RemainsOfTheDay

As you said, you're an outsider.

The Founders based the Constitution on 2000 years of known human history (and psychology), including the fall of the Roman republic and, then, empire.

Those "old ideas" have worked very well for 250 years. You do better in your country. Show us!

Then you should wonder how objective you can be, and why not.

Except for truly stupid people.

It's an IQ test.

Why is this junk on Hacker News?

Volvo Cars is Chinese-owned. What did he expect? Tell me one quality and reliable Chinese brand in North America, just one.

You don't know what their intentions are.

They are like the police or the car salesmen: they do this every day or so, you do it once every 5 years. If you're not careful, you won't even know what happened there, not until you see the consequences. Protect your own career and interests.

The best thing one can do both for oneself and the remaining employees is vote with their feet. If enough employees do that, things may change. Don't burn bridges when you leave.

I work for a boss whose anonymous yearly reviews are atrocious every single year. Nothing ever changes, he's still running the department. The organization is rotten to the top, and no honest feedback will ever change that. I bet not even most of us leaving.

Legally they should, especially if those memes are anti-American. They are subject to immigration law, which is constitutional.

We are so nice to non-citizens in America that many of them actually do think they are legally a citizen's equal, except for voting rights. (I used to think that myself.) They are not.

My country is not fascist. You don't know what the word means, unsurprising given your immaturity.

Only something that's small, or in a recession, will grow 61% YoY.

And last time I visited Canada, this month, I was asked more questions on the Canadian side of the border than on the American one. Which is perfectly normal, given the fact that I had an American passport. Both interviews took 2-3 minutes, by the way. A lot of the sensational "news" are clickbait for the TikTok empty brain generation, who just swallows them hook, line and sinker.

Most people will never experience problems at the border, especially the kind who prepare and get informed ahead of time (I actually knew what items in what quantity I could bring back from Canada, and I did bring back beer for a friend, way above the 1L/person limit - the officer didn't even blink when I declared it). I have never had problems with border police or customs, even when I visited a couple of communist countries, maybe because I never lie to them, not even by omission.

As I said, stop measuring dicks with the US. It's a great country, just in a different way from Canada.

ROTFL.

I'm quite sure that's their main job, finding out who are the adversaries of the regime.

They are not detaining them. They are refusing them entry, housing them and sending them back. Every country has the right to choose who they admit.

And we don't really whether the JD Vance meme wasn't just the frosting on the cake. All we have is the tourist's word.

And how much is the Canadian tourism industry losing?

Stop measuring dicks with America. It has a much larger population and economy, so you cannot win.

Because they are not American nationals.

My last border crossing, a few days ago: "What was the purpose of your travel? ... What are you bringing back with you? ... Welcome home." Took one minute.

Are the grapes sour?

I've been seeing Mullvad billboards for years, including in Paris.

I get that, and it will be the exception. Unfortunately, the comment I responded to deserved to be called out, beyond its xenophobic tone. (Btw, I can't find it anymore.)

I don't think that Europeans have language advantages over Americans. America is way more multinational than Europe, by design. There are few European countries with multiple official languages; most only have one, like the US.

It's just that most Europeans' native language is not English or some other language spoken by hundreds of millions or billions of people. So they have to learn at least one foreign language to function in the modern world. And many European countries require children to learn two of them. Some require passing language exams as part of the high school graduation.

I studied English and French in school. My native tongue is spoken by about 15 million people in the world, the official language of my native country (which I also speak fluently) is spoken by about 20. One gets a lot of motivation from knowing that, by learning English, one will be able to speak to billions.