BlameThePeacock @ BlameThePeacock @lemmy.ca

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Loopholes baby!

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2

Here's the US rules for revocation of Naturalized Citizenship. It sounds like the OP has been naturalized for longer than 5 years, so essentially there is no way to do it anymore unless they had originally obtained it fraudulently.

The UK laws are actually a lot more lax in terms of reasons to revoke than these.

A green card is not citizenship, Naturalized means they have full citizenship.

You're fine for now. Keep protesting, but keep your head in the game if they government starts changing their tactics.

They are going to go after "violent" situations first, so try to avoid those.

Agreed, the number of refusals, defections, and just straight up surrendering would cause massive problems for any sort of invasion.

Not to mention the basic fact that there's nothing to "capture" these days.

If they take the government buildings by force, does that change anything?

They've only "taken" Canada if the people start paying taxes to the US government, and that's unlikely to happen in an invasion situation. People would just stop paying their taxes entirely. It's not like troops could go door to door collecting, they may be able to collect it from some specific large businesses, but the rest of the economy immediately goes underground

There's no reasonable enforcement measure for the mass riots that would occur with the number of troops they could afford to deploy to Canada. If they start ordering troops to just gun down every riot, the fight back from the Canadians is going to make Afghanistan look like a cake walk.

If they start shutting down basic functions like electricity or banking to control the population, then the number of guns Canada owns is going to become a huge problem for the troops they have here. The US military would also have to secure the border somehow as some people will try to flee into the US, and some of those people "fleeing" would then turn around and start attacking US assets in the US.

And that's not to mention the almost million Canadians who currently live in the US, are they going to try Japanese internment camps again?

A physical invasion is just completely infeasible. He's going to keep pushing it economically and politically, and it's very likely he's long gone (either out of office or dead) before Canada would cave to those pressures.

Unfortunately some of them are real people, I've had voice conversations with people who believe the bullshit line that "Canada and Mexico are taking advantage of us" that's coming out of these figureheads they blindly follow.

They have zero critical thinking abilities, and that means they can't be reasoned out of their position by showing them facts or asking them to prove their logic.

Fucking terrible, I took up hockey last year as an adult.

I'm the best I've ever been, but I'm skating with guys my same age that have three decades more practice.

It's literally a way to raise taxes on poor Americans without using the word tax.

Billionaires aren't importing significant amounts of physical goods from Canada, Mexico, or China.

For poor people, a good chunk of what they buy is coming from or partially made in one of those locations.

We could never agree.

We tried creating a new one called Esperanto, it didn't work out either.

While you wait, I suggest reading the book called Machine Man by Max Barry which is a fictional story about a person doing just that.

You could also look up the wholesale cost of gasoline, compare that the current advertised price to figure out what the specific gas stations normal markup is, then see if the wholesale price changes on the date the carbon tax is removed to find out if the gas station was taking an extra big cut.

This is disappointing

It's even more disappointing that I would bet money that gas stations will not lower their prices by the same amount as the tax because of this. They'll go down maybe 5 cents and claim it's the savings.

The average family is going to lose money from dropping this policy, they were getting more from the rebate than they were spending on the tax.

Good time to be worried now, after you voted his ass into office.

It's not like he hid it.

I honestly don't think the US would benefit from Canada's non-existentence. Any sort of actual war would cause far more damage to the US than any sort of possible benefit they may see later.

Gonna make Afghanistan feel like a trial run when Canadians and sympathetic Americans fight back.

I would not be surprised at all if the white house gets burned down again if they actually attacked us.

This is how you monarchy properly. Handing out swords is peak king/queen.

If it happens, I'm pretty sure almost as many Americans as Canadians would be fighting FOR the Canadian side.

There's a lot of Americans that would happily defect to Canada if their country decided on something so monumentally stupid.

I sent in multiple google forms to the group coordinating Ukrainian refugees in my vicinity when they put out calls for housing. I didn't hear back from them any of the times, I may have been too rural for it to be viable.

Not really, it's going to suck economically, but there's no real risk to our sovereignty.

The US couldn't even invade us if they wanted to, unless they were willing to glass the entire southern part of the country and I'm not even sure the missile commands would even be followed to be quite honest.

The unpopularity of a ground invasion would be staggering, you would literally see attacks INSIDE the US from their own citizens rebelling against it. Hell, you'd almost certainly see defection, deception, and mutiny inside the military itself from officers and soldiers who are friendly with Canada.

Watch all these troops stream across the border, get "captured" by Canadian troops because they know it will be safe until this shitshow is over. It will make the defections to Ukraine look like a ripple in a pond.

You could go order something that helps with that and ask them nicely to use them.

Something like these are cheap and easy: https://www.amazon.ca/Scotch-SP951-NA-Self-Stick-Rubber-Bumper/dp/B01N74P0QB/

What type of neighbor? House, townhouse, apartment?

What exactly is he banging? Garbage bins, Kitchen Cabinets, Dresser, Closet?

There are solutions that don't involve being an asshole back to them in some of those situations.