Tariff threats

Posted May 27, 2025 18:56 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Tariff threats by dskoll
Parent article: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

I met a friend outside a cafe over the weekend and, while discussing all this, I jokingly said that Canada should offer to annex Alaska so they could escape trump. After all, you're both north of the 49th parallel, aren't you :-)

"Free the 49th parallel!" :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Tariff threats

Posted May 28, 2025 9:55 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

This misses the detail that Alaska is a very red state and (by voting records) prefers Trump.

Tariff threats

Posted May 28, 2025 12:03 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

It was very tongue-in-cheek. I don't have a clue about US politics ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Tariff threats

Posted May 30, 2025 9:44 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (1 responses)

And? By voting records, Canada doesn't like Trump but that doesn't seem to put him off the idea of annexing Canada.

Tariff threats

Posted Jun 6, 2025 11:41 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I was more reacting to the "escape Trump" part. Trump is threatening to annex Canada for glory/"look how much land I added to the US"/bragging rights/mineral rights. I doubt there is anything amounting to consideration for the existing residents of the land (much the same with Greenland).