Just a few days with friends. January, during a once-in-a-decade polar vortex, isn't quite peak tourism season. 😀

Same for me and my bio-fam in reverse as a trans woman.

Also, love to all my Cis-ters who are are out there shutting this down. ❤️

American moral panic BS is always a bad deal. It's just the latest season of the same old s4tanic p4nic.

NB folks are absolutely wonderful.

Yank here. So, we don't have broad public healthcare because it keeps middle class people terrified of losing their white collar jobs. It also appeals to American racism, putting barriers up for people of color and the working poor to get equal treatment. Many Americans would happily screw themselves over to ensure someone else (they hate) has it worse.

We have hours long lines at private urgent care, and seeing a general practice doc takes 3 to 6 months of wait time (if you're lucky). Also, I'm queer. If The U.S. did have broad public healthcare, it would instantly be weaponized against all LGBTQ+ folks.

Tldl, in the States it's mostly about keeping the middle class terrified of losing their jobs, and ensuring there are working-poor people to sneer at.

Tolerance is for anyone, not everyone. When someone's "opinion" is that innocent people should be deprived of life, freedom, and dignity, it stops being an opinion and becomes a violent threat.

All the best TV worth watching is already taped in Mississauga. :)

This kind of thing happened with "American Nightmare" and "Quantum Break". While I'm not aware of any formal policy that Remedy has, I suspect this happens because they're a smaller shop trying to leverage whatever they can.

Oh wow! I gotta admit, I kinda like Veilguard. Yeah, it's the same "Bioware Style" story as a lot of others. Sorry it wasn't to a lot of people's taste.

Yeah, Namor the Sub-Mariner.

I was about to say there's TunnelBear VPN, but, just found out they've been acquired by McAfee , so boo.

Hi, American here. Please don't, we really ain't it. Besides all the best TV shows are made in Canada!

Cheeto is doing his "firehose of BS", trying to distract from the fact that he's going to rob us blind, and not do anything he promised.

I'm sure she'd feel right at home in Florida.

That's a very good point. I guess it depends on the show.

A lot lf Americans just don't think about it that way. There's a multitude of reasons based more on sentiment and group social pressure than the obvious math.

Many Americans have a great deal of personal optimism to the tune of "well I'm not sick right now". It's a gamble that everyone loses, but in the short term you keep more money. It speaks to the belief that personal heath is a moral virtue (or failing), therefore a moral person shouldn't have to pay for immoral people's "bad choices". And, if someone didn't save enough money to invest in their own health, that's also a moral failure.

There's also terror of appearing too feminine. Care, either receiving it, or giving it to others, is feminine coded for a lot of Americans. So, paying into (and participating in) a broad public healthcare system becomes a crisis of masculine self (and group) identity. sarcasm You wouldn't want people to think you're a sissy right? sarcasm

Er, sorry for the wall of text.