Damn your eyes.
The most beautiful thing about the internet is that normally, I would have to spend a lot money on bear spray and a lot of effort administering it to get the same effect I get with the few clicks of a button.
Lindsey flipped as soon as trump showed him those photos. Government by blackmail cannot end well. Get Epstein’s and Netanyahu’s good friend donny out of the whitehouse a.s.a.p. Clean up your house. Try to find honour again. It’s still possible.
Try to find honour again. It’s still possible.
As a Canadian, I will never forgive America or the American people for what they have voted for and continue to support. The entire world is worse off the past few years mostly because of you uneducated morons.
To be fair, Canada is also a genocidal settler-colony and an active imperialist power.
Point to me the last time Canada waged several illegal wars in the last two years.
I’ll wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan
Or are you going to say that Canada’s continued occupation of indigenous and First Nations land is also not genocidal? Downplaying Canada’s imperialism to own the Americans is about as low as you can get before you start directly hurting people. Don’t be a genocidal bootlicker for self satisfaction, it’s disgusting.
Yes.Canadians are just colder more polite americans from five years ago.
It’s better, but…
No, stop trying to minimize it. Canada is a settler-colonial state, which means it is fundamentally genocidal. The state has supported US imperialism for the better part of a century now, and quite literally finances genocide all over the goddamn world.
Stop with the fucking millennial-core bullshit about the sorry moose syrup or whatever the fuck, no, they’re not just “colder Americans,” they’re Americans. Canada and the US are two white settler states that span the continent with unprotected borders, they’re culturally and politically aligned by merit of their shared interest in white supremacy and capitalistic extraction. Canadians differ only regionally in the same way there’s differences between fucking Texas and Minnesota. The notion that there is somehow only two cultures across this expanse of differing material conditions accepts the imperialist assertion that the settler state can dictate the national identities and cultural norms of the spaces they dominate. These states do not fucking own the space they violently enforce their will over.
I know these people, Canadians are not fucking polite, they’re privileged rule followers. I fucking hate Canada the way I hate the United States, both need to end as all imperialist systems do.
I think you misunderstand.
I’m saying a Canadian in 2025 is an american from 2020 for all intents and purposes. I’m saying that when a canadian fed decides to lynch a marginalized person, they give it a pretty name like ‘starlight tours’ instead of calling it ‘[slur]smashin’.
And, uh, yes. They’re colder. You’re just wrong about that. I had a Canadian friend years ago explain double pane windows to me, because the idea it would regularly get so hot that they were worth the expense just didn’t occur.
Imperialism is not when a state “wages illegal wars” (though this is a method of entrenching it or extending it), imperialism is a process of wealth and resource extraction from the global south. Canada participates in this international system, headed by the US Empire, as a willing recipient of the spoils. Further, Canada is a member of NATO, which is a military coalition of imperialist countries designed to prevent backlash from the global south.
I assume you at least agree with the understanding that Canada is a genocidal settler-colony, and therefore should be abolished as a state alongside the US Empire, Israel, etc. Decolonization is important for any genuine step forward, and that begins with recognizing indigenous sovereignty.
Who said anything about abolishing America? You’ve managed to make up something in your head then argue with me.
I just said me and millions of other Canadians will never trust America again. And you tried your best to turn that into something wildly different.
Go back to Reddit if you want to argue shit your made up yourself.
I said:
To be fair, Canada is also a genocidal settler-colony and an active imperialist power.
I directly compared Canada to the US Empire, as a lesser imperial power and a similarly genocidal settler-colony. I think the fact that Canadians distrust the US Empire is a bit hypocritical, a progressive movement within Canada should also oppose the Canadian state.
I wasn’t really trying to “twist” what you were saying, more give you an alternate perspective. For all of the reasons you hate the US, you should also hate Canada. Both are bad, Canada just is lower on the imperial ladder.
Not going back to Reddit, haven’t been there for years. Lemmy was made by communists, so there are a lot of us here.
I directly compared Canada to the US Empire, as a lesser imperial power and a similarly genocidal settler-colony.
Why? What does that have to do with anything I said earlier in my comments? Are you even replying to the right person? I said as a Canadian I will never trust America again, replying to someone saying
Clean up your house. Try to find honour again. It’s still possible.
And I believe that it isn’t possible for America to find that honour again. Somehow that triggered you to go off into some tangent about imperial colonialism, NATO, and South Africa, as if any of that has to do with how much damage the USA has done Internationally since Trump took over, and how many other Americans they have hurt.
Get a life bud. Go find someone else to invent arguments with, I won’t be replying to you again.
Ouch! Why would you comment at all if you think I’m an uneducated moron? Such a war-like stance. Like the americans?
Unless you’re American, I’m not talking to you. I was just commenting on the whole “they’ll be back and respected” thing.
I was replying that me, and many like me, will never again have respect for America. As a nation they are dead to us. A century of good will and allyship was pissed down the drain in two years and Americans celebrated it.
Fuck that and fuck them.
Fair enough. Just remember, at least one hundred million americans agree with you. It’s a bit unfair of you to paint everything the same colour. Fuck the usa regime and fuck lil’ trumpie though.
It’s just hard for me and other citizens Internationally to care. We’re not involved. We’re not Americans. And yet we still take the brunt of your country’s decisions. My gas is the highest it’s been in a decade. My groceries are up. Everything is more expensive and it all kicked off last year with Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, his illegal wars in Venezuela and Iran, and his own tearing up of CUSMA which he fucking created himself 4 years ago after ripping up NAFTA.
So spare me. The world is in this mess because of America.
Pour one out for international solidarity ig
Under global capitalism, ofc there’s gonna be a brutal top dawg, that’s the name of the game, and yes, American capital has been unimagineably violent. But not without an inner circle that gets a dash of the spoils, too. That’s what that other guy was saying. Nations that have good trade deals with the US, simply materially benefit from the exploitation of the global south.
We’re on a knife edge, of capital being threatened with a crisis it doesn’t really know how to get itself out of. Not without violence and repression, at least. These moments are also windows of opportunity, when capital shows its face, as a genocidal engine. Don’t do their work for them, sheesh.
Pour one out for international solidarity ig
Y’all pissed that away with your attempts to annex two foreign nations who were allies to you.
Do you think all Germans should’ve been genocided because of the Nazi’s actions?
The Germans didn’t vote Hitler out after his first term, then thought 4 years later when everyone and their dog said “Dude is going to be a dictator” and thought ‘Yeah we want that!’
Hitler rose to power over a slow burn of over a decade. Trump showed his hand the entire time he’s been in office.
Very different timelines. Not to mention Germany didn’t exactly have Global Communication Devices where the entire world is telling them “This is a bad idea, don’t do it” and Germany said “Nah, it won’t be that bad! He said he wants to be a dictator on Day 1 but he’s just trolling”.
During his campaign, Trump admitted to wanting to annex Canada. He said he’d be a dictator on Day 1. He said he’d remove all the “illegals”. As if we don’t have on historical record, a certain dictator you’re referring to SAYING THE SAME THINGS.
So you’re going to ignore all the people who actively are fighting against it and victims of it, and lump everyone into a monolith because that’s what you’ve been told.
I guess it is simpler to throw out nuance and just kinda be a bigot, but it’s not really in line with reality.
Way too late to be “fighting against it” when 2/3rds of your voting population allowed this to happen in the first place.
So the sins of some are on the shoulders of all? There’s some Inuit corpses under some schools you might want to take care of then.
Yup, and I’m an advocate for holding those still alive who were involved in those Residential Schools be held accountable. Not to mention my brother is Indigenous so this really isn’t a flex.
Also, there are no more functioning Residential Schools in Canada anymore. Meanwhile the USA is still murdering their own citizens as we speak with ICE raids.
But I suppose when you don’t really have a leg to stand on, you’ll throw anything at the wall to make it stick. Last I checked my country in the last two years hasn’t invaded three countries, and threatened annexation of two of their closest allies. But what do I know.
So the sins of some are on the shoulders of all?
It’s your country. Go fix it.
I think the general breakdown is: one-third voted for trump, one-third voted for harris and the last third just couldn’t be fucking bothered to participate. It’s that last group I save my biggest disdain for.
Mild critique, there is no “American nation,” there are settler-colonists that do not form a nation, colonized indigenous groups, and semi-colonies of formerly enslaved peoples.
still possible
No.
We need the coroner to confirm
I was already nauseated…
I always thought those were fluorescent lights, turns out they are vaccuum tubes that suck your eyeballs out unless you break 5 of your fingers. Neat.
Pinky and ring finger on my right, pinky, ring finger, and middle on my left.
Would suck, but I’m right handed and could still “grip” things ok.
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This is the reason those monks go blind
Australia has more wild camels than Egypt. Over a million wild camels roam the Australian outback, descendants of those imported in the 1800s to help explorers and traders cross the desert. When modern transport took over, the camels were released and have thrived in the wild ever since!
That’s so cool, unless they’re invasive somehow. Or maybe that just means they came from somewhere else.
I meant damaging to the new environment.
HIS LITTLE LADYBUGS?!?! 😭 😂 OH NOOO 😭
On one hand: I am delighted at the demise of Lady Graham.
On the other hand: what a day to have eyes.
Is there something I missed here? Like I know he was almost certainly a gay man but that’s the only way this nears making sense for me.
He was well known to be a frequent client of DC area male prostitutes
Yeah, that I know. There’s a lot of weird specificity in the post… oh well.
Thank you.
