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IninewCrow

@ ininewcrow @lemmy.ca

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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.

  • Who else, but Mariner?

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  • he's dead, jim

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  • I'm Indigenous Canadian .. full blooded Cree/Ojibway from northern Ontario. My family has had a long history of being under the thumb of government.

    And as an Indigenous person, I've seen recent examples of what my government would do to me if I violently resisted ... in 1990 the Canadian government called in our national armed forces to contain Mohawk land protesters in Oka, Quebec ... in Stoney Creek in Ontario in Sept 1995, our Ontario government allowed our provincial police to use violent force and kill an Indigenous protester Dudley George who was protesting against illegal land title ... in 2020 the Canadian government used the national RCMP police in military tactical gear to raid at gunpoint unarmed Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation land protesters who were blockading oil pipeline projects.

    It's a fine line that both sides play in the debate for equal rights, tolerance and justice ... the right want to push the debate far enough to make an excuse to want to start killing people and use death as an instrument of control ... the left want to push the debate far enough to not have to cause bloodshed .. both sides accuse the other of leading everyone down a bloody path.

    But in all that I agree ... use love and peace and resistance first ... but if all else fails and everyone is left with nothing to lose, then there is nothing to lose.

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  • If you want an example of not falling into the darkness of fighting fire with fire .... look at what Martin Luther King accomplished through peaceful protest and non-violence in the 1960s ... sure he was killed in the process but everything he did and led ushered in a new wave of peace and prosperity for minority rights everywhere. He might have been killed for being peaceful .. but he accomplished so much more through love and standing with your fellow man against intolerance and injustice.

    “But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land” - Less than 24 hours after these prophetic words, Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

    https://youtu.be/xZQdANyuh34

  • he's dead, jim

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  • I was going to post some dumb meme making fun of Charlie Kirk's death celebrating his demise

    But then I thought ... why should I take part in the same stupidity that fascists play on everyone?

    I absolutely abhored Charlie Kirk and everything he stood for and in a macabre way, I'm happy that he won't be able to spout all the stupidity he's been pushing for years ... but at the same time, I won't celebrate the death of a human being, no matter who they were ... no matter how much I hated them.

    I have enough darkness and despair in my heart already, I won't add to that blackness by joining in the depravity

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  • All fun aside ... that was a horrible way to die.

    Crawl inside a hole and get stuck ... UPSIDE DOWN!!! .. for 28 hours as you slowly and painfully drifted to your death and no one could help you despite them being right there with you.

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    The free market seems to be elated by the death of Charlie Kirk...

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  • The market has spoken! ... kill more fascists!

  • "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

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  • For anyone wondering of the references here

    'Pagliacci' is a famous Italian opera from 1892 by Leoncavallo

    “Vesti la giubba” (“Put on the costume”) is one of the famous songs sung during the performance ... the basic story of the opera is that a clownish performer is cheated on and he even though he is feeling sad, depressed and unhappy about being cheated on ... he still has to perform and make people laugh ... so he 'puts on the costume' and pretends to be happy while being terribly sad inside.

    It's a famous opera that gives us the origins of the idea of the 'sad clown'

    Much like Quark being made to feel stupid and silly being dressed up as a female ... he still 'puts on the costume', even though he feels stupid (btw - it was one of the most silliest episodes of DS9, but I still loved it).

    I only know all this because I've always really enjoyed Luciano Pavarotti (if you ever want to get into Opera, look up this performer and everything he did for music, opera, pop music, and sharing it all with others young and old) ... so here is his performance of “Vesti la giubba” .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4

  • Does anyone have any advice on the care and feeding of a two-headed cat?

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  • Your only option is to find another human to live with you with the sole duty of feeding the second head

  • Them's fightin' words

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  • One step further and you can use it change the oil in your car.

  • Them's fightin' words

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  • Was this the basis of the Dominion War?

    I think this was the basis of the Dominion War

  • "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

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  • "Vesti la giubba" - Italian for "Put on the costume"

  • [Insert disgusted scream]

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  • How I think of you is none of your business

  • In a perfect world, this is how all ads for clothes would be.

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  • :(

    We're not in time to be nostalgic about quality menswear

  • PSA

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  • Also ... not the half you were thinking of ;)

  • PSA

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  • In a perfect world, this is how all ads for clothes would be.

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  • When you have to traumatically inseminate a new victim in style

  • but "you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal" deanna!

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  • It's Happening!

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  • "Prune Juice Is A Warriors Drink"

  • They grow up so fast

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  • Janeway: .... (sighing) ... she's got your eyes