Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
As an Indigenous person up here in Canada … that is amazing and unbelievable news.
It’s not just a win for Indigenous people, it’s a win for the entire state because it will normalize, equalize and modernize the state’s relationship with everyone
Yeah … it’s both … and we won’t do anything until we see mass migration, wars caused by mass migration and thousands of millions of dead or dying. And even then, we’ll probably argue about it all and say that it isn’t that bad and just keeping doing what we’re doing until everything is way too far gone and millions more start dying. We won’t act seriously until we’re at the brink of complete extinction.
99% of us are good people with good common sense, it’s just that we are so easily and quickly manipulated and we don’t care most of the time.
And it’s the 1% of psychopaths with way too much power and control that are driving us all to the brink
I’m an NDP supporter … always have and always will up here in northern Ontario … but even saying that, the provincial NDP and the national NDP party all show signs of bending to the will of the largest donors and supporters. Sure we can all say that it’s worker funded but in reality, any politics or political party is supported by those with money and lots of it because they are capable of hiding their money or diffusing their money through the system … they fund directly, indirectly, market, share resources, share offices, have their professional reps work for free, etc … it’s all a system driven by money and whoever has access to the most of it will get political power.
I’ll still support the NDP in every election … but I’m not naive enough to believe that it isn’t influenced by those with money.
No worries tho … because every country is going to soon have their own authoritarian regime anyway
Modern politics in the US and here in Canada is just a bunch of corporate goons masquerading as democratically elected representatives of the people.
It no longer what political party you call them or see them in … whether left, center or right … they are all beholden to whoever holds the most money … and none of it has anything to do with how people vote.
I agree but I’ve been near homeless a few times in my life and honestly, it doesn’t really bother me that much. I grew up poor on a Native reserve in northern Ontario … we were so poor we didn’t have running water in the house … that’s where I was born and raised. So having no home, a bad home or very few conveniences doesn’t really bother me … and when you lay everything down, most people can live with it - correction, most people can SURVIVE it.
Food on the other hand is a deal breaker … if I or anyone runs out or starts missing food … we’ll become desperate and do anything for our next meal.
The only power people have is through their collective participation in the financial system. If everyone organized and just withheld all or most of their money from the system … then you’d get government to listen.
But trying to organize a ragtag mass of millions of people that can’t agree on the simplest things is like trying to suck water through a rock.
One of the best ideas I’ve ever heard is to organize everyone to just boycott one single company … any company … like Best Buy or Target … just one company and everyone participate and just run the company into the ground, everyone just ostracize and completely ignore it until it loses everything … everyone could keep going about their business, except do it anywhere else but that one company … it wouldn’t affect people much because there are plenty of stores out there. Do this for a few months and that one company would completely go under. Once everyone completely destroys one company, then move on to the next and keep hounding companies like this one by one. Do it for grocers, for electronics stores, for phone companies, for internet companies, for department stores, for banks, for gas stations … just keep dropping them one by one. Then you’d get these companies … and by extension the government … to listen to the people.
No one cares about your voice, your concerns or your beliefs … but they do care about your money and where it goes or where it stays … that’s where your political control lies.
No one’s going to storm any Bastille until we are threatened with actual starvation. Past revolutions happened because people had absolutely nothing to lose but their lives.
Wealthy overlords have figured out that as long as they keep our food supply available, we will never revolt. It doesn’t mean that we will be happy or that we will disagree with it … it’s as long as food is made available to us no matter how meager or unpleasant, then we will never rebel.
So unless we’re starving, we’ll never rebel … governments and wealthy owners have figured out that they have to keep us fed, even if its just a little (and even if its shitty food), to keep us pacified.
I don’t think the owners of Reddit care … they got their money, they’ll probably make a bit more even if it fails and then they’ll take their wads of bank notes and wipe their tears away with it all.
The game wasn’t about making a great website, sharing info, making people feel good or spreading knowledge … it was always about just making money and they did just that.
Because the conversation has been shifted towards how average people are just worried about how they are going to survive with the little bit of money and wealth they have access to in the next ten years.
Average people aren’t thinking about the survival of the species in the next hundred years … they’re thinking about their own personal survival in the next ten years.
… set to fall for us pee-ons who can’t or won’t be able to afford anything
As usual, our rich and wealthy overlords will live in luxury while complaining about how they lost 5% of their billions of dollars of wealth.
Elections are becoming a meaningless argument in America
The right argue about election details and deny losing
The left argue about the election that no one won
The people argue about elections they have no power or control over
The rich watch everyone fight as they take all the money and power
Ten apes are sitting on a mountain of bananas the size of Mount Everest … and the ten apes are fighting against hundreds of other apes to stop them from eating any of their banana mountain.
Why bother asking the opinion or perspective of a habitual liar, charlatan and egomaniac?
When it comes to American news, I’ve filtered out this orange beanbag when it comes to national US news.