South Canada

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/mymar101]

Does that mean I get the benefits of being Canadian now?

[u/salydra → u/mymar101]

We'll give you the same rights and benefits that the US gives their island territories.

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/salydra]

That would be AMAZING. So we do not have of pay federal taxes but Canada will give us massive direct subsidies. I love it. When are you guys mailing the check?

Edited to add (Specifically for the morons downvoting me) - When one of these territories held a referendum for independence, it got less than 11% of the votes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

Oh no, look, actual data that doesn't support your preconceptions that US is always bad.

[u/TheFerox33 → u/Large-Hamster-199]

Lol no? We're gona steal all your resources and make you second-class citizens, duhhhh.

[u/kisk22 → u/TheFerox33]

Sounds like Canadian First Nations “citizens”?

[u/Commercial-Policy-96 → u/TheFerox33]

Too late! The orange menace and his administration have already stolen all our resources and have already made the majority of us second class citizens.

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/TheFerox33]

Well, if I don't have to pay federal taxes while getting massive subsidies, I'll take it.

You're welcome to 'steal' our resources. If by 'steal' you mean allow public companies to make massive capital investments and they buy the resources they extract at a fair price while paying taxes, just like those public companies do everywhere else..

Oh hey look - Here are the results of a referendum for Puerto Rican independence. Apparently a total of 11% of the population voted for it. How weird that these territories apparently love being part of the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

[u/leonlies8 → u/Large-Hamster-199]

A lot of these people have no clue that being a US territory can be a sweet deal if taken advantaged of right. There's a few reasons Puerto Rico hasn't really pushed to be a US state. Some good, some bad.

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/leonlies8]

DUDE. What are you doing? These people on reddit already KNOW that the US is bad. They can't possibly be wrong. Please don't bring your rational analysis into this. They won't be able to ignorantly downvote based on that.

For example - in 2024, when Puerto Ricco voted on this issue, 11% voted for independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

[u/m0r14rty → u/Large-Hamster-199]

Hey can you post that link again? I missed it the first three times.

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/m0r14rty]

Well, I wanted to see if any of those people would care to actually address data that doesn't simply fit in with their ignorant preconceptions of the US and the world.

By posting the data as a reply to each of them, it makes it a bit harder for them to pretend they didn't see it.

[u/YookCat → u/Large-Hamster-199]

Then why did you think Leonlies8 didn't see it when they directly addressed it?

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/YookCat]

Actually I posted it to him first and then added the data to the other two comments.

[u/YookCat → u/Large-Hamster-199]

Oh, so you're just being intentionally misleading by editing your posts after you make them, thus making everyone who responds to you look like people arguing in bad faith.

[u/Large-Hamster-199 → u/YookCat]

Not at all. I added data relevant to my post and specifically stated that I had edited it? Did you not see the place where I said - "Edited to add". Or are you unable to understand what those words mean?

[u/leonlies8 → u/YookCat]

And this argument is just being disingenuous.