@queenie4rmnola There’s a lot of what ‘should’ be in the world.
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@howisthismylif I mean, given the size of the deficit, I would argue this is a feature, not a bug.
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@FreeGrassy Name literally one source of energy that Indigenous people are NOT opposed to, either directly or indirectly by challenging essential activities (ex. Mining) that fuel them.
I dare you.
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“We need to guarantee the well being of our lands and future generations. This nuclear waste isn’t safe. Together we need to say no and protect our families, grandchildren and their children” - Deputy Chief of Mike Metatawabi
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
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@hkb73 Awesome to hear.
Then I’m not white, I’m just a guy.
Now we can all shut the fuck up about racial grievances and politicking.
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@TheIntlMagz Totally. The USSR and Mao’s China were known for nothing if not their defence of human rights and the environment…
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@FreeGrassy @ChiefCopenace You can’t make this up.
Indigenous group: “We will never choose money!”
Also Indigenous groups every minute of every day of every week: “We demand more money!”
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“We will never sell out! We will never choose money! We are stronger together and division will only make it easier for the government to roll over us - and I refuse to let that happen” - @ChiefCopenace
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows #SayNoToNuclearWaste
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@mahtowin1 The moral of the story here is that Indigenous art sucks no matter who makes it.
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@handsoitgoes @APTNNews @ehoneybunAPTN 1) There's evidence for the Holocaust as a genocide.
2) Jews aren't demanding billions of taxpayer dollars every year on the basis of that history.
See the difference?
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@APTNNews @ehoneybunAPTN Parliament found a way to criminalize Holocaust denial in 2022 through Bill C-19. Yet when residential school denialism is raised, many of the same institutions suddenly emphasize procedural caution and free-expression concerns?🙃
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Senate vote against residential school denialism bill sparks disappointment among chiefs. Story by @ehoneybunAPTN
aptnnews.ca/?p=289519
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@jacksonhinkle Honest take.
My broad sympathies are, on net, very firmly with the Palestinians. Always have been.
And also, maybe those mass murdering psychotic assholes should have thought about all this before they slaughtered families in their homes on Oct 7.
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@SyilxConnection There has literally never been a safer, healthier, happier time to be alive in all of human history than now.
All the things you bitch about being inequitable (ex. Running water, healthcare, education, housing, etc) are all products of the modernity you claim to reject.
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The future you're celebrating is overheating oceans, collapsing biodiversity, poisoned water, and unaffordable housing. Maybe the people obsessed with "progress" should spend less time mocking the past and more time explaining their results.
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@SyilxConnection Sorry we couldn’t show you how to look to the future and make new discoveries instead of looking backwards and burying your heads in the sands of pre-literate “traditional knowledge”.
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@SyilxConnection Right. Humanity lived a more or less economically and technologically static existence for millennia. Ignorant about basically everything about the world.
Then a subset of humanity (Europeans) started learning and advancing beyond mere subsistence.
You choose not to.
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The irony is that my ancestors lived here sustainably for millennia. Your civilization is worried about climate collapse, biodiversity loss, poisoned water, and unaffordable housing. Maybe we're not the ones who need modernization lessons.
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@SyilxConnection Sorry that we didn’t successfully advance your people beyond magical thinking and animism and into the modern world of science and technology. If we did, you wouldn’t be suffering the tragedies of hopelessly and endlessly romanticizing wampum belts and campfire stories.
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@SyilxConnection Sorry we couldn’t show you how to look to the future and make new discoveries instead of looking backwards and burying your heads in the sands of pre-literate “traditional knowledge”.
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"Sorry we couldn't modernize you" is an interesting way to describe policies that deliberately targeted language, governance, land, family, and identity. When your vision of progress requires someone else's erasure, the problem isn't the people who survived it. #ItsYou
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@SyilxConnection lol. You’ve become permanent dependents on us for literally everything. You want and need our money for even your precious language revitalization. Your whole culture is now organized around nostalgic fantasies and rituals of entitlement. Sorry we couldn’t modernize you.
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@SyilxConnection Sorry that we didn’t successfully advance your people beyond magical thinking and animism and into the modern world of science and technology.
If we did, you wouldn’t be suffering the tragedies of hopelessly and endlessly romanticizing wampum belts and campfire stories.
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@SyilxConnection Yes. Sorry that we couldn’t drag you kicking and screaming out of a subsistence level culture and existence.
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@SyilxConnection lol. You’ve become permanent dependents on us for literally everything. You want and need our money for even your precious language revitalization. Your whole culture is now organized around nostalgic fantasies and rituals of entitlement.
Sorry we couldn’t modernize you.
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Imagine admitting online that your biggest regret is that genocide wasn't completed. Indigenous nations are still here. Our languages are returning. Our laws endure. History won't remember this take as "progress." It will remember it as shame.
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@SyilxConnection There’d be less dysfunction in indigenous families today if we had actually successfully assimilated them into modernity. We failed. Now we have to live with endless fantasies about “decolonization”. We owe ourselves an apology for not finishing the job.
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@SyilxConnection Primitive hunter gatherer societies deserved to be erased so that civilization could make progress and not stay stuck in the Stone Age for all eternity.
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I don't hold up a mirror because I expect everyone to agree with me. I hold it up so people can hear their own rhetoric. If calling out erasure feels divisive, perhaps it's worth asking why the conversation about erasure is more uncomfortable than the erasure itself.
Domenic Cinalli - (Antonio Farese)@DomenicCinalli
Calling everyone who holds conservative values hateful, greedy, or exploitative is exactly the kind of divisive rhetoric you claim to oppose. Millions of Canadians believe in fiscal responsibility, public safety, personal accountability, free enterprise, and limited government. You may disagree with those principles, but disagreement is not hatred. The irony is that demanding political diversity while dismissing an entire group of people as morally defective isn't inclusion, It's intolerance. Kerry-Lynne Findlay was elected to represent British Columbians who feel ignored by the current government and That is not "erasing" anyone, That is democracy. A healthy society doesn't require everyone to think the same way. It requires people with different views to debate ideas without reducing their opponents to caricatures. If your argument is strong, defend it on its merits. If your argument begins and ends with "conservatives are hateful," you're attacking people instead of engaging with their ideas.
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@SyilxConnection There’d be less dysfunction in indigenous families today if we had actually successfully assimilated them into modernity.
We failed. Now we have to live with endless fantasies about “decolonization”.
We owe ourselves an apology for not finishing the job.
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Not because white men rounded up their children tho. Don’t forget that important tidbit. Their mothers probably sent them knowing they would be beat and that’s the history of criminal colonizer ancestors wives and mothers.
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@stratejuste @TheReclamare And many white people lived in horrible conditions back then too...
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@SeanCarleton You’re not a scholar, you’re not an intellectual, you’re not an activist… you’re radioactive to civil society. You’re a toxin in the social fabric.
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Nice try. You're urging people to "moderate" by boosting far-right, anti-Indigenous racist, conspiracy theorists who are monetizing misinformation that you think will narrowly benefit the CPC (it won't). Talk about extreme and performative for social media, Erin. Do better.
Erin O'Toole@erinotoole
@SeanCarleton Sean - TBH your views are extreme and seemingly somewhat performative for social media. I am trying to urge people to moderate by listening more.
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They didn't kill ALL of them
Just the ones they hid in the orchard
Billboard Chris 🌎@BillboardChris
More of the Kamloops hoax exposed. The left wants you to believe that Catholics were killing these children and burying them in mass graves. They led lives of sacrifice, trying to help children.
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“Indian Residential School denialism is a hate crime and must be treated as a hate crime. There has always been wilful, ignorant denialism, but we now face a growing, organized movement of denialists trying to rewrite Canada’s history. We need to push back on these offensive lies and stand up for the truth.” AFN National Chief @chiefcindyafn denounced the Senate of Canada’s decision to reject an amendment to Bill C-9 (Hate Crimes Bill) that would have included Indian Residential School denialism as an offense. Read the press release: ow.ly/vRzL50Z8ecB.
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