Stop, Ekers, my sides are aching!
So how much have you gained from invading Iraq versus how much have you lost? And this is without the Iraqis being able to walk into your country, blend in perfectly with your population and burn or blow up any civilian target they want.
Do you consider Quebecers to be Canadian?
Also, what treaties would those be? When you say “terrorism tactics”, are you referring more broadly to sabotage/guerilla/assassinations? I don’t think any of those are forbidden to an occupied population.
There’s nothing funnier than when a class clown type, who always considers himself the funniest guy in the room and who has been known to taunt others over lack of humor, gets all harrumphy-and not a little pompous-and doesn’t fucking realize it. Yer killing me here, Ekers!
I don’t have to get harrumphy or pompous. You’re talking casually about abruptly ending one of your country’s biggest (if not its biggest) trade relationship and inviting years of on-your-soil terrorist attacks against which your only defense will be to police-state your own population, to gain resources that you’ll barely be able to exploit if at all. If the stupidity of this isn’t obvious to you, there’s little I could add.
As an incidental note, I can’t recall ever taunting anyone for lacking a sense of humour. I can certainly understand why some jokes aren’t funny to some people. Taunting them because of that is a waste of time.
i can’t believe he’s taking this stuff seriously.
We have inadvertently triggered an outbreak of bizarro Canadian hyper-patriotism. Even now there may be weirdly costumed Albertan militias drilling on the frigid tundra, intent on repelling an American invasion. :eek:
The Ekers-Scumpup conflict of 2014 is likely to evoke more of the horror of war than actual hostilities between the US and Canada.
Hey Bryan, I thought this thread was mostly tongue-in-cheek. No need to elevate it to any level of seriousness.
None of this will ever happen for a multitude of reasons.
I mean seriously, we’re talking about an American invasion of Canada. It’s patently absurd. I find it shocking anyone, regardless of their sense of humor, took it seriously.
I’ve always thought that a Vermont - Quebec match-up sounded logical. They’ve both got separatist tendencies and could make a nice little country together.
Maybe we could talk swap, but no way, no how are we taking Texas !
Personally, I think Minnesota or Washington State might work for us.
Well, of course, and I’ve commented why this is so.
It’s a mildly interesting thought experiment to me - what if a NATO country (or a G7 member) suddenly went mad and/or elected a fascist government and grabbed a chunk of another NATO/G7 country? The instant global economic effects would be entertainingly catastrophic, and the particular permutation of U.S./Canada is the one where the attacker is awesomely vulnerable to counter-attacks because of a huge insecurable border and enemy agents who will look just like the invaders, perfectly speak their language and be familiar with their customs.
Amusingly, a Canadian retaliatory terrorist might try to darken his skin and fake a Mexican accent, because a white guy who speaks clear English will become an object of suspicion and Mexicans might start to appear relatively “safe”.
You say that like it’d be a bad thing?
Maybe we could ask Quebec to secede and become the 51st US state. We’d get a lot of electric power and the soothing sound of Quebecois in Congress. Canada could sigh a deep breath of relief with the realization the the Night of the Long Knives (1982) will never be mentioned in Parliament again.
No. We need the hockey players.
And the poutine.
Double post. Excusez-moi.
It is an interesting thought experiment - my husband and I hashed out the idea of a US invasion one long car trip, and came to the conclusion that there is no way it would succeed, for various reasons (one of the foremost being the point you’ve already made, that there is virtually no way to readily distinguish Americans from Canadians).
For what it’s worth, I can envision an in-all-but-name annexation after a series of gradual political adjustments where the U.S. moves a little leftward and Canada a little rightward and eventually forms, with Mexico, a North American economic union comparable to the E.U.
It wouldn’t be the U.S. taking over as such, but theit position would be significantly more dominant than Germany’s in the E.U.
Given that Alberta has the freest economy in North America, I’d rather not have us be pulled to the left by America, thank you. (: