When people ask why the Canadian travel numbers aren’t zero, this is a big part of why. Business systems and markets take time to shift gracefully. Over time the friction in the business operations will guide more and more other opportunities and the quantity of border crossings from Canada to the US will continue to dwindle.

Elbows Up Canada.

There’s no conservative comedy shows that last for a reason. They’re not funny. They don’t seem to be able to do or have real humor, only bullying and punching down to laugh at.

During the election process someone called this upcoming administration a “revenge tour”. Basically, the power of the government shall and will be wielded against the people of this nation who actually enforced its laws against law breakers.

Consistency with their words nor actual morals are not features of a right wing party. Only power, money, and ownership of others are features to be expected.

My last job (just left it), kept giving small raises every year. I made a chart showing my actual salary against real dollars over time and the very quickly falling downard trend over the four years of been there. The admins were just like “so?”

It took a bit, but I’m off to a new job. Fuck that place.

Why is the USA converging upon a real live test of the Mad Max movies? I’ve seen people daily driving Ford F650s. I’ve seen jacked up trucks with ramming prows at chest height for maximum pedestrian harm. I’ve seen people armoring up Escalades that they drive to get milk from the store.

WTF is wrong with you people?

I’m not in Canada, but a recent quote from one of our city councilmen when asked about improving rail service between cities was:

“You should just fly like adults”

Walking? Using public transit? That’s for poors.

The early conservative thinkers wrote about the French Revolutions and the rise of egalitarian thinking meant that something must take the place of monarchies to decide the social order. They preferred war as the measure of who should be the leaders, but that money and wealth could be a substitute. This led to Capitalist concepts infesting the right wing since monarchies are off the table.

Innuendo Studios has some great videos summarizing the alt right, conservatism, and Christian nationalism if you’re interested:

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

Regarding the mindset issue, it might be more baked into people than we’d like. Two great books on the topic are:

The Authoritarians by Altimeter

The Righteous Mind by Haidt

They also have videos summarizing the works in presentations and interviews. It seems that people end up having shadings of authoritarian drives, which means they’re happier living under someone’s commands and will work to preserve hierarchies despite the harm it causes others. Whether it is socialization or biological I don’t know.

To sum up: some people want to be ruled and they’re currently tearing the US down to let a king rule over the rubble.

Conservatism is, at its root, monarchist. The original writers and thinkers were focused on preserving authoritarian rule, then upon how to build and maintain hierarchies of society where people rule over others.

They’ve never been interested in democratic ideals unless it suits them to reinstate a dictatorship.

“Fascists enable Christian Nationalist Karens to abuse coworkers on the government’s funds.”

I haven’t had broadcast or cable TV for at least a decade now. The major news/media outlets hold very little interest given their approach to generally being informative in any serious way. So, no, our household doesn’t watch TV.

There it is. Thank you for the great summary of the tautology that is reveleation-based religion. In the end, it all boils down to a presup argument with no basis and dries up under even a modicum of analysis.

That’s the Fox News (or similar) pus leaking out of OP’s head. Up until that line they were sorta on a basic “I don’t understand why people value reason over superstition” track, but then veered into crazyland.

Given the depth of the thinking here, and the desire to have guns in all situations, it’s only a matter of time until they add a 4th box with the “armed response unit” that’s only “supposed to be used in the most dire of situations”.

Anything other than dealing with the underlying problem means anything.

That’s not a pedestrian bridge. A pedestrian bridge is designed to efficiently get pedestrians from one place to another.

That’s a monument or memorial. It’s potential a cultural art center or other city resource to make the space interesting/informative/engaging. Calling it a pedestrian bridge isn’t doing it justice.

That said, I’m in strong favor of pedestrian resources and cities building interesting architecture to make the city itself interesting & beautiful, but this one’s ugly as fuck and shouldn’t be built.

Here, I’ll give you some balm for the wounds of time:

http://www.eviloverlord.com/

Use it wisely.

Pedophiles covering for pedophiles. It’s the GOP way!

What money? I guess they’ll need some in about… two years or so for rural broadband? That’s about time to buy some election influence again.

That’'s an article summarized as: “Wannabe fascist dictator finally admits he’s up for having the government begin torturing and killing people he doesn’t like.”

“a lot more people everywhere live paycheck to paycheck as migrant workers than you probably think”

The percentage of Americans living paycheck to paycheck is insanity. I haven’t seen Canada’s numbers, but the US is barely surviving.