This is much more mundane but no less evil or wholy encapsulating of those in power than a perfectly executed conspiracy, because this is simply the only way U.S. Silicon Valley Techbros know how to monetize online communities (which is boring AND evil, the saddest kind of worst). They sell the capacity to distort and undermine the communities that choose their platforms as foundations like a hotel charging guests for rooms while also selling the service to assassinate any of their guests on demand if a wealthy person is willing to pay a reasonable sum.

Canada is under grave danger so long as it is reliant on U.S. Silicon Valley Tech companies to provide and more importantly moderate social media infrastructure, but it is a much more pathetic grave danger than you might expect.

This is why it is awesome to see lots of Canadians on the fediverse!

Nope, guess the Catholic church is still in the lead on the Evil Bastards scoreboard!

I am surprised God is still hiring real humans? Why not just an AI pope? Does God not care about efficiency?

Yeah, not for long, what is happening is a series of pump and dumps to extract out a bit more profit for Trump’s small circle of cronies before the international community realizes there is nothing left to trust. It is like trying to steal blood from a dying person and expediating cardiac arrest.

Same shitty nonsense as VC companies buying successful businesses with long histories and loyal customers and making a killing by selling trash to previously loyal customers and taking advantage of them until the company is a dead husk, but with an entire country.

Look at this point if I see someone giving a trans/queer coded person shit/hurting them/threatening to hurt them I am going to assume my job is to get as many nearby people to notice and shut that shit down by sheer force of normal people crowding out the couple violent fascist assholes because they can’t do anything to a quickly growing crowd of angry normal people…

…so I am really not interested in judging queer people too hard on any reaction they have right now as a cisgender hetero white dude.

I am so mad, I think I could honestly convince most normal people to intervene with their bodies in a situation like that if there were enough people around, anti-trans beliefs aren’t that popular and most normal people are fucking tired of it and just want politicians to make their lives materially better and the more they hear about rightwing gender bullshit violence thinly veiled as pseudo-science the more creeped out they get about the weird obsessions of the rightwing that motivates these pathetic vessels of hate.

The problem of course, and what we are talking about, is when nobody but a queer coded person and a fascist are around, and I have no grounds to pass any judgement in how queer people choose to respond in that space.

That makes sense, it is a really cool story and I love that the donation from the philanthropists to create an international feeling of solidarity between Canadian and U.S. neighbors has been so effective of a symbol AND practical space for things that are denied reality elsewhere for so long to so many people.

I was making a broader joke about the sentiment of people in my country (US) attacking other people and then loudly complaining the victim is a jerk for reacting in an unfriendly way, but you are right, this architecture and organization simply could not exist in an intolerant or overly bigoted place. The very architecture of the library and performance venue subverts and challenges bigotry, isolationism and xenophobia in a way that doesn’t allow those kinds of beliefs to casually slip in the back door like they do in other places.

No judgement to anyone, but I think pepper spray is a better option here because bigots want you to be a threat which makes resisting hard because resistance can be so easily propagandized as a violent threat.

If you spray someone in the face with pepper spray, well… it is much harder to make the argument you are a violent threat vs. that person was being a fucking creep and making you feel uncomfortable because you were alone with a stranger in a bathroom being accosted about details of your gender and body that have NOTHING to do with them.

It is 2025, I am not going to judge trans people or other vulnerable groups for taking their safety into their own hands, just be mindful of how you do it and consider how you can subvert the toxic attempt to narrativize your actions as evil.

Fast forward 3 months the headline will be.

“MAGA residents angry at Canadians for trying to sabotage local businesses.”

If someone confronts you in a hateful way about your gender like this, maybe you suddenly become afraid for your safety (valid!) and spray them in the face with pepper spray.

When people ask what happens say you became afraid the stranger was trying to hurt you and put your body under threat because they were.

Pathetic losers trying to negotiate with Trump, the upper level faculty of Columbia have already failed by even entering into a conversation with Trump under the guise that the destruction of Academia was an unintended consequence not Literally The Point.

The place of faculty “negotiating” with Trump was showing up with the students in solidarity and getting arrested.

…and before anyone goes into a response like “they are afraid of losing their job”, I get that but there will be no future for anyone in academia in the US if we lose the fight today that we are losing, fight now, it is now or never.

Joe Rogan Will Believe Anything You Tell Him The Majority Report

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FML74J7HZJs