You all know that the facilities where these are assembled and stored will be publicly accessible, right? They never have to be delivered.

Yeah, I believe you when you say having to work for a living isn’t familiar. Have fun licking boots.

They’ve been pushing this for years now.

Genuinely, go fuck yourself. Like you know a fucking thing about helping your ‘country folk’ when you’d literally let them get arrested for living in a place where cross-border work is normal. I’d rather be in a place where workers have solidarity with each other than where there’s some pompous and hollow notion of nationality.

Chud.

Breaks your brain to think of the state seperately from people eh? Fuckin typical nationalist. Go lick boots elsewhere dude.

This is the Canadian nationalist shit you see when someone has been protected their whole life. You know Americans know more about fighting the US than Canadians do, right? Borders are also, y’know, imaginary, and people formed connections across borders for generations despite you feeling yucky about the US now. How 'bout you offer to pay for the salaries of every Canadian who crosses the border for work or relocation costs for any families who live across border regions?

I mean, if it’s jobs alone that is a consequence of this deal, I can guarantee you that those jobs are still maintained at exploitational wages. Since it is silly to only think about that, there is also the reality that Canada is subordinated to the US already and its fascist regime has made real threats of violence to Canada. On top of that, Canadians have been detained without cause by this same regime which has taken up disappearing dissidents as an official practice. ICE patrols the 100-mile border zone that Canadians cross every day for work and kinship.

Canon fodder indeed, chuds love having dudes like you around to fight for them.

Oh no, how unexpected. Who would think that the interests of capital and imperialism would take precedent over the wellbeing of the people in Canada?

His what?

Stop talking about Ford like he’s the decision maker. Go make Conservative MPP’s miserable and make it clear this is why. Go to their offices, go to their events. If you choose to do something even more effective, make sure you don’t associate it with any groups that can be targeted for organising.

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It’s too much work to use, plain and simple. It has officially become more of a hassle to run Windows than it is to just download a user-friendly Linux distro and learn about docker.

Yes I know, but that isn’t necessarily clear in your first comment and I was warning that some might read this as what I said above.

I wonder if there’s a reason why the dominion of Canada would selectively (racistly) recognise human rights violations in its political agreements.

You should probably rewrite this though, second sentence can read like youre saying the UAE – infamously dependent on slave labour – upholds human rights in its trade agreements.

I don’t know if it’s helpful to frame this as them being fooled either though, they are getting exactly what they want. Racialization emerged from settler-colonialism specifically for its ability to naturalize the subordination of groups within a hierarchy organized around capitalist imperatives of profit and infinite growth. White supremacy is a whole-hearted subscription to that hierarchy and its maintenance. Our system is racist already and has been the entire time. Even though white people are not all billionaires, they understand that being white guarantees them privilege over other groups in society and that typically translates to a lifetime of material security and even luxury. Opposition toward an owning class fundamentally depends on condemnation of stratification and hierarchy as those are the underlying mechanisms that make wealth accumulation possible. When white supremacists – this includes white people who do not describe themselves as Nazis but nonetheless subscribe to our system as it is – align with the interests of capital, they are communicating that they will defend the hierarchy they benefit from before they will challenge it. Even if it appears as though they are duped because of the disparate material reality they experience compared to billionaires, or any owning class, that they can entertain the fantasy of rising in the hierarchy is itself only made possible through a construction of the world where some people are just born with the right to enjoy life. They know that whiteness gives them that and they are rewarded with the luxurious precarity of middle-class life. I don’t think you can understand why people make these sorts of decisions with an individualist analytical framework like psychology, it is systemic.

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You mean like we expropriate the means by which these private companies produce vehicles and then a union of workers manage the operation? What a novel idea.

Okay, it is important to acknowledge that miseducation and disinformation contributes to the specific rhetoric applied in current white supremacist movements, but to suggest that this is an intelligence issue is reductive and ableist. Fascists infamously adopt anti-intelligence and absurdity into their rhetoric exactly because it wastes time and redirects resistance into arguments that work to platform them further. To them, having to justify the way you think is a concession of power. They use idiocy to assert their power as a privileged group who does not need to make sense in order for their will to be realized in society.

They’re right in that, the white supremacist worldview is validated at every level of how our society functions. Canada is an extractivist, racist, settler-colonial enterprise fundamentally. Whether it appropriates ideas of anti-bigotry into its language does not change that this is a country that depends on genocide and racialized privilege to exist. While many Canadians will be discomforted by this notion, that most of them are white and disproportionately more materially secure than racialized groups is undeniable. Indigenous people suffer physical violence, disposession, incarceration, shelter and food insecurity, and sexual violence with impunity at significantly higher rates than white Canadians. White men are the most likely to commit that violence and are the least likely to face repercussions for any violence they inflict. Much of that violence is facilitated through industrial extraction – which again disproportionately harms indigenous communities – that is not recognized as a crime at all by the Canadian state for obvious reasons. White men own the most property, have written most of the laws, occupy most seats of power, and they know that even if they do not know why.

I’m not trying to shut you down or suggest that these people are pretending to be stupid. I only want to caution against viewing stupidity as an explanation for their values. You are correct, they do not know what they’re talking about beyond the fact that they are articulating a desire to reaffirm white supremacy. These men are correctly pointing out that they can behave this way because this system is built for them, and they don’t have to know why in order to benefit from it.

Don’t fall into the trap of decency, these people have already written you off as a person. Decent behaviour limits activism, they may very well stop protesting outside of healthcare facilities if they’re bullied away. Chuds understand that people don’t want to be mean and they see that as a weakness in you that can be manipulated to their benefit.

Holy fucking shit. Shut up with this stupid narrative. MOST VOTERS DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS GOVERNMENT. Even if the turnout was high and he won, it doesn’t matter because we don’t have the fucking time to wait for another election. You are fantasizing, time to catch up with reality.

Did you go to your MPP’s office? Are you willing to get arrested fighting this? I’m so tired of liberals in this country conveniently drawing the line of action where they’re most comfortable. They’re going to target you either way.