Kichae @ Kichae @lemmy.ca

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Parliament also is not "we the people". And yet, it is Parliament that elects the Prime Minister. The they are under no obligation to elect someone who is a sitting MP. They never have been.

Why switch to Mastodon when there is Misskey?

Why use Misskey when there is Hubzilla?

The NDP also did jack shit about NSP during it's term as goverenment.

We're a country of mostly trees and fields, so there's no lack of nature. Or remoteness.

I would try to find a map of areas serviced by fibre optic internet, and use that to target regions to look into.

Do note, though, that basically anywhere between the Rockies and, like, Fredericton gets right proper cold during winter.

It doesn't, actually! The lyrics are not saying "we have command of true, patriot love", but rather "Canada commands true, patriot love of us".

The English lyrics can be rewritten in prose as:

Canada, our home, compells us to feel great love for it. With great pride, we see it gain prominance, as a powerful and indendent country. From all places, Canada, we will defend you.

Please, God, we ask you to protect Canada's beauty and soverignty. Canada, we will defend you. Canada, we will defend you.

No. Just be a natural born citizen and to have been a resident for the past 14 years. Natural born citizens are those with birthright citizenship, and people who are the children of citizens have birthright citizenship, no matter where they are born.

Elon is a heridatary citizen of Canada, and so would be a natural born citizen of the US if we joined the union.

The things to keep in mind are:

• NATO will not help us if the US tries to annex us. It will not act directly against the US
• The G7 won't do shit for us.
• These institutions are designed to support the US

And this one cannot be overstated:

• Trump is a narcissist who was rejected by his country. He's not here to resume what he was doing before. Like a jilted narcissist ex who has come back into your life, he is here to hurt everyone who hurt him, and who didn't stand by him. Who didn't choose him. He's back to burn it all down and make the world suffer.

Doubling the CBC budget? Building high speed rail?

The Liberal's election campaign teases sound kind of shockingly pre-neoliberal. This is going to be a very interesting couple of months.

The elephant is the mstdn.ca logo. Not sure about the mountains. It's familiar, but I can't place it.

I don't know where gamers' hard-on for Valve comes from. They're a monopolist software developer whose biggest product is a middle-man DRM platform masquerading as a game library utility. Their whole schtick is increasing the cost of your games, and limiting your right to access those games how, when, and where you want. Yet somehow, they're the darling of the gaming scene.

It's fucking bizarre.

I can't wait until someone shuts this prick up.

Because it abandoned the idea of the site admins being responsible for moderation, in the name of expanding to unmanagable size.

On Reddit and Facebook, groups do not have a common moderation team, so they lack the right to dump a post in someone else's group.

The thing that is surprisingly hard to keep in mind is that the US is a culturally fascist country. It has been for a very long time. It's what a fascist democracy looks like.

It is a country with long standing and broadly shared and accepted foundational mythology. It glorifies the military, and the "All American" young adult. There's a strong cult of tradition, a deep distrust of learning and knowledge, and firm belief in the United States as a country and people of "action". Despite their own claims to the contrary, they believe that disagreement with the US is betrayal, particularly on the part of people who arr not white and born of white US citizens. They always have an external enemy (and often an internal one, too) to judtify any action. They have contempt for countries and peoples they see as weak, and a huge hard-on for machismo.

American exceptionalism, which is taught to every school child in the country, is a fascist doctrine.

You can go down the list of fascist qualities outlined in Ur-Fascism and see that the US has always ticked off a large majority of them. The only thing that's different today is that Americans are confronting someone trying to turn it into a disctatorship.

It's not the fascism that bothers people about the current shift, but the governing structure the current fascist-in-chief is trying to impose.

This is a wild quote, because it's still trying to apply a lens that is focused on economic decision making.

Trump never pays his bills. He thinks paying people for their work or products is what suckers and losers do. He actively steals from people, and he thinks it's the smartest thing he does.

He thinks the US is wrong for paying for what it buys. Nothing more complicated than that.

That's not what's happening. People weighing in on the political situation, airing their concerns, or trying to highlight issues that aren't being reported on aren't the ones being called out here. It's the "but I'm one of the good ones" comments that have been peppered into every discussion on non-US-centric communities.

Whether you're one of the good ones or not is immaterial. It's contributing nothing. It's just people trying to make the discussion about them.

Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.

Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.

Hah!

Companies tried to make this a thing 20 years ago, and people just dropped the middle-men like hot potatoes. Bitly thinks it'll be different this time because people have become used to using their service, but all of the pressures that had people using link shorteners in the first place have already fallen by the wayside.

This probably isn't going to end well for them.

Trump has been LARPing as a mob boss his entire adult life. This makes sense.

That would require people actually recommending specific websites, and all people seem to want to do is circle jerk about "lemmy", as if it's a tangible place and not a website engine