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There is that.
We rank above the US is virtually every metric. Education. Healthcare. Life expectancy. Lower infant and maternal mortality. Standard of living. Quality of life. Safety. Religious freedom. Personal freedom. Better place to do business. Better place to headquarter a business. Better beer. Maple syrup.
But by all means, keep telling yourself whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the day.
This is the answer. Leave them to to the face eating leopards and form alliances without them.
Don't come to Canada. We don't have enough housing for the people already here. Most of you will die of exposure during your first winter here.
Go to Mexico instead. I'm sure they'll take you.
The frustrating thing is that the red center of the country just voted itself into slavery. Trump has said that he's going to reduce the minimum wage. Project 2025 will destroy the education department, the ACA will be dismantled, social security will be eliminated, workers rights are going away. You will work for slave wages with no protections, no benefits, and no pension then you will fuck off and die when they've used you up.
Congratulations! Your fear, hated, and hunger for vengeance on those you resent was used to manipulate you into the biggest self-own in human history.
This was a well executed decades long plan by the christofascists to turn the United States into a christofascist theocratic autocracy using the Republican party at a framework and vehicle and leveraging the fear, hatred, and ignorance of the heartland to do it. The only way to come back from this is to abandon any attempts to court the right and center and to design and execute a plan to take the country back from the fascists and oligarchs, to fix the courts, to fix the elections, to fix public educating and healthcare, to redistribute wealth, and to give the country back to the people, not just the rich, white, Christian, male people.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62828684/donald-trump-elected-2024/
"Donald J. Trump is the chosen president-elect of the United States in every possible way you can be, a winner in the popular vote and a winner in that marble mausoleum called the Electoral College. The asterisk is not coming back, because this time I am absolutely sure that a majority of my fellow citizens will get exactly what they want. They will get pardons for the January 6 insurrectionists and an end to any federal prosecution of the incoming president, now and forever. They will get attacks on the free press and on political dissent that they have been slavering for. They will get validation for their rage, and an outlet for their promised vengeance, beyond their wildest fantasies. They will get the chaos for which they voted, and which they apparently fervently desire. And there is absolutely nothing that God, man, or the Constitution can do about it, because we did it to ourselves."
I feel for you. My sister lives I'm the US with her husband. We are planning to get them out of need be.
Healthcare is going away for most people as are women's rights and rights, really, for anyone who isn't a rich white Christian man. You guys really fucked yourselves, and to a great extent everyone else, this time. Get ready for the biggest deficit in global history followed by a depression for the ages.
This is the US of A. Fear, anger, hate. Everyone else knows it. They just need to admit it to themselves.
The most annoying thing over the next few years is going to be listening to:
"What happened to my helthcare?" "You voted for Trump who promised to take it away. " "But I didn't think it would effect me!"
"Why are the prices of groceries so high?" "You voted for Trump who promised to deport all the illegal farm workers who picked your food for low wages." "But I didn't think it would effect me!"
"Why did my daughter/wife/girlfriend/mother die in a hospital parking lot?" "You voted for Trump who promised to make life saving healthcare for women illegal nation wide." "But I didn't think it would effect me!"
"What happened to the minimum wage?" "You voted for Trump who promised to lower it." "But I didn't think it would effect me!"
"What happened to the Palestinians?" "You voted for Trump/voted for a third party candidate which allowed Trump to rise to power then he gave Netanyahu the go ahead to wipe them out." "But I didn't think that would happen to my family!"
Suck it up. This is your bed. You shat it in. Now lie there and be quiet. We're tired of your bullshit.
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Homemade Singapore chow mein with homemade char siu.
(lemmy.world)
I had a craving. I made char siu and my wife whipped up some delicious curried noodles.
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Homemade Thai Green Curry
(lemmy.world)
We make our own green curry paste. The makrut lime leaves, Thai green and red chilis, lemon grass, and chicken are from our back yard.
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Toothless lounging on the futon.
(lemmy.world)
I liked the contrast between the yellow bedspread and the black cat.
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My ice cream freezer ready for softball tonight.
(lemmy.world)
I've got it loaded with 8 flavors.
Vanilla
Smarties (Canadian)
Oreo
York Peppermint Pattie
Aztec Chocolate
Skor Bits
Skor Bar
Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch
I hope the kids (and their sibkings and parents and the other team and the umpire) like it.
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SHOUT OUT! The Merry Dairy in Ottawa
(lemmy.world)
This is probably my favorite ice cream shop. It's located on Fairmont Avenue at Gladstone in Ottawa, Ontario CANADA. They make awesome ice cream including a large vegan selection. You can buy it by the scoop in cones or bowls, as ice cream based treats, in pints, or my favorite, in milkshakes.
I had a delicious chocolate milk shake this afternoon and it was absolutely delicious. It's not one of those nasty extruded frozen treat things you get at fast food restaurants. It starts with three scoops of hard ice cream and milk and they mix it right in front of you.
If you're in Ottawa please go by and check them out. They're good people and make great ice cream.
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So much ice cream.
(lemmy.world)
I've been making ice cream. My son's softball team plays in a tournament in a couple of weeks. We have what we call the cake challenge where if they do any one of a number of things (hit the fence, score a home run, get a double play, get a bunt double) I'll make a cake and bring it to the next game. I've done it three times so far this year. I Decided that for the tournament I would make ice cream.
So far I've made:
No Nuts
22 x Vanilla
17 x Aztec Chocolate
12 x Smartie
11 x York Peppermint Pattie
12 x Oreo
Almonds
12 x Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch
24 x Skor Bits
12 x Skor Bar
That's 122 x 125 ml cups.
I hope that's enough.
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Oreo Ice Cream
(lemmy.world)
This is just my standard vanilla ice cream base (500 ml 35% cream, 1 L 10% cream, 300 g sugar, 15 ml vanilla extract) with chopped Oreo cookies. I put 12 cookies in each batch and each batch makes twelve 125 ml cups so each cup has a full cookie in it.
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I'm double fisting it today.
(lemmy.world)
We've had the machine on the right for years. We bought it new. We bought the one on the left at the Liquidators restaurant auction. I've got vanilla base in both. I'm going to put one batch in the freezer for the family and the other in 125 ml cups for my sons softball team. (Canadian) Smartie, I think.
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