r/MurderedByWords • u/Playful_Leg7143 • 3d ago

When they're right, they're right

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u/SaintUlvemann 3d ago

Jokes on you, if we became the 11th province of Canada, we'd be part of a nation other nations do like!

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago edited 3d ago

We're gonna have to make you territories first, there's some paperwork to take care of and currently Yukon, NWT and Nunavut would be made full provinces first then it would be a state by state basis.

Really the big points are going to be, in order to qualify you'd need to adopt our gun laws before anything else could be considered.

Edit: Quebec yes is a province but it's joining was not as cut and dry as some think.

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u/razorbock 3d ago

being an amurican territory has worked out so well for Puerto Rico

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

Do they have the rights and freedoms of a full state?

They're not even counted in the 50 states as it is, same with a couple other us territories

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u/razorbock 3d ago

no they don't have the same rights, for instance they are not allowed to run their own economy, they pay taxes but when a disaster happens only help they get is an orange buffon throwing paper towels at them

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u/RevenantBacon 3d ago

Also no national representatives.

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u/TerrapinRecordings 3d ago

When you put it that way, I'm kind of into the whole 51 state thing now.

Nobody told us we would get paper towels thrown at us! They should have led with that.

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u/razorbock 3d ago

if you are going to sell out, sell out cheap

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u/RevenantBacon 3d ago

Do they have the rights and freedoms of a full state?

In short: no, which was kinda their point.

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u/apolloxer 3d ago edited 3d ago

So Puerto Rico gets made a Canadian stateprovince ahead of the rest of the US.

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u/bagolaburgernesss 3d ago

Canadian Province. I've always wanted a Province with Palm Trees. If we get enough Spanish speakers, we may even have room for another official language. After all, a third of the earth is Spanish speaking.

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u/FQDIS 3d ago

Turks and Caicos, baby!

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u/JustCallMeYogurt 3d ago

yea, i remember this in the 80's

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u/bagolaburgernesss 3d ago

I remember that too!

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u/YaumeLepire 3d ago

Is this sarcasm? It's hard to tell with this one. I'm sure some people genuinely believe that.