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[sabotabby]

 Well, we get a "reprieve" from tariffs; wondering if I can now get a reprieve from Canadian nationalism. I feel as much of a swell of pride watching sportsball fans boo the American national anthem as anyone else*—I am human after all—but the ridiculousness of Buy Canadian when it's fruit and vegetables harvested by indentured migrant farm workers who are spat on when they walk through the streets of Leamington and denied medical care when they're dosed with pesticides is just too much for me. These are the people the current Liberal government is throwing under the bus when it reduces immigration; these are the people who the ascendant Conservatives will deport or force into concentration camps or whatever monstrous plan they fantasize about whilst wanking into their Ed-the-Socks.

The chaos is the point. I wish people would realize that. We have to fight the chaos, of course, but to do so we have to not panic every time the fascist does a fascism. And we have to do so with a critical eye, acknowledging that much of the current fascism in the US (Proud Boys, Jordan Peterson) is in fact a Canadian export.

* No seriously it was cool, you love to see it. What's odder is the silence in response to the Raptors themselves wearing Black History t-shirts, which fucking ruled.

Comments

[frandroid]

It really sucks not to have access to reliable internet. I think they should keep the StarLink contract and give everyone a VPN subscription, or structure the deal so that all connections to StarLink have to go through a VPN set up by the government*. (Now this is a provincial deal--the deal should be expanded federally so that remote First Nations reserves can partake too.)

*: One might say "nooo I don't want the government to run my VPN!!", but considering that MOST VPNs are leaky, I would trust an arm-length government body than a VPN company which has incentives to lie about not selling/logging your info and then doing exactly that. Maybe create a law for Canadian ISPs to run VPNs according to legit standards with third-party practices review. I'm just spitballing here. But StarLink is not going away and it's great for lots of people.

[ioplokon]

I have thoughts, but I feel like the point of this post is not really to discuss satellite internet & didn't really expect my offhand comment to pull so much focus, so let's leave it there.

[sabotabby]

In my experience most people can't figure out how to use a VPN.

[yhlee]

...or find one that isn't full of deliberate or accidental security leaks. :]