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17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey (www.ctvnews.ca)
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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

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    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.

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