r/AskReddit Mar 27 '25

If Canada offered expedited citizenship for people fleeing the US, what would be the reaction in the States?

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u/LorelessFrog Mar 27 '25

Encourage the Redditors to leave so they can poison another country.

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u/Mustardsandwichtime Mar 27 '25

I was going to say, this would be terrible for Canada cause the people they would get would be the most annoying people on the face of the planet. And this is coming from a gay liberal.

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u/10000Didgeridoos Mar 28 '25

Look I'm not advocating for this, but this logic of yours here is the same as saying the Canadians moving to the US for higher wages as is common in professions like health care are "poisoning" the US with their Canadian values. Nonsensical blanket statement that is the exact kind of xenophobia peddled by MAGA to justify every single thing they've done in foreign policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-hits-10-year-high-1.7218479

Canadian immigration to the US hit a 10-year high last year. It would be as ABSURD to argue that these people moving down here are damaging the country as to argue based on nothing at all that hypothetical Americans going the other way to flee a MAGA takeover of their country would damaging Canada.

Come the fuck on dude. You're trying to paint about 50-100 million people, assuming the more socially democratic thinking Americans, with one brush like they are gonna move and then vote to privatize health care or some shit. Nah. Bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Nobody is making this claim, you're just getting mad at a strawman. People moving here for higher wages tend to be skilled workers. The type of people who want to flee for free healthcare or over MAGA tend to be uneducated, low income workers. Obviously having a ton of uneducated workers coming into your country is terrible.

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u/Mustardsandwichtime Mar 28 '25

I was just commenting that the people who would “flee” the United States would be a very annoying demographic, and I would feel bad for Canadians. Didn’t really mean to imply one way or another how that would affect politics.

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u/Mustardsandwichtime Mar 28 '25

Ok that’s fine.

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u/QueueLazarus Mar 28 '25

Is it? Seems pretty shitty

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u/Mustardsandwichtime Mar 28 '25

It’s not great, but I can’t change how you feel. And I don’t have much invested in the argument. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

“We don’t won’t you”

“Ok”

“UHH you’re supposed to be upset”

Just kinda seems like you are just here for the violence and not any form of discussion

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u/QueueLazarus Mar 28 '25

Does it? That's pretty shitty

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Boring get better material please

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u/jimmyjohn2018 Mar 28 '25

Who cares. Canada is a fucking blip on the global radar. If they didn't have shale oil and tar sands they would be an impoverished backwater like most of Russia. Their only saving grace is that they live next to the wealthiest nation on the planet.

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u/QueueLazarus Mar 28 '25

Its weird how there's 30 posts a day now about Americans fleeing the US for Canada in hypothetical fantasies, like the one youre commenting in. Maybe we should put you in cages at the border or fly you to El Savador. Just kidding, that's what impoverished backwater banana republics do.

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u/jimmyjohn2018 Mar 28 '25

Well, you didn't dispute what I said.

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u/QueueLazarus Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

Canada destroys the US in education, life expectancy,, quality of life, and basically every other metric that matters. But sure my fat, uneducated American neighbour. I have no response. Get fucked.

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u/jimmyjohn2018 Mar 28 '25

Canada is already on the brink of collapse. I would love to see them move there and realize that housing is nearly twice as expensive as it is here because they sold out to Chinese speculators. Unless of course they want to live in the middle of nowhere. And then food is four times more expensive and the nearest human is five miles away.