The privately controlled media that manipulated the image of this presidency, downplayed / ignored its failings, exaggerated the contempt for opponents and generally just passively accepted all this insanity as normal is not just complicit but an active participant in the rise and installation of authoritarianism in the US.

It’s not an independent media any more … it’s a direct arm of corporate America … the same corporate America that wants to usher in authoritarianism

1970s Canada is a version of Canada I’d like to leave behind …

… but I’m hopeful to there will be a better Canada in the 2070s

Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario here - Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, landed, immigrant, nation-born, First Nation, Arch-Linux-users, Metis, religious, non-religious, whatever denomination, Lemmy-user, Fediverse-user, corpo-Social-Media-user, straight, bi, none-sexual, LGBTQ++++, black, brown, white and every shade in-between.

We have our differences, we have our troubles, we have issues, good, bad and whatever … but at the end of the day we will always be national brothers and sisters who inhabit this land.

My parents were survivors of the Residential School system but they always celebrated Canada Day never knowing the politics or history … they just enjoyed having a fun day in the middle of summer. I’ve grown to learn lots of good and bad about Canada but in all that history, I may have grown negative and dark but at the same time, as I grow older, I also realize that we have to keep hope alive and always reach out to others, especially to any potential allies. We can create a country where we can all co-exist in a cooperative way that can be equally beneficial for every individual in this country. I will always hope for that.

So good day to you all!! Kitchi-Meegwetch Misiway (Thank you very much to everyone) Nee-nas-kah-moon! (I give my praises!)

Yes

Jesus says yes

The biggest takeaway for me with all this … whenever there is another level of stupidity in American government or the president … is not how dumb he looks … but instead about how the entire country just passively accepts it. How the media just rolls over it like it’s normal now.

This country is fucked

Yeah right talking to their friends … they’re googling … ‘what is the survival rate of fractured spine’ … ‘will I bleed out’ … ‘can I trust a fireman?’ … ‘is there life after death?’ … ‘will I go to heaven?’

Canadians are great hockey players … but no matter how good they are, they’ll still cave in if they are offered a million dollar contract and throw the game

What is this high school?

American government sounds more and more like the varsity sports team of America High

Are you nuts? That’s a limited resource that’s going to burn out in about 4 billion years!

Fossil fuel is renewable … we just have to wait millions of years for it renew itself

Then wait a little longer until we get to the point where gas is so expensive that even subsidized fuel is no longer affordable.

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!

I was going to make fun of this thread by saying some dumb thing but then I noticed your comment … this is your thread now … my condolences to you and your family … and you should clear coat that section of the wall to preserve it forever … and if you ever renovate or change your house … carefully carve out that section of wall, frame it and display it as a family heirloom.

I’m Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario and I was the first generation to be born in a modern hospital. Both my parents were born in the wilderness with traditional midwives. Dad was born in the cold of November and mom in the late winter of March … I can’t imagine what they had to go through for those births in the winter time let alone in the summer months. And in both their families their mothers had many children but many also died. Dad’s mother had 12 pregnancies but only 8 survived to adulthood … mom’s family had 10 and seven survived (an interesting side note in her family was that she had an uncle who died before the age of ten due to poisoning when he accidentally ate the wrong plant … and in her father’s family, they had 15 children! but only 6 survived).

Like the ancient Romans, my family who lived on the land survived without modern medicine just through shear volume and repetition than in any kind of modern knowledge, training or technology.

One of the biggest achievements of modern medicine was in saving infant mortality. Up until about 100 years ago (more like 120 years ago) it was a miracle to even be born. I think infant mortality back then was about 50%. The only way the human species survived and grew was just in the number of pregnancies a woman could have.

Just wait until we can’t afford gas any more … everyone will start bicycling, running, walking and using public transit and asking for trains like it was the logical thing to do all along.

I think it might have been out of necessity because people didn’t live very long back then. The average lifespan was less than 40 for most people … and you were just lucky to be born at all.

Globally during the first century the world population was about 300 million people … the Roman Empire was about 60 million with most people living in big cities where there was a lot of turnover of people because even though they had some sanitation, it still wasn’t sanitary enough to be healthy for people to live long. The only people that lived any long life were the ultra rich and there not that many of them including their close family … which probably meant that with the few people around notable enough to carry a family name, it wouldn’t have mattered if someone kept the same name … because they wouldn’t be alive for that long anyway.

As great as the Romans might have been during their time … I’m very happy to have been born in the time we are in now.

Are you sure that was a punishment … or a reward?

Sounds more like a new line up of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of those suffering from delusions of grandeur and acute narcissism

It just goes to show how law abiding and passive the majority of Americans are. You’d think most people would take advantage of it all and start robbing, looting, kidnapping and raping everywhere.

It’s a good sign of American humanity.

But a bad sign that will usher in full blown fascism.