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Rentlar

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2天前

No work, no school, no shopping: Jan. 30 nationwide general strike to protest ICE gains celebrity endorsements
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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 2天前

Because the national momentum is going to fizzle out quickly if there's no end in sight and no concrete achievable demand.
I will assume you are asking genuinely, but I hope you realize that every step that has prepared people to strike has been disparaged by people saying "not enough!"
I don't think such a strong yet peaceful resistance to ICE could have happened without the series of No Kings protests.
I don't think that the statewide strike could have happened without the persistent yet peaceful protest and resistance.
I don't think the national one day strike could happen tomorrow without some evidence of it being successful and effective at the state-level, which it was.
An ongoing strike will be more likely to be successful if it follows a series of one day strikes. Yet a certain contingent cries "forever national strike now", as if that can manifest itself just by saying it. So I'm sorry if you're taking heat for a genuine concern, but it follows a long line of other users questioning if any action is "enough".
In the realm of strike action, it's like rotating strikes for an industry or work-to-rule instead of going directly to an all out work stoppage. These are tools you need to take time and prepare to use, and use them effectively. America's not used to resisting the federal apparatus en masse like this in decades. Allow people some time and training. And I don't imagine tomorrow will be the last day people decide to take action to resist the Trump admin.

2天前

Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 2天前

That would be enough to reduce homelessness by more than 10% for a year.

4天前

Alberta justices speak up about independence after premier muses about directing the courts

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 4天前

I read it as "We want Lady Justice to remove the blindfold and watch only right-wing propaganda".

1周前

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

They'd hand all of Canadians' data to ICE at their first request.

1周前

ICE to purchase 500,000-square-foot warehouse near Ashland for immigration detention facility

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

He is the namesake of a grocery chain (save-on-foods etc.), advertising business, car dealership, at least one hospital wing, and now the Jim Pattison Torture Prison, I guess.

1周前

PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

IMO they're both good and deserve our weight, I do think they can work off each other.

I use Lemmy because their mobile app support is much better and Jerboa (the Lemmy maintainers' app) has everything I need and not a single bit more. I think it would be great for Piefed to get more app support.

There are a lot of features that I think Lemmy can benefit from emulating from Piefed, like the option to show comments from crossposted threads, filters, and more granular moderation capability. I heard Piefed is a lot lighter on resources, so if I were to self-host I might use that one. Also I have no idea how many of Lemmy's shortcomings are due to be addressed in their planned 1.0 release.

Lemmy development is slow whereas Piefed is a bit faster, I think each is great in their own right. Not everyone agrees with me here, but I think the Lemmy developers do a good job keeping their personal beliefs to their own instance, rather than let it infiltrate the code base. Same with Piefed. I think the development of both should be encouraged rather than trying to find rifts and making it a team sport.

1周前

From ‘Elbows Up’ to Capitulation and Back | The Tyee

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

In hindsight it's all water under the bridge.

I wasn't expecting Carney to be like the Ford and call him a pedophile protector, or to explicitly label the US as a military threat... But I can't deny I was disappointed of how easily he was able to be a doormat in response to Trump's sudden inexplicable gripe against the Digital Services Tax. And I would have liked him to drop the pretenses earlier, of hoping (beyond hope) Trump would pull back on his self-imposed tariff foolishness, by the mere virtue of Canada being a reasonable negotiating partner.

1周前

It’s a Brutal Flu Year. Why Are Canadians Shunning Vaccinations?

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

When news comes out about divergence of flu strain and the vaccine targeted strains, many people read it (incorrectly) as "the vaccine this year doesn't work". I don't get the vaccine, and I haven't had a fever with the flu for like 10 years (I have 5 Covid shots and got covid twice). It's mostly just my laziness, and I don't see the benefit over being consciously against it.

1周前

Trump says he's withdrawing invitation for Carney to join his Gaza 'Board of Peace'

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Instead of "You can't quit, I'm firing you", here it's "You can't refuse my offer, I'm rescinding it!" Pathetic and petty, on-brand for Trump.

1周前

US withdraws from the World Health Organization

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Who's winning the War on Drugs? The drugs? Or the brain worms?

1周前

Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Have you tried Bazzite? Works pretty well for me on a gaming focused laptop I upgraded from win 10.

1周前

Bovino Says Activists Are ‘Stalking’ His Federal Agents in Minneapolis | Protesters made even a bathroom break an ordeal, the Border Patrol official said at a Thursday news conference.

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Is Greg Bovino using the correct bathroom? He needs the one reserved for assholes.

1周前

By suddenly declaring a deal on Greenland, Trump demolished his case for owning it

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Trump demolished his case for owning it

Half of his case was: "I'm mad the Norwegian government didn't give me a non-governmental organization's peace prize". You can't demolish something if it was already a pile of construction rubble.

1周前

I feel like leaving lemmy

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

Take care of yourself, do what you need to do and don't feel bad about leaving or taking a break.

If you want to try something different, subscribe to communities that aren't politics focused. Block users like me, if I come into a non-political thread and make it about politics.

It sounds like you care about other people which is great trait, but don't let it overwhelm you. Engage with social media at your own pace.

1周前

Expert Who Ran Simulations on 'How Civil Wars Start' Warns Minnesota Is Exactly What It Looks Like

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

The simulation also projected that the judiciary would be of little help to any state that found itself in the president’s crosshairs.
“We concluded that in a fast-moving emergency of this magnitude, courts would probably be unable or unwilling to intervene in time, leaving state officials without meaningful judicial relief,” Finkelstein explained. “State officials might file emergency motions to enjoin the use of federal troops, but judges would either fail to respond quickly enough or decline to rule on what they view as a ‘political question,’ leaving the conflict unresolved.”

So that panned out as predicted... (pdf of 8th circuit of appeals rubber-stamping the continuation of ICE violence on innocents)

1周前

Trump says Canada should be grateful for ‘freebies’ it gets from the US

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

I'm delighted that our Prime Minister clearly got under Trump's skin with his speech. He certainly didn't get his wits from America.

1周前

Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

This lowers the bar of entry to acclimatize people to a future indefinite strike. Is one day of action going to be enough? Most people know, probably not, but if for whatever reason it is, great! Otherwise of course people will be at it longer and with better preparation.

Examples of strikes in Canada

There are examples of strikes that come about too quickly that don’t bring about change. All my examples here are Canadian because solidarity strikes are banned in the US due to Taft Hartley and rugged individualism has made Americans not really test it en masse.

One day strikes have made big impacts in the past as well, like in BC in the 1980s.

One of the biggest and most successful strikes in Canada, yet very rarely talked about appears to me as the Québec 1972 strike. It followed many years of unrest including the October Crisis of 1970, where the Prime Minister put down separatist militias. It didn't just randomly happen, it took months of planning and preparation, long exposure to a repressing force, and a populace with a mind and purpose for collective action.

The point being, complaints like this come across to me as shallow and unthoughtful. Each of these actions are a step towards a stronger, more robust resistance that with each additional participant become more difficult for any fascist administration put down. They keep doubling down but they are failing miserably to achieve their aims, which was ostensibly to subjugate and silence the people of Minnesota. I ask you to nurture and encourage people showing solidarity instead of writing it off as insufficient.

1周前

Trump Repeatedly Refers to Greenland as Iceland in Speech Vowing Takeover

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

The entire past year I haven't gotten over the fact that this oaf is a living walking version of the USA polandball caricature that can't get the name of any country right.

1周前

Did Carney just signal a massive shift in Canada's foreign policy direction?

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 1周前

He definitely has talked like that at earlier EU Canada economic forums and made several concrete steps in trade diversification in the months before the speech, so it's not a sudden about face.

But I still can't help but notice he talks a lot differently at European forums than over here, I wish he talked to Canadians like that more often. I don't fault people if they wonder whether Carney's serious since he has also made moves that appeared to appease the US, while in part of the speech Carney says middle powers including Canada should stop doing that.

2周前

‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires

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Rentlar @lemmy.ca 2周前

Europe, if you wanna get immediate change, threaten a tax against the whiniest economic cohort who have easy access to the USA president -- billionaires.