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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by wyoh »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #303
enjo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After two or three conservative justices are appointed the court your life will be mega affected. Are you gay? Kiss gay marriage goodbye. Right to privacy ? Gone. Wanna buy or own a sex toy? Those were illegal in many states until a progressive court put an end to it. A conservative court will absolutely reverse that. This is a huge deal.

Serious question from a non-American: What are the checks and balances on Trump? He has the presidency, House, Senate, and can tilt the supreme court. He's got a mandate to take action against the media and free speech on the internet. What's left? If Clinton won, the republicans would probably have held one or both houses, which seems like significant checks on power even if she could have a more friendly supreme co…

I don't know why you believe that, if anything his partisans were more pro-free speech than Clinton's ones.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by branchless »

colmvp wrote: post #5

Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things. Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).

To paraphrase: A society with less internal division seems appealing until you realise is has redistributive taxes that give people the chance to say no to explotative wages.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by lorenzhs »

yodsanklai wrote: post #304
superzadeh wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently moved from France to Germany, and the biggest cultural gap so far is that people in here respect traffic lights and using a qwerty keyboard. Otherwise, most people speak English and the lifestyle is similar.

Don't they use QWERTZ keyboards?

Yes, we use QWERTZ in Germany, but it's muuuch closer to QWERTY than France's AZERTY (needs shift for numbers!). The difference between QWERT{Y,Z} is those two keys (Y and Z are swapped), the shape of the enter key (necessitated by an additional key), and basically all of the special keys. Many of those moves are due to ä/ö/ü/ß. Meanwhile, AZERTY is very different, and even typing alphanumerical things requires paying serious attention to key placement if not used to it.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by ap22213 »

colmvp wrote: post #5

Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things. Don't get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don't miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).

If one believes that parts of the global economy, especially the US and UK ones, are going to tank, does it even matter?

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by alphydan »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #303
enjo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After two or three conservative justices are appointed the court your life will be mega affected. Are you gay? Kiss gay marriage goodbye. Right to privacy ? Gone. Wanna buy or own a sex toy? Those were illegal in many states until a progressive court put an end to it. A conservative court will absolutely reverse that. This is a huge deal.

Serious question from a non-American: What are the checks and balances on Trump? He has the presidency, House, Senate, and can tilt the supreme court. He's got a mandate to take action against the media and free speech on the internet. What's left? If Clinton won, the republicans would probably have held one or both houses, which seems like significant checks on power even if she could have a more friendly supreme co…

He's been reading Kurt Goedel's writings on the constitution, ... so he found there are none ;)

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by wyoh »

KirinDave wrote: post #292
farright wrote: post #152

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"attractive for the combination of proximity, and cultural/linguistic similarities... There is something to be said for not having to deal with the ... insane levels of violence too." If you just take the above elements of your reasoning, you've just described White flight.

I mean, if there was a State in the US where guns were realistically outlawed I'd move there too. Implying that is "white" flight is implying that white people are not major perpetrators of gun violence in America, which simply isn't true. Gun violence in the US is a major problem and our gun ownership and sales policies are at the heart of it. I've considered moving my family away from it long before this horrifying…

I'd love if you could back up your "white people are major perpetrators of gun violence in the US". FBI crime stats don't seem to agree with you.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by dijit »

prawn wrote: post #66
baby wrote: post #3

People are not going to move. After every single election in France people say they will move to the US, or to germany, or to... I've never seen anyone moved anywhere. ps: parts of my family moved out of Hong Kong when it became Chinese again. But that was quite a different situation.

I know of a family (2A+3C) who were unhappy with the direction the UK were taking, and so moved to Sweden. Obviously it's more said than done, but it happens and I admire those who follow through.

I also did this, London -> Malmo, just after the Tories came to power outside of a coalition (and for that reason), then brexit.. no regrets so far.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by yardie »

gph wrote: post #306
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question from a non-American: What are the checks and balances on Trump? He has the presidency, House, Senate, and can tilt the supreme court. He's got a mandate to take action against the media and free speech on the internet. What's left? If Clinton won, the republicans would probably have held one or both houses, which seems like significant checks on power even if she could have a more friendly supreme co…

The check and balance is that he has to get all those people to agree with him. Certainly on major issues where he aligns with Republican philosophy that might happen. But he's not a dictator that can do as he will tomorrow. If he decided he wants to transfer the entire U.S. treasury into his personal bank account he wouldn't be able to. Certainly I doubt our founders thought an entire political party would control e…

You mean where republican philosophy aligns with him. If you've followed the primaries he has ripped the republican playbook to shreds. They never wanted him as their candidate and now they can't hide from him. And for a lot of politicians their success is directly tied to his support.

I think we are closer to uncharted territory than a lot of people assume.

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Post by noir_lord »

rorykoehler wrote: post #316
nkoren wrote: post #234

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I grew up and lived most of my life in America, then emigrated to a country with universal healthcare (the UK). When I developed a life-threatening condition which my US insurance would never have covered, the National Health Service saved my life. These things don't matter until they really, really, really do. Having seen the grass on both sides of the fence, I can attest that it really can be meaningfully greener.

The nhs is great. A model for the rest of the world to follow yet the tories are fighting tooth and nail to dismantle it.

They are and we aren't fighting back tooth and nail to stop them.

We just let them do it because we (collective we) have grown so used to having it we can't remember what it was like before, people dying from treatable conditions because they couldn't afford it, average life expectancy been a whole decade lower (or more) etc.

We (again collective) won't realise what we had until it's gone.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by noir_lord »

r00fus wrote: post #285
usaphp wrote: post #277

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> "life-threatening condition which my US insurance would never have covered" I wonder how is that possible? Insurance plans these days have to cover you even if you have a pre-existing condition, even the cheapest plans cover everything after a deductible, unless I am missing something

Thank Obamacare for that, and that only kicked in on 2011. Prior to that, insurance recission was a real and pervasive issue for those with preexisting conditions.

You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate...
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