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The online survey of 1,002 U.S. adults was conducted between Jan. 13 and 15. It found that 66 per cent of respondents want Canada to remain an independent nation
So 17% of Americans are our enemy
The question then becomes: will the other 83% be our ally and stop this 17%?
Well, only 66% said they didn’t want the USA to invade Canada. So no, we won’t have the support of 83%. We’d be lucky to have 40% actually speak up on our behalf, and even fewer would act.
Based on the apathy and avarice of your average american that helped put their country in its current state I doubt very much the majority will lift a pinkie.
They are not even fighting for their own country. They are too busy watching The Burnt Peanut and hiding in their basements which ice will soon be visiting them as well.
Guess they never heard what happened to people considered dissenters by the Nazi govt during WWII.
It will be a blanket way of filling Alligator Auschwitz Death Camps at a rate so fast it will make one’s head spin. All it takes is a sniveling ice coward to point and say dissenter! Poof you are detained. Wake up america, your life depends on it.
17% are willing to say that they WANT Canada to be part of the US. Only two-thirds are willing to say they would prefer Canadian independence.
What percentage would really care if their stated preference was not reality? The ceiling is 2 out of 3. The ceiling. That is as good as it gets.
What percentage would lift a finger to resist US dominion over Canada? What percentage would actively resist or take on any level of effort and or risk at all to prevent it? Dramatically less.
If the US invaded Canada, what percentage of Americans would choose to support Canada over their own county even if the invasion was illegal or immoral? Clearly, the majority would support their government. In that scenario, what percentage of Americans would you consider to represent “the enemy?”
And if you think I am being too harsh, let’s ask the question from a different angle. What percentage of Americans are doing anything at all to reduce the threat to Canada right now? I mean, doing anything at all? Only 2 in 3 can muster indicating it as a preference in answer to a question.
Many people reading this will insist that they did not ask for this. What percentage of those voted against Donald Trump in the last federal election? That number is less than one third. That is an easily verifiable fact. Less than one in three did the absolute bare minimum to stop the second Trump term from happening. That means 2 out of every 3 Americans did nothing back then. What are they doing now?
You need to revise your 17% number in your first sentence up dramatically. I am not hopeful that they answer to your second question hits anything close to double digits.

17% of Americans can take off, eh.
But why though? To seize their strategic maple syrup reserve?
The scary thing is, there are Canadians who want that too
Yes. They call themselves Conservatives.
17% of Americans are uneducated and don’t really know the consequences of war.
30% wish Canada would annex the US.
the only thing I like about this is it gives me a better idea on the percentage of nutters. Probably and equal percent are the ones dreadfully afraid the way dems an left talk about taxes and regulation being desperately needed. then figure idiots who are deciding between the the clear and present worst choice and the not great choice to get them over the goal line.
I’m surprised its not ~30%
It seems to be the magic number you can get any survey of US residents to agree to no matter how ridiculous.
If you aren’t hitting that number even the crazies think it’s a bad idea.
17% is more than one in six. That number sounds uncomfortably high.
I know perhaps two dozen Americans who are friends, current and former colleagues, or family. It’s disturbing to think that statistically there are perhaps 3 or 4 that don’t think that the country that I love, that is my home, that has allied with them and sacrificed for that alliance, should exist. That I should bow to their power. It’s psycho shit.
Most likely the other half of the roughly 30% of Americans who represent the MAGA coalition think that annexation would be doing us a favour - elevating a bunch of ungrateful socialists to the American standard of living or something like that.
I think it’s hard for people in other countries to realize how deeply propagandized Americans have been for their entire lives. They are relentlessly taught that the USA is the greatest country and the only place anyone in their right mind would want to live, and that the USA brings freedom to the world, even as they suffer bad working conditions, crappy housing, a violent society and poor education and healthcare. They believe they are the only country with true freedom, even as they’re allowed to embrace a range of political views all the way from neoliberalism to fascism, murdered by brutal armed police, and imprisoned at the highest rate in the world.
So some of these will be so steeped in the propaganda that they genuinely believe US invasions are doing other countries a favour.
they will all die in the yukon and the high artic trying to take it. theres a reason why most of alaska is uninhabitable.
85% of the Canadian population is within 100 miles of the US border. Why would they go to the high arctic?
I wish the worst towards all of those who wish to invade us. So fucking sick of these imperialists.
I’d challenge this 17% to tell us three things they know about Canada that aren’t sports related.
Not American but I’ll try
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It’s cold
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don’t mess with the moose or the geese
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… ah fuck
You fuck with us ya get the moose or the goose
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Why is this showing percentages in a positive light compared to their obvious negative?
One because 17% is shockingly high and two because 66% of people wanting them to remain independent it’s shockingly low. There’s no positive here at all.
I mean yea 17 is 17 too high. No win here… But it feels weird to log 17 like it was 71.
That’s actually encouragingly low, in light of their usual appetite for smiting enemies.
1 in 6 is not low.






