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Why must you put the rest of the world through this bullshit again.

I feel for everyone who’s gonna be struggling - queer, poc, undocumented, women. I fear for the global south. I fear for the earth.

It seems like young men are being men. Dipshits. Also, looks like suburban white women hate minorities more than want abortion. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Not like is much better. PP is probably gonna get a boost from this - hopefully our Libs and NDP see this as a warning sign and coalesce like the French did to keep the fascists out.

But maybe I’m just in denial. Everyone I talk to hates Trudeau and Singh - and while I hate them for good reasons (they’re both libs - one a neoliberal, the other a sucdem) others hate them for wrong reasons - Trudeau for so many, Singh cuz racism. Which is very worrying. And annoying.

Work? Forget about it. School? Forget about it. Family obligations? Principles? Not American? Just go out and VOTE.

She seems very good.

Content Warning: there is an American asshole from I24 at one point. It gets a bit confrontational. Other than that, it’s incredible.

It’s honestly very cathartic seeing someone at the highest possible level be this honest and upfront about what is going on. Also, Abby Martin is there.

Archived link to the WaPo article mentioned.

The evidence isn’t public yet. But the actions Canada are taking are very serious. They’ve expelled Indian diplomats and are now accusing India’s Home Minister, the second-most powerful person in the country, to be behind the killings.

The WaPo article claims the Indian government used its diplomats to find information on people - who used Indians in Canada for this purpose, often by threatening to deny them needed immigration papers. Then, the diplomats would send this information back home.

There, the government worked with a criminal enterprise to organize killings on Canadian soil. This was all facilitated by India’s intelligence agency.

All of this information was apparently conveyed to India earlier this year, where a senior Indian official initially denied any knowledge and later admitted some information but denied others.

And apparently more will become public as the trial for the Nijjar killing begins soon.

I legit don’t understand how they can block a UN agency? Like, what? Is that legal - I know they’re killing UN peacekeepers which should also be illegal but this seems a step even beyond that. Can countries just ban UN agencies from working there?

Essentially, a thirty minute primer on the current state of the conflict, with all the major players - beginning with Israel v. Iran, then Israel v. Lebanon, and finally Israel v. Palestine. Throughout, provides details of what Israel is doing and what the response is from the other party. Ends with why US and other Western states support Israel.

A lot of it is probably stuff everyone here already knows about, but I still learnt a few things - and I felt it's a good video to have and share with people who might want to get up-to-date on what's happening.

1948. The War of Independence as it is called in Israel. Others know it as the Arab-Israeli War. After the Partition Plan to split Palestine into part-Arab and part-Jewish, as many of you probably know, every Arab country around Israel waged a war of annihilation to basically prevent the state from being formed.

Now, there's different ranges of people, you know, who say, like, they were gonna kill all the Jews. I doubt they were gonna kill everybody but I think they probably would've made them refugees. But whatever it doesn't matter. They waged a war of extermination on Israel in 1948. Now here's the ironic part about this all. At that time there was 1 million Jews living in the Arab and Muslim world. 1 million. These Jews were living in those countries for 2,000+ years, okay?

When the war started then antisemitism spiked greatly in the Arab and the Muslim world. And because of that, pretty much 99.9% of all the Jews in the Middle East were forced to leave their country under threat of violence to go to Israel. So, in trying to prevent the State of Israel, they all became antisemitic, kicked all the Jews out, a million Jews, there was a million of them, and then they forced them to move to the only fucking place that they could in the entire world, which was Israel.

The Nakba Factsheet by Jewish Voice for Peace.

More Information with additional links by the Institute of Middle East Understanding.

Middle East Eye article about the Nakba.

Finally, DecolonizePalestine, which is an excellent resource to learn more about Palestine. This is the second in their 'Introduction to Palestine' series so you can start with the first one.

On election day, NDP led in 46 districts, the Cons in 45 and the Greens in 2. NDP need 47 seats for a majority - but even with the current seats they can rule with the Greens as a minority.

Today, recounts started and will go on till Monday. After the first count at 1 PM Pacific, NDP lead grew in two district and they closed in on the Cons in one district. If this pattern holds, they might have a majority.

Too soon to say, but it is more likely now that it was a couple hours ago. Next recount update is at 4 PM Pacific.

I know this is very electoralism-heavy and might not matter to people outside the province/country. But this has been on my mind constantly for the past week.

The entire election has been a fiasco. The BC NDP, which is a neoliberal party way more right-wing than the federal NDP, shifted even more to the right during this campaign. I’m not going into everything they did, but it was bad. The Greens, in response, became a true left wing party. The Cons, which were a non-entity sprung up out of nowhere as a true force - a shame they are literally an alt-right and fascist one - anti-science, anti-homeless, anti-abortion, anti-indigenous, anti-immigration, anti-climate etc etc. If they wasn’t enough, the Liberals, which were the province’s traditional opposition party completely collapsed and folded into that Cons giving them massive support.

Just…fucking incredible.

The Greens won two seats but their leader lost hers. To me, an NDP minority propped up by the Greens would seem like a good outcome. But the way things have shaken out so far, a couple by-elections and the Cons could come into power.

So these late counts giving the NDP a more secure footing seems a good thing. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can weight in, though.