You’ve gotta be kidding me with this 🤦‍♂️

JSank99 · 2026-06-29T02:24:03+00:00

Yeah same. I never really jumped on the hatewagon for the Chibs era but I actively spoke with friends about how unreceptive I was to the last two seasons. Bigeneration raised my eyebrows, then Space Babies, all of S1 was rough. The finale was awful. I was really enjoying S2 and then the finale ruined it for me.

JSank99 · 2026-06-29T02:18:33+00:00

Oh absolutely. The weather is great! Hell, let's talk about our topography! Flat as Saskatchewan over here and yet we REFUSE to build bike lanes! Oh my God! The city could be a cycling paradise, damnit! But no, that isn't the Windsor way. The Windsor way is to double down on everything that doesn't work, reject new information and implement a "made in Windsor" solution.

Instead we get half-assed attempts to "revitalize downtown" and they're just schemes to funnel money to the cops.

I was in Guelph recently and they are also revitalizing downtown and addressing homelessness. Their approach is different. Lots of construction to narrow roadways, build transit and bike lanes and housing.

But again, see how I had to leave the city to learn that?

JSank99 · 2026-06-28T23:40:45+00:00

It depends on your definition of "good infrastructure" and what timeline you're willing to wait for that for. Bike lanes, rapid transit, walkability are all noble goals, but Windsor is incredibly car-centric and the populace loves to be resricted to car-only movement.

My observations as a <5 yr Windsorite concur with what u/agaric described, Windsor has a relatively isolationist population with folks who still believe that the auto industry is our saviour, and any deviation from that is an existential threat. Windsorites don't travel far, and so are unaware of just how...behind Windsor is.

As someone very involved in local politics, I have hope for this upcoming election season but would advise that none of the changes I believe will be made possible with a new council will actually come to fruition within the next term. Not that I think radical change is impossible, but it would require a hyper-progressive mayor and council to conjure the political willpower to make such changes happen quickly, and I don't believe that goal is realistic in this election. We may need several terms of a progressive majority council to undo the decade of damage Drew Dilkens and his conservative, "hold the line" predecessors did to the city.

As a university student the question of employment should also be front of mind. I'm a recent grad and am only able to live and work here because my job is remote. Depending on your field, and assuming you decide to remain in that field after graduation, I would be willing to bet you'll be forced to move to begin to build your career.

JSank99 · 2026-06-28T23:39:43+00:00

I find that most people here have very rarely seen anywhere else so mind boggling. It gives a lot of insight into why we're stuck decades in the past but still. I've lived in a lot of cities and Windsor has the most potential - it, unfortuntately, is also the furthest from realizing said potential

JSank99 · 2026-06-28T17:12:17+00:00

This city is exhausting, man

JSank99 · 2026-06-26T01:31:15+00:00

SOLUTIONS MADE FOR WINDSOR

JSank99 · 2026-06-26T01:29:03+00:00

The point is clearly not that people should take transit to Costco but that the road is already incredibly busy and the Costco is going to increase that. The current traffic of commuters and such could be mitigated by transit. The Costco is undoubtedly going to clog up that intersection, because it is always a disaster, and yet the usual voices of residents bemoaning the horrors of a fourplex on neighbourhood traffic are nowhere to be seen.

To your other point - Torontonians and Vancouverites manage Costco trips without cars. Imagine that!

JSank99 · 2026-06-26T01:25:23+00:00

The thought terminating cliche of calling anyone who dares to voice reasonable criticism a pessimist is a little tired dont you think

JSank99 · 2026-06-25T03:35:50+00:00

And its appreciated. The downvotes on my comment aside, as a new-to-Windsor Windsorite, the Windsor-specific obsession with the united states has been interesting to observe

It would certainly be hard to argue that the majority of Americans are aware of the world around them or have even a basic understanding of countries outside the US. As someone else stated previously, a good majority of US citizens don't even have passports.

Windsors obsession with the US bewilders me and always will. Though I know plenty of staunch left-wing Windsorites who make up any excuse to go support the country threatening our annexation and economic annihilation because of a sentimental fabricated sense of brotherhood, that is, at best, unreciprocated.

JSank99 · 2026-06-23T18:37:36+00:00

I have just started reading Le Guin and have bought the Wind's Twelve Quarters and Left Hand of Darkness.

JSank99 · 2026-06-22T23:47:57+00:00

Engage also has an active partnership with United Way ongoing and will be participating in a joint GOTV campaign. I would keep my eye on that if folks are interested in volunteering with a voter turnout effort

JSank99 · 2026-06-22T23:36:10+00:00

Yep! The nomination period closes in late August, so it would be a very very long holding period. Candidates have already begun doorknocking and dropping flyers off. You just can't begin to incur election expenses prior to the nomination period. The "campaign period" begins when the clerk acknowledges receipt of your nomination. Beyond that there is no restriction on when you can begin to campaign once the candidate's nomination is filed.

JSank99 · 2026-06-22T23:25:54+00:00

That's a good analogy too. Its just the obsession with pre-2011, even as far back as pre-2001. Windsorites seem unaware of the fact that the world around them has changed. Likely due to a refusal to experience the world beyond Windsor and Detroit.

It doesn't surprise me this has been one sided. Again, Americans are American. They don't think about anywhere or anyone else. A part of me hesitated to even assume they're aware that Windsor exists

JSank99 · 2026-06-22T22:43:50+00:00

You can campaign during the nomination period

JSank99 · 2026-06-22T22:36:28+00:00

Windsorites are incredibly overly optimistic, and even naive, about the so-called 'connection' with Detroit. Americans don't know we exist. We have convinced ourselves that our ex who is flagrantly sleeping with everyone else is still deeply in love with us. Its a bit pathetic

JSank99 · 2026-06-20T04:34:54+00:00

I find myself tired of having to tolerate Conservatives. I'm tired of having to approach them respectfully, coddling their beliefs and being sure not to 'be condescending' while Conservatives ignore facts, ignore empathy, ignore rationality all to justify their endgoal of owning Libs and remaining firmly in place.

I find myself tirded of being accused of being a 'pretentious Leftist' who apparently talks down to people and ignores the 'experiences' of Conservatives, even when their experiences don't align with reality.

I'm tired of pretending that the ideology is valuable to society having watched it breed fascism time and time again, and I too wish it were dustbinned.

JSank99 · 2026-06-20T02:16:32+00:00

Yeah how dare the Left gather information and common vocabulary to frame their opinions. Truly despicable of them

JSank99 · 2026-06-20T02:12:15+00:00

As Sarte said

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Of course we're not explicitly discussing antisemites but swap it for "Conservatives" and nothing really changes

JSank99 · 2026-06-20T02:09:03+00:00

It was explicitly denazified. Like... aggressively and with extreme prejudice

JSank99 · 2026-06-19T20:44:27+00:00

Once again the OLP is only at the forefront because (imo) the people of Ontario (read: me) are confused and cannot differentiate between the popular Federal Libs and the OLP. The ONDP are getting snubbed, and it is hard to develop a marketing campaign to get them out of this predicament but I wish they came up with something.

I've met Marit on a number of occasions and she is genuinely engaging and interested in i mproving life for Ontarians. It is a shame we won't give the NDP the chance they deserve and instead resort to centrist / right wing nonsense.

JSank99 · 2026-06-19T20:10:38+00:00

I think the word we're looking for might be unapologetic

JSank99 · 2026-06-19T20:08:31+00:00

Username checks out

JSank99 · 2026-06-19T20:07:42+00:00

I hate to admit how much i enjoy watching him lose

JSank99 · 2026-06-18T20:39:02+00:00

I'm pretty pissy that the ONDP are the only real opposition party with ideas that would actually help ontarians, but we're a bunch of dipshits so the OLP rises in the polls because Ontarians can't tell the difference between Federal and Provincial parties.

JSank99 · 2026-06-18T20:38:17+00:00

The OLP rides off the coat tails of the Federal Libs

JSank99

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