Lots of folx think it's as easy-peasy to move to Canada as it is to move to the USA, because in their worldview all of Canada is Vancouver and it's some kind of multicultural paradise, which it most certainly isn't overall.
I never understood why Canada was always the proposed destination. Why not Nigeria or Ghana, two English-speaking countries with not nearly as many nasty white people as Canada? And your dollar probably goes farther in those places too.
Belize costs a U. S. citizen around $4000 for permanent residency, plus some other fees and a lot of hoops to jump through. Though if you invest $250k (Buy a big house, start a business, whatever.) you bypass a lot of the hoops and some of the fees.
I suspect they think that Canada is somehow part of the US territory (like Puerto Rico or something), and that they can just move there legally and permanently without applying to Immigration Canada. (They can stay for 6 months on a visitor visa, but then they have to leave for 6 months.)
Of course, if you have significant money, you can basically “buy” your way into legal residency in almost any country. Most of the “celebrities” promising to leave would be in this category, but they still need to apply, fill out the paperwork, and be approved. Anyone who has been arrested need not apply, btw.
Apparently another way to fast track your way to permanent residency in Canada is get a job with the government. That's what my baby sister did. Went to grad school at UBC and landed a sweet gig with the BC government. gave her residency immediately (and for her British husband) and fast track to Canadian citizenship.
That sounds to me like the way immigration *should* work; it sounds like this couple will bring value to their new land and BC/Canada, reasonably enough, want to encourage their citizenship.
It was an assumption; perhaps TIOK could inform us if the "sweet gig" is for completely worthless work. You are assuming the work is worthless because done within the current governing framework?
I envision a toll booth being set up to collect an admission fee from all those fleeing the USA for Canada as the inauguration approaches. From what I heard they can use the revenue ;-)
Canada isn't another state. You just can't load up the U-Haul and move there. The Canadian government might have something to say about people just moving in!
Amen to that. New sheriff in town next year. Well, actually there is no sheriff now, more like a pasty soy goofy commie child, and now there will be one.
Please, upset celebs, go ahead and move to Canada. You will enjoy living under Trudeau and will thrive living in an authoritarian country where you can be assured that injections will be forced upon everyone and the government will be there to save you from the perilous choices that come with personal freedoms. Please go. As quickly as you can.
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is: he confuses it with feeling."
Fun times crybully invasion is drowning Bluesky site in an avalanche complaints - "In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We're receiving about 3000 reports/hour"
They should have named Bluesky "Kerensky", after Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, whose government was overthrown by the Bolshies in the October Revolution of 1917.
But of course, like so many other things, the irony would escape them.
Cautiously optimistic but I am still carrying around the black pill in a duffle bag. I believe there are traps laid for Trump not the least of them the escalation in Ukraine and the economy. But I have been wrong about much these days!
This is actually great news. The people who flee X for Bluesky are going to get a rude awakening about the real life consequences of "content moderation". You couldn't ask for a better way to educate people on the value of free speech.
I found this crazy comment on it. Apparently they are also pissing off the entrenched users of the site (who are weird ass wokies too). Oooh, to be a fly on the wall.
I would never go near anything called 'Blue Sky' with a butterfly logo. Too much L Ron Hubbard, MkUltra imagery for me, personally.
I've been scrolling the news feed on my intranet at work, and I've seen at least a dozen media outlets trying to boost Bluesky like it's the next big thing. I'm sure it happened organically.
I’d never …but I did, and I’m glad. It’s the wild west! I learn a LOT and whenever idiots post something that makes ____ look like a jerk, someone comes along and posts the REST of the sentence which makes ____ look stellar. I LIKE the TRUE journalism that, like cream, always roses to the
mentally, they are so dependent on each other for validation. I think they thrive on it
My brother is an angry impulsive type that blurts out bullshit on facebook, mostly from "Occupy Democrats" website.
My sister is more like the follower liberal and looks to see what others are doing, even though she is a flake, she is not an angry liberal., Either case, both of them are an interesting study,
Oh and then there is my husbands side of the family. Another basket of super specials.
Our entire family is democrat, except ONE of husbands cousins. (his cousin is a twin, and even that cousin's twin brother is a liberal) Gary called last week-end to speak to hubbs, because he was so happy about the election and had no other family to share haha haha
.... it is kind of sad but that is fine. Conservatives have so many varied ideas and thoughts, those discussions are much more intellectual - much less "feelings" being hurt bc you do not agreeeee
They’ll all be virtue signaling to each other, which will be very unsatisfactory. So they will soon be "out-virtue signaling" each other. Let the cannibalism begin.
This is a retreat of the Left into their new safe space after their failed attempt to transform the entire country into their safe space at the cost of our civil liberties (and sanity).
The country rejected this totalitarian tyranny and told them to toodle-oo.
It's hilarious that they are Parlering themselves simply because they can't handle not being catered to. Reminds me of this hilarious video in which CBS News announces soberly that they are leaving Twitter:
People panned Parler and wrote it off because a "Twitter for conservatives" was too small a niche to be able to sustain itself. But it was never meant to be "for conservatives." It was more like "a Twitter for everyone," since Twitter at that time was only for leftists.
Now the tables have turned on Twitter, and it has become the thing leftists pretending it was back when they were discussing Parler. So they have created a Twitter just for one political faction, and all of the previous criticisms apply.
So they want to punish us by removing their voices from the public square. Fine by me!
Every time I post that Nazis (National Socialist Worker's Party) and Fascists (Italian Socialist Worker's Party) can't be the opposite of the communists(World Socialist Worker's Party), it kicks up a hornet's nest with the demented left. (All of the above are varieties of left wing extremists.)
Then I'm immediately banned when I correctly point out that the opposite of Socialist Worker's Party of any stripe is individual liberty. Yup, banned for being a right wing extremist!
In all of History, the people trying to suppress free speech have never been the good guys!
Jordan Schachtel (the dossier on substack) was banned from bluesky “FOREVOR” after joining just hours earlier. He was banned for stating that there are only two genders. This place sounds like the loony bin.
I just read this morning that Canada is closing borders. They probably think a massive amount of Americans will move there!
As to X, I have never been on it, but now that all the crap moves out, I might consider finally subscribing to it! On the other hand, Substack is much more familiar.
No, that's not the problem (they were welcomed with open arms in 2017). The problem is that Canada has so many people come in that the whole immigration system is about to collapse. Government has no choice but cutting back now.
Just joined. After all these years. I am not sure how I feel about this. I always hate doing as everybody else does, that is why I do not have a tattoo. But now I have X. Am I one of the cool kids now?
Lol, I deleted the account I had (since 2008) in 2022 because it was making me weary. But I opened a new account when Elon purchased Twitter. I suffer from a bit of FOMO
I wish the Guardian had also stipulated that they still stand behind physical mutilation of teens and child rapists getting community service if they’re brown, to really bring home just how much they stand for all the right things.
It's a lot easier to move to Bluesky than to move to Canada.
Lots of folx think it's as easy-peasy to move to Canada as it is to move to the USA, because in their worldview all of Canada is Vancouver and it's some kind of multicultural paradise, which it most certainly isn't overall.
I never understood why Canada was always the proposed destination. Why not Nigeria or Ghana, two English-speaking countries with not nearly as many nasty white people as Canada? And your dollar probably goes farther in those places too.
Belize costs a U. S. citizen around $4000 for permanent residency, plus some other fees and a lot of hoops to jump through. Though if you invest $250k (Buy a big house, start a business, whatever.) you bypass a lot of the hoops and some of the fees.
Just curious.... Did Belize mandate COVID vaccines? Did they lockdown?
Been there. Total dump. And very restrictive gun laws.
Good reasons to pass the info I presented along to leaving liberals.
Why not Costa Rica?
Costa Rica is Spanish speaking and does not have an army that can be deployed against the enemies of Democracy™.
It's totally touristy, you can get along there without speaking Spanish very easily.
Costa Rica is nice, and so is the Dominican Republic. Both Spanish speaking (puedo hablar un poquito español), but English is very common.
And the DR doesn't take any crap (or Haitians) from Haiti next door.
Belize, then. :)
Or Ukraine?
Yes! why not go the the country whose flag you've been waving and whose war you have happily supported with other people's taxes.
Zing! Yeah all those Big Ukraine Azov wannabe toughies can go there and witness what they support in real time.
I saw a tic tok where some hip gorl was proposing Albania. I was all like, "You go gorl!"
I suspect they think that Canada is somehow part of the US territory (like Puerto Rico or something), and that they can just move there legally and permanently without applying to Immigration Canada. (They can stay for 6 months on a visitor visa, but then they have to leave for 6 months.)
Of course, if you have significant money, you can basically “buy” your way into legal residency in almost any country. Most of the “celebrities” promising to leave would be in this category, but they still need to apply, fill out the paperwork, and be approved. Anyone who has been arrested need not apply, btw.
Still waiting. No one seems to be going.
I know it takes a great deal of time to pack all of their conspicuous consumption, but geez, they have minions don’t they?
I saw Streisand on video saying that she WOULD be going should Trump win. I wonder what she is saying now ...
People… people who neeeeed people, are the luckiest people in the worlllllllld! 🎶
Trudeau stopped immigration. TODAY, is what I read.
Tell us you don’t want your excess, tired, hungry, unvetted, illegal leftovers without saying you don’t want our…
Delta is ready when you are!
🤣😂
Apparently another way to fast track your way to permanent residency in Canada is get a job with the government. That's what my baby sister did. Went to grad school at UBC and landed a sweet gig with the BC government. gave her residency immediately (and for her British husband) and fast track to Canadian citizenship.
these people would be great collaborators for Trudeau, sounds like an excellent pathway for them.
That sounds to me like the way immigration *should* work; it sounds like this couple will bring value to their new land and BC/Canada, reasonably enough, want to encourage their citizenship.
How's she bringing value to her new land? She works for the government. She's forcing people who create value to pay for her.
It was an assumption; perhaps TIOK could inform us if the "sweet gig" is for completely worthless work. You are assuming the work is worthless because done within the current governing framework?
Speaking as somebody who will inherit land in Quebec someday, it may as well be North Korea, but with poutine.
Now is the time — sell it at a grossly inflated price through an ad in The Hollywood Reporter! 💰💵🤑
In Quebec, KFC is PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky).
In France, KFC is KFC.
Just got back from Vancouver. Great city.
I envision a toll booth being set up to collect an admission fee from all those fleeing the USA for Canada as the inauguration approaches. From what I heard they can use the revenue ;-)
Canada isn't another state. You just can't load up the U-Haul and move there. The Canadian government might have something to say about people just moving in!
They won't even let you in as a tourist if you've had a DUI.
Amen to that. New sheriff in town next year. Well, actually there is no sheriff now, more like a pasty soy goofy commie child, and now there will be one.
LOL and no need to buy winter duds
I kinda like a little winter. And a little summer.
Fall and Spring are the best, though.
Jordan Schachtel (Substack The Dossier) joined a few days ago and had already been Banished Forever!
https://www.dossier.today/p/i-got-banned-from-bluesky-for-committing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=69009&post_id=151842403&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=n8ybc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Dorsey has gone on to support Nostr, which this time is really supposed to be censorship-proof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr
Especially now, with Justin "cutting back" on new neighbours he's willing to welcome.
Hahahahaahaa! Cheaper, too.
Please, upset celebs, go ahead and move to Canada. You will enjoy living under Trudeau and will thrive living in an authoritarian country where you can be assured that injections will be forced upon everyone and the government will be there to save you from the perilous choices that come with personal freedoms. Please go. As quickly as you can.
Especially now
that Trudeau, aka “False-dough” has
put a stop
to all
immigration. He basically told the USA he doesn’t want our sloppy seconds, our excess, our tired, our hungry, our illegal border hoppers.
I thought they were just cutting it back to about 80% of the recent level ... ?
😂
Lol
We speak in long-form Truth.
They speak in long-form fortune cookie.
And it was crushed upon opening on November 5th.
We deal in ideas, they deal in emotions.
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is: he confuses it with feeling."
~ Thomas Sowell
When Thomas Sowell is gone, El Gato will be The Last of the Wise Guys.
Come wi' egg loll an' Won Ton soup. But hour later, you confused again!
"Long-form fortune cookie". Great one! :D
. . . Reading cookie: " You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here". Other side: " Suicide is easy. It brings on many changes".
I haven’t thought of “Suicide is Easy” for a long time.
I guess this cookie was a mash up with Deteriorata
"....in bed".....
Fun times crybully invasion is drowning Bluesky site in an avalanche complaints - "In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We're receiving about 3000 reports/hour"
Karen has entered the chat.
They should have named Bluesky "Kerensky", after Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, whose government was overthrown by the Bolshies in the October Revolution of 1917.
But of course, like so many other things, the irony would escape them.
Their Karens are pit bulls. Those numbers are probably low.😉
HEY! I have my hair, and it isn’t even blue. 😨
But isn't it great that it took only one day for people to feel unafraid to speak up and speak their mind.
Eventually the zealots will just be left biting their tongue.
Feels good. Feels like we're about to experience a 2nd revolution!
Dare I say... liberating?
*circular reference detected*
Cautiously optimistic but I am still carrying around the black pill in a duffle bag. I believe there are traps laid for Trump not the least of them the escalation in Ukraine and the economy. But I have been wrong about much these days!
This is actually great news. The people who flee X for Bluesky are going to get a rude awakening about the real life consequences of "content moderation". You couldn't ask for a better way to educate people on the value of free speech.
https://youtu.be/dnD8oszGL6Y
I found this crazy comment on it. Apparently they are also pissing off the entrenched users of the site (who are weird ass wokies too). Oooh, to be a fly on the wall.
I would never go near anything called 'Blue Sky' with a butterfly logo. Too much L Ron Hubbard, MkUltra imagery for me, personally.
I've been scrolling the news feed on my intranet at work, and I've seen at least a dozen media outlets trying to boost Bluesky like it's the next big thing. I'm sure it happened organically.
They did the same with Mastadon back in the day, with predictable results.
You mean 'went extinct'.
Good analogy.
The real reason Dinosaurs ... Extincted? 🤔
https://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?19431-The-real-reason-dinosaurs-became-extinct!
My fav Farside episode
Don't insult mastodons. They lasted for over 3 million years. On the other hand, Mastodon the social network may not last for 3 more years.
3 Million Years is a good run, to be sure.
It might have been longer if those evil proto-capitalists hadn't exploited them all for their fur and meat.
But isn't 'exploitation exactly what capitalists DO?
I'm looking forward to the crawling back, even more than I was the last time. And I'm not even a Twitter user.
I might join just to be in place for all that is happening now.
I swore
I’d never …but I did, and I’m glad. It’s the wild west! I learn a LOT and whenever idiots post something that makes ____ look like a jerk, someone comes along and posts the REST of the sentence which makes ____ look stellar. I LIKE the TRUE journalism that, like cream, always roses to the
top. X marks the spot.
Doh, wrong spot ...
A prophetic name if there ever was one
As organically as anything else they do.
😂
Keeping up that organic facade is going to be about as fun as keeping those skin heads smooth. After awhile, they’ll
throw in the towel. My prediction: Big Hair returns, Texas style!
liberals are so funny.
mentally, they are so dependent on each other for validation. I think they thrive on it
My brother is an angry impulsive type that blurts out bullshit on facebook, mostly from "Occupy Democrats" website.
My sister is more like the follower liberal and looks to see what others are doing, even though she is a flake, she is not an angry liberal., Either case, both of them are an interesting study,
Oh and then there is my husbands side of the family. Another basket of super specials.
Our entire family is democrat, except ONE of husbands cousins. (his cousin is a twin, and even that cousin's twin brother is a liberal) Gary called last week-end to speak to hubbs, because he was so happy about the election and had no other family to share haha haha
.... it is kind of sad but that is fine. Conservatives have so many varied ideas and thoughts, those discussions are much more intellectual - much less "feelings" being hurt bc you do not agreeeee
I found a soul buddy in tractor supply. We have wonderful chats as I stand in line with my bird seed. Ace Hardware in town is on our side.
If they don't have virtue signaling, they don't have anything.
They’ll all be virtue signaling to each other, which will be very unsatisfactory. So they will soon be "out-virtue signaling" each other. Let the cannibalism begin.
Well, they definitely don't have virtue.
This is a retreat of the Left into their new safe space after their failed attempt to transform the entire country into their safe space at the cost of our civil liberties (and sanity).
The country rejected this totalitarian tyranny and told them to toodle-oo.
Well said.
It's hilarious that they are Parlering themselves simply because they can't handle not being catered to. Reminds me of this hilarious video in which CBS News announces soberly that they are leaving Twitter:
https://rumble.com/v1vqtb4-cbstwit.html
But what exactly were they afraid of? And how did they know it was "safe" to come back like two days later?
To be fair, a lot of the people who "parlered" themselves were booted from Twitter. They didn't leave in a dramatic huff.
That's true of the original Parler and subsequent shutdown.
Not true of this round of lefties leaving Twitter.
Exactly my point.
Yep. That happened to me.
People panned Parler and wrote it off because a "Twitter for conservatives" was too small a niche to be able to sustain itself. But it was never meant to be "for conservatives." It was more like "a Twitter for everyone," since Twitter at that time was only for leftists.
Now the tables have turned on Twitter, and it has become the thing leftists pretending it was back when they were discussing Parler. So they have created a Twitter just for one political faction, and all of the previous criticisms apply.
So they want to punish us by removing their voices from the public square. Fine by me!
Not to mention the coordinated effort to torpedo the platform after it became "Twitter for conservatives".
What's the frequency, Kevin?
Every time I post that Nazis (National Socialist Worker's Party) and Fascists (Italian Socialist Worker's Party) can't be the opposite of the communists(World Socialist Worker's Party), it kicks up a hornet's nest with the demented left. (All of the above are varieties of left wing extremists.)
Then I'm immediately banned when I correctly point out that the opposite of Socialist Worker's Party of any stripe is individual liberty. Yup, banned for being a right wing extremist!
In all of History, the people trying to suppress free speech have never been the good guys!
Have Jamie Lee Curtis and Anderson Cooper ever been seen at the same time?
🤔 Whoa
I was 13 when Halloween came out. I, uh... Oh, gawd
*massive shudder*
"Victor Victoria"?
I made a BlueSky account a few months ago to see what it was like.
I was greeted with the word "FURRY" * three times, no joke, during the "here's some people to follow" stage.
I huffed "for fuck's sake" and deleted it. You can't even parody progressives' cultural nonsense any more.
* no offense to any real cats - we're talking trans-cats, I guess?
For a human to say "I wish I was a cat" is a compliment to cats. For a human to say "I identify as a cat" is an insult to cats.
Let’s just call Bluesky the Washington Post.
You spelled Washington Compost incorrectly. Fixed it for you
🤭
Maybe it's the new home of MSDNC when it finally crashes and burns. CNN too.
Jordan Schachtel (the dossier on substack) was banned from bluesky “FOREVOR” after joining just hours earlier. He was banned for stating that there are only two genders. This place sounds like the loony bin.
I just read this morning that Canada is closing borders. They probably think a massive amount of Americans will move there!
As to X, I have never been on it, but now that all the crap moves out, I might consider finally subscribing to it! On the other hand, Substack is much more familiar.
i wonder if they fear a huge flood of latin am refugees from america trying to run north rather than face deportation?
*steps back, appreciates*
That there's some 3-D Chess.
Maybe, but the illegals will just move here to California.
Except Marin County, they aren't allowed to move there, Groovy Gavin would be most upset.
After YX busses them to Martha’s Vineyard, they’ll be so close. They’ll
feel
they
may as well… But alas,
Castro’s
illegit son has shut down the border. So
much for outreached loving arms.
That was my thought exactly
No, that's not the problem (they were welcomed with open arms in 2017). The problem is that Canada has so many people come in that the whole immigration system is about to collapse. Government has no choice but cutting back now.
Just joined. After all these years. I am not sure how I feel about this. I always hate doing as everybody else does, that is why I do not have a tattoo. But now I have X. Am I one of the cool kids now?
I might join because I don’t want to miss anything going forward.
Lol, I deleted the account I had (since 2008) in 2022 because it was making me weary. But I opened a new account when Elon purchased Twitter. I suffer from a bit of FOMO
Same
I love it! It is the WILD WEST! Free speech is FUN! I meant so
much, too.
Although, I'm noticing a lot more crazy on Substack since we got closer to the election… I didn't have to wade through so much bullshit before then.
The X deserters made me think about all the women who are giving up sex because of the Trump win. Both groups will probably shrink to nothing fast.
I think those nasty skanks could never land a real MAGA man, anyway. Can't give up what you could never get.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
We all have eyes wide open on X. so the one eyed man to moves to the land of the blind (Bluesky) where he can be king.
I wish the Guardian had also stipulated that they still stand behind physical mutilation of teens and child rapists getting community service if they’re brown, to really bring home just how much they stand for all the right things.
Fake media drumming up fake news. How quaint. How 2016.