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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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That is the appropriate answer to rapist-donald and his friends. We literally produce half of their aluminum (edit: imported aluminium, 1/4 overall). USA will face the biggest construction crisis they ever faced. We cannot trust this under-educated country ever again, it's time to build permanent partnership with the rest of the world and bring down the US for good, they're to dangerous for the survival of the specie.
I don't expect forgiveness, but I'd like you to know I'm sorry for the way my country is acting
Half of their imported aluminum, not half of the total. It's an important distinction.
right, american production of aluminum metal is 1/4 of canadian production. it also critically depends on cheap elecrticity, canadians have nuclear powerplants and hydro, and guess what other funny thing canadians can do
e: i can't read
it breaks down like this: american production of aluminum 750k tons, canadian 3000k tons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_aluminium_production), 95% of canadian aluminum exports go to usa (https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-aluminium/reporter/can#trade-flow), and comparing export value, price per ton and manufacture, it looks like most of manufacture goes to export, let's say 90%, of which 95% goes to usa, that is somewhere around 2560k tons. this is 56% of imports, so the rest is about 2010k tons. so out of 5320k tons total, canadians can just take away almost half
Thanks for the numbers, makes a clearer portrait.
guess what other funny things Canadians can do 😏
Oh, what's this gonna be? Go out for a rip?
not read :c
Oh
i misinterpreted certain statistics first time around, which suggested that potential canadian impact on available primary aluminum in us would be lower. canadians also export lots of oil and gas south, and there's plenty of gas powerplants in us
Oh for sure, i just thought this little exchange within your comment was hilarious.
nah you got it right first time around, it's closer to half overall
As a US-ian, I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote. The concern is real and response appropriate, but then you go off into the weeds, and …… take a breath. Politics bounces back and forth but has usually been somewhat sane. It might be again
Your country is threatening to annex mine...You want us to wait and hope your dictator becomes reasonable?
Oh no, I’m sure he will never become reasonable. It’s going to be a tumultuous and scary four years.
As I was saying, the response seems appropriate. However despite all our fears, there’s no reason to expect it to last more than four years. There’s every chance things will return to sanity then. In the meantime, the response seems to be resistance, making clear the consequences, then get on the phone and make some concession that you would have anyway, if the orange idiot would use his words. No tariffs, no big deal ion your part, his big ego gets to claim a win. We can’t lose hope for the future
there’s no reason to expect it to last more than four years
I admire your optimism but I think it's naïve...
He explicitly said, on multiple occasion, that he would "fix" the electoral system. He already attacked your Capitol, remember?
Republican won't accept to lose another election, they will make sure it doesn't happened.
Just wait a couple of months, shouldn't be long before you see their plan.
I mean your country IS under educated and it does need to lose some of its dominance imo. The US and its market influence is the main driving force behind all the bad IP law and privacy disasters of the past few decades. Countries need to start ignoring the US more when making decisions.
Ah, not with the Dr. Pepper shortage again...
I'm still hoping that Canada can join the EU. I think it'd be excellent for everyone (except America but who cares at this point).
Make up some story about technically joining the EU when the UK did because you had the same Queen. But not being bound by Brexit vote.
Merge with Greenland under Danish rule and really watch the orange man explode
Maybe king Charles could marry king Frederik, but only in Canada, putting you into a personal union
No need to make anything up. We share a land border with Denmark (Hans Island), and we have two little islands off of Newfoundland that are the territory of France (St Pierre and Miquelon). We're really just far, far, western Europe. 😀
less mental gymnastics than what is required for anything in the States to seem same
I'll allow it.
As a Brit, I’d be sad they got to join but also quite proud of our daughter
It being bad for America is a selling point now.
Also seeing the face of Brexiters would just be worth it
We could become a special Dutch territory
Alternatively, we could just clarify that the territorial waters of St. Pierre and Miquelon should actually extend west of Haida Gwaii due to some old treaty we found written on gold plates but can't show to anyone for reasons.
Je suis un St. Pierre et Miqueloner