Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
This would be like if Canada got rid of all national newspapers, news broadcasters and news organizations and instead handed the responsibility of delivering the news to the people of Canada to one company owned by one billionaire who isn’t even Canadian.
We would never allow that to happen … but the fact that X exists and has so much power over people … we essentially made this possible.
At this point I don’t blame political parties or even individual politicians … I blame the American people who just keep putting up with this bullshit, justifying it all, half saying they are for it while the other half does nothing … and all of them saying its someone else’s fault.
America is generally just a nation of morons with nuclear weapons at this point.
Mute button … playing everything on mute until I’m ready to watch whatever it is I want to watch
Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
George Carlin
That’s the amazing thing human society. We all hold the power controlled by the few. Yet we all choose to believe that we can’t do anything about it all.
It was the same in the beginning, it was the same in the ancient past, it’s still the same today.
beautiful
Turns out the detective had been chatting with himself the entire time
Now we know where all that sulphur comes from
If we’re using star wars themes … the US is more like Palpatine who somehow just keeps coming back to make everyone miserable.
There ain’t no you in United States
American: a gallon of dark caffeinated liquid that is mostly water mixed with 150 grams of sugar, sweetened milk, sweetened flavouring, sweetener and more sugar and one packet of ‘sweet’n’low’ for the diabetes
He dropped it on the floor and bent over to pick it up and ripped open his pants instead
I’m Indigenous and I have two relatives who joined the Canadian armed forces and I know a few other Indigenous people who joined over the years. My two relatives left after a year or two of being accepted and most of the other Indigenous people have also left. All of them complained about just rampant racism or at the very least just subtle racism everywhere with lower levels up to the officers and leaders.
Personally, I grew up in the 80s and 90s as a kid and I often though of going to the military but my parents and grandparents alwyas discouraged us. They had the memory of watching their parents and grandparents join the first and second world wars, either have their family killed, wounded or nearly killed but at the very least forcibly or coerced into going, promised money and help after, and given nothing when they returned. Our elders always said that if any war ever starts again, they’ll ask us to fight it, die for it but either give us nothing for it or very little for any sacrifice we make for them.
Most middle aged Native people like me feel the same. We remember how racist the Canadian military was in the past … we know how racist the Canadian military is currently now … why would we want to join this terrible organization that degrades us, yet asks us to sacrifice ourselves to it?
Like Drump … this idiot is more bark than bite …
‘hey folks, I’m gonna kinda sorta maybe defend you … and even if I don’t, I’ll tell you that I did a year from now’
Go forward in your mind about 20 or 30 years after having gone through your current position or situation without positive or negative change. Pretend that everything just coasts along at the same pace.
What would your future self say to you right now.
There’s only ever two people … one forgets they were buying a ticket, the other keeps forgetting they were selling a ticket and they keep exchanging rolls all the time
I have one friend who is a doctor and he often reminded me that if I don’t need to go to a hospital … don’t
One of the reasons he said this was to tell me that if anyone ever asks a surgeon how to solve a medical problem … they’d recommend surgery
and like your comment suggests … if you ask the police to solve a problem, they’ll arrest people first and probably shoot or beat people in order to solve a problem.
Here’s a direct link to the segment you mentioned …
NDP supporter here … but I’ve always enjoyed Chretien as a solid leader with a goofy side. It’s amazing for me because I’m indigenous and Chretien was the leading edge of wanting to remove native rights in the 70s as minister of indian affairs … but I still love the guy because he good at heart and I looked up to him in the 90s as prime minister. Lots of respect for him for leading Canada.
Saying all that though … I’m still an NDPer