The US really is becoming a third world country by the day, isn't it. God I hate it here
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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And it's bleeding into Canada.
This is the part that pisses me off the most. The cancer that is American politics is infecting our country. Now we got dumb fucks like Danielle Smith and PP crying about the "woke" agenda and other imported republican bullshit. Even worse, it's working extremely well on the dumbest of our population and spreading like wildfire.
Fuck America and their sports team politics. People need to realize it should be working class VS the rich, but they keep us distracted and divided with this dumb fucking culture war and the morons are lapping it up.
Also literal wildfires
Remember when Poilievre accused the Liberal government of starting the wildfires? Apparently he embraces nutty conspiracy theories and climate change denial, American style.
Here's a clip from Question Period a few months back:
https://twitter.com/ThunderBayEd/status/1656734773014822926
At the 0:49 mark, Karina Gould mentions the fires in Alberta, and at 1:02 Pierre Poilievre can be clearly heard saying "started by your government". It's very disheartening to see how there's no Republican low Canada's Conservatives won't stoop to, given the chance.
The irony here is that trump did start the camp fire in California. He purposely stopped wildfire prevention efforts on the federal lands surrounding Paradise, California because βthose people didnβt vote for meβ.
To make it dramatic irony, over 75% of Paradise actually did vote for Trump.
Please Canada, learn from America. Donβt make the same mistakes.
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PP, Ford, Smith, RW municipal politicians are grinding away at Canadian democracy as we speak.
Well akchually the USA can never become a third world country, because the designations come from the cold war and first world means US aligned, second world means UdSSR aligned and third world are the neutral countries.
Let's just say civilized then.
The US is no longer a civilized nation.
Idk. The us population definitely isn't aligned with the us government or vice versa.
Jokes aside, that's pretty interesting. I didn't know that's where those terms came from
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I'm sorry, man. I came back from America because if the healthcare, but now I avoid visiting my friends in NY/NJ/GA/WA/CA because of all the usual concerns -- and me with so much privilege I need a boat or a Dodge ram.
Stay safe. We'll gain land in the 2029 water wars and you can either join us or join the independent states then.
It's not just the US, it's also across the Atlantic on our side of the western world
AfD still convinced Trump will save Germany ΰ² _ΰ²
Hey good news! I just picked up several prescriptions and there was NO COPAY!!! Yay!
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Good move. We need to be vigilant because Canadian RW politicians are attempting to bring US GOP bigot legislation here as well. #NeverVoteConservative
Conservatives would love to pull this garbage here. We're already seeing attempts in Saskatchewan and Alberta. #NeverVoteConservative
Canada about to issue a LGBTQ+ travel advisory for Saskatchewan the way shit is going here.
Don't forget New Brunswick.
PP gets in, all bets are off.
He's such a closet case. I wanna believe
Imagine our surprise watching that from over here then our Education minister saying "I want some of that."
To be fair, Regina is a very hetero sounding city.
And they should. If you aren't going to California, Hawaii, or Massachusetts... you should be careful about vetting the state you plan on visiting. Things have gotten very nasty in "red states" over the last few years.
If you aren't going to California, Hawaii, or Massachusetts
*liberal cities in California.
There's a loooot of deep, deep red areas of Cali that should be avoided.
Don't know much about the other states you listed, so I can't speak on their status.
Sparsely populated agricultural areas and shitholes like Bakersfield aren't common tourist destinations. You don't need to tell someone to avoid them. So yeah they're "deep red" in the sense that half a dozen yokels that live there are idiots, but they're very, very much in the minority.
And honestly, having traveled a bit, even California Conservatives aren't as Conservative as they think they are; a fact which becomes extremely apparent when they leave the state and then get slapped in the face with actual out and proud racism and they get othered for being from California.
It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Absolutely true. I know a conservative who moved away from a smaller conservative town in CA to a true red state small town and even he was shocked by the casual use of the hard R N-word use.
Oregon, Washington, and most of the Northeast are fine.
Just stay away from the South. This has always been good advice and remains good advice.
Still, you get 10 min outside of a city in Oregon and you start seeing Trump signs
The US divide is really less Blue vs. Red states and more rural vs urban areas.
This is urban vs rural more than anything and not state vs state. Because I'm sure there's some dudes from Laramie Wyoming who would take offense that you didn't lump them in with all the other bigots.
Should a gay couple load up there family and move to Garfield Georgia? No probably not but what about Birmingham Alabama? Yeah that'd be fine.
The southwest seems mostly fine from my experience. Just stay west of Texas.
I wouldnβt even drive through the red state as there is a risk of cops doing routines stops
I'm guessing that the places that the LGBTQ+ community should think twice about visiting, are that same places that you wouldn't want to travel to or move to if you're a woman, or if you're not white.
The sad thing is I remember Florida used to be one of the better places to be queer in the South. Sure, the countryside was never safe much like the rest of the US, But each city had its own scene, Miami and Orlando were two of the US's gay cities, and as someone who grew up outside of Florida, but close enough to frequently visit, it felt like an Island in a sea of intolerance.
Now I don't even feel safe enough to visit the nearest city on the state border, or even Disneyworld anymore. And people I used to know there are trying to flee to my state, because as bad as things are here, they are no where near as oppressive as they are in Florida.
I think Florida is worth taking note of, because even though Florida's path towards fascism is decades in the making, things really accelerated against the queer community within the past 3 years. It went from being one of the safest places to be queer in the South to being the worst, and I still can't believe how quickly it happened.
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At first I thought that this sounds a little extreme, but then I remembered that even if you aren't LGBTQ, you still need to watch out for the mass shootings. So being any kind of minority kind of ups your odds of being murdered.
So, when does the travel advisory expand to Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Stornoway?
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