acargitz

@ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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3 yr. ago

Come On Home, Yankee soldiers

acargitz @lemmy.ca 8h ago

9h ago

Seventh US service member killed in Iran war after being wounded in attack in Saudi Arabia

acargitz @lemmy.ca 9h ago

There is literally no mention in the article about how many Iranians military or civilian have been killed.

Fucking solipsistic Yankees man. And this is even supposed to be their respectable centrist media outlet. Non-american lives just don't matter to them.

13h ago

Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 13h ago

You and I have talked about this exact topic before. You seemed to think my arguments about the financialization of housing were ... gaslighting.

16h ago

About Unrigged

www.unrigged.ca /about/

20h ago

Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 20h ago

Oh I'm not at all against this. I am absolutely for it. What I'm against is the trumpist-smelling anti-immigration rhetoric of the right and the centre.

20h ago

2 GTA synagogues hit by gunfire overnight, police investigate

acargitz @lemmy.ca 20h ago

This kind of shit makes me so fucking angry on so many levels.

20h ago

Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it.

acargitz @lemmy.ca 20h ago

Weren't we just being inundated with right wing talking points about how the population of our country had risen too quickly and we had to severely curtail immigration? And now we do this?

So, one is to surmise that the problem was really that the population increase did not have the desirable... hue?

2d ago

What is the "Quebecois" of your language?

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Cypriot Greek

2d ago

'Cowardly and Despicable': Hegseth Condemned for Sinking of ‘Defenseless’ Iranian Ship

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Your statement that this gets more attention than killings of civilians is not as obviously true as you make it. This is the first thread on Lemmy I've seen for example specifically discussing the ship whereas I've seen multiple others discussing the school bombing. So I'm not sure I know what you're talking about here.

About the other two, again I'm not sure where you're getting at. You're digging your heels on what exactly? That people should not be upset about this? My points 2 and 3 tried to describe some reasons why people might feel upset. Your point is what? "Fuck your feelings"? I mean ok, you can say that, but then what?

2d ago

Iran war pushes oil price above $90, threatening rise in global inflation

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Is this the FAFO the Americans keep taking about?

2d ago

'Cowardly and Despicable': Hegseth Condemned for Sinking of ‘Defenseless’ Iranian Ship

acargitz @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Your comment does multiple things at once.

You are asking why the outrage over this vs the school. Well, that's a false dilemma. Nobody says the school bombing was A-OK.

You're asserting that being in a country's Navy makes it so that you accept the risk someone might shoot you. Well, nobody says it isn't so. But that doesn't make that loss of life A-OK. This is especially shocking given the brutal nature of a ship being torpedoed like that.

The United States has not declared war on Iran according to their own fucking constitution. They only make a bullshit self defense argument. But the ship was in an unrelated part of the world, in Shri Lanka, so literally unable to threaten anything. So the killing felt gratuitous, cold blooded, brutal, unnecessary. The US could have neutralized the ship in a more humane way, given them a chance to surrender, etc. Instead they chose this.

So, no, this isn't more important than the bombing of the school, and yes it is a warship but it's still brutal and shocking. Your scolding of people's natural aversion to this massacre is just not helpful.

3d ago

[Video] US says they are not at war but conducting a "limited operation".

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

A special military one?

3d ago

Alberta Federation of Labour calls for oil windfall tax to avoid profiteering amid war in Iran

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

Chronic Dutch disease...

3d ago

[article] Cycle lane paused after thousands of locals object

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

It cannot be the case that cycling infrastructure is discussed pracemeal like this. Would the public be asked about installing a new pedestrian sidewalk? No because it's considered normal for a street to have a sidewalk. If a national safety standard for multi-modal infrastructure were in place, these kinds of questions would become uncontroversial.

3d ago

US would "strenuously oppose" Poland or other European state developing nuclear weapons, says Pentagon official

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

The moment the US used the NATO deterrent as trade leverage, that ship sailed.

3d ago

'We Have Only Just Begun,' Hegseth Says as 4 House Dems Join GOP to Back Trump War on Iran

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

Are they going to be primaried?

3d ago

The white nationalists I recently exposed showed up to try to intimidate me -- in person

ricochet.media /indigenous/our-women-they-get-lost-on-the-street-on-the-front-lines-of-edmontons-indigenous-unhoused-crisis/

3d ago

‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis

Progressive Politics @lemmy.world

www.972mag.com /israels-last-regime-change-war-backfired-this-one-could-too/

3d ago

Israel’s last regime-change war backfired. This one could, too

rabble.ca /labour/alberta-federation-of-labour-calls-for-oil-windfall-tax-to-avoid-profiteering-amid-war-in-iran/

3d ago

Alberta Federation of Labour calls for oil windfall tax to avoid profiteering amid war in Iran

3d ago

The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved

acargitz @lemmy.ca 3d ago

4d ago

Spotted in Burbank, CA