It really concerns me that we and people of other political beliefs increasingly live in realities that don’t coincide.
I talked this morning with a colleague who is a professor of chemistry and a US citizen and who can’t travel to his father’s funeral because of the tense political situation.
Can you guess in which country the funeral takes place? A hint: it’s a country where it’s dangerous for an American to go.
Another hint: I’m going there in May.
Yes, it’s Montreal, Canada.
The colleague delivered this update like it’s a completely normal thing. Like it requires no explanation. And yes, exactly a year ago I had an identical conversation with another colleague. It also involved the dangers of traveling to Canada. There’s probably something going on in the other side’s news cycle of which we are utterly unaware.
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One of my family members was coming to visit us this year but she is refusing to come because it’s too dangerous to travel to the US. I did not even try to convince her otherwise, there is no point.
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That’s really weird. I fully expect Canadians to be afraid to travel to the US because it’s ‘too dangerous’, but the lefties usually lurve Canada and can’t wait to visit, or even move there permanently (well, in their heads, until they check out the tax rates and the state of the healthcare system). In their minds, Canada is literally paradise in earth because TDS, Just yesterday, I was next to a lovely American lady on the bus from the airport (in Europe), and when she found out I was from Canada, she confessed she and her husband had been pretending to be a Canadian throughout their trip . When I told her the US was a great country and I’d love to live and work there, she nearly had a stroke. Sorry to be going off topic a bit.
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Maybe they are afraid of moose?
Google “Canadian Resistance Army – Not Your 51st State (Official Music Video)”
(youtube link does not want to go into the comment)
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