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

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    So 17% of Americans are our enemy

    The question then becomes: will the other 83% be our ally and stop this 17%?

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      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.

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      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.

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    They’d quickly change their minds if they knew how expensive the gas prices would get after they invaded and their oil refinement infrastructure gets hit like Russia’s has been.

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    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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      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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      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.

  • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    66 per cent of respondents want Canada to remain an independent nation

    Huh. The 33% implied in the text is weirdly double the 17% reported. Who are the delusional 16% who want to take over the country, but without using a word they can’t pronounce or define?

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      There’s a graphic in the article with a breakdown, 17% are “Not sure”

      While that’s normal for surveys like this, it’s also annoying. They’re unsure about if they want a war with their next door neighbour?

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        Usually that also includes “didn’t respond”/DR/NR. I would assume this was a multi question survey and that 17% includes at least some DR/NR.

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        No, they’re not “not sure”, they’re just cowards unwilling to voice their opinion because they know it’s morally objectionable.

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      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.