mad_lentil

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean if they're utilities, we shouldn't let a board decide what should rightfully be in the hands of the voting public. Really they should welcome a stable (OK maybe not so stable in the US atm, but generally...) owner as the government.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

I guess I should read the article

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

k-hole'd

For any confused readers.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

I want to believe poster, but it's a nun and a giant Armenian man slyly fistbumping

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

I would rather bother them very loudly.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Have there been consequences for the United States' or Canada's genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while "acknowledging its troubled past" but you're still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I'm not even saying it wouldn't be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 13 points 15 hours ago

Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What's your point with this? That the allies were right to bomb civilians? That we can have a little genocide, as a treat?

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

how do I boost on lemmy

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 26 points 18 hours ago

Doesn't that make it even more selfless?

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Speaking of the 'don, it's not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it's really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it's growing on me.

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