Canada is so fucked. Carney is truly a necessary evil because we all know PP would be a Trump puppet- but they are using this moment to deepen neo-liberalism and continue dismantling any sort of social safety net AND Indigenous Ppl are in the crosshairs. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Canada is so fucked. Carney is truly a necessary evil because we all know PP would be a Trump puppet- but they are using this moment to deepen neo-liberalism and continue dismantling any sort of social safety net AND Indigenous Ppl are in the crosshairs.

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karinnelson.ca•7 days ago

What do you base this on?

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Canada's entire history.

karinnelson.ca•7 days ago

From your post, I gather you think it's going to get worse though? What makes you think that? Carnie is going to Nunavut for this first official trip, and I quote "and emphasizing our continued commitment to advancing reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis throughout the country."

karinnelson.ca•7 days ago

I have to say I have zero background knowledge whatsoever, and I respect your reservation. You have the experience I lack. But maybe we're not quite fucked yet.

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Northwest and Red River Resistances, Oka, Barriere Lake, War of the Woods, Burnt Church, Elsipogtog, Caledonia, No DAPL, 1492 Landback Lane, Tiny House Warriors, and so many more. All about Canadian access to Indigenous resources, all state violence. Listen to us.

judemacdonald.bsky.social•7 days ago

89% of the Canada’s land is designated as “crown” property (owned by the state). That legal trick alone represents a profound historic - and ongoing - injustice. Settlers need to at least finally honour our own treaties as we demand respect for our modern notion of a nation-state on this land.

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•7 days ago

Read the other 2 posts in that thread. It doesn't matter what he says. Politicians have been mouthing platitudes for generations and still they criminalize our communities and land defenders. National security concerns deepen this, always.

gbs.bsky.social•7 days ago

Canadians have a clear choice -abandon Canada to Poilievre/Trump or give a strong mandate to the Liberals to defend Canada. No one should be under any illusion- if the Liberals don’t win the largest # of votes & seats, Conservative traitors will call on Trump to intervene & impose a puppet by force.

writerartisteh.bsky.social•7 days ago

I strongly suspect this is true.

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•7 days ago

All this nationalist rhetoric in the face of an existential threat means extractive resource exploitation is required to guarantee the existence of the settler colonial state and who is in the way of that? Indigenous Ppl. It's already been bad, but it's going to get so much worse.

terraistrying.bsky.social•7 days ago

100% it’s very bad

withfeeling.bsky.social•7 days ago

this was exactly my takeaway from his acceptance speech at the leadership convention. A sense of urgency to build faster and “do things we never thought we’d do.”

apihtawikosisan.bsky.social•7 days ago

We were branded terrorists when it was just about the economy. Whenever it becomes about Canada's survival (because this is not the first time we've been here with the U.S.) the violence deepens so quickly.

youcaughtscott.com•7 days ago

Capitalism is truly eating itself. I’m not surprised the best the Liberals can do is a legacy banker shifting right, I’m surprised that people are celebrating it. I probably shouldn’t be, considering the history of this country.

sophieleon.bsky.social•7 days ago

Canadians have no interest in communism.

youcaughtscott.com•7 days ago

You have not spoken to the Canadians I have.

sophieleon.bsky.social•7 days ago

That is true, there may be a few, but it is delusional. communism puts too much power in the hands of too few and has always been corrupted.

nachosoloco.bsky.social•7 days ago

like we arent seeing this exact same thing happen under capitalism lmao

sophieleon.bsky.social•7 days ago

Oh I don’t disagree with this at all. USA is finding out that unrestricted ruthless capitalism and the worship of wealth without regulation, compassion or care for fellow humans is an abysmal failure. We must have balance and higher ideals than “greed is good”

youcaughtscott.com•7 days ago

You are describing capitalism.

sophieleon.bsky.social•7 days ago

Where does this communist utopia exist?

chrislarsen.bsky.social•7 days ago

As much as I hate Carney, I think the best possible outcome in the next election would be him as PM, with a minority government, with Singh holding his neoliberal feet to the fire.

chrislarsen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Let me rephrase that, "best possible outcome" isn't correct. "Best likely outcome" better explains my POV.