acargitz
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World News@lemmy.world•Israeli soldiers reportedly torture one-year-old child in Gaza to force confessions from his fatherEnglish
19·7 hours agoBob Vylan said nothing wrong.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are comingEnglish
6·7 hours agoThe Reformation was a mistake, people.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran says Hormuz open to all but ‘enemy-linked’ shipsEnglish
4·7 hours agoNon hostile doesn’t mean friendly.
I heard they are missing a crucial material, called silicon, which is commonly found in rock form. They also need to study ballistics. So the best way to help out is by presenting them with small rock pellets (a few inches in diameter) ballistically (hand throwing tends to work).
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Refugee family faces separation as father and son ordered deported from Canada
2·2 days agoEDIT: I thought I was responding to maplesaga. So in the spoilers below is what I wrote in the first version of this comment. I’m leaving it here because it links to sources that debunk the myth that immigrants are to blame for the housing crisis.
spoiler
We debated the root causes of housing unaffordability about a month ago: https://lemmy.ca/comment/21841706 You called my arguments …gaslighting.
Now apparently immigrants are also to blame for unemployment. What else are you going to pile on us?
And save me the crocodile tears about “trafficking”. Obviously I’m not supporting the kind of precarious status the temporary foreign worker program stamps on people’s lives. Immigrants should have full status with full rights to organize, unionize with all other workers. But you found that …worrying in that same discussion.
Stop fucking blaming immigrants. The housing crisis, the affordability crisis, youth unemployment, all those are caused by a rigged economic system that fucks over indigenous, settler and immigrant workers for the benefit of a hundred rich families. Income inequality is at an old time record in this country and nativism is a very convenient distraction that serves them just perfect.
So, after the edit, here is what I’m going to say to you, rabber:
Save me the crocodile tears about “trafficking”. Obviously I’m not supporting the kind of precarious status the temporary foreign worker program stamps on people’s lives. Immigrants should have full status with full rights to organize, unionize with all other workers.
Stop fucking blaming immigrants. The housing crisis, the affordability crisis, youth unemployment, all those are caused by a rigged economic system that fucks over indigenous, settler and immigrant workers for the benefit of a hundred rich families. Income inequality is at an old time record in this country and nativism is a very convenient distraction that serves them just perfect.
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Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.world•A Violent Israeli immigrant to Canada threatens Canadian protesters in their own country with a nail gun shouting "Every f*cking Palestinian will die!" But then they tell us to fear Muslims.English
22·2 days agoThis happened two years ago. The guy was arrested and charged with a hate crime. He’s from Vaughan, not an immigrant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protest-thornhill-man-arrest-1.7132598
acargitz@lemmy.caOPto
Europe@feddit.org•Is there a left-wing foreign policy? | eKathimerini.comEnglish
13·2 days agosince none of the involved actors seem to like that idea, sucks to suck.
I read this as «Iranians don’t really want democracy so sucks for them».
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Europe@feddit.org•Is there a left-wing foreign policy? | eKathimerini.comEnglish
23·2 days agoIran is about as right wing as it gets, the only way you could associate abstaining from intervention in Iran as left wing is if your idea of left wing is an eastern dictatorship.
After the historical experience of Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan, what a PROFOUNDLY STUPID thing to write. This kind of argument was made by Hitchens before the Iraq war and he was proven wrong by history itself. That someone in 2026 would repeat the same idiotic bullshit is frankly just beyond me.
Ideally, we should be promoting revolution in Iran for a strong democracy to form, free of influence of USA or China, but since none of the involved actors seem to like that idea, sucks to suck.
Again, the stupidity is just overwhelming. The regime was the most fragile right before the American and the Israeli maniacs started bombing. They had just had to put down a huge internal revolt with incredible violence and were facing complete lack of internal legitimacy. These excesses had focused the Iranian people on bread and butter issues and the regime was the shakiest it had ever been. And then… the Blitz rallied the people to the flag and effectively killed off the opposition. There is no way today to be against the regime inside Iran without immediately being stigmatized as a traitor. The American and Israeli maniacs gave the regime the biggest gift the IRGC could have possibly wished for.
The Left has been right about Western military adventurism every fucking step of the way for the last 20+ years. And yet these kind of brain dead takes still come up. WTF.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada, allies say they're ready to help stop Iran's shipping blockade
4·3 days agoNo war for Trump’s ego.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Refugee family faces separation as father and son ordered deported from Canada
42·3 days agoWe’ve already debates this you and I. By the way, Canada’s population just fell for the first time in history. Did that fix the crisis?
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Australian Mining Billionaire Sues Canada for $2 Billion | The Tyee
16·3 days agoSure let the courts decide. At the same time, the other thing that makes us a democracy is that we also get to call that money hoarder an asshole if we think she acts like one.
EDIT:
The Grassy Mountain project, which Rinehart purchased from Riversdale Resources in 2019 for $740 million, proposed to dig up 4.5 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year over a 23-year period in a critical watershed of the Oldman River in southern Alberta near the Crowsnest Pass. That major prairie river provides water for communities and farm irrigation downstream. Due to water concerns, a broad public coalition of ranchers, farmers, First Nations and conservationists strongly opposed the project as well as related mining developments in the Rocky Mountains by largely Australian coal interests. In 2021 a joint review panel firmly recommended after an extensive public hearing that the Grassy Mountain project was not in the public interest for economic and environmental reasons, including selenium pollution. It also raised issues about the quality of coal Northback proposed to mine.
Yea, fuck that asshole and fuck whoever thought this was a good idea in the first place.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Refugee family faces separation as father and son ordered deported from Canada
81·3 days agoThis is pointless cruelty.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•This NDP MP believes ‘unapologetic socialism’ can revive the party
1·3 days agoWhat is the PRTE?
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Canada@lemmy.ca•French foreign minister suggests Canada could 'maybe ... at some point' join EU
1·3 days agoAFAIK, there is nothing that holds us back from passing a law that says “GDPR applies to Canada”.
If you find the link, I’ll edit the post to add it.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•French foreign minister suggests Canada could 'maybe ... at some point' join EU
1·4 days agoThat’s what’s funny. We both agree that joining the EU is losing control.
You want that control to stay in Canada because you want to keep people out and you think the EU will force us to let them in.
I want that control to stay in Canada because I want to bring people in and I think the EU will force us to keep them out.
We arrive at the same position (Canada must retain control) from precisely inverse paths.
So we agree on what Canada’s EU policy should be. And we are in diametric disagreement about what Canada’s immigration policy should be.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•French foreign minister suggests Canada could 'maybe ... at some point' join EU
1·4 days agoHuh, my take is the exact inverse. The EU is structurally averse to external immigration in almost all its aspects, whereas we are a constitutionally multicultural settler society with a long term structural reliance on immigration.
The recent course-correction to lower immigration levels is just that, a correction to a larger more long term direction without changing the fundamentals of that direction. We need to be able to have immigration policies that are much more open than what the Europeans can tolerate.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Front-Runners Emerge in the NDP Leadership Race | The Tyee
3·4 days agoI don’t understand where I lost you. What I meant is: what’s important here is not the amount of money. If the guy was connected to billionaires, he could have raised all that money from like 3 people. The impressive thing about the Lewis campaign is that because of the lower average donation, the overall amount is an indication of a much broader appeal. So it’s not the amount that’s impressive, it’s the broad appeal of the candidate to the NDP member base. This is compounded by the higher average donation of his opponents, which means that they appeal to fewer, more well-off donors, and still didn’t manage to out-fundraise him.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Front-Runners Emerge in the NDP Leadership Race | The Tyee
1·5 days agoElections Canada interim campaign returns show Lewis has taken the lead in fundraising, having brought in $1.2 million from more than 10,400 contributors. Elections Canada data shows MacPherson has raised $560,000 from more than 3,800 contributors, while labour leader Rob Ashton has raised nearly $360,000 in contributions from more than 2,000 supporters. McQuail has raised more than $112,000 from over 800 contributors. Elections Canada has yet to publish Johnston’s fundraising numbers.
Lewis’ average donation comes to 115$ per donor
McPherson’s comes to 147$ per donor
Ashton’s is 180$ per donor
Mcquail’s is 140$ per donor
So in fact the person who has raised the most, has done it for as smaller average donation per donor. That tells you something about his appeal to the electors.
It’s not about more money, it’s about more commitment from more people.

















That’s the kind of thing that should cause a walkout. What’s their union doing?
EDIT: Looks like it’s probably this Teamsters local? If it’s the same place as this report.