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• inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If trump tries to fuck around with Canada my state will secede more than likely. Canada will retaliate by shutting off our electric which would be a death sentence in the winter.

  That and the abortion rights and the fact we were previously an independent republic, it’s looking like we’re going back to being independent.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait, why would Canada retaliate against y’all for seceding?

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    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If trump starts a trade war or physical war or even goes after Greenland I foresee Canada shutting off our electric (hydro Quebec) in retaliation. It would force our secession to save ourselves. Vermont routinely goes well below 0 in the winter for weeks on end, and hydro Quebec is where we get I believe a third of our energy. If not a third a very significant amount that we can’t go without.

      I can also see them shutting off oil and gas pipelines to other states but that doesn’t affect vermont. But those states might also secede over it. Fuck with cold states energy infrastructure in winter and we won’t have a choice.

      Also our constitution protects abortion, and I can see that also being a factor in us going back to being an independent republic or even joining Canada if they’ll take us. We have a substantial French Canadian population here.

      I don’t think it would be like the civil war, most Americans couldn’t point to vermont on a map and were not economically important.

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      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ah gotcha, that makes sense now.

        I lived in Vermont for year, and yeah those winters are no joke. But I could also see y’all telling the fed to go fuck themselves.

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      • Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I know I’m probably getting the political landscape of vermont and new hampshire mixed up, but isn’t vermont pretty red? Similar to the way new york is pretty red once you get out of the big city? That’s probably going to be a nightmare if anything happened.

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      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Secession will certainly mean war under Trump. He’s way more of a war hawk than Lincoln ever was.

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