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UberTag

UberTag

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
11,534
Kitchener, ON
Canadian here... looking forward to a 3-day weekend after working close to 12 hours each of the past 4 days.

I've gotten over Ford's win rather easily thanks to mentally preparing myself for it since January. We elected an awesome new MPP in my riding with tons of potential so the election wasn't all that bad. I suspect that Trump's severe unpopularity will handcuff Ford from emulating him too much... even if he is likely to bankrupt us with frivolous spending and tax cuts.

Planning to head to a local Families Belong Together protest on Saturday. I'm understandably pessimistic about the States right now (as we all are). I suspect the refugee situation in Toronto and other cities across the country will get a lot worse given the circumstances.

I am prepared to marry someone from the U.S. to sponsor them for citizenship in the absence of a standing employment offer should circumstances really turn dire. Not much else I can do on that front outside of making another donation to the ACLU.
 

Shoeless

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,162
UberTag said:
Canadian here... looking forward to a 3-day weekend after working close to 12 hours each of the past 4 days.

I've gotten over Ford's win rather easily thanks to mentally preparing myself for it since January. We elected an awesome new MPP in my riding with tons of potential so the election wasn't all that bad. I suspect that Trump's severe unpopularity will handcuff Ford from emulating him too much... even if he is likely to bankrupt us with frivolous spending and tax cuts.
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Another Canuck also checking in. Things are pretty okay. No major fireworks or crises which, as you get older, becomes something you look forward to as opposed to saying, "Man, that's boring, I wish a CRISIS would happen, that would be so much fun!" It's funny how when you're a kid an alien invasion would be the best thing ever, and when you get older, a day where nothing bad happens is.

I too was prepared for Ford. Given the provincial political climate and the absolute hatred for Wynne that she's garnered over the last few years, the NDP would have had to have been playing at miracle levels of politics to stop Ford from winning. They still got a lot further than I'd reasonably expected them to, so who knows?
 
signal

signal

Member
Oct 28, 2017
27,957
Even in a thread specifically not for Americans, Trump is mentioned within 10 words lol.
 
Betty

Betty

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
15,078
Here in the UK we're being cooked alive, feels like every year the weather keeps getting hotter and hotter.

Overall i'm waiting to see the outcome to Brexit and will probably vote Yes if there's another Scottish referendum just to get back to the EU.

The World Cup has been great though, and personally I am feeling remarkably good, nothing at all to complain about.
 

Zedelima

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,098
Brazilian here.

My country is going to auto-destroy itself, Rio de janeiro its almost a war zone now and...well, moved to Sao Paulo and its much better, but not ideal.
We work too much and get paid too little
 
Keasar

Keasar

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,220
Umeå, Sweden
Sweden.
My country is slowly turning more and more towards our own far right party who might become largest party in this years election which only spells shittacular levels of disaster judging by how they acted even at third largest, not filling their seats, constantly evoking new scandals that pretty much showed what racist dicks they are, the usual far right party stuff, and still folks wanna vote on them. The people of my country is turning stupid and I feel hope is dead for the near future.

Also the Battlefield 5 alpha is tomorrow and I didnt get an invite and feel a bit sulky about that too.
 
Austriacus

Austriacus

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
634
My life is pretty much perfect, now on the other hand other Peruvians, eh they could have it better.
At least we are not Brazil Mexico or Argentina. Those guys are fuckeeeeeeed
 
Addi

Addi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,412
Norway here, it's pretty chill, warmer than usual. The biggest crisis right now is that there might be a beer drought coming, breweries don't have enough CO2.
 
Berto

Berto

Member
Oct 25, 2017
479
Portugal here. Surprisingly ok here, we are recovering from the financial crisis quite well and theres a somewhat optimistic feeling in the air even though we all know its a fragile state that will crumble as soon as another crise comes. Current governament is a weird coalition of left parties and its kinda working. Far right is a minority fortunatly.
 
Kurdel

Kurdel

Member
Nov 7, 2017
12,132
Québec here, horribly depressed by all the news from everywhere.

Legal weed is coming, that is great and all, but the provincial elections are coming this fall and a right wing ethno nationalist party is probably going to come in power. They deny there is a rise in right wing extremism, and insist there isn't any islamophobia in Québec, despite the Mosque shooting last year.

So yeah, shit all around.
 
Jessie

Jessie

Member
Oct 27, 2017
9,913
I want to make sure this shit never happens in Canada. I’ve never been overly political, but I’m going to be campaigning so hard for Trudeau. I’ll be in a red t-shirt, getting people out to vote.
 
Jahranimo

Jahranimo

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,224
African-American in the US, so despite the recent events...it's about the same here.

Looking forward to the weekend.
 

Something Creative

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,047
Canadian

I am extremely pessimistic about the state of politics and socio-economics in the US and how that will ultimately impact Canada and the world. So today is like a drop in a bucket full of political malaise. We are also susceptible to a lot of the same delusions so I know we are not necessarily safe.

Otherwise life is good. This World Cup rocks, Canucks drafted a possible 1D, the weather is great, long weekend upcoming, work sucks but I just started applying for jobs so I can suffer the shit a little more easily
 
Xiaomi

Xiaomi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,987
I'm from the US, but living in Taiwan permanently. On the one hand, I'm extremely lucky to be here right now and not in my home country. On the other hand, most everyone here is just as confused and upset as people back home are.
 
Arebours

Arebours

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,644
Feeling good. A bit sore in my triceps, hoping i don't have tendonitis.

Not really worried about America, the pendulum will swing again as it always does.
 
Axe

Axe

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,098
United Kingdom
UK here. It's been very warm and pleasant. Planning my birthday party for Monday, then after I've got to start hunting for a new house to live in near London.

As for politically, things are pretty grim here at the moment. When I move, I plan on stocking up on supplies in anticipation of Brexit chaos. Before, I had hoped that the government was putting on a bit of theatre before eventually backing down. But they've been so utterly and brazenly inept that I now completely expect the worst case scenario to happen next year. Even without Brexit, the effects of Tory austerity have been crippling. My town now has a lot of homeless, there are lots of empty businesses, and everyone I know is struggling to get by. Everything is falling apart around us, and it feels like nobody cares.
 
EloquentM

EloquentM

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,478
Lol “how’re you feeling today?*

*Americans not welcome”

We just gonna segregate a bunch of members from this thread cause the country upside down?
 
FeistyBoots

FeistyBoots

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,506
Southern California
Canadians in this thread, help me get into your country. I'm a liberal atheist pansexual transgender woman living in the States, today's SCOTUS news is dark.

I'm housetrained and have all my shots. I work in software testing (on Overwatch) and have extensive work experience (16 years in television and satellite broadcasting before I switched to software and got in at Blizzard).

Oh, and I'll need a place with a basement. But, uh, not for other refugees or anything, not at all.
 
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UnpopularBlargh

UnpopularBlargh

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Oct 26, 2017
6,033
Kurdel said:
Nothing low key about how the US is a garbage fire right now, and how it is causing anxiety on a global scale.
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Not to mention it wasn't really a diss. I just wanted a more wordly perspective on the recent events happening in the US. There's more than enough threads that cover the American viewpoint.
 
Rmagnus

Rmagnus

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,923
My country gov cares more about GDP and profit than citizen but overall it could be worse. So I am grateful for where I am atm
 
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