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THANKS I HATE IT
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Embarrassed to admit that I still have my decorations up from last year's "Toby Young Writing A Thinkpiece About The Fact He Has No Friends" Day :(
(I stole this joke from a Twitter user about celebrating Ed Balls day)
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This kind of cost-cutting BS is everywhere, children's Calpol for example has stopped coming with the little syringes to administer it in the correct dose! Shrinkflation's horrible and equally unwelcome sibling. Late stage capitalism strikes again <sad trombone noises>
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Dial 5555555855555-SENOR-MORTGAGE-TODAY
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11. What if the Conservatives win my Alberta riding by one vote? Will I be ashamed? I don't know how I will feel. I truly hope they don't, but I can't willingly vote for genocide, and the Liberals had a choice. And that I do know.
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10. I learned my lesson from Labour, and I feel less ashamed. But I am still afraid. My feelings about Canada are impossibly complicated after so much time away and after reckoning with its reality as a violent settler-colonial state, which I only began to do after listening to Indigenous voices.
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9. So, without sounding too histrionic (and can you really be histrionic about a livestreamed genocide?) I voted Green and effectively threw away my vote, so that in a few decades when We Will Always Have Been Against This, I don't have to justify to myself what could have mattered more than this.
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8. This time my vote would have mattered in a toss up riding between the two parties, and I was registered to vote from abroad. Despite me begging the Liberal candidate to clarify their personal stance on Gaza so that I could vote for them in even neutral conscience, I received no response in time.
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7. Virtually the same scenario is playing out in Canada's election today. Evil Incarnate vs Not The Tories. Full throated support of genocide vs politely declining to call it what it is, combined with staunch refusal to enforce a two way arms embargo or meaningfully intervene to stop the suffering.
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6. Books could be written about antisemitism in Labour, but whatever the problem, the solution cannot be endorsing a genocide. Had I voted Labour in my safe seat, I would have enabled genocide and abandoned the trans community. Thank god I didn't vote. But I was duped all the same, and I am ashamed.
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5. Real power, and to do what? Nothing meaningful, it turns out, and even to act in cruelty. It shocked me how quickly they showed themselves. People much smarter, more eloquent and better informed than me have laid out how and why Labour has so insidiously thrown vulnerable people to the wolves.
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4. So, I watched the returns in the wee hours nursing my baby, elated but trying to ignore my fears: the absurdity of FPTP and the result not reflecting reality, the eerie transphobia seething in the background, Labour banging about like a weather vane saying whatever to get into power.
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3. I lived my entire time under Tory rule and things worsened in real time, not knowing what UK life was like otherwise. It was obvious to anyone with a soul that the Tories made everything worse for nearly everybody, but I fell into the trap that things would be (had to be!) better with Labour.
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2. I lived in a safe seat so did not register to vote abroad, but stayed fairly invested in the politics of a country I called home for so long. I also moved to Ireland, and much like Canada and its relationship with the US, despite us wishing it weren't so, what happens in the UK matters here.
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I am SHOOK
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I'm asking because the way you worded it made it sound like he "learned" a single monolithic Native American culture that certainly does not exist (it's also kind of simplistic, would someone not American ever "learn" American culture in its entirety for example?) anyways thanks for clarifying
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Which "native American" culture and language? There are a lot
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I am so pleasantly surprised by that
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That's exactly what I thought! Isn't Mississippi usually last in everything??
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"who?"
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Barky Boats! Because the "buddies" are talking about being nervous about going to big school, and she is going to big school in the fall 🥺
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he was so worried about tomato prices :( thank god chuck schumer warned him tho
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Pokémon go-to-the-polls
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This is a very fun fact, thank you. A nice short break from the creeping existential terror
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One of my earliest memories is my mother VIOLENTLY turning the radio off when walking on sunshine started playing, and my child brain learned very quickly that yes, that song is Ass (hard disagree on pink pink pony club though sorry)
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"why is no one having fun? I specifically requested it"
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Correct take
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May I interest you in Wii Shop Bling?
youtube.com/watch?v=C896...
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Holy Christ just seeing Bad Day written down made me angry
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Happy by Pharrell Williams just fills me with dread for the rest of the day
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Thanks for this! I'm a recent blow-in to the kingdom so still learning all the Kerryisms (though this one might be a more general Irish term) but it smacks of when people describe the weather/day as "close", I might be totally mixing them up however
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I once made my brother in law drive me to Roundstone, promising it was "near Clifden" based on my Canadian interpretation of the map
Narrator: it was not
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100% correct to include the sprawling metropolis that is Waterville. Ciarraí abú!
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Few things hurt more than accepting I won't finish a book I thought I'd like - usually by 25% I let myself give up, but of course I leave them on my ereader and they mock me with their incompleteness. Why I gotta be so dramatic?? They're just books! Their feelings are not hurt!