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  • Jim Crow laws

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  • Indeed but Israel is not copying those. They are not stealing Palestinian kids and raising them to be Hebrew speaking Jewish Israelis.

  • Jim Crow laws

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  • Left out Apartheid South Africa.

  • IDF soldiers are doing speaking events in Canada. Some say they shouldn't be here

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  • Jews are not "welcome in Canada" because Jews are not foreign to Canada. Canada is home to Jews who live their lives openly and safely as Jews to the full extent they wish to practice their identity. Our free liberal and multicultural Canada is a promise that Jews don't need a "Jewish" apartheid genocidal state to live free and safely as Jews. No militaristic ethnostate shithole bunker of a country can be a better choice for Jews than our country and it's a disgrace and offence to Canada to imply that there is a place safer for Jews than our modern Canada.

    Any peace loving Israeli is also welcome to our free country, same as people of any other foreign nationality. The only thing democratic minded Canadians demand is that we don't let in war criminals. Nothing more and nothing less than applying to Israelis the exact same standards we apply to others. Anyone advocating genocide and apartheid should expect Canadians to stand tall against them.

  • White House defends Trump calling for death to members of Congress over video

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  • Something something Charlie Kirk.

  • Finland's biggest retailer to stop selling Israeli goods

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  • Hey look, whataboutism!

  • The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada

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  • This feels like walking down the national focus tree as the world tension meter in HOI4 is ratcheting up.

  • Awww now the hate is coming for her

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  • So the American Otto Strasser is a woman.

  • Stop Worshipping the Founding Fathers—They Designed the American System to Screw You

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  • There are a couple of things to be said about "judging the past".

    The first is that we can absolutely judge the past on its own terms and arrive at a scathing condemnation of the Founding Fathers as slavers at the terms of their own time. This is what contemporaries of Washington did in the case of Ona Judge, the runaway slave for whom Washington stayed salty all his life for not being able to get back because of actions of New Englanders who basically decided to tell him and his nephew to fuck off. Then there is of course the small issue of the Haitian Revolution and what it reveals about what was morally possible at the time.

    The second thing to say is that "judging the past" is not an abstract thing, it is a thing we do today and that has political implications today. Every "originalist" fuckface is also "judging history" and accepting the founding daddies as basically fundamentally right and righteous. That is a political function of today with very real implications today. We can choose to counter the "originalist" judgements with "fuck your founding daddy issues" anti-judgement and that way create a new political reality for now.

    History can be academic, in which case nationalist desires about proving these or those people noble founders of a superior system are just plain unscientific, or it can be public history in which case it is about meaning creation for the today. And such meaning creation has to judge the past with our own morals, because it is a meaning that is about us and our future.

    And by the way, when I say "us and our future", I need to clarify: I'm Greek-Canadian. My interest in US history and political culture is that of the keen interest of the neighbour to the internals of the crack house. If you guys keep fucking up, that has real consequences for both Canada and Greece/Europe, so it matters.

  • Bell Lays Off Nearly 700 Employees in Company-Wide Shakeup

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  • I'm pretty sure the underpaid employee you talked to had to follow a script and had nothing to do with the psychopathy at the top echelons that dictates these kinds of layoffs.

  • Bell Lays Off Nearly 700 Employees in Company-Wide Shakeup

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  • Isn't this a thing these fuckers do every year a month before their shitty mental health campaign?

  • Looks like we're boycotting cars

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  • Because that worked out for Musk.

  • Amazon makes fresh bid to restore lobby access to EU Parliament

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  • Jeff, my boy, you finished the game, you hundred-percented it, just buy a chateau or something and retire to paint Warhammer and do pottery and tantric meditation or whatever man, stop hoarding money.

  • You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

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  • The United States of America after the Cold War.

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    Why is there always one?

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  • At this point: sure whatever, leave me alone.

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    Why is there always one?

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  • "Everytime I drive on the highway there is always some random male driver that tailgates me."

    When you read that, do you understand that "all men tailgate"?

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  • Sir, this is a Wendy's. You're in a memes community and you're demanding an empirical study with statistical significance.

    judgment about a whole nation

    Repeat: there is a difference between exists and forall. I'm not judging "all Germans".

    (I do have however very strong opinions about the German state, media, and political class, and its despicable laws, positions, and biases, but German official genocide denialism is a different discussion.)

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    Why is there always one?

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  • In logic, there is a huge difference between existential and universal quantification.

    Now, if you find reason to self identify as the "random German" that's your own choice.

  • There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars

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  • The article is about journalism.

  • The cookie dilemma

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  • Wow, thank you!

  • There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars

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  • The author is making a point about people unsubscribing from NYT.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c78zygz4xg9o
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    In the shadow of Al-Aqsa, a Palestinian neighborhood faces mass evictions

    www.972mag.com /batan-al-hawa-east-jerusalem-evictions/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    COP30 climate summit needs a power shift - David Suzuki

    rabble.ca /environment/cop30-climate-summit-needs-a-power-shift/
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Mamdani Created a Left-Liberal Coalition on Israel/Palestine

    jewishcurrents.org /mamdani-created-a-left-liberal-coalition-on-israel-palestine
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Francesca Albanese and the Palestinian Fight for Survival

    jacobin.com /2025/11/francesca-albanese-palestine-international-law
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The myth of the immigrant threat

    canadiandimension.com /articles/view/the-myth-of-the-immigrant-threat
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The corporate blueprint behind the eviction of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhood ⋆ The Breach

    breachmedia.ca /how-the-dismantling-of-ottawas-most-diverse-community-exposes-the-corporate-blueprint-for-racialized-displacement-in-canada/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Savage beatings and dying trees: How West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2025/11/07/middleeast/west-bank-settler-violence-palestinians-olive-harvest-intl-cmd
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Resistance History | The Forgotten Day Congress Refused to Let Traitors Take Their Seats

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    ‘We’re in an Emergency. We Have Got to Start Talking’ | The Tyee

    thetyee.ca /News/2025/11/06/Avi-Lewis-Interview/
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    The missing Palestinians

    www.eurozine.com /the-missing-palestinians/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    ‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon

    www.972mag.com /project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    In a West Bank ‘firing zone,’ Palestinians are erased as settlers lay down roots

    www.972mag.com /firing-zone-masafer-yatta-settlers/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee

    thetyee.ca /Analysis/2025/10/30/Alberta-Big-Payouts-Australian-Coal-Miners/
  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    We Don't Know How Many Bike Mechanics Are in Canada. That's a Problem.

    pressprogress.ca /bike-mechanics-quest-for-recognition-as-skilled-trade/
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    We Don't Know How Many Bike Mechanics Are in Canada. That's a Problem.

    pressprogress.ca /bike-mechanics-quest-for-recognition-as-skilled-trade/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality

    ricochet.media /labour/class-war/the-billionaire-loophole-how-canadas-tax-system-fuels-inequality/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    ‘Flooding the zone’ with residential school denialism

    canadiandimension.com /articles/view/flooding-the-zone-with-residential-school-denialism
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    'Germany Is Back' – and That Should Scare Us All

    zeteo.com /p/germany-pro-palestine-speech-gaza-crackdown-history
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Only one candidate proposed bold policies at the NDP leadership forum

    rabble.ca /politics/canadian-politics/only-one-candidate-proposed-bold-policies-at-the-ndp-leadership-forum/