Would seem pretty on brand, honestly.
Remember that we’re stopping trade with the US over their nonsense only to immediately go to the people who have agents here going after their ex-citizens and shit. Of course, there’s nothing more Canadian than trading one bag if shit for another just because it’s a different colour and then expecting it to be any better.
The US is the epitome of the idea that if you have an appointment 45min away at 8:45 and it’s 8:40 if you just pretend to be in a hurry you might make it on time. You will not be calling ahead to tell anyone where you are because you’re “on the way” and obviously you’re still stopping for a little coffee because you’ve had a stressful morning.
These mag-dumping morons(read, most cops and adjacent in the US) really seem to care less about the reduction of danger and more about the obliteration of opposition. Yes he was already dead, but they had make sure. Same with Good when they refused treatment, shooting her was out of cowardice but letting her die when she could have been saved was plain ol’ cruelty and punishment for the crime of making them feel small.
I keep saying trying is something that should still be done, so not really sure where you’re getting that, though yes I agree that I’m not convinced that the US’ bar is high enough.
Honestly, the simple fact is that the US is deeply fucked and got that way partly because the population, in general, supported that Quiet Peace(TM). Peoplentoo afraid to stir the pot, too afraid to get temporarily uncomfortable for a longterm gain. Decades and decades of centrists and people desperate to appear “moderate” without ever really defining that term. You talk about how strong the system is yet Trump has faced zero consequences for all his delays, his felonies, and impeachments against him have gone nowhere. Look at how hard the system had to work to get even what you claimed, and look at how easily many of the Jan 6 protesters where pardoned, and tell me withba straight face that system is moderately healthy and just needs small changes to set it all right.
I don’t have much to say against the people who didn’t vote for Kamala. The Democrats are largely totally ok with what the GOP is doing and they keep letting them off with nothing more than a frowny face. Harris cared so much about the country that after losing she simply disappeared and wrote a book about it. Her win wouldn’t have put the country back on track, but sending a strong message to the Democrats that being center-right is not an alternative to fascism would have certainly been a start. And we can see with Mamdani that they don’t want to hear that message, but it makes it louder.
The US has been like this the whole time, it’s a core issue not a sudden surface blemish that can whisked away. The only difference is that now even white people are getting to experience what it’s been like for everyone else. The solution is not going to be comfortable, whatever that ultimately means, and you need to let go of that idea so that you’re not blocking change either with your vote or something else.
Haha you believed it was the land of freedom and opportunity. Ah well, we all gotta learn at some point, so welcome aboard.
So what was January 6th to you? It’s like someone missed killing someone else and your response to just tell them you got your eyes on them and will totally bring the hammer down after they finally succeed in killing someone.
Maybe it’s just the US’s belief that what they have is normal and cool, but even what is considered normal there is insanity in many other places. The system has had so many chances, and yes I still agree that it does not need to be completely obliterated, but at some point you cannot sit there waiting for the worst outcome before acting. The country has been utterly desensitized to incredibly heinous acts, to the point where they see ICE murdering people in the streets and that’s still not too far for many of them.
For examle: 99% of what Fox News says is straight-up lies, libel, fraud, bullying, incitement to violence, and good ol’ fashioned hate-speech. It’s not throwing out the legal system and trampling on their free-speech to want to see the entire organization persecuted for the damage they’ve caused.
#3 is also dumb. Can’t do a single thing right in front of you, the thing is always off to one side or the other. Just commit to #5 if you want two monitors, or do what I’ve also done where my laptop fits underneath my main monitor(only applicable if you are tall enough to warrant such a high monitor placement).
But that’s exactly it, isn’t it? People can, and should, elect better people into power and they shouldn’t exactly resort to violence. That said, the fact that I’m not hearing about ICE vehicles(without occupants) being lit the fuck on fire is kinda sad. And you talk about the law but it’s like I said, Minnesota’s supposed to be fairly decent, apparently, and yet the best they can do is throw a frowny fave at ICE. The law is fully on their side, they don’t need to change any laws to give themselves permission to start arresting ICE agents for all the illegal stuff they’re doing, they just refuse to do it.
So when is the right time? Or will you, like I’ve already said, just hide away lying to yourself that the laws will actually help despite overwhelming evidence? Where’s the line in the sand?
I see it another way: This shit would send waves of protests and anger in so many other countries but over here in the US and Canada we just shrug our shoulders and say “the law will handle this”. It clearly doesn’t, and it takes forever to get anythjng does work to show up, and the whole time it’s [not] happening no one is actually treating it as seriously as they need to.
Minnesota should be removing ICE from the state. You talk about the law like it’s going to save anyone but they’re already there doing illegal things and Minnesota is fully within its right to tell the shove off, so where is that fight? What good are these rules if they can be ignored? What good are they if there are zero real consequences?
Trump has dozens of felonies to his name and then he got to be the goddamn president. That entire exercise was performative so why the fuck should anyone trust anything?
Alright fine, I’ll add this just for you: You were trying to find some conspiratorial justification for why Trump invaded and I said that you don’t need to look that deep because the fact is that he attacked another nation. You then came back with “it doesn’t matter because he’s doing bad things” which is pretty much what I said. Then you thought I was MAGA even though I said something very clearly anti-Trump.
This isn’t difficult.
And the incredibly large vehicles can be easily seen and accommodated for. One exception does not make the idea bad and besides, for many of the oversized ramps found in downtowns one issue is that trucks of that size shouldn’t even be allowed there anyways. North Americans are just used to the idea of shoving an 18-wheeler or whatever into areas that should never be in but it’s not good just because it’s normal.
Answer: Yes!