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leupagus:
vibrrava reblogged your photoset:heathenlyqueer:
soulsglitch:
Activist Harsha…
#I honestly hate Trudeau#I wish those activist posts have links for Canadians who wanted to fought against Trudeau’s bullshit too#like Canadians are so fucking oblivious
This is what I’m talking about - like, I get your anger, believe me, but how are you helping here? Why is it the responsibility of other random tumblr users to provide you the information you want, when you don’t try to find this information yourself? I didn’t include this stuff because I don’t know enough about the Canadian government to offer intelligent tips and frankly, I have enough on my plate. What’s your reason?
And furthermore, hate Trudeau all you want but what does that do? What do you accomplish with that hatred? Are you gonna campaign for and support a candidate to his left during the next election? What are you doing to ensure that happens? Have you made efforts to lobby him or his government to do things you want him to do? What are you doing with your hatred?
Canadians need to remember that y’all are worth ten Americans right now when it comes to governmental lobbying; there are about 320 million of us but only about 35 million of you, which means your voice statistically counts for more when you raise it up against and toward your government. Not only that, but you have a government who might actually change position based on said lobbying.
Trump won’t.
So hate Trudeau all you want but understand that it’s better to push and curse him than just curse him right now. Vote him out later if you want; use him - and your hatred - now.
This is important. Because, I get it, it stings– I keep seeing non-Americans on my timeline, here and Twitter (and a bit on Facebook too) positing anti-US hate and lolsob alternate ideas and a lot of them include putting Trudeau in charge of the US, which like, ok fair, the US deserves to be mocked a bit for our inability to make our democracy work and our failings do a great deal of extreme harm to the rest of the world, but holy shit, Trudeau is not Christ.
And it takes some discipline to keep from lashing back at people– like, fuck you, I know America’s shit’s fucked, but that’s offensive– but, it’s totally nonproductive to get defensive about it. We have too much to do.
It’s just. You know, there’s fucked-up shit everywhere in the world, and I get that the US’s shit is exceptionally fucked at this moment. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the world’s shit isn’t also fucked.
Trudeau swept into power on this beautiful wave of hope. He has yet to deliver on that. He’s not going to help the US sort its shit out, much. Not as things stand. Canadians can affect that, and should. There’s a lot of good that can be done. It’s not going to happen on its own.
(I live in a border town. I spend a lot of time with Canadians. My phone sometimes connects to Canadian providers when I’m at the grocery store and then I have to worry about roaming charges on my bill (they’re pretty good about it lately). Canadian policies affect my daily life on the regular. I was psyched when Trudeau was elected. I’ve been disappointed. I’ve been following it, believe me. We care a lot, out here.)
Meanwhile, I’m going to avoid getting defensive, and keep my focus on the copious amounts of shit I need to deal with in my own country.
(But, Brits in particular, I’d really appreciate it if you’d ease off the smug memes a bit, your shit is also pretty goddamn terrible.)
I also get that not all of us can engage in productive action all the time, and sometimes you just want to sit and complain. I get that, I’m with you. Can we focus on making hilarious memes about punching Nazis instead? Because the 4chan Nazi crowd really believes in meme magic and it concretely hurts them. I understand how all of us are getting burned out and it’s important sometimes to dick around on the Internet to recharge, but I’m definitely 100% going to say that if you’ve got energy for smug memes they should be the ones that harm the superstitious motherfuckers who are trying to hurt us.
Fuck that guy.
leupagus:
vibrrava reblogged your photoset:heathenlyqueer:
soulsglitch:
Activist Harsha…
#I honestly hate Trudeau#I wish those activist posts have links for Canadians who wanted to fought against Trudeau’s bullshit too#like Canadians are so fucking oblivious
This is what I’m talking about - like, I get your anger, believe me, but how are you helping here? Why is it the responsibility of other random tumblr users to provide you the information you want, when you don’t try to find this information yourself? I didn’t include this stuff because I don’t know enough about the Canadian government to offer intelligent tips and frankly, I have enough on my plate. What’s your reason?
And furthermore, hate Trudeau all you want but what does that do? What do you accomplish with that hatred? Are you gonna campaign for and support a candidate to his left during the next election? What are you doing to ensure that happens? Have you made efforts to lobby him or his government to do things you want him to do? What are you doing with your hatred?
Canadians need to remember that y’all are worth ten Americans right now when it comes to governmental lobbying; there are about 320 million of us but only about 35 million of you, which means your voice statistically counts for more when you raise it up against and toward your government. Not only that, but you have a government who might actually change position based on said lobbying.
Trump won’t.
So hate Trudeau all you want but understand that it’s better to push and curse him than just curse him right now. Vote him out later if you want; use him - and your hatred - now.
This is important. Because, I get it, it stings– I keep seeing non-Americans on my timeline, here and Twitter (and a bit on Facebook too) positing anti-US hate and lolsob alternate ideas and a lot of them include putting Trudeau in charge of the US, which like, ok fair, the US deserves to be mocked a bit for our inability to make our democracy work and our failings do a great deal of extreme harm to the rest of the world, but holy shit, Trudeau is not Christ.
And it takes some discipline to keep from lashing back at people– like, fuck you, I know America’s shit’s fucked, but that’s offensive– but, it’s totally nonproductive to get defensive about it. We have too much to do.
It’s just. You know, there’s fucked-up shit everywhere in the world, and I get that the US’s shit is exceptionally fucked at this moment. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the world’s shit isn’t also fucked.
Trudeau swept into power on this beautiful wave of hope. He has yet to deliver on that. He’s not going to help the US sort its shit out, much. Not as things stand. Canadians can affect that, and should. There’s a lot of good that can be done. It’s not going to happen on its own.
(I live in a border town. I spend a lot of time with Canadians. My phone sometimes connects to Canadian providers when I’m at the grocery store and then I have to worry about roaming charges on my bill (they’re pretty good about it lately). Canadian policies affect my daily life on the regular. I was psyched when Trudeau was elected. I’ve been disappointed. I’ve been following it, believe me. We care a lot, out here.)
Meanwhile, I’m going to avoid getting defensive, and keep my focus on the copious amounts of shit I need to deal with in my own country.
(But, Brits in particular, I’d really appreciate it if you’d ease off the smug memes a bit, your shit is also pretty goddamn terrible.)
I also get that not all of us can engage in productive action all the time, and sometimes you just want to sit and complain. I get that, I’m with you. Can we focus on making hilarious memes about punching Nazis instead? Because the 4chan Nazi crowd really believes in meme magic and it concretely hurts them. I understand how all of us are getting burned out and it’s important sometimes to dick around on the Internet to recharge, but I’m definitely 100% going to say that if you’ve got energy for smug memes they should be the ones that harm the superstitious motherfuckers who are trying to hurt us.
Fuck that guy.
