• Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Not voting, I’m a Permanent Resident who was under the illusion that Canada had moved on from the days of residential schools. Equal rights, humanity and all that turned out to be a load of bullshit.

    Edit: If I could vote, idk. If no one can take a principled stance on what should be an extremely obvious issue, then nobody.

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      14 days ago

      If I could vote, idk. If no one can take a principled stance on what should be an extremely obvious issue, then nobody.

      See, that’s the kind of thinking that makes me say that “strategic voting” should have its taboo status removed…

      Because of this one issue, you’d be washing your hands on taking a stance for all other issues that humankind face?

      If you say yes, I guess I have to respect that. Principles are principles. But well, it’s so not how I would go about this.

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        14 days ago

        It let’s him feel morally superior while absolving him of any responsibility for what happens.

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        14 days ago

        Why? Explain your reasoning in detail please. And don’t forget to mention what your ancestry is.

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            14 days ago

            Not sure yet, maybe nothing but we’ll see. Still waiting for your explanation as to why I should leave.

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              14 days ago

              Because you have nothing but hate for the country you willingly and voluntarily moved to, and hope to deliberately spread divisiveness among others that live and love it here despite its faults. So put your past expertise of making a major international move to use and do it again to somewhere else

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                13 days ago

                Lmao. Who told you I have “nothing but hate” for the country? You talk like you know me. I hate your mainstream political parties and the people who bend over backwards to do genocide apologetics, especially when we know that in a few decades, a lot of those people will tut-tut at “our past mistakes” and do some land acknowledgements style performative bullshit. There’s plenty about Canada and specific Canadians I very much like. But of course it’s easier for you to dehumanize people with “they hate us cause they anus” rhetoric like most right wingers love to do.

                Side note: By the way, I came here for career and economic opportunities above all else (opportunities that my country didn’t have because of your dear UK whose inbred pedo leaders you still feature on your currency, and the US who you’re basically a colony of). It was a pure business transaction - your government gets much needed immigrants and an infusion of tax money, inflated tuition fees, and living expenses into their economy, and I get to be here. I have no obligation to “like” or be “loyal” to anyone (the whole premise of having loyalty for a capitalist country is questionable anyways). Despite all that, I do feel those things to some extent because that’s just human nature I guess. Your country is not owed any of it.