Niagara falls has two distinct falls that are separated by a good-sized island. The national border runs through the island.
Many Americans are surprised to learn that the comparatively small ordinary looking falls on one side of the island is the American one, and the iconic image we all think of as “Majestic Niagara Falls in Niagara, New York” is the fact the Canadian one in Ontario province. Oops.
Nice thing about RW talking heads is that when they’re wrong, they’re shrieking at the top of their lungs so everybody finds out. The not-nice thing is they’re always shrieking and that gets very tiresome.
The island is at the southwest corner of the City of Niagara Falls (and of Niagara County), New York, in the United States and is part of Niagara Falls State Park.
You are of course correct. Past time for me to look up stuff I know but that I haven’t reviewed recently.
It’s still true that the two falls are in different countries and the island separates them. But the actual border, as you say, is in the water off the side of the island closer to Canada, not on the land.
No, no, Ingraham forgot that Canada, Ontario specifically, is not yet an American state. The Tweet “Gambling…ugh. We need manufacturing not this.” Evidence for this is the inability to link to the Tweet because she took it down.
I’m going to assume it will work out about as well as Galt’s Gulch in Chile did.
I knew one of the people involved in this shit-show. He seemed like an otherwise reasonably normal human being. I was kind of surprised to find out he’d gone that deep down the rabbit hole.
As I’ve said elsewhere, “nobody ever manages to actually build Rapture”.
These libertarian/Randian/whatever types who idealize selfishness are almost uniquely unable to function other than as parasites. They consistently fail in their periodic attempts to build a “Galt’s Gulch” because they can’t cooperate long enough to even start before someone steals the money. They can’t even try and fail, because they never finish the “try” part. The closest they get is taking over someplace built by other people and running it into the ground.
Literal suicide cults are better at building a society than would-be builders of libertarian enclaves are. Heck, they even tend to last longer.
Right, because in book-accurate Randtopia (Objectopia?) there would also implicitly be a whole tier list of workers and managers who also themselves are convinced of their role rationally building this righteous world and will willingly show up to support it. Which is not what the techbroligarchs are thinking of.
(Sort of like everyone sings of the glory of the 300 Spartans and forgets about the couple thousand allies, auxiliaries, slaves and camp followers that came along.)
"… The result of the Cyprus experiment was convincing.”
“What was that?” asked the Savage.
Mustapha Mond smiled. “Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473. The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas. All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs. The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical predictions. The land wasn’t properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen.”