of a border wall was just neo-fascist virtue signaling.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bud not only are we coming north, but we're going to turn your subarctic tundra into orange groves.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The Diagaloons want to divide North America in half with a line drawn from Alaska to Florida and put all the Liberals on the south side of the line. We get BC and Alberta, Texas, the Pacific northwest, and California and they get ice, snow, and Florida.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Also, clearly doesn't understand what is going on (TBF, I don't know shit about Canadian politics either), but the stupid violent people with guns will be overjoyed if trump is the president.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just as the students in Iran were overjoyed when the shah fell right up until the reality of living under a theocratic dictatorship sunk in.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I simply pointed out the reality of the situatuation. Canada can't take in millions of American refugees fleeing a christofascist authoritarian regime.

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your understanding of the effects of immigration is childish.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ok. Explain to me how a country of 40 million people that doesn't have sufficient housing for the people who are here now can house millions of political refugees from the US before winter hits and they all freeze to death?

Keep in mind we're not talking about gradual immigration. We're talking a wave of potentially millions of refugees fleeing a christofascist dictatorship or civil war.

Your insults are very childish. Do better.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just make Newfoundland pay for it, they pay for everything else.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Newfoundland gets over $200 million in annual equalization payments.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

The New-fees I have worked with have a different assessment of the situation

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But I'm Minnesotan. I can blend in really well.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're well north of the south most point in Canada. You're practically Canadian. We just don't have enough housing up here to take in a bunch of refugees. If Americans end up in tent city refugee camps they will die in winter. We could put a few tens of thousands in school gymnasiums and community centers but it would turn into a humanitarian disaster.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Nah bud, we're going to cut down all your trees and build shacks. All those lakes surrounded by trees, going to put up condos.