Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Go forward in your mind about 20 or 30 years after having gone through your current position or situation without positive or negative change. Pretend that everything just coasts along at the same pace.
What would your future self say to you right now.
I tell this to people about flags all the time … any time you change the colours, image, orientation of a national flag … you’re announcing to everyone that you’ve broken away from the nation and are standing on your own with your own group now. You are are saying that you are no longer part of the nation, and that you’ve set up a new group that you stand for that has nothing to do with the nation. It’s an historic thing about adopting flags and especially new flags … especially during times when people couldn’t read - they might not be able to read your manifesto, but they certainly knew what a new flag meant. It’s an historic part of vexillology - the study of flags.
The blue line flags in the US and Canada are a display that they no longer identify with the country they are part of … they’re wanting to stand on their own against everyone else.
America drank the drano of fascism to try to clean itself out … it left it feeling hallow inside as it slowly died of poisoning
So … what is the leading alternative browser then?
One of the reasons Firefox became so popular was that it was an alternative.
Now that they’re drifting towards something we don’t like … what is the new alternative?
No … the US empire will expand and grow more wealthy … the only issue is the US empire has nothing to do with the US people, it has everything to do with US corporations and wealthy owners.
The fun part is that the same thing is happening with the Russians … their empire has nothing to do with their people and everything to do with their corporations and wealthy owners.
This all has nothing to do with people … it has everything to do with money.
Obviously, you know the rules and so do I
Cruise! … that is one cheap way to visit a bunch of places.
Go sign up to a website called … wwww.vacationstogo.com … make a basic account with an email and then look for a link in the website called ‘30 day ticker’ - it’s all last minute cruise deals. Last minute cruise deals are not the same as last minute air fare deals. Air fare deals are usually discounted a few days or even a week or two before the flight. Cruises are discounted two months or a month before departure. The vacationstogo website is a general website that lists every deal from every cruise company. You can search through cruises going to anywhere in the world.
We stumbled on this site about ten years ago and we got on about 8 - 9 cruises in the Mediterranean. We basically used it as a glorified ferry to take us from one place to another. If you just leave your schedule open and take whatever is available you can literally cruise for almost nothing. We took several cruises to get from Spain to Italy … 7 day cruises that cost $400 CAD … all inclusive! It was cheaper to take the cruise and vacation for 7 days with free room and board than it was to fly to Italy and rent hotels and buy food. We once went with friends for 14 days for about $1,000 all inclusive … that might sound like a lot but divided across 14 days that $70 a day to see 6/7 cities, all the food you want, no alcohol because we don’t drink, don’t bother with excursions, just go take a walk yourself, workout gym on the ship, and you get to be in giant hotel right in port in the centre of some of the most beautiful cities in the world.
My recommendation is … go on the Mediterrean cruises to actually see fantastic cities, food and history … go Caribbean if all you want to is party and see poor people in third world countries … go Asian if you want to safely see a bunch of great Asian countries.
This is how we were able to see the pyramids in Giza. We took a random cruise to Turkey and one of the stops was Alexandria and Port Said, both ports that could take you to the Pyramids. We took the cheapest excursions on both just to see these great wonders and it was amazing.
If you’re afraid of travelling, go on a cruise. We always joked that we could just grab a cruise from Montreal, New York or Florida, cross the Atlantic on a last minute deal, then just keep taking cheap deals once we arrived on the other side and then grab more cheap deals to head home and never use a plane the entire time.
I grew up poor in a semi remote Native reserve in Canada in the 1970s and 80s. The first ten years of my life my parents were still basically living off the land and most of what we ate was wild food. I didn’t even have that many sweets or junk food which saved my teeth when I was young.
Then as a teen, I had to fight and claw my way through life in order to get anything. Sure we got ‘free’ help for food, health care, dental, eye and education … but it was just barely enough for me to barely get through high school. At the end of it all, I still had no prospect of making a living on my own in my own home community … I had to leave in order to survive. Even after then, I had to fight every step of way to make a living and fight off my old community members who thought I was being ‘too white’ and the non-Native people who thought I wasn’t ‘white enough’ … it was completely messed up.
After fighting through all that crap into adulthood, I met someone I fell in love with who wanted to do the same things I wanted to do. We didn’t make that much money but we figured out how to travel to over 30 countries over 25 years. About six years ago was our last trip because we caught a virus that make us sick and cough our lungs out … it was terrible. It took me about three months to get over it. My wife never got over it and now sits at home with chronic lung disease. It’s left us at home and we can never leave again.
The reason why I am saying all this is is that you have the world by the tail … you’ve got everything. You have a job, shelter, a bit of money and you are young and capable.
Give yourself about ten or 20 years and you will feel less and less like doing anything and then it will all be over. Once you get to a certain age, you will feel like ‘hey, I think maybe I want to do something’ but by then, it will be too little, too late and you won’t have a choice and you will be stuck in your apartment or house or home or whereever you’ll be and just sit there and wait for death. The entire time you’ll be sitting there, you’ll be regretting that you never did anything and that you never went out and tried just doing the bare minimum of excitement.
I feel terrible that I can no longer do much and that I have to stay at home taking care of my wife. I love her dearly but I would much rather we both head out into the world and just go somewhere, anywhere as far as money would take us. I really never cared if where I went was warm, dry, hot, cold, wet or miserable or absolutely fantastic. Sometimes, the best part of the trip was coming back home and realizing just how wonderful and fantastic home really was compared to many places in this world.
The only thing that doesn’t make us completely miserable and regretful is that we did go out there and take in as many sights, sounds and tastes as we could afford. It was fantastic. We saw the Acropolis hill, the pyramids, Machu pichu, St Peters, the Mediterranean, buddhists temples in asia, indian landmarks, dozens of cheap motel dives in the US and Canada, the oceans on every side of North America and so much more … all for as little money as we had.
Now that we can’t move or go anywhere any more … we look at old photos and reminisce about every trip we ever took.
Go out there and go as far as you can possibly go … then when you get old and grey, you can be as sad as you want but at least you can look back on all the great things you saw.
First you need the baseball bat phase … where they beat each other over the head to produce enough bumps so that the phrenologists can analyze them.
Wow… that is beautiful and awesome!
From one point of view, I don’t think the US will ever want to take over Canada. They own us already and our resources, our corporations and businesses and I don’t think they want to the expense of running our country. They have our money and resources, it would just cost them more to run manage us.
From another point of view, if they do want to take us over with military force and occupy us … that is even more expensive and difficult to implement and manage. How much do you think it would cost to have thousands of troops, officials and military run around Canada to keep us ‘under control’.
It’s a business decision and our Canadian leadership being such whores to money, it’s just cheaper to keep us under a leash and keep us at arms length, while doing whatever they want with us anyway.
Just use Deepseek for US government data … what could go wrong?
The solution =
Watch as everyone shakes their hands, dance around, call you stupid and basically get mad and distracted while you go off and raid the government coffers for you and your friends.
The house has been burning and smoking for hours and people are still thinking that the fire just started
The problem with any new kind of currency no matter what it is will always be controlled and manipulated by the wealthiest individuals who will flood their wealth into that new system.
I thought you were talking about some English gangs that met in a field.
Beautiful image, that’s amazing
It looks like they carved out the building from the ground and lifted it all in once massive piece
Joe Palooka
I looked up that comic and found it very familiar … I’ve seen those before but I can’t place it. I’m thinking it was bubble gum wrappers or candy wrappers or something. But I’ve definitely seen those comics before in some small format in candy, popcorn, cereal or something. I’m up in Canada in Ontario and this was all in the 80s. I know the comic is old but I remember seeing this comic when I was a kid somewhere.
Doesn’t bloody fresh red blood mean that whatever is happening is near the exit so more or less treatable.
But dark red or even black means that bleeding is happening deep inside the intestinal tract and you really have to see a doctor and a hospital to get proper treatment as soon as possible.
Because they don’t want people to be anti-fascist … they want people to be pro-fascist
That’s the amazing thing human society. We all hold the power controlled by the few. Yet we all choose to believe that we can’t do anything about it all.
It was the same in the beginning, it was the same in the ancient past, it’s still the same today.