RMers with kids

[Bammer]

What’s going to happen in places like France or Canada when the population starts growing by a bunch of - wait for it - Americans?

Presumably those places will pass more restrictive immigration laws driven by the aforementioned xenophobia. Hence trying to get in early.

Am I good at any point in the future if I can prove I didn’t vote for Drumpf?

[Mickey]

The second we cross the border I'm going to become a "Build The Wall" guy for Niagara Falls

[verb_to_trust]

What’s going to happen in places like France or Canada when the population starts growing by a bunch of - wait for it - Americans?

Presumably those places will pass more restrictive immigration laws driven by the aforementioned xenophobia. Hence trying to get in early.

Even if you get in early, aren't you still just the gross Americans to most of the Frenchies around you? Just because you see yourself as one of the good ones doesn't mean your new countrymen would.

[spike]

What’s going to happen in places like France or Canada when the population starts growing by a bunch of - wait for it - Americans?

Presumably those places will pass more restrictive immigration laws driven by the aforementioned xenophobia. Hence trying to get in early.

Even if you get in early, aren't you still just the gross Americans to most of the Frenchies around you? Just because you see yourself as one of the good ones doesn't mean your new countrymen would.

In general, people are nice everywhere.

[Simple Torture]

The second we cross the border I'm going to become a "Build The Wall" guy for Niagara Falls

Cheaper to blow up the bridges?

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Bammer]

What’s going to happen in places like France or Canada when the population starts growing by a bunch of - wait for it - Americans?

Presumably those places will pass more restrictive immigration laws driven by the aforementioned xenophobia. Hence trying to get in early.

Even if you get in early, aren't you still just the gross Americans to most of the Frenchies around you? Just because you see yourself as one of the good ones doesn't mean your new countrymen would.

In general, people are nice everywhere.

On the surface, for sure.

[Mickey]

The second we cross the border I'm going to become a "Build The Wall" guy for Niagara Falls

Cheaper to blow up the bridges?

I'm sure there's a Trump clip somewhere where he discusses this very issue. No, it needs to be a wall.

[Higgs]

What’s going to happen in places like France or Canada when the population starts growing by a bunch of - wait for it - Americans?

The Americans in France or wherever will no longer have a 2nd Ammendment to confuse things, and no access to assault rifles. Pretty sure things will be considerably more peaceful for those folks.

Thanks for the responses. I have to say that Trag and Mickey's thoughts about leaving the US resonate with me. And even Bammer's thoughts to be part of the solution.

I just find the state of the US to be so sad right now, and sad in such a preventable way.

Stay safe everyone.

[Rangi Guy]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

[verb_to_trust]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

[Rangi Guy]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Whole different island away from where we are though

[Higgs]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Totally and just as fucked up. Similar to the Australian Port Arthur massacre as well.

The test though is when it happens how do you respond? What do you do to try and stop it happening again?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Still in here trying to “gotcha” with the parents, huh?

[spike]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Still in here trying to “gotcha” with the parents, huh?

Thought we were past the “any action taken must mean it never, ever happens again” point, but trolls gonna troll.

[verb_to_trust]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Still in here trying to “gotcha” with the parents, huh?

Whatever man

[E.H. Ruddock]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Still in here trying to “gotcha” with the parents, huh?

Whatever man

What else could the point of that post be? All you do on the board any more is try to disprove people’s COVID beliefs or gun control discussions. And not even with anything of substance. Just “this is where that one thing happened one time, why live there when you can live in the US where that one thing happens all of the time?”

[verb_to_trust]

Reading through this- I think I'll keep my kids in NZ for the foreseeable future

Isn't that where the Christchurch shooting happened?

Still in here trying to “gotcha” with the parents, huh?

Whatever man

What else could the point of that post be? All you do on the board any more is try to disprove people’s COVID beliefs or gun control discussions. And not even with anything of substance. Just “this is where that one thing happened one time, why live there when you can live in the US where that one thing happens all of the time?”

I thought the Washington Post link I shared was pretty good.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Whatever man

[verb_to_trust]

Whatever man

Gotcha