A small Filipino cultural festival at a school was attacked. I am skeptical that this was a random act of violence. Nothing is impossible, but I think that it is much more likely that this was a targeted attack. Wait till they get the suspects computer, internet history, etc.

It’s also like. Mostly a government thing for official services and paperwork. And for employment and healthcare and stuff. Like Bill C16 does not really impact private speech except in cases of persistent harassment.

First of all, you are absolutely welcome to be vulnerable and in pain in this community. This space belongs to you girl and you are allowed to struggle and vent about what you’re going through. You don’t have to justify needing support, and this community was made for you.

You are a woman. It’s not dependent on you meeting certain criteria or appearing a certain way or presenting a certain face. It’s you. You’re a mom too, and that pressure is a lot on your shoulders as well. You can only take things one day at a time. Spending time with chasers was definitely a mistake I made in the past. It feels incredibly dehumanizing because it is. It’s being reduced down to body parts and consumed by others. I struggled with severe dysphoria and depression for years, I know it’s hard. Reaching out like this was a step you made for yourself. That’s a step you should recognize. Community is important for trans folks. It can be so isolating without others who understand what you’re going through. You’re not alone. I hope today at least is a bit easier.

A negotiated trade agreement with them would be huge going further into this trade war. It would make a massive difference for Canadians. Probably greatly help us over the recession. But, I definitely have questions about what it would look like.

That all being said, it’s probably bad optics for Carney right now. It’s probably in his interest to delay this until after the election.

You’re good :) I agree with your advice as well. For trans people, there’s a lot to consider, like whether they will be accepting of our transition. I live far away from where I lived pre transition so it doesn’t come up a lot for me, but it’s a measured decision whenever situations come up.

Mm. Very America centric of you to believe that no one should care if America commits or supports genocide in other countries.

It’s definitely possible they’re amplifying these developments to maintain confidence in the Chinese market, but I doubt they’re outright lying about the discoveries. I think it’s also likely that some of what they’ve been talking about has been in development for a while and that China is choosing now to make big reveals about them.

I think a big part of this miscommunication was the language used earlier, like civil service and conscientious objectors. In a system like you’ve described, i don’t think that having that as an option is necessarily a bad thing so long as it is voluntary. There are lots of benefits to programs that incentivise community service. I don’t particularly like the way we recruit high schoolers into the military already, I genuinely just think a lot of the practice is manipulative and misleading. But so long as it is voluntary, it is what it is.

I was heated, sure. I responded to the notion that conscription can or should be brought here the same way I would if someone said “times are tough were going to have to start using slave labor to save the economy.” Mandatory enlistment, forcing everyone in society to join the military, is equivalent to that, in my opinion. It is one of the most objectionable things any society has ever done, in my opinion.

Thanks for ignoring my whole comment. If you’re defeatist, you’ve decided that it’s all over, then stay out of the conversation. Your genocide defending commentary is not required or requested. If you’re not done, you’re not defeatist then demand that your political party do better.

I mean I mostly agree. The subject of the post is the possible candidate of a 2028 election.

We’re ideological allies in so far as defending queer rights. Even in so far as being willing to personally involve myself in defending them, little that someone of my physiology can do. That isn’t the same thing as conscription though.

Conscription is authoritarian, definitionally. Education and conscription are two entirely different things and it is wildly disingenuous to try and equate them.

Cute line, I’m not trolling though. If you’re unwilling to defend your position then just stop responding, stop making a spectacle of yourself.

Harris would not have eased Israel, she herself said as much.

This comment isn’t about the 2024 election, it’s about the next one. Can the DNC not provide a candidate who refuses to arm a military committing genocide?

Can they put forward a candidate who doesn’t want to play an active role in arming a genocide? Is that just too much to ask? Genuinely asking, cause it kind of sounds like that’s what youre trying to say. 2024 election is done, it’s over. This is about what comes next.

I never said anything about incarceration for skipping school. Skipping school and refusing the draft are 2 entirely different things.

If you can’t or don’t want to defend your position, you’re not obligated to do so.

Putting someone in prison for refusing to do labor for the state is violence, yes. Definitionally. I don’t even know where to go with this conversation if you don’t understand that incarceration is violence.

Do you think the draft is a suggestion? Do you think that in countries with the draft that refusing involuntary servitude is like… optional? Just a pat on the wrist and off you go? They incarcerate you at best, and in its most vile instances they literally shoot you.

Involuntary servitude is involuntary servitude no matter whether it’s being forced to work under inhumane conditions in a factory or being forced to do community labor. It’s wrong. I’ll happily plant trees given the choice to do so, but no, the state does not just get to force me to do labor for it.

Nationalism is the basis for a lot of what you’ve said about Canada yes. Even going so far as to say I don’t deserve to have rights because of my strong objection of the draft. No community labor isn’t itself nationalism, but Canada isn’t my community. My community is the people around me, Canada is the state whose borders I was born within.

Don’t even know what you’re on about with ghosts or ptsd. My opposition to mandatory enlistment and involuntary servitude is not a mental illness? Unless you want to point out what exactly it is that I’m invoking, it’s probably a good idea not to accuse someone of being mentally ill who you know nothing about.

I’m not in crisis. Canada is also a state, not a person. There is an international crisis in the form of the rise of american fascism both in the US and here. The response to this is not authoritarianism. Not having a draft is one of the best things about this country.

Bigotry is not the only thing that makes a conservative. But fair enough, you’re an authoritarian. Or at least are fine with some aspects of authoritarianism? The draft is a necessary aspect of authoritarian states. It is an authoritarian policy in that it literally places the rights of citizens beneath the desires of the state. It puts individual bodies at the whim of the state. Directly.

Good thing our country doesn’t have a draft. And I will absolutely fight back with all that I have against one. If it comes to it they can shoot me. It’s get shot by fascists or get shot by authoritarians. I’ll live openly and proudly no matter who points a gun at me.

Education has direct benefits for literally every single aspect of society. It also is flawed in Canada and serves a large part in the means by which working class people are indoctrinated into nationalism and anti-socialist and anti-revolutionary politics.

Civil service is only a thing in select countries. The majority of countries that have mandatory enlistment do NOT ALLOW you to participate in any kind of service that isn’t directly associated with the military. I am not a conscientious objecter, I am an anti-statist anarchist, and I am against involuntary servitude in every single way that it exists. I have no moral qualms about violence being used to further the well-being of the working class. I am anti nationalist in every single possible way and absolutely resolutely opposed to the draft. You’re never going to get me to believe that compelling anyone UNDER THREAT OF STATE VIOLENCE to PERFORM LABOR is morally justifiable or beneficial. The draft was the beginning point of many aspects of the modern workers’ rights movement. It is wrong no matter where it shows up. One of the most abhorrent aspects of society is the military. I’m a woman, have a look sometime at how often women get r*ed while in the military.

I’d happily pick up a gun. I am pro-gun ownership. I am anti military in every single conceivable way. Absolutely I would shoot nazis if they came here and I had weapons with which to shoot them. But no, a thousand times I will never join a military. It is indefensible to force civilians under threat of state violence into involuntary servitude. It definitionally isn’t voluntary. It’s wrong, wrong in every single way.

To your last bit, typical of anti working class conservatives like yourself. What’s your response to native communities? Do you think that native Canadians should be forced under threat of state violence to join the Canadian military or otherwise be forced to do involuntary labor for the Canadian state?

I am living my values. My values are anti authoritarianism and pro workers rights. You clearly don’t even know what anarchists are. Every major workers’ rights movement in history has had large participation by anarchists. Anarchists are the ones who fought back against Stalinists in Spain and Ukraine. Anarchists were the primary force behind the workers’ rights revolutions at the end of the 19th century. My anarchist beliefs are foundationally a part of my beliefs in the safety and well-being of working class people. I am not an egotistic isolationist. I am saying that categorically pointing a gun at someone and forcing them to do something is wrong. It’s always wrong. Threatening violators with prison time is wrong. The draft is wrong, and it is one of the best parts about this country that we do not have one.

I’m anti authoritarian, and that necessarily includes compulsory enlistment. We can also invest in training and skill development without forcing people under threat of state violence to join a military. I am also opposed to the draft no matter where it is still practiced. Anti-draft riots were some of the earliest workers rights movements.