That these are two equivalencies in your settler-brain is exactly what I am criticizing.

How you took "Canada is imperialist and imperialism is bad" as "I want Canada to exist but just spend money how I like" is something I can only take graciously if I attribute it to a genuine deficiency in your language and knowledge on these topics. "We don't disagree that Canada should be pursuing a more activist role in the world, like it does for Ukrain and Cuba [lol]," yes, we do. I do not want Canada to fucking exist, I do not want Canada to colonize, "international law" does not apply to imperialists who have power over the institutions of "international law," like the US (in large part because of Canadian subordination to the US). "Activism" does not apply here in any other way than as some lib-brained nonsense to moralize the different vectors of Canadian control as something distinct from settler-colonialism and imperialism. You do fucking care about morals, you just accept that yours are universally correct and should be what is enforced globally; wonder where you learned to think like that. If this violence isn't fundamentally wrong on a moral basis for you, stop talking about, seriously.

Ukrainians are being attacked by Russia, which, unsurprisingly, is not as powerful as the EU and the US, which are exclusively responsible for the genocide against Palestinians; along with their significantly -- overwhelmingly -- longer list of targets for genocide. I wonder why Ukrainians were able to flee into Europe and Canada, but it is a "refugee crisis" when it is anyone fleeing from Euro-American imperialism, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Btw, yeah, I don't fucking care if Nazis in Ukraine are "fighting for their country," and you shouldn't either if you knew a fucking thing about how Europe and the US opportunistically support more fascistic, oppressive groups in the countries they "save" from oppression. You a big Taliban supporter are you? Al-Qaeda? Nationalist Popular Front? You mentioned Cuba, have you ever learned why there is a communist state in Cuba? Maybe take a look, this shit is not new.

You have taken for granted all of the values that have been taught to you, and believe that whatever is good must be good. If you actually care about people resisting oppression, you wouldn't take the Canadian state at face value when they say the money they spend is going toward that. When I point out that Canada does not and will never support vulnerable groups in these other countries, I'm not doing so to advocate for its support, but to demonstrate that it does not and to spur you to question what is distinct about these instances. That isn't because they're doing it wrong, it's because I know that if they're sending money, it is exactly to prevent any challenge to this hegemony.

Yes; it is incredibly pompous to take a criticism of the Canadian state as an indicator that I'm some poor rube who is unaware of municipal politics or political activism. It isn't the deduction of a person who is very experienced in that form of action or the people who participate in it, ironically enough. I meet dudes like this at the least challenging kinds of events, and they're always the most self-rewarding.

It is also painfully liberal to try and stifle federal criticism by implying that someone is not already exercising the power they have in different ways. It calls on neoliberal virtues of individual responsibility as a means of dissuading systemic criticism. You think I don't see people like this all the time dude? Get real.