As someone living on Turtle Island, let me just say, that the province bragging about it’s fucking surplus while every hospital loses staff, departments, and emergency services left, right and centre is one of the greatest furies. I am fueled by it eternally. Meanwhile a certain billionaire just keeps on thrashing the whole place while the bootlicks in government give him handouts and backpats.
Anyway, I just want to say that I really agree with what you’re saying here, and I think it speaks well that while we have different backgrounds and experiences that led us here, the environment we are in has both still led us to these conclusions. And it’s nice to know we’re not the only ones. I’m seeing more and more people open to discussing this stuff with me in real life, and agreeing more strongly when we do.
Edit: I didn’t mean for it to sound like I was saying we are in the same province, lol, this is happening in like half of them right now, it’s fucking depressing.
Yes yes yes! I think the whole pandemic and “in your face” fascism has really started to push people into questioning what is happening and being open to further discussion. While some are moving to the left, others; for some reason, are moving to the right. I don’t know why the hell they’d come to that conclusion.
I heard some university students on the LRT talking about Lenin! I think they were criticizing a paper about Indigenous rights; the paper concluded that to improve the disparity between the Indigenous population and the rest is to read more books. They were laughing at how that’s not going to do shit, Lenin had the right idea. So that made me happy. I was worried they’d be bootlickers, because contrary to what Danielle Smith says; universities are not infested by communists.
Even my mother, who was never one for politics; my grandma who is literally a Portuguese immigrant from the Salazar era (very poor and no education); both engage in these deep conversations about capitalism and fascism with me and they genuinely listen. They even agree with me too.
I can’t say the word communist yet; my mom and grandma don’t even know what it means, but they’re both proud there are people like us who want to make changes.
I’m lucky to have them as a support system, everyone deserves it and more.
Even my step-dad, from Saskatchewan, and who is fairly anti-union is willing to listen and even understand some of my points. He still believes that unionizing is what makes everything so expensive and for some reason doesn’t understand that if everyone unionized that wouldn’t be a problem. He’s also encouraged a recession because of the cost of living but doesn’t realize that there is going to be mass unemployment as a result. I’ll get him there one day.
Also I’ll just outright say that I’m in Alberta lol but I did keep it vague because I know the same is happening in Ontario with Ford, the far eastern provinces hit by the hurricane are also being fucked by their governments (literally said they’d rely on nonprofits for aid), and the northern Territories have never been respected.
I am, unfortunately, in the Maritimes, where the Irvings and the Olands own the government, the hurricanes (which will just keep coming more frequently every year) are wrecking everything, clear-cutting the forests by the Irvings exposes us all more to flooding, and the governments brag about surplus but yeah…won’t do anything about the problems. I mean, I could write forever about how much the Irvings are screwing over the people and ecology.
I luckily had a pro-union mom growing up, however she used to be like, a huge liberal, and bought into the Elizabeth May girl-power nonsense. And literally I recently had her agreeing that violent revolution could not be dismissed as immoral as a response to the staggering deaths imposed by capitalism, and that blew my mind that she agreed. We never agree on anything, and she hates the smallest conflict and is normally a staunch pacifist.
Trudeau was elected in his first time with 100% of the Maritimes’ seats and now (while depressingly the provincial governments are swinging full conservative) there are former dyed-in-the wool liberals and NDP supporters that are still terrified of the “Harper years” that see discussions of anti-capitalism as a regular and acceptable conversation topic, when literally two years ago they would have shut down those lines of thought without hesitation.
Living in these provinces is really just having us like: “WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI??”
Brag about the surplus but it just disappears
I hope people are seeing that a hurricane is not normal here and we’re at the turning point of needing implement change now. Change should’ve happened way before this but, unfortunately, some people need drastic disasters to be the final push for them.
My mom is definitely similar to yours: girl-boss and was raised with the mindset to never cause problems, never argue, just be a doormat. She’s absolutely terrified of conflict, especially if it involves me. One time when we got our EPCOR bill (over $1000) I got angry and was outwardly stating my disdain and need for revolution; she immediately freaked out thinking that I’m going to get arrested for just talking shit in my own house. She’s the type that says “that’s just how it is” but she is supportive in me making changes. When it comes to family matter she silently supports me when I argue, but if it’s something state related she’s scared I’ll be detained or worse.
When the NDP were in power here in Alberta I think people may have been to confident that we’d stay orange come next election. But the UCP somehow managed to take power again even after the 40 years of conservative fuck ups; they really campaigned on the NDP doing nothing. Now with the absolute shitshow on display that is the UCP (and cons in general), the immediate steep decline since taking office, seems to be pushing even the most devote cons to the “left” (even though Notely is not a leftist) while the UCP scrambles to garner support with the “Alberta sovereignty” and “Ottawa bad” folks. Some people (convoy sympathizers especially) have unfortunately fallen for that message. But others are seeing that, actually, the whole system is fucked.
I think Politicians aren’t scared of the people enough considering they’re willing to let their whole province get demolished by a hurricane and just shrug it off; like no matter how bad it gets the people won’t do anything about it.
As someone living on Turtle Island, let me just say, that the province bragging about it’s fucking surplus while every hospital loses staff, departments, and emergency services left, right and centre is one of the greatest furies. I am fueled by it eternally. Meanwhile a certain billionaire just keeps on thrashing the whole place while the bootlicks in government give him handouts and backpats.
Anyway, I just want to say that I really agree with what you’re saying here, and I think it speaks well that while we have different backgrounds and experiences that led us here, the environment we are in has both still led us to these conclusions. And it’s nice to know we’re not the only ones. I’m seeing more and more people open to discussing this stuff with me in real life, and agreeing more strongly when we do.
Edit: I didn’t mean for it to sound like I was saying we are in the same province, lol, this is happening in like half of them right now, it’s fucking depressing.
Yes yes yes! I think the whole pandemic and “in your face” fascism has really started to push people into questioning what is happening and being open to further discussion. While some are moving to the left, others; for some reason, are moving to the right. I don’t know why the hell they’d come to that conclusion.
I heard some university students on the LRT talking about Lenin! I think they were criticizing a paper about Indigenous rights; the paper concluded that to improve the disparity between the Indigenous population and the rest is to read more books. They were laughing at how that’s not going to do shit, Lenin had the right idea. So that made me happy. I was worried they’d be bootlickers, because contrary to what Danielle Smith says; universities are not infested by communists.
Even my mother, who was never one for politics; my grandma who is literally a Portuguese immigrant from the Salazar era (very poor and no education); both engage in these deep conversations about capitalism and fascism with me and they genuinely listen. They even agree with me too.
I can’t say the word communist yet; my mom and grandma don’t even know what it means, but they’re both proud there are people like us who want to make changes.
I’m lucky to have them as a support system, everyone deserves it and more.
Even my step-dad, from Saskatchewan, and who is fairly anti-union is willing to listen and even understand some of my points. He still believes that unionizing is what makes everything so expensive and for some reason doesn’t understand that if everyone unionized that wouldn’t be a problem. He’s also encouraged a recession because of the cost of living but doesn’t realize that there is going to be mass unemployment as a result. I’ll get him there one day.
Also I’ll just outright say that I’m in Alberta lol but I did keep it vague because I know the same is happening in Ontario with Ford, the far eastern provinces hit by the hurricane are also being fucked by their governments (literally said they’d rely on nonprofits for aid), and the northern Territories have never been respected.
I am, unfortunately, in the Maritimes, where the Irvings and the Olands own the government, the hurricanes (which will just keep coming more frequently every year) are wrecking everything, clear-cutting the forests by the Irvings exposes us all more to flooding, and the governments brag about surplus but yeah…won’t do anything about the problems. I mean, I could write forever about how much the Irvings are screwing over the people and ecology.
I luckily had a pro-union mom growing up, however she used to be like, a huge liberal, and bought into the Elizabeth May girl-power nonsense. And literally I recently had her agreeing that violent revolution could not be dismissed as immoral as a response to the staggering deaths imposed by capitalism, and that blew my mind that she agreed. We never agree on anything, and she hates the smallest conflict and is normally a staunch pacifist.
Trudeau was elected in his first time with 100% of the Maritimes’ seats and now (while depressingly the provincial governments are swinging full conservative) there are former dyed-in-the wool liberals and NDP supporters that are still terrified of the “Harper years” that see discussions of anti-capitalism as a regular and acceptable conversation topic, when literally two years ago they would have shut down those lines of thought without hesitation.
Living in these provinces is really just having us like: “WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI??”
Brag about the surplus but it just disappears I hope people are seeing that a hurricane is not normal here and we’re at the turning point of needing implement change now. Change should’ve happened way before this but, unfortunately, some people need drastic disasters to be the final push for them.
My mom is definitely similar to yours: girl-boss and was raised with the mindset to never cause problems, never argue, just be a doormat. She’s absolutely terrified of conflict, especially if it involves me. One time when we got our EPCOR bill (over $1000) I got angry and was outwardly stating my disdain and need for revolution; she immediately freaked out thinking that I’m going to get arrested for just talking shit in my own house. She’s the type that says “that’s just how it is” but she is supportive in me making changes. When it comes to family matter she silently supports me when I argue, but if it’s something state related she’s scared I’ll be detained or worse.
When the NDP were in power here in Alberta I think people may have been to confident that we’d stay orange come next election. But the UCP somehow managed to take power again even after the 40 years of conservative fuck ups; they really campaigned on the NDP doing nothing. Now with the absolute shitshow on display that is the UCP (and cons in general), the immediate steep decline since taking office, seems to be pushing even the most devote cons to the “left” (even though Notely is not a leftist) while the UCP scrambles to garner support with the “Alberta sovereignty” and “Ottawa bad” folks. Some people (convoy sympathizers especially) have unfortunately fallen for that message. But others are seeing that, actually, the whole system is fucked.
I think Politicians aren’t scared of the people enough considering they’re willing to let their whole province get demolished by a hurricane and just shrug it off; like no matter how bad it gets the people won’t do anything about it.