Rentlar

@ Rentlar @lemmy.ca

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3h ago

Wake up, Canada. The Trump Doctrine is aimed at us
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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 3h ago
Join a peaceful protest demanding justice for Good and the 9 others shot by ICE and demanding to abolish ICE this weekend (10 Jan and 11, 2026) run by Indivisible and 50501. There are a few in or near Canada. You will probably find people who care and aware of the problem, over there.

3h ago

Abolish ICE? DHS Too. It’s Time

Might not happen during Trump, but I think it's no longer an extreme position. People were probably wary of making serious moves to abolish the gestapo while they had unlimited licence to kidnap and kill people.

8h ago

Christofascists in Oklahoma are trying to stop a mosque from being built

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 8h ago

I knew it was gonna be "name your dream mosque" before I clicked the link.

11h ago

Recommend a Pdf viewer for Windows.

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 11h ago

https://programming.dev/post/39695120

Some person on the fediverse has made an open source PDF editor... their other posts say its browser based. I haven't tried it but this seems to fit your request.

11h ago

Misconduct Expert Says State Has the Right to Charge ICE Officer Who Killed Renee Good

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 11h ago

Step 1. Murderer uploads the Minnesota state case to a federal one.

Step 2. Trump pardons the murderer.

1d ago

Alchemy is so hot right now.

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1d ago

If we could go back in time to tell the alchemy conspiracists about disappearing gold that would be wild.

1d ago

Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota | More than 100 agents will be redirected from other cities after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer.

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1d ago

Every state and city should sue ICE pre-emptively, barring their use for political reasons, as the department's agents' reckless behaviour and complete disregard for the law and public safety in their operations endangers lives like the one of Ms. Good that was taken away from us.

2d ago

Managing an endless todo list

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Please put a censor on the word adlt! I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw the uncensored a-word. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one word. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just censored adlt.

2d ago

ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Update: Shot in the face 3 or 4 times.

3d ago

'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 3d ago

Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.

4d ago

"Microslop" trends on social media — backlash to Microsoft's on-going AI obsession continues

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 4d ago

Microslop's next move is to rebrand Office into Slopilot.

4d ago

Zohran set to scab - Parker McQueeney in the Weekly Worker

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 4d ago

I understand your argument.

5d ago

Zohran set to scab - Parker McQueeney in the Weekly Worker

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 5d ago

I get being worried, but "set to scab" is overblown based mostly on conjecture. Like it's one thing to worry about Mamdani regressing to centrism, but his choice to keep Letitia James as AG leading the NYPD, or not supporting Chi Ossé's primary run, as definitive evidence he is actually a centrist and isn't serious on doing anything he campaigned on (edit: or suggest he is set to actively undermine his own campaign) is a weird jump to conclusions, IMO.

5d ago

Zohran set to scab - Parker McQueeney in the Weekly Worker

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 5d ago

Listen, I would stop saying it if I stopped encountering comments like "don't read this left wing person's article because it was posted on Substack, a platform that supports Nazis", completely ignoring the writer themselves or making character judgements off that. Just happened in the last day elsewhere on Lemmy.

I'd argue it's stuff like this article that is more out-of touch. That frustration is what original comment is borne out of.

Personally, I want socialism, actual left-wing politics, democracy and human values to succeed... so we have to acknowledge, but stop stumbling over, all the little things, in order to achieve our shared aims.

5d ago

Stop calling USAians "Americans" - it only solidifies their belief that they own 2 continents

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 5d ago

I tend to call the USA the United States, but either you can accept the common demonym and adjective of "American" which is an entirely separate thing than the name of the country or you can not. Same for Mexico.

You can choose how you want to address people of the USA, but it's up to them to choose how they react to it. "Yankee" is another alternative that's a lot easier to say, even if they don't tend to like it.

5d ago

Stop calling USAians "Americans" - it only solidifies their belief that they own 2 continents

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 5d ago

If you'd like to be pedantic, then you'd have to use USMians or U.S. Mexicans to refer to Mexicans as they are also a collection of united States.

6d ago

After Venezuela operation, Trump says the whole hemisphere is in play

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 6d ago

In escalating order, start from where you're comfortable then advance from there:

Ensure the people around you aren't oblivious to what's going,on and if they're aware, then not just buying the administration's lies or taking their actions and statements at face value.

Protest to show widely that randomly kidnapping foreign leaders is not what average Americans approve of. Meet people that are open or ready to organize with you.

Forming mutual aid organizations to plan how to react if the federal government tries to come after you or your neighbours. Ex: if you run a business, lock the door at the first sign of ICE, like whistles, and refuse to allow entry without a warrant.

Boycot the supporters of the administration. The more co-ordinated and widespread, the more effect it will have. Hell, Canadians got Jim Beam's factory to shut down for a year.

Raise a strike fund and strategically withhold your labour. This, used well, might be the only thing needed to bring down this government so you wouldn't need to resort to anything further.

Use your knowledge and expertise to create parallel systems and infrastructure to the ones being abused by this administration. New communications networks, a new health organization that actually gives proper health advice, communal safety groups and welfare, research funds to replace those that the feds threaten, so on and so forth.

Raise a bail fund and plan civil disobedience. The action would involve things that aren't violent, but may or may not be illegal (or something that is legal now but declared illegal by the administration). The actions would be intended to slow down and obstruct the administration's priorities. Example: federal tax avoidance/objection, throwing your trash in front of a federal building in a way that just so happens to create a blockade, refusing to comply with policies you believe are unconstitutional.

Edit: wrote protest twice

6d ago

Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 6d ago

You suggest Mr. Angus is spineless for not having a Mastodon account and I take issue with that...

He has stepped up to call for US boycotts and to organize the Canadian resistance. In fact I'd call him one of the few Canadians who have shown their spine and used their position to bring the idea of a resistance movement to the masses. He's amplified his message now collaborating with Meidas Touch Network.

It's true that Substack isn't the best platform of this type, there are better alternatives, and Nazis and many nasty people use it and profit from it. However, quibbling over this platform Mr. Angus uses in a way that dismisses his works frankly is quite irritating to me. Excuse me for venting frustration at you. Link to Mr. Angus' Youtube Channel as an alternative

6d ago

Boycott American Alcohol, Soft Drinks (Pop) and Tobacco

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 6d ago

Maybe I haven't been to enough out of the ordinary restaurants, but I think part of the problem is that fountain pop will either be from PepsiCo or Coca-Cola beverage brands only. I can't recall ever seeing a pop machine in Canada with special local options.

6d ago

‘This Is State Terrorism’: Global Outrage as Trump Launches Illegal Assault on Venezuela

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 6d ago

I don't like the guy Maduro and even last year I was cheering for Machado's party in the election, but seriously, the Trump administration couldn't do anything more egregious to make the U.S. itself look like an illegitimate rogue state.