I guess I should read the article

I would rather bother them very loudly.

Have there been consequences for the United States’ or Canada’s genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while “acknowledging its troubled past” but you’re still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I’m not even saying it wouldn’t be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.

Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).

What’s your point with this? That the allies were right to bomb civilians? That we can have a little genocide, as a treat?

how do I boost on lemmy

Doesn’t that make it even more selfless?

Speaking of the 'don, it’s not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it’s really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it’s growing on me.

It’s a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That’s mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.

… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

The term I’ve heard for this is social murder:

… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

Scared CEOs—finally, a guilt-free fetish.

Not a solution, but this is a great reminder to add descriptions/alt text to your images.

Oh wait I’m remembering the airplane story now. Yeah, I he’s like all the other rich fucks.

Look if people get upset about it enough to rattle their leaders into action, I’ll take it.

I mean I have no idea more than anyone, but for some reason, he doesn’t strike me as the type. As much as I dislike the man and thing he’s a boil on humanity, I don’t think he’s that kind of creep.

But I am not basing this on anything other than my own gut.

Might it also be possible/feasible to send an “email blast” to everyone with a slrpnk.net account? It would probably be quite complicated to send that many emails at once without getting blocked by the major email providers, but hypothetically we’ve all registered with emails…

Just spitballing ideas for the future. Everything’s fine now. Gives me an excuse to spend a little more time on the Canadian end of the fediverse. :)

I’ve had the opposite–personal trip and work server problems.