Victor Villas @ villasv @lemmy.ca

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I guess he means a state that’s ok with illegal settlements and apartheid treatment.

Why would he mean that?

I think it's more likely that he's idealizing a future where Israel and Palestine forget their history and trauma and suddenly become best buddies who root for each other's success because no one is interested in inflicting any more pain on the other. This is a pointless exercise in imagination but it's probably what he's going for with this statement.

My philosophy is this: I’ll answer truthfully, and if my country gets to the point where I’m worried that being truthful in my census questionnaire will put me at risk, this is no longer a country I want to be living in and I’ll move.

I know this is coming from a place of privilege but I can afford it, and I believe that everyone that can afford it should do it too.

Not sure what exactly they’re expecting to have happen.

Great opportunity to go inform yourself then :-)

Looks like we have different groups of experts in our respective informational sources

Ah ok, "they" meant cannabis magazines.

experts were ignored

The experts were on the side of legalization, so they weren't really ignored. If by experts you mean people who study public health policy and narcotrafficking.

Now that the consequences are being seen, what are we going to do about it?

What are these experts saying nowadays? What I see is a consensus that legalization was a pretty good move. There's probably more we should do, but it's stuff that builds on top of legalization.

Not really what serious advocates ever said. Maybe what random people on the Internet sometimes said?

This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.

Be careful with being too open minded so that weird debris come in

there is no such immunization requirement for summer camps.

Instead, Goodman says it will be up to individual camps to decide what their policies are.

That's a misleading headline. The vaccination record is the "ticket", not actually being vaccinated

Why even do this?

Beyond funding the military Industrial complex, there is no reason for this.

What do you mean? There's no need for more reasons.

Republicans will never lose vote for increasing military funding. Trump family gets gifts and favours, doles out some taxpayer money in a way that their languishing and impoverished voter base approves. It's the art of the deal.

We're in for AT LEAST three more contiguous years and a half of this madness. Stalling every bit of the way can make a big difference.

Isn’t this social credit thing mostly a hoax? They said they would do it but I’ve never met a Chinese person that confirmed they had this up and running

Edit: yeah mostly not a thing, Wiki got receipts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Interesting, today I learned.

Oh and that’s one more reason why BC is awesome, it’s the least Christian region!

what does this even men lol learning a new insult slang

saying and doing nothing feels a bit like pulling up the ladder behind me

I think I understand where you're coming from, but if you can let go of having the guard up against the very real barrage of criticism you have to face as you dive deeper into deconstructing masculinity, you can still try to provide the safe space you wish you had on your journey. It's not a matter of silencing yourself, it's more like: understanding where that friction is coming from, then learning how to plow through and still develop oneself with the constructive feedback, then being there for others you recognize could use a gentler nudge towards a better path.

Rest nicely and be safe out there.

Absolutely. Not only I think women are overly criticized for growing contemptuous of men, that too is dwarfed in damage caused by manhood. Like any violence-related metric, I think men are the biggest source of misandry anyway. Just like men reserve their love and admiration for men, their highest forms of hatred, envy and scorn are often also men. So it's not like men don't say things equivalent to "men are shit", we do it a lot too - we just try to create a group for which that is the exception (and of course, including ourselves). For example, all this bullshit around "soy boy" and "alfa/beta/sigma". This is just men prejudice against men, in roundabout ways tied to performative masculinity.

so I’ve been in group texts with my predominantly women friend-group and they feel comfortable enough to speak freely. They absolutely say stuff like “all men are trash” and mean it

I've got bad news for you: conservative (or whatever other self identifying right-wing) woman also say this. But the good news is that your friend-group is not necessarily representative of "the left".

Men need help, but it’s their fault that they are like this and they’ll need to solve it

It's also true, though. One is said nicely, one is said violently. But despite that, some women still spend an inordinate amount of time trying to bridge that gap. Books and presentations and workshops etc are dedicated to rescuing men. You just can't expect this from every individual, that's unrealistic.

Before any more responses show up to say "ah my leftist wife/friend says men are shit", my wife does that too. My wife has a general dislike against men. That's not news to me, and doesn't change anything regarding what I said above.

lol fair enough, and it's perhaps a not very useful point to dwell anyway, it seems it was just an example

I mean, I have no shame in acknowledging that I too had and may still have from time to time some resentment. Maybe I'm projecting? But I do see in your writing the mindspace I recognize personally. It's part of being in a privileged position while also suffering the negative consequences of said privilege. It really is uncomfortable to be told that I'm the problem when, from my point of view, I'm trying to get rid of the problem.

But both are true, so I do think it's easier to get through this by letting go of this peeve. Yeah sure a bunch of women will say they'd rather come across a bear when hiking, some will wear t-shirts saying that all men are garbage, some misandrists will yell that all cis males need to have their dicks chopped off. But if that's what the majority of your experience of "the left" is, there's something wrong with the composition of your social life. "The left" is more than that, and in that regard it's just a fine place to be, even if it's one that will not let me forget that I still have lots of ingrained sexism - I really do, I would not pass infinitely narrow "purity tests" as you say. Same for racism, transphobia, ageism, ableism etc (which is why I said this experience is universal).

Sometimes when the little kid invites you to play tea time, you gotta hold the plastic teacup and say yum