It might take some time, but the perpetrators of this genocide will be brought to justice.

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This is quite literally genocidal intent. The US is a rogue state at this point.

It’s two years old, but here is what Statistics Canada has to say about it: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231016/dq231016c-eng.htm

And is the mayor’s office and the district attorney’s office inundated with calls from their constituents demanding accountability for the behaviour of the local police here? Are there locally elected officials being shouted at by their constituents into taking action to thwart, delay, frustrate ICE operations?

“A republic IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”

You are wrong that it never mattered. It failed in some cases but in others it didn’t. And it is always something that activists could embarrass governments with. In some countries, it is even something that can be used to force a government to do stuff. It is a political space and we’ll miss it when it’s gone.

Nope.

At the hill’s foot foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo would not see. Arwen vanimelda, namarië! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.

‘Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth,’ he said, ‘and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!’ And taking Frodo’s hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, last paragraph of Chapter VI: Lothlórien. I bolded the last 8 words.

Aragorn knows to let go, while deeply, profoundly, cherishing what was. Be like Aragorn.

Not particularly compelling? In a minority government context? Oh god, you really have no idea what you’re talking about. Cheerio.

Good. Hopefully it won’t ever come to that. And it’s good that you’re paying attention. But inform yourself before you go all guns blazing.

Tactical voting in Canada is a much much much more granular affair than in the US. And tactical voting does not mean necessarily “vote for the centrist or the fascists win”. Case in point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchener_Centre_(federal_electoral_district) The Conservatives won because Liberals split the vote and ended up costing the incumbent Green MP the seat. The same Green had beat the Conservatives in the previous election. So stupid US-style tactical voting for the centrist handed a seat to the Right. Do you see why I react the way I do with stupid monkeying of US style two-party politics?

Buddy, your political system is nothing like ours. We don’t have one all-or-nothing election. We have a Westminster system, we have a multiparty democracy, we have minority governments and the capacity for coalitions. Our supreme Court justices retire, our federalism is not broken like yours and we don’t have founding daddy issues that cripple us to blindly worshipping some 200 year old piece of paper.

Keep your rage your side of the border, your frame of reference does not translate to our system. Pipe down.

Sure, no problem with that, but they’re not “working class heroes”, which is what I reacted to in the first place.

A liberal fights a monopoly by competition, so that no single capitalist gains more profits over the other capitalists.

A socialist fights a monopoly by socializing it and making it a utility that works to meet the needs of the population, eliminating the profit motive.

Nice imagination you got there. Do you have more things to imagine about what my political positions are, while calling me a fucking traitor?

Some people man.

“Competition” is not a working class interest. Solidarity is.

The discourse on Lemmy however is a tendency to use “tankie” as some kind of othering identity marker. If I, an NDP and QS supporter, raise my hand and say “excuse me but Carney is a right wing Liberal, and I’m not comfortable with how the Overton Window has shifted to the right in Canada”, there is a clear narrative that will lump me in with the Others, right? Who by virtue of being tankies are therefore traitorous to Canada and therefore, hello, here’s the old red scare trope of “fellow travellers”, “pinkos” and “useful idiots”. Let’s not pretend that’s not the case.

Anything to the left of the Liberals is “tankies” now?

The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement. This is a good result for those of us who don’t trust a banker to not sell out the working class.

What do you mean “narrowly”? It’s a clean victory and the trumpist conservative leader lost his own riding.

Who stopped them, motherfucker?