A new poll suggests almost a third of Canadians say the United States might attempt "direct action" to take control of Canada, with a fifth of Americans agreeing.
… The arctic is huge, like continent-sized. If they take Greenland, they’ve taken Greenland.
This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.
That’s also not quite so spooky. Ask the average Joe how much of his salary and lifestyle he’s willing to give up to prevent it. The answer is almost nothing. We haven’t, because we don’t wanna.
Well, for one thing, a car is a luxury in most of the world. Ask how people feel about riding on busses. Sometimes the answer is that they can’t for some reason, but usually it’s just that they prefer a private vehicle and no timetables.
For another, a good potion of the population isn’t actually struggling, and has Amazon or Temu stopping by to deliver dumb stuff from China all the time. Like, that entire sector, along with meal delivery, is all about spending surplus income. I’m not talking about the bottom quarter here.
… The arctic is huge, like continent-sized. If they take Greenland, they’ve taken Greenland.
That’s also not quite so spooky. Ask the average Joe how much of his salary and lifestyle he’s willing to give up to prevent it. The answer is almost nothing. We haven’t, because we don’t wanna.
Average Joe is in debt and can barely afford rent and groceries and insurance and medical bills, and car payments and you get the idea.
There’s not much left to sacrifice.
Well, for one thing, a car is a luxury in most of the world. Ask how people feel about riding on busses. Sometimes the answer is that they can’t for some reason, but usually it’s just that they prefer a private vehicle and no timetables.
For another, a good potion of the population isn’t actually struggling, and has Amazon or Temu stopping by to deliver dumb stuff from China all the time. Like, that entire sector, along with meal delivery, is all about spending surplus income. I’m not talking about the bottom quarter here.
In the US, a car is a necessity not a luxury. Public transportation barely exists in some cities. Bike/scooter transportation is a death sentence.
Speaking as someone who’s living car free and has been hit 6 times in the past 4 years, ask me how I know.
Yeah, Canada is the same.