Imma be honest with you chief the amount of times I come here for funny leftist memes and then see a bunch of pro imperialistic takes or starting school yard “nuh uh your crimes are worse then my crimes” is so draining.

I get that when you gather a bunch of people under one banner of a nuanced concept you are gonna get a range of people from mild mannered to fanatical about it.

Like this must be why people throw around “othering” loaded terms like tankie and liberal in here.

This is why I wish it was just high level concept lefty memes, cause you’ll never get satisfying low level discussion online, just high level screeching and slap fights. So now I just try to not engage, just look for memes to talk to people IRL about instead.

I’m gonna preface this with “Holy fuck I don’t think I can convert this to a great comment”

I have to wonder if its possible to make these people understand the difference between hiring someone where their name or skin colour shouldn’t be a factor, vs hiring someone because they have a work visa and are easier to abuse (not the exact right word I’m looking for, but close enough).

Like yeah there’s probably less white guys being hired at big tech companies these days, and I don’t think its the big friendly diversity thing companies are pushing, but rather let’s fuck over contract workers and foreign workers.

Idk maybe they’re just to brain washed into the “They took er jerbs” mindset. I have to hope someone out there can help deprogram these silicon valley idiots.

What you could do is get some store brand soda water / club soda / seltzer or a non-sodastream water carbonator. Then get like a cola syrup online. I know some ones that do use sugar are 1883 and Torani, they both have a cola flavour. I also havent seen a lot but I saw one brand called Zerup that has a zero sugar cola syrup. You could try that.

Are you looking for cola specifically or something like cola adjacent? And do you like it sweet or are you not super particular?

What’s the name of the song?

I think that things like wanting to celebrate a country and acknowledgement and a day of mourning and acknowledgement of the horrors that happen to indigenous people can both happen in parallel.

Honestly, if it’s intended to be a day about celebration for the history of a country it’d be cool if in the future people could celebrate the reparations and acknowledgement that have been made since now. It’s like the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was yesterday and the second best time is today. So a movement like this is good because in the future it’ll be another thing to celebrate for your country.

On a related tangent, you guys could get another holiday specifically for remembrance of the lives lost from colonialism and get another holiday! Canada did it a few years back and now they only have 2 months with out a federal holiday.

Edit: For context, this is coming from the perspective of a Canadian, and our founding fucked over the indigenous pretty badly here well up until current day, but super fucked them up until like as late as the 1990s, so that’s where I’m coming from with my feelings and thoughts.

In life it’s been mostly pure luck, but one of the few things I really recommend is to keep in the loop about rebates, programs and services offered by my federal and provincial government. Stuff like rebates on first time home buying, electric bikes, and energy efficient equipment is nice cause I bet I saved at least 3000$ total.

In recent time tho the biggest one has been getting a bicycle. I got an e-bike but even a regular bike helped me stop paying through the nose for gas when I was just burning it mostly sitting in traffic.

Are the pads on the bottom like some sort of rubber or hard plastic?