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[-] ergonomic_importer@piefed.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Many issues can be tackled at the municipal level. Find or form a local advocacy group and get involved with your city's politics.

[-] orioler25@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, is that so? Wow, first time I've heard of grassroots direct action. Love that you also directed it into politics specifically and not something more actionable, really pushing the liberal appropriation there.

[-] ergonomic_importer@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Is the sarcasm really necessary? Did I offend you somehow by suggesting that you can affect more change locally than you ever could at any other level of government?

[-] orioler25@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] ergonomic_importer@piefed.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

This comment shows up next to the word pompous in the dictionary.

[-] orioler25@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago

"no u" Get over yourself.

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