David was just on vacation for the summer

I ask my best friend for $40.

Yeah, this Tyler Robinson guy, from these messages comes off as a “kinda normal Gen Z kid” to me. Trying to assign a political alignment to any of those messages seems like a huge stretch. Facts never get in the way of a rightwing narrative though.

That all said, those celebrating Kirk’s death are as much simply expressing themselves as Charlie Kirk was, when he was denigrating immigrants and those that didn’t fit the ideal Aryan description

And we should also publicly denounce people threatening journalists and professionals like Rachel Gilmore, who had been simply lamenting the appetite for escalation that would come from those seeking retribution, but this was wildly interpreted as a celebration and now is facing a constant barrage of death threats. Which only proved her point btw.

There was two mentions of Charlie Kirk, in a speech that I’d say was focused on condemning political violence, in a mostly non-partisan way. I’d like to think that in Canada we’re above using weapons to prove a point. If we need to beat back the intolerant we’ll do it in an enormous show of non-violent force like Torontonians just did at Christie Pits.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/15/police-outline-charges-after-numerous-arrests-at-opposing-immigration-rallies-at-christie-pits/

Anyway the speech is what I’d expect from a Conservative, but it’s nuanced enough that I get behind the primary message being conveyed.

[…] The best way to protect trans rights and stand up for Gaza rn is by stopping Trump.

By airbear13 is pretty much the crux of the issue.

I think too many people are unfamiliar with the plight of trans folks to be able to understand and actively defend them against targeted attacks from the right, but they would passively support them just like any other human being. Also I very much sympathize with OP’s trauma from receiving a handful of hateful comments, it can make one defensive against even supportive and well-meaning comments.

The right wing loves to amplify culture wars and use gender identity as a boogeyman to distract them from all the ways the US government is screwing its residents over at the moment.

People at large have a locus of control. Immigrants, trans folks, minorities, poor people, Palestinians, and now anyone that doesn’t feel sympathy Charlie Kirk are being targeted, along with trans and nonbinary people. Trying to measure out who deserves how much attention and determine if they are getting it, doesn’t serve any purpose but to divide. We can acknowledge trans people’s right to exist while also fighting a class war.

I’d even go as far as this: Wanting your group prioritized while complaining about “deafening silence” when talking about any other group seeking equity, is the kind of things TERFs and Log Cabin Republicans do.

Trans Rights are Human Rights, standing up against Trump is about standing up for Trans Rights and the rights of every person living in the US.

Time to memory hole everything bad about Charlie Kirk. He was the most upstanding young man who never said a bad thing about anyone. It’s the Left with all this wrongthink.

And if she doesn’t wish to be, despite ample opportunity to, then let’s respect that.

As much as I like socialism, Jacobin commisioning a survey on the popularity of socialism is like Marlboro commissioning a survey on the popularity of smoking.

Public shaming works.

“It’s a shame you have hard-working people who need labor, and a group of people who are willing to work, and they have to look over their shoulder like they’re criminals,” Porter said. “They’re not.”

And your three-time vote for Mr. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats” made it that way.

If you want hands on your farm, you’ll have to pay more.

If you want hands on your farm, you’ll have to accept trans- and non-binary people for who they are.

If you want hands on your farm, you’ll yave to support Democrat-style immigration policy.

@AvidAmoeba@lemmy.ca Follow up: It doesn’t seem like this post gained a lot of traction (25 upvotes as of midday Sunday and 18 on my comment) but I see there is a little bit of interest. I won’t start immediately, but I’ll think about it on and off over the next several months, maybe I’ll set it up trying the latest version, maybe I’ll go check to see if there’s interest with UBC students, but I can’t promise anything on specific timelines.

I’m terminally on Lemmy, so if I spot more discussion of flohmarkt with clear expressions of interest, I might press on with more urgency, we’ll see.

Listen, as much as I do find Ben Meiselas and MTN very sensationalized and it’s hard for me to listen to them for long periods of time, I do think Mr. Angus is right to team up with them and lead the Canadian branch of Meidas.

The fact that you see him annoyingly often means that some Canadians that were completely unaware of the resistance movement will come across it and consider it.

Of course, we can all have our little gatherings on how the world should really be, in Gastown, Kensington Market or Le Plateau but without reach it is very difficult to be a nationally coordinated social movement.

When Fox News and corporate billionaire backed media dominate the airwaves and stories, the message that resistance is possible is easy to cover up, if the speakers of it aren’t coordinated. To illustrate, Ben Meiselas got an interview with California Governor Newsom. So did Charlie Kirk (may he rest in piss). Without some functional equivalent of a left-wing Fox News, right-wing propaganda is going to take all the airtime.

Not even just Mexicans, but Mexican-looking people (aka Latino).

But it’s not just license to hunt Latino looking people either. The stay was not on that population specifically. The stay was on arresting people on the suspicion based off of any of these henious criminal factors:

• Existing while non-white (this can include Black/African/Caribbean, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native Americans)
• Waiting for a bus
• Looking for work
• Working at a car wash, a recycling centre or on a farm
• Speaking English with a foreign-sounding accent
• Speaking Spanish (which could be any langauge to a cop that can’t tell foreign languages apart)

No visible minority is safe from this.

Fluoride in water? Ahhhh get rid of it! It’s improving children and adults’ dental hygiene too much!!!

Other stuff proven harmful to long term health? Meh, whatever.

Hardbite chips, Pickles, Vegan Ice cream (in Vancouver, Earnest Ice cream Vegan Peaches and Cream flavour for example to avoid both dairy and chocolate)

Caramel corn should be available from local suppliers.

Now we’re talkin’.

“Depolarize the Situation” is a three word slogan, but too many syllables to be adopted by Poilievre.

If Nintendo can abuse the US patent system, it would seem fair for individuals to be able to freely infringe Nintendo’s copyright.

(Note if you are making a Nintendo fan-project, DON’T ANNOUNCE ANYTHING until you get your first usable build ready for release!!!)

Applicants should be asking employers: how extensive has your firm’s use of AI generated coding tools been over the last few years?