theacharnian

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 46 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's so funny how all this is only a problem within a capitalist frame of reference.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

The NDP needs to hear what Bernie and the progressive wing of the Democrats are saying: we need a bold left populist message of transformative change. The right is always going to call them commies, so stop playing the respectability game. It's time to go beyond small incremental gains, and swing for the fences. Come on Jagmeet!

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

Obligatory Terry Crews CBSA agent Portlandia clip:

https://youtu.be/UCugbVxQtrc?si=P21t9GNjLEcLIc8e

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago
[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Horse poop everywhere.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Canada's population is 40 million. This would add 80ish (edit:) million more people to that. So, it's not Canada annexing the blue states, it's the blues states seceding and then annexing Canada to achieve territorial contiguity.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pew Pew boom boom.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Isn't this kind of shit that you guys have the 2nd amendment for?

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Good luck, buddy.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Third paragraph of my previous comment:

Being mad at Muslims and Stein voters and non-voters is going to be a barrier to building a coalition of resistance. That's just the plain reality of what strategic organizing will require. Don't burn bridges with the people you will need in the next 4 years.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Spot on.

This is Canada's largest weakness: we put the bar at American stupidity, and anything marginally better gives us insufferable smugness.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So... pre-election Democrats were not being the better people??? I really don't get this.

I am convinced that Project 2025 is coming to your country and that trumpism is the most dangerous modern day neo-fascist strain. I actually believe the pre-election Democrats. You don't appease fascism, you don't give it good faith, you resist it, you fight it, you crush it.

This about-face of the post-election Democrats is insane and it feeds directly into the "boy who cried wolf" narrative that the Right is pushing. Not to mention they are normalizing trumpism.

 

Taking away people's family doctors: How to make sure you lose the next election.

 

According to Barbara Bedont, Alkhdour's lawyer, the charges come from a protest that took place last Thursday in front of the Liberal campaign office, with Miller nearby. Bedont said Alkhdour was packing her belongings after the protest, when Miller showed up in a vehicle. She said Alkhdour approached the vehicle and "expressed her feelings about his policies." "They said 'shame on you' and 'you're a child killer.' Things like that — political speech," the lawyer said, adding that Miller was in the vehicle the whole time before it drove off. She said the interaction lasted about five seconds, with Alkhdour standing about a metre away from the vehicle, and the other two people charged standing further back. "At no time was he ever threatened," Bedont said. "There was no violence. It was a purely peaceful expression of her political views."

Alkhdour's protests began shortly after the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Jana Elkahlout, who was born with cerebral palsy. Alkhdour, her husband and two of her children moved to Quebec in 2019, and started the process of bringing Jana to Canada, after she was forced to stay in Gaza due to the unavailability of safe ambulance travel between there and Egypt. After years of trying to get her daughter to come to Canada, the family finally received the green light from the federal government in January, but Jana was already dead.

 

Submitting for this truly astonishing quote:

" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."

 

The Armenians called, they are asking how the Assyrians and the Pontic Greeks are doing.

 

The amount of whining is phenomenal. Shut up and pay your taxes.

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