I suspect wealthy travelers and Trump supporters with money will just be overrepresented, but I hope the attendance is somehow better at the non-US games.

There are grassroots support movements and even legal assistance. You just won’t likely hear about them in establishment media (probably because they don’t expect their intended audience to be in a financial position where they might need it). Even with smaller news sources that focus on talking primarily to activists and/or the actual people affected by the issues (like Status Coup News), folks only briefly touch on it. This is where local news has an opportunity to shine (even if it usually doesn’t).

Wasn’t Dachau mostly political prisoners? Guantanamo Bay might qualify better for that comparison.

I don’t remember seeing the Japanese flag with China on that one. Wow, that must have been received well by certain populations at the time. (Not something I’d joke about at least, even if relations have improved.)

I was following this and was sad to hear about this happening despite excellent counterarguments from people like Zarah Sultana. These are scary times, but I was encouraged there was at least this response yesterday (just watch the first ~45 seconds): Invidious | _Youtube

The more it happens, the more they’ll be likely to see.

This is much better than something a billionaire did, but you don’t seem to have linked a source. I found one: https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-wealth-tax-plan

“The proposal aims to incentivize and guide different countries to join the initiative and address policy, administrative, and data deficiencies, ensuring that high-net-worth individuals are taxed more efficiently in line with their wealth,” the Spanish government explained. “To achieve this, it is necessary to foster international cooperation in multilateral forums to promote and facilitate the implementation of evidence-based reforms and ongoing experiences regarding the taxation of large fortunes in different countries.”

The plan—crafted by the governments of Spain and Brazil and presented at the United Nations’ Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development being held in the Spanish city of Seville—was quickly praised by an assortment of international nonprofit organizations as an essential tool for tackling global wealth inequality.

I’d like to see more countries join, but we need a hell of a strategy where I’m at because politicians in English speaking North America will be the hardest sell.

It’s up to us, since it seems more and more every day that Carney really can’t be trusted. Either outright avoid US online services or do NO financial transactions and block all ads.

*edit - Also, I wonder how long it will take Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to properly bankrupt the US? I hope the US people can do something about him for their own sake, and ours.

What are some things you (either individually for yourself, or that you find true among many little people if you want) find you’re particularly good at, but that average height people tend to overlook?

I’d go with either “nasty” or “torturous,” depending if you mean the one that’s hated or the one doing the hating. But heck, I suppose it could it be both. 😅

Unfortunately, he would probably do well for them at this point, so I wouldn’t even cheer for him to be federal party leader.

2010 was too long ago. :')

(Rest in peace, Paul Vasquez. Thanks again for sharing the beautiful sight you saw that day.)

What ad hominem argument? I directly responded to the substance of your comment (specifically the premise that we start with immigration even though your comment contained an acknowledgement that was not the cause of Canada’s economic troubles). I said nothing about you directly or your motivations. If you’re going to ignore relevant criticism, there’s no point continuing this conversation.

So you realize the problem didn’t start with immigration, yet that’s where you put your focus? The outcry should be against policies that promote exploitation of workers, regardless of where they are from. That by itself would stop any excess immigration equitably, without dehumanizing anyone by going back on our word and treating them like garbage.

No social platform at all is a serious problem. I do think messaging should focus on economics first (since we have precious little mainstream discussion of actual consequences of economic policy in many places, and social issues are cynically exploited by free market-touting establishment types as a distraction), but a party that pretends systemic hierarchies and marginalization don’t exist is just mob/majority rule and not truly leftist.

Whatever a hypothetical person accepts happening to people they want to consider “beneath” them, they are also accepting for people they do consider to be like themself. Just a matter of time.

Cool. I just hope your leaders take the hint. Maybe now that they’re getting directly threatened they’ll show their true colours. Either they stand up for themselves as they see their colleagues start to get attacked (at events or in their own homes), or they cower and come to heel. (Sadly, I have little faith most politicians in most countries these days will do much if it’s not their own hides at risk.)

Incidentally, something weird is going on with that list. I’m not sure how the ordering works but much more important, it says only “500,000” for the protests over George Floyd even though one of the references says 15-26 million over the entire course of that movement.

This country is literally made up of immigrants, along with the indigenous peoples of the land. That is reality.

I’m Canadian and I had a Malbec phase in the past. :')

I got the impression those were light fixtures in the back, but who knows for someone that wants a bathtub next to glass double doors. (I could own all the land for a good distance around, and I’d still be uncomfortable with that.)

It’s definitely speculation on my part (and I almost made a joke about that conspiracy theories in my comment), but it didn’t occur to me anyone might try to invite hostilities. I was especially surprised they couldn’t even get a response when contacting Canadian officials. It would be easy for them to just communicate some kind of simple response.