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>"this land was uninhabitable desert before we came and fixed it!"

>look at the land

>inhabitants

This could mean so many different places its unbelievable.

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also...it isn't just a generational thing. the "canadian/american dream" and yes they're pretty much the same, is based on an idealized colonial experience.

it inherently involves the violent theft of Indigenous land, the use of immigrants for cheap underpaid labour, and white people being in power.

even when "the canadian dream" was/is theoretically obtainable, it could/can only be achieved through oppression and inequity

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the canadian/american dream is a white colonial fantasy about "thriving" on land stolen and settled on by europeans and their descendants. you can't achieve the canadian or american dream without reinforcing colonialism and the genocide of Indigenous people

also. the impulse to fantasize about previous generations living the canadian dream and "owning" land will always be reactionary.

who was it a better time for? who did the state allow to claim that land? who was forced out to make that possible? who got to live that dream? who was allowed to live in those nice little neighbourhoods and who was only allowed to be there to work?

it's not that this dream was possible for previous generations. it's that was possible for white people. and land ownership continues to be connected to white privilege, it just doesn't include as many white people as it used to.

this is also not an argument for making land ownership more financially and racially diverse. that is not and will never be the answer. I may be broke and brown but I have no claim to owning any of this land. this land is STOLEN and your white ancestors lived that "dream" at the expense of Indigenous people

people have got to stop fantasizing about owning land like their ancestors did when they stole it, and start thinking about giving that land the fuck back

...honestly I keep seeing a lot of "nostalgia" from my fellow gen z and millennials about the land ownership that was available to previous (white) generations

and it's pretty infuriating! who was allowed to own that land? who lived there before? who died or was driven out to make that land available to your white ancestors? WHOSE LAND IS THIS?

we have to stop this reactionary bullshit!! please please please stop romanticising the colonial ownership of Indigenous land!!

yes you deserve to live without having to pay for it, but YOU DON'T DESERVE TO OWN STOLEN LAND

land back. now.

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Annoyed at both US and Canadian liberals acting like Canada is an oppressed Global South country that is under the boot of US imperialism and full of progressive revolutionaries when it's actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world and an enthusiastic ally of the US in its imperialism most of the time, and when it isn't, it has its own imperialist and colonialist projects, especially mining, both in the Global South and on stolen Indigenous land within so called Canada - don't even get me started on how reactionary Canadian settlers are either, and it's not just the white ones born here bc a lot of non-white diaspora and immigrants are just as nationalistic and hate both Indigenous peoples and the Global South, even if their families are originally from the latter.

I saw a Reddit thread from someone in Europe going, "Wow, Canada, I always thought you were just a smaller America, but you've really proven yourself to be a democratic power who protects the liberties of your people. The world's eyes are watching you and we're all really impressed."

Followed by Canadians being like, "thank you uwu i hate when people compare us to Americans and it's so nice to be recognized for our contributions to civil liberties"

It was the smuggest smugfest for a country that only just barely kinda-apologized for the hundreds of thousands First Nations children they slaughtered and dumped into mass graves outside of the residential schools they abducted and sent those children to, and on the heels of suing to say, "No, we don't have to provide clean water to reserves, we only do that as a favour"

Embarrassing.

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"captain america doesnt stand for what the united states is, he stands for what it should be" he stands for nothing then god bless

some people havent unpacked their false idea that the american dream was ever righteous

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smoking that shit that makes you cry about the horrors of car-centric infrastructure

hey yeah i get it but youre harshing the vibe rn nobody wants to hear about the irreversible damage that cars have done to North America and the whole world by proxy

showing your girl pictures of nasty ugly parking garages at the function

i misspelled hindrance real bad, guys

this is not a joke or exaggeration but a cry for help btw I've been watching 3 hour youtube videos about concrete like I'm somebody's autistic dad

pov i turn to you in between sets

yeah no sorry I can't go out tonight I have to read the rest of the 2023 Ford corporate sustainability report no not for a class I'm just nosey

no babe I thought it was hot that you got into and won a debate with my dad about the viability of high speed rail in north america

listen I'm sorry that your dad went home, researched highspeed rail, and started the argument with you again when I wasn't there umm no I'm not going to apologize no I actually umm yeah I've been brushing up on my talking points sorry but bob doesn't stand a fucking chance he can meet me in the market place of ideas

pov you are my captive audience

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HONOR NATIVE VETERANS

HONOR THE CODE TALKERS

Native people are a crucial part of America to this day, and their lives, history and contributions deserve to be remembered, respected and honored for what they are and the intrinsic value they hold, not buried beneath white supremacist narratives.

Thanks to @alinahdee for pushing me to use my social media presence to bring attention to this. Go follow her, she’s amazing and you will hear about a lot of experiences that get buried for most people.

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Canadians may intellectually understand that North American security is deteriorating, but that crisis may not seem as real as tariffs...

Why? Because security threats don’t feel close until your windows start to shake.

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Never forget that the original codename for the invasion of Iraq was “operation Iraqi liberation”, (OIL)

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so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

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I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

@isuggestlandback any thoughts?

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This shit costs 200rs... 2.1 $ or something... Why the fuck Americans are okay with this...

We aren’t.

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I would not say that lawn mowers and brush cutters don't have a place in the world, but I would say that if every lawn mower and similar machinery vanished from existence tomorrow, we would suddenly notice a multitude of obvious practical uses for plots of land that were not consciously considered to be "land" at all, but rather just "space" separating two constructed things.

Like not to sound overly radical and idealistic, but maybe we don't have to use fossil-fuel-burning heavy machinery to maintain countless acres of unused land in a state scalped and exterminated of native plant life. maybe we can, like, limit our use of the pollution machine that makes land useless and barren.

maybe all the brilliant scientists of our highly advanced technological society can think of something we could possibly do with land other than "make it useless and barren using the pollution machine." Maybe somewhere in the world, someone is brilliant and visionary enough to imagine a society where "making it useless and barren using the pollution machine" is a slightly less common use of land resources

I don't know. I just think that we could figure something out if we tried really, really, really hard

area used for drainage? put wetland plants in them instead of trying to grade out a giant funnel that dumps water into a drain pipe as quickly as possible. it'll absorb excess floodwater and filter out pollutants. if it's the southeast USA, PUT RIVER CANE OH MY GOD IT'S PERFECT. Arundinaria gigantea, you can look it up. Rushes. Cattails. Horsetails. Sedges.

roadside or other area that needs to be kept relatively low? short native grasses and flowers. there's a billion of them.

Awkward leftover land next to a building? trees. if there's plumbing or power lines to worry about? more native grasses and flowers. pollinator gardens. Or grow fiber plants that can be harvested yearly and turned into fabric/baskets/mats/whatever. If the soil doesn't have anything toxic in it, you could grow food plants. Grow sunflowers, they're allelopathic and keep the weeds down. Walking paths. Solar panels. Walking paths with solar panels. Put solar panels above your parking lot while you're at it. Did i mention Arundinaria gigantea.

flowers...fruit trees...native sedges...infinite possibilities

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i dont feel so good about the future of america

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Akaroa, South Island, New Zealand

Neverland, sunset

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Who told you to love your country. Knock that off

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