Sure, appreciate that. I’m on my way to bed, so I’ll have a little fun with it. It’s not like anyone else is this deep in this dead thread anyway, so really this is just for me and you. Might as well have a little reflection.

Sometimes I find myself with a bit of free time, and I enjoy telling off Internet bullies and lying fascists. It makes the world a marginally better place, and it’s entertaining watching them turn to belittling and infantilizing others in an attempt to make themselves seem strong, knowing that reasonable people see the squirming and know what’s going on. It feels good, and makes the world a tiny bit better, so it’s a win/win. Besides, I can just put down my phone and go back to my very satisfying life when I am bored of it. It’s easy to put it away, so why not make sure that fascists lies are apparent to anyone else who stumbles in, you know?

“no u” isn’t the own you seem to think it is, and the lies you love to parade aren’t fooling very many people. We’ve both seen it frequently in the passing months. You like to bring up downvotes in a dead thread with one lurker, but this means you’ve seen how absolutely blasted you get on the regular when you spew your bullshit. It’s nice to know that you’ve been checking the votes all that time, and you must be well aware by now how little of your propaganda is being consumed. I hope that you’re in it for yourself then, at least. I can put down my phone with a smile on my face and not load Lemmy for two weeks because at the end of the day I only pop on here when so want to entertain myself. I can’t imagine how much it just hurt to come here looking for some kind of gratification, only to have to put on the Internet though guy schtick and watch downvotes roll in if you actually need that satisfaction for some reason.

I think what I’m trying to say is, I hope whatever happened to leave you playing these games, day in day out, gets better. My experience is that no one turns to these extremist ideologies, and plays mental gymnastics like this, when they’re well. So, seriously, I hope things get better. Maybe one day you’ll look back and feel a little embarassed, but know you’re better now. At least, I’d like to think everyone is capable of that. But who knows? You might genuinely read this and continue to tell yourself that I am some troll who’s fuming at the things you post, or whatever nonsense you use to validate yourself. But I can’t be more frank here: I’ve really, truly, been nothing but honest. Not always correct, sure, but never dishonest. I do wonder if you can say the same.

Oh no, maybe one other lurker who follows Yog, of all people, is downvoting me in a dead thread. How will I ever validate myself? C’mon man, even you must see how pathetic of a take that is. If I cared about votes, I’d stick to Reddit, and I certainly don’t care about what people who would follow you would think. .ml is a Nazi bar, so if they don’t like what I’m saying, I am doing something right.

If that’s your “recap,” the whole reading comprehension problem is worse than I thought. I’m genuinely impressed that you were willing to take a step back and say “yeah, the connection between Canada and Hitler’s quote isn’t that solid in today’s socio-political circumstance.” There’s no sarcasm there, man. I genuinely thought you’d continue the weird mental gymnastics and backpeddling, and I was pleasantly surprised you stepped back and were willing to say “yeah, okay, it’s not Hitler bad,” despite the fact that, again, what else is the purpose of this thread? So, good on you.

Oh my God he did it. I’m impressed, Yog. Genuinely. This might be the most human moment I’ve seen out of you. It’s unfortunate that the rest of the response is laced with such personally targeted vitriol.

If you think I am a “transparent troll,” you might need to get some perspective. I have literally never been anything but honest with you. But I guess it’s easier to repeat falsehoods, twist truths, and mislead others when you accuse anyone who disagreed with you of lying.

Literally the only purpose of this main level post is to equate Canada’s past behaviour to Hitler’s ideology. Then, in response to a very simple “good thing we’ve verbally and legally recognized these past faults and literally are not doing the thing Hitler described,” you double down. Meanwhile you dismiss that the majority of these atrocities were hard stopped in the 80s with the death of residential schools, a point you brought up yourself, while the others have slowly been brought to light, culminating in the Truth and Reconciliation act. And yet you have the audacity to act coy about the purpose of this thread when someone with a real reading comprehsion is willing to call you out on it. Get real.

I’m not sure what you think “game” is, but if you see trolling around a niche community like Lemmy and trying to spread discontent with Canadian government as “game” that you’ve become good at, I can happily say that I am glad you perceive me as being on the outside of that. It’s not something people need in their lives.

Sigh, political troll it is then, I guess. I hope someone is paying you well for this. The alternatives are just beyond pathetic.

What I pointed out is that Canada has not substantially changed its policy towards First Nations.

It has, and your posts made no attempt to make that argument.

Say Canada is not currently attempting to commit genocide the way Hitler’s Germany did. It’s a false equivilency, right? I’m building a straw man? Say it. Canada is not currently attempting to commit a genocide. Say it.

C’mon now, Yog. Surely even you, in your infinite bias, can recognize the pretty clear distinction between current day Canada, with the Truth and Reconcilliation movement and a constant stream of government actions and grants, and Hitler’s Germany.

I’d agree the Canadian government hasn’t done enough, but you can’t pretend these two things are one and the same. Please try and present yourself as an actual, thinking human being for once, capable of critical thought and, honestly this is a generous over use of the word but, a nuanced understanding. Or are you literally just a political troll?

I’m glad you can find the clear distinction between Hitler and the Canadian people: we recognize our past mistakes and work to rectify them.

Same. Posted fairly blissfully ignorant for a couple months, until I shared my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese university exchange students in the same room. Obviously, I got banned.

That’s about the point I became aware I was hanging out in a nazi bar just because the atmosphere was nice and the beers were cheap.

Canada itself is a colonial apartheid state.

Was? Colonial settlement was not pretty, and our history is supremely fucked up, so while I dislike the use of apartheid specifically, the essence is there.

Is? Absolutely not. Fuck off with this propagandist take. You should be embarrassed to be comparing the genuine atrocities of the past/parts of the world with the current state of Canada.

Is it? It doesn’t say “in response to the America-Iran war…”. As the above poster pointed out, sanctions were occurring long before, and are continuing to occur after.

A war can have two villains. If you’d like to complain that Canada isn’t placing sanctions on the US for things they’ve done, feel free. But that is not the argument you’re making.

This has occurred alongside a growing lack of viewpoint diversity among faculty and concerns over the erosion of academic freedom in Canada… First and foremost, the agencies should commit to political and ideological neutrality.

“A lack of diverse opinions is bad, which is why we should commit to removing all opinions other than mine, which is the most objective and neutral.”

Okay buddy conservative.

My man, I can’t grow up on Kevin Smith films and miss the opportunity to sit between him and Jason Mewes. Are we kidding?

This isn’t a competition of who is a bigger victim. People are suffering in both halves of the world, and you’re here telling American’s they should be killing themselves in protest because their president is out there committing war crimes. The irony of your self-righteous attitude, as you sit here projecting your pearl-clutching sense of moral rightness onto others who are just struggling to keep breathing, is fucking insane.

America is not my country. I just don’t let bullies spew shit without being told. Do yourself and the rest of the world a favor, and reflect on the things you say.

I am choosing to tell you the fuck off. Don’t mistake this for an exchange of ideals. You are behaving in a disgusting fashion, and you need to be told. I respect that it comes from a good place, because we ultimately want the same thing, but to treat people who already feel powerless as morally bankrupt is beyond absurd.

You are kicking the powerless while they are down, because you don’t like the outcome. Get some perspective.

Jesus fucking christ, dude. Get some perspective, or shut the fuck up. They don’t “got theirs,” and choosing to “help” is quick suicide for no gain.

Honestly, it’s disgusting to watch someone like you parade some absurd moral high ground while having absolutely no grasp on the lives others are living.

Appreciate this.

Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.

The goal of keeping children naive towards sexual acts is to make them vulnerable and attractive to pedophiles. The Albertan government is working to infantilize children so that they better appeal to pedophiles.

It’s a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.

I’ve definitely seen humans “behave like this.” Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it’s thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes “fuck it, I want to do that,” and it must be a bot, because that’s the culture we’ve built.

Women aren’t really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It’s about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.

Thank you.

I reread it like 3 times wondering who thinks Trump is getting smarter, and why we’re worried about that.

Depends on if you place value on eroding progressive values or not. Say what you want about this Trump presidency, but he’s emboldened bigots to act on their values, and you can’t take that away from him.