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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

If someone in an unmarked vehicle, wearing a mask and no uniform, attacks or threatens someone, how do you know they are ICE and not just some random asshole with a gun?

SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@erininthemorning.com The existence of even one former fundamentalist who has become an atheist shows that religion has no basis and therefore no right to have opinions about anything in the human realm.

This is fun.

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

[Sweary...]

@dyckron No. Fuck no. No fucking way. Fuck that guy, and all the people who support him, and all the people who voted for him (twice).

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Serious question: The stuff that Trump and Hegseth were shown saying to the Generals on Tuesday was dumb, insulting, and scary. But ultimately it could have been communicated in an email or a conference call.

Why did they really spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring all those military […]

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@mike "It was all scorched earth, all blythe contempt for the generations to follow.... But that was not the entire picture." He goes on to list the things he (as this imagined future historian) loves about the present day. (Ian McEwan, What Can We Know).

A good read, in my opinion. I got it as […]

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@mike "What...of the self-serving short-sightedness or plain folly or mendacity or viciousness of political leaders -- take your pick -- and the quiescence or craven idiocy or terror of their populations? What of people's careless love of autocrat? How could we overlook or forgive the desolation […]

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@mike I am reading Ian McEwan's latest novel. The conceit is that it is being written by an historian a hundred years from now about the early 21st century. Just after seeing your post, I read the following passage and saw some connections:

"If I was transported back there, I would loathe it […]

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 5d

I just saw that Maxime Bernier is now a residential school denier. "No bodies were ever found" he says.
I grew up with Inuk friends who would have to go to Montreal to find where bodies of their relatives were buried. My in laws have stories that would curdle your blood. There are bodies Mr […]

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 4d

I'm personally over leveraged right to the gills (long story), there's a massive correction on the horizon, fascism is winning, and I'm in my mid fifties.

But...

I'm warm, I'm dry, and my belly is full. There have been times when that was not the case and I'm grateful.

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 5d

@andymoose I actually lifted that thought from Chantelle Hebert talking to Peter Mansbridge on his Good Talk podcast today. Mansbridge was visibly taken aback and mentioned how Chantelle was usually measured in her comments and to hear that from her frightened him.

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 5d

If you're willing to send troops to occupy cities that don't vote for you, who's to say that you won't send troops across the border of your friendly neighbor to the north who has things you want. #elbowsup

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

Illinois State Representative:

“ICE just tear gassed people near the grocery store Rico Fresh on Armitage - there are helicopters over our houses and armed agents stopping people in the streets, Walmart, Home Depot, all the places people congregate in Humboldt Park, Logan Square and Hermosa.”

ICE just tear gassed people near the grocery store Rico Fresh on Armitage - there are helicopters over our houses and armed agents stopping people in the streets, Walmart, Home Depot, all the places people congregate in Humboldt Park, Logan Square and Hermosa.

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 6d

Pro tip: If you live outside of North America and you suspect someone is faking a Canadian identity (backpack flag, etc), ask them if they'd like a bottle of pop. If they react with confusion or say "Did you mean soda" they're Americans.

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 7d

If there was ever a peaceful warrior it was Jane Goodall. Rest easy.

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

"Canada called me a couple of weeks ago. They want to be part of it [golden shower missile defence system]. To which I said, well, why don't you just join our country? Become 51, become the 51st state and you get it for free," Trump said."

CBC news

So in addition to fat-shaming, lying about […]

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@gottalaff.bsky.social "There’s a concern that it’s just not very well thought out,”

That is not at all hard to imagine

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Martin Settle @martin.mstdn.bdms.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.

We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed […]

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David Mitchell :CApride: @davidm-yeg.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14d

The Charter is not just a law, it is an expression of Canada’s most basic and deepest values. “Notwithstanding” the Charter means “I don’t share these values”. Any and every politician or government that proposes its use should face such an extreme backlash that no one would dare consider it […]

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Mina Harker @mina.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

John Oliver hat 10 Minuten über #Bernd das #brot gemacht und erstaunliche charakterliche Übereinstimmungen festgestellt. 😂

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

So, tonight is when I should go put old pairs of shoes out in random spots around town?

#rapture #bullshit #mocktheright

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Fight the Right @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Antifa is trending again so
| figured I'd show how simple it
is to understand what they
actually stand for. Fascists don’t
seem to like it when | do this lol

Fascists hate:
Blacks
Asians
Jews
Immigrants
Socialists
Unions
Asylum Seekers
Etc

Anti-Fascists hate fascists.

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

@VeroniqueB99 Board game cafe specializing in Scrabble?

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SarcastiCat @plumbert.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Sitting here, looking out my Canadian window, wondering if this is how people in Poland felt in 1934 or so.

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Mike Fraser @thecanadian.social · 21d

Fascism is not rising. Feudalism is rising but using fascist tactics. Right now there is a gentrified class that seeks to consolidate power among a few families. They are skillfully using the successfull tactics of the fascists to seize societal institutions of government, media and finance. You […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23d

A kind Canadian sent me this and we will see how it holds up

A flowchart titled "How to Measure Things Like a Canadian," guiding users through measurement choices based on categories like speed, distance, temperature, mass, and volume. It differentiates between metric and imperial units based on specific questions related to the measurement context

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