Zuckerberg is the same. Spoilt rotten, sooking over every little moment.

National identity is imaginary, powerful and useful. What she’s choosing to claim with hers is badass. It’s brash, in-your-face, heroic. Anti-apathy. And our world needs tonnes more of it.

As an activist irl, and someone targeted daily by nazis for years, AOC has no illusions about the current state of fash in the USofA, nor the history and current state of slavery and genocide in the world. Nazis (and other misogynists) will tell you she’s ignorant and deluded, but you know she’s not. She’s manifesting, and the irony is lovely.

If you want to live in the country she does - against all the opposition activists for the common good constantly face - claim it as she claims it. Go find your allies irl and stop letting powerful men tell you there’s no point trying anything. Your enemy says you’re not a real person, but a thing God put on earth for them to use or destroy.

Tough love: Hope is hard work. Apathy is an easy trap that flatters your intelligence while it kills your spirit. Trust yourself and make a choice: who is your enemy and how are you going to treat them?

They’re fucking with your brain just by saying it. “If I’m so right, why won’t you admit that you already agree with me?”

Seeing the evil fucks in the front row smiling and clapping, loving him for it. They know exactly what they’re seeing.

I think that’s why they had it indoors. Remove the opportunity for the people to dissent in the moment.

Justice for Ollie! That poor fucking bird…

I’m just trying to save his neutered business from my feminine energy.

smokin meats…

If your question wasn’t rhetorical, addiction is one reason I can think of. Folks are tied up in a certain kind of Feed depending on the places they go online, and twitter/facebook are aggressively designed to make you stay, right? It might be as emotionally daunting as a smoker knowing they should quit. idk - I was lucky to not invest any time with those platforms, but I have kicked one addiction and failed to quit others, so I have some sympathy if that’s what’s holding people back.

Another reason is rubbernecking at the car crash. People are still on twitter because it’s where all the drama people/news are talking about IS.

Other than that? Nazis are there to be accellerationists, and internet debate club folks are there to perform civilized discourse (“so someone reading in the future can see that the nazi was wrong”).

If your question was rhetorical, my bad.

ty for this post. Looks like a well-trod ground for most people here, but for newcomers like me the whole conversation was really enlightening and TIL.

because we find saving the planet very benefitial for the long-term success of our business.

Poetry.

Everyday. Same. And it’s one of the few news sources left I trust not to scrape-n-paste their journalism.

Also CBC2 has Drive, Martin’s Room and After Dark. I’ve found so much good Canadian music I likely never would’ve heard anywhere else on the dial. Delete CBC and what little cancon we have left is toast.

Just headlines, pics and tweets.

Great cut of that fucked up interview! ty for posting it so I never have to watch the whole thing.

Anyone wanting to know what this is before you click: It’s a link to Mayor McCheese’s channel where he’s cut together a 1:30 min cut of the interview Pierre Poilievere did with Jordan Peterson the other day.

How in-your-face was that sudden drop in hostile “freedom from TruDope” commentary the week Russia invaded Ukraine and they all got new influencer assignments or something?

He’s filed for refugee status, so now we have to run him through that whole process.

As someone who works a lot with refugees, I’m not sure I can really express the rage I have that magats feel entitled to take up space in this specific system Canadians have put our collective dollars toward, especially when it’s all SO overburdened already. The idjit grinning as he explains to the reporter, “maybe I’ll be a refugee, might delete later, idk” when I know actual war resisters and people escaping torture in their home countries sleeping rough on a freezing cold night in the city? And this douche is snowboarding?

I’m sure most Canadians would physically remove the man back to the USofA ourselves if we could. These people are obscene.

Deplorable, even.

He’s too busy snowboarding in Whistler atm.

More details from this story posted a few days ago over here.

“Why are men in general so emotionally constipated? omg stop crying like a pussy; we just asked a question!” - the patriarchy, oppressing us all

You made me think of my buddy from the states visiting me in Toronto 2010-ish laughing at the Canadian flags they sometimes saw flying from people’s houses and other buildings. I asked her what struck her so funny about them and she blanked for a second. She said, “It’s just weird seeing so many flags that aren’t American… Like, this is a country too… um.” We had a brilliant talk about flag-waving patriots for a bit, but seeing that glitch was really interesting and I’ve never forgotten it.

That said, I had plenty of teachers growing up and know tonnes of educators now who’d totally be into forcing students to salute the Canadian flag and pledge allegiance to their God & Country every morning. The only thing stopping them is legislation preventing it, not national identity.