Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

…I never said either of those things?

I’m a bit more optimistic. This is just the pendulum swinging back as it always does. Don’t worry it’ll probably swing the other way in 4 years most likely.

Doesn’t sound like the worst way to spend an afternoon all things considered.

Well that’s… Good to hear? Certainly sounds better than whatever shit show the US currently has kicking off.

I’m not gonna pretend I know the exact details of how much of a slide and to what severity each countries election is going. I was nearly saying that it seems global we are in the middle of a shift right is all.

I never said the politics were the same as my country.

And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it’s verifiably a fact.

Oh absolutely not. It’s a much smaller population and being an island it’s got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.

I have always loved New Zealand. It’s like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.

And it’s just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol

Isn’t New Zealand currently going through their own slide to the right? The Māori only represent like ~17% of the population over there. New Zealand just elected a conservative coalition.

Seems like you’re just moving from one place you (presumably) don’t agree with to a new place that also just signed up for shit you probably aren’t going to agree with.

I mean it looks beautiful but if your travel is for political reasons I fear you’re just heading to a different slice of the same.

Have a safe flight.

Oh I am very aware. We once had like an inch of hail build up on the streets around here. This is a city that hasn’t seen snow or ice on the roads since like 1897 mind you. Anyway when that small sheet of slushy ice plopped down it basically gridlocked the city with accidents because nobody slowed down or anything. People really don’t take changing conditions into account very often.

Rare restraint from the Floridians. I’m surprised nobody is out with a lifted truck, rope and sled. We usually see that every time is snows below the typical elevations around here.

And even then… Sometimes it doesn’t work haha

Snow>beach

That being said you live in Florida and you’re being robbed of your sun which ain’t cool.

How are the drivers handling it? I know when snow goes places it typically doesn’t go lots of drivers don’t change any behaviors which leads to many many cars in ditches and piled up.

The users on this site are so cooked. Mans is getting downvoted for using the correct terminology lol.

I give thumbs up all the time. Usually two of them at the same time with a forced smile to let people know I wanna turn into oncoming traffic every day.

I used to live up near Lake Tahoe. I lost count of how many city folk would think all wheel drive would be enough and skipped chains/cables.

One of our favorite things was watching people pour hot coffee or water on their frozen windshield. Man that never stopped being hilarious to watch. They would often just stand there in disbelief after their windshield shattered lol.

Pay attention to when people tell you what to think and be extra suspicious of that kind of behavior. Question everything. Trust but verify.

Now don’t fall into the trap of just being a contrarian. Just because everyone is telling you the same thing doesn’t mean it’s ALWAYS some big conspiracy. It could actually just be the right thing.

Basically just be curious and don’t form opinions purely based off people you look up to or admire.

You shouldn’t view things like they have “sides”. People are complicated. Situations involving one or many people are even more complex. People who have done arguably great things for humanity have also done terrible things in their personal lives. It’s not an all or nothing type of thing. Some people will tell you it is, but those people are either stupid or pushing an agenda.

Picking “sides” removes any nuance from the conversation and is often short sighted.

You can generally agree with a “side” but find individual statements that you disagree with. There are basically no “sides” or people that I universally agree with across every single little thing.

I’ll give one of my favorite examples of this: The Wright brothers. Without them we wouldn’t have modern flight which has not only saved countless lives but it also enabled great expansion with their new technology. Most people would argue that the Wright brothers were very important and a good thing that happened… however the Wright brothers were incredibly litigious and because of that they probably held back the technological growth of aviation for several years because of that behavior. At that time technology was moving incredibly quick so who knows how much it delayed things in the grand scheme of things.

It doesn’t mean that them figuring out how to fly and making the first air plane is now bad, but it does change their perception that they were these giving “father’s of flight”. They were greedy little shits who wanted all the money who happened to figure out how to fly.

A more common example would Winston Churchill. Arguably one of the most important players during WW2. Many argue that without his leadership the war would have gone quite different. He also happened to be super racist.

Don’t discredit everything good someone has done because of one bad thing they did. But also don’t ignore the bad things people have done because they have done some good. Take them as the whole. Flawed but human.

I think pretty much everyone is living in various states of denial.

Some don’t care and never will care about facts or logical thinking. They are driven by emotion exclusively and go wherever it takes them. Usually anger and depression.

Some are too stupid to recognize facts or logical thinking.

Many people who think they are above others because they have all the facts and they think they are being logical at all times, but in reality they have at best misunderstood facts or selective facts.

This is isn’t unique to one party or group either. Every single group of people has idiots who think they know everything. Poorly educated who think they understand everything. I believe that generally speaking most people think they are doing the right thing and they want the best for themselves and others around them.

Never attribute to malice what can accurately be explained by incompetence.

People need to stop forgetting about Hanlons Razor

“Strong” as in a very brief period in the 1930s the Nazis worked with Zionists to get Jews into Palestine.

I think you would have a very difficult time making the case that they have had a strong link ever since or consistently for any period in history including right now.