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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It is really helpful to hear your position. Thank you for sharing.

    Gaza is a disaster that my country is directly supporting, so there are clear steps (not selling arms to Israel) that should be taken that I can protest/petition/vote for.

    There are a lot of horrible things in the world but its much less clear what I can do, or what my country should do. I can support more refugees.

    Society hasn’t developed great methods for intervening into some of these atrocities, that I know of, and they are slow to develop them because its easy not to care about someone else’s problem. And its easy to “mind your own business”

    For example the Iran nuke deal in 2015 seemed promising because it avoided war and most sanctions. Sure it wasn’t as proactive as war or sanctions but I think people will need to learn to be comfortable with more subtle solutions like that if we are to make progress.

    I would be interested to hear what you think should be done.







  • Looking from the outside, I would say the Canadian people already changed their opinion of the US, that’s what got Carney elected, and they have been very consistent with the long term success of Buy Canadian and the plunging travel numbers into the US.

    Carney’s original comments were not at all critical of the US’s aggression, they were more supportive, which is clearly not the stance that Canadians in general are taking towards the US.

    In 2018 the US threw away the diplomatic solution established in 2015 and replaced it with sanctions (which do kill people). Now its moved to directly killing people. There is a lot to be critical of.