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

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Definitely old enough to remember 1980s famine relief … and also old enough to remember in the 90s when Bono from U2 saying that the whole famine relief thing was a joke … because they raised enough money in the millions to pay off the interest payments of some of the starving countries FOR ONE YEAR!! … the criticism was that the performers were raising money to feed starving people, while first world countries handed out enormous loans with interest payments that more or less cancelled out any humanitarian aid they gave the countries.

    The whole system is a joke … first world countries keep third world countries from developing beyond a certain point to keep them under control to access their resources, then give them humanitarian aid to keep them from starving, while making the same amount of money off them by making them pay for the debt on the loans they gave them.

    So in a round about way, first world countries have a hand in keeping African countries starving, but make themselves feel good by giving aid … but make themselves feel even better because they recoup that money and more through loan payments and interest … essentially making money off starving people.


  • The fuck is wrong with the world?

    If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Africa … someone would help.

    If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Canada … government would step in to do something.

    If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Europe … countries would mobilize to do something.

    If headlines flash pictures of starving children in Palestine!!! TURN THE PAGE, nothing to see here, nothing can be done, just ignore it for as long possible, nothing to see here.






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    Conversely

    Producers find a new show idea that looks interesting and could be popular …

    Writers: yeah we got this idea that could be turned into an hour and a half hour long film … it’s very interesting, great plot dialogue, and there’s a great twist

    Producers, executives: Great idea! I love it! But it would give us more content if you could turn it into a series instead. Take the whole film and stretch it out across seven one hour episodes.

    Writers: how?

    Producers, executives: just cut it up into seven parts, slow everything down and make a dramatic cliff hanger at the end of every episode.






  • Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime

    The entire western world stood by, watched it happen, lied about it, denied it, funded it, financed it and ignored it until it was so overwhelmingly obvious that they were obligated to say something because history would point out their complicity … but even now, the majority of the western world just cautiously wags a finger at Isreal as ‘one of history’s worst crimes’ continues as the world watches.

    It’s like watching someone getting beaten with a baseball bat in public, in full view of everyone … and absolutely no one wants to do anything about it.

    This isn’t Israel’s fault … the entire world, all of us are at fault for allowing it to happen.

    Not only are we destroying ourselves with global warming … we distract ourselves from that reality by being as inhumane and disgusting to ourselves as possible. We should go extinct … we bring no good to the world or ourselves.