She has lived in Canada her whole life and is White. She asked me if it were possible to own a building without owning the land that the building was on and I explained how it is and that's how many properties on Indian land are setup. I then went in to say, it's not that common of a setup outside of Indian land as far as I know but apparently, it's fairly common in NYC according to Trump's book. She scowled almost immediately. "You read Trump's books?" I told her I did because I like to stay informed about things and it was actually a pretty good book that was written well before his political days that mostly focused on the real estate side. I told her I read Mark Carney's book also. "Who's that?" She replied. "You don't know who the Prime Minister of Canada is?" "I guess not because I don't know who that is" she replied.
And Canadians like to pretend they're more informed than Americans.
I never led with GDP, you did. Quality of Life is more than GDP, a lot more. Equity, imo, is the biggest factor in QoL and Canada is highly inequitable in its quest for anti-White and anti-male "equality".
I would be opposed to Canada being a territory because we would be treated poorly but a State is different. Are you really that clueless?
Also, I see what goes on down south and I wish our own people would fight for what's right. Canadians have 0 fight in them and are a defeated nation run by tyrants that milk the Canadian cattle slaves for all they can. It's embarassing.
Fair enough.
Apparently, and I'm far from an expert on this, Puerto Rico doesn't want to be a state, because then they have to pay taxes.
They fought pretty hard against Trump's annexation threats. What was going on there was strange even to visitors.
They fought for the interests of the tyrants not their own interests. That's the embarassing part. And if their interests align with the tyrants then these Canadians are worthless people.
Being a territory means you have no political representation which means no one is catering to your state's needs to gain political power. While the advantage of less taxes seems good, I doubt it's overall beneficial.
Territories also don't get the same trade deals nor.federal funding for anything etc... one of the greatest advantages of becoming a state is getting immediate access to all of America's trade deals.
Territories also don't get all the same rights as states as it applies in the constitution. One of the benefits of becoming a state is that Canada would become a more free area but if "Canadian traditions" of oppression are allowed to continue because Canada is a territory instead of a state that defeats some of the advantages for me.
Imagine thinking that people who don't want to be conquered and annexed by a belligerent foreign power are 'worthless people'.
You keep phrasing this but it's not true.
"Imagine thinking that people who don't want to improve their lives are worthless people."
That's the correct framing.
Now imagine wanting to fight to keep your life worse. That's embarrassing.