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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

Sending the 300 migrants to a prison in El Salvador is a violation of 13 international laws and/or treaties, US law, and 3 Constitutional Amendments.

They’re both very evil and very stupid

The fact that an entire administration and fully 40% of America thinks it’s ok to send people to a concentration camp in the middle of nowhere, without an OUNCE of evidence they committed a crime is INSANE! It’s more shocking and frightening than anything I have seen from my countryman.

There are serious CSIS reports about some of his MPs. Pollievre knows but has not kicked them out. When it comes out he wants to claim that it's a total shock to him and that he definitely didn't knowingly allow it all along. Clearance would mean he was officially told and could no longer play dumb.

Who is going to do something? This is Kim Jong-Un shit.

i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

This interview with #DanielleSmith about #Poilievre was from yesterday on the extreme-right propaganda station Breitbart in the USA! She also said she had been trying to get #Trump to ease up on threats until after the election to help Poilievre get elected! Traitors. #ElbowsUp, #Canada #cdnelxn

How is this okay?

And to be clear, 'predatory takeover of public institutions' includes governments.

toronto.overdrive.com/media/552403 If you haven't read Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine' it explains the pattern of disaster capitalism (disaster followed by predatory takeover of public institutions). This strategy begins with some kind of disaster but you can always create one deliberately.

Freeland: "If these tariffs are put in place, it is going to hurt Americans ... your grocery prices are gonna go up, bc you know what you need to grow food in the US? You need fertilizer. 80% of it comes from Canada and you're gonna be a 25% tax on it? ... the WSJ is right. This is dumb."

This moment is medieval - Jackson Katz on misogyny and why men must oppose Trumpism

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