True! I know “performative” has a pretty negative connotation and can be used dismissively, but I really do believe there can be power behind simple collective actions like these. Particularly as a starting point for something more.

I’ll highjack this comment to add my opinion - I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for the main post.

I see the profile picture as performative (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing). I don’t want to fall into a habit of doing performative things and feeling like it’s enough action. I also recognize Clippy is a flawed choice, as one of Microsoft’s mascots and it’s existence as a proto-AI assistant.

All of that said, I found the solidarity in the comment section of the original video comforting. So today, I will perform (and maybe spread just a little more awareness).

:) happy to help! I appreciate the appreciation

I was scrolling through job postings today and came across one that read like this. I was confused -> clicked the link -> saw a picture of two oil rig workers -> genuinely said “Ah, oil!” out loud -> and closed the web page.

They try to hide behind green washing and jargon. It happened to me at a university career fair a few months ago, too.

That’s fair - I checked out a few more of their replies. If my generous interpretation was right, they do a poor job of making their point.

To clarify, I agree with the comment I replied to. Just wanted to add context for the people down voting. I know immigration is a difficult topic right now and we all just want to see people treated well.

Maybe I’m misreading, but I don’t think @teppa is blaming immigrants. I think both things can be true: our politicians are taking advantage of hard working immigrants, exploiting them for cheap labour and increased housing demand/cost, which makes our GDP look better.

It’s not the immigrants’ fault - we need immigration badly, and benefit greatly in many ways. But not if we’re taking advantage of people. We all deserve better.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/democrat-republican-elect-primary-1.6497911

It’s apparently all part of a Democratic strategy aiming to help those seen as extremist Republican candidates to secure their Republican party’s nomination. (Which Mastriano did win.)

The hope for Democrats is that those extreme Republican candidates would be much easier for Democrats to beat in the November general election. But the strategy has raised some concerns about effectiveness and whether it could have unintended consequences.

https://observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-reveals-dnc-elevated-trump-to-help-clinton/

The memo named Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson as wanted candidates. “We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously,” the memo noted.

Respectfully, I’m under the impression that the Conservative party has the least impactful policy for addressing climate change, particularly for carbon emissions.

I’m also not a fan of their housing plan - I’m concerned that removing federal tax on all home purchases will benefit corporations that purchase single family homes, in comparison to only helping first-time home buyers (or even better imo, the NDP’s housing plans).

And to address crime, I’ll admit I like their claim to target off-shore tax havens, but the Conservatives have also mentioned targeting pro-Palestinian protestors with jail time (and deportation for internationals) … not to mention, I believe a lot of crime stems from economic and social instability. They haven’t even released an economic platform, but I won’t be surprised if they cut social programs while blaming Trudeau and letting the rich benefit with tax breaks. How will that make Canada safer?

To be fair, the Liberal’s economic platform disappointed me, but at least they released something. Regardless of what happens, I hope Canadians remember that we’re in this together, and that we need to start holding our politicians accountable. And more importantly, that change for change’s sake isn’t good enough - that we deserve better, not just different.

Whoops! That’s the word I was looking for :^) thanks

Oh gosh, glad to hear things are somewhat better over there, healthcare-wise. I hope your recovery went/is going well!

Just to add, for anyone curious: Canadian healthcare is provincial, not federal, so your mileage may vary depending on which province you live in.

One of the “Canadian officials” recently quoted in American news for threatening to withhold electricity is Doug Ford, the Conservative Premier (i.e. the “Senator”) of Ontario. While many Canadians have supported his response to Trump’s tariffs, he’s been dismantling Ontario’s public healthcare by withholding public funding, so he can set up a two-tiered private/public system. He’s also had a fair number of scandals. And was just comfortably re-elected :^)

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