occupation genocide

It’s wild how different this response is to the US’ response to COVID and other infectious diseases in humans

Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. What a major blow to the Guardian’s credibility

I don’t expect that, no. Sorry for not being clear. I meant to bring awareness to how we’re being bathed with information about nationalistic purchasing behaviour:

• From Carney, although more so pre-election (eg, ‘elbows up’), and many provincial governments
• In so much of advertising in Canada, flaunting that a product is ‘made in Canada’ or whatever
• In similar messaging all over grocery stores - at the door, on the shelves
• And as a pretty popular mainstream news topic for a while

Although nationalistic purchasing behaviour can be part of what you do if you identify as a proud Canadian, concerned citizen - whatever - it’s not the whole repertoire/shebang. With the pervasiveness of this messaging, and the economic world we live in (that likes to profit off this stuff), I think there’s danger in us thinking the two are equal versus a parts vs. the whole thing

Me in the grocery store produce section…

Store: Made in USA
Me: Nah dawg
Store: Made in California
Me: A little better ig. If there’s nothing from Canada, how about Mexico?

Separately but on the same topic:
In this new ‘elbows up’ era, patriotism = spending behaviour (/s)

Alcatraz was a prison within the US legal system. This facility operates outside of the US legal system. The term “Alligator Alcatraz” was chosen to legitimize these concentration camps

Advocates say the Trump administration’s ambitious daily arrest quotas are leading immigration agents to lean on the thinnest of justifications and on false assumptions about people they encounter to justify arrests.

“If you’re asking these law enforcement agencies to arrest 3,000 people a day, they cannot form reasonable suspicion for each specific person,” Bitran said. “So they have to be cutting corners.”

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“There’s a lot of Hispanic brothers right here,” but everyone working in the yard that day was a U.S. citizen, he said. "Racial profiling is the way I look at it. Because they just walked in and said ‘hey, you and you.’ "

According to court filings, Ramirez was taken to the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles. Agents confirmed his U.S. citizenship, but charged him with assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer.

“He’s traumatized,” Dominguez said. “That sucks, to be a U.S. citizen and not be able to walk in the country of freedom. It sucks that we’re antagonized for being Hispanic.”

I’ll have what he’s having 😜