ArmchairAce1944

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I voted for him because I dreaded what the conservatives would do if they got elected. Now I see that there isn't much of a fucking difference. If anything he might be even worse. No wonder Trump endorsed him.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 6 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Does protest even do anything? I voted for Carney because I dreaded what the conservatives wanted to do and I voted liberal for the first (and now will be only) time in my life. Almost immediately all the shit I dreaded was happening anyway.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

I am a naturalized citizen who came to Canada to escape bullshit like this. Yet we are getting more of this crap and I feel like there is no hope. More and more authoritarian shit and weaker economic outlooks and even the rapid fire gun bans that do nothing other than want to eliminate sport shooting (I enjoy guns and I enjoy sport shooting. No I do not believe people should be carrying loaded guns on the street or form militas against the gubnament. Don't be ridicules). Is making Canada unlivable for me.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

In every single meaning of the word.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am going to save that quote. My current favorite is still from Terry Pratchett.

"Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'"

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is why privacy rights are critical. All the whiners who say "buh whaddabout da guilty ones?' Shut up, those people get away constantly despite all that shit and the only people getting harassed are protesters and activists.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

That's why it was manageable and not debilitating.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ever since 2018 I have been getting a flu shot every year, too. Why? In 2018 I had the worst flu ever. It was BAD. Arguably worse than even the one time I got covid in 2022 (despite being twice vaccinated for that at the time). The horror of that flu made me never want to get the flu again.

I did... but it was never that bad.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

The surveillance bills and alleged 'strong borders' shit that only exposes more and more Canadians to surveillance by foreign enemies is just utter shit. I nearly threw up when I learned about Bill C-2.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I voted for Carney specifically so shit like this won't happen... but it did!

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Veiled? This is as brazen as it gets.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I remember before I was a naturalized Canadian citizen and I had to go through the US border for visiting family or doing some minor business, they would interrogate me and fingerprint me all the time (they probably have my fingerprints in a database). That sucked. But I never went through any searches until recently, and it fucking sucks. I have family in the US that I cannot visit now because I feel like something really bad will happen to me with ICE if I go.

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