Some border crossings have ICE/CBP preventing Americans from leaving.

ICE isn’t just a problem at the border, and he clearly travels quite freely around the country on his book tours…

Then there’s the whole issue with visas and such.

he’s canadian… he wouldn’t have any visa issues coming back here to live/work

I love cory doctorow, but why is he still living in america???

not all hope is lost…

my friend’s company is starting to go back to doing things the old fashioned way: in-person interviews. they found that people find all kinds of ways to cheat even with these invasive tools. my friend is a software engineer working in a tech shop.

Restauranteurs need to spend a week in italy to learn how make an actually good dining experience

• Good local produce
• everything hand made by default
• excellent service
• sensible pricing, tax and service included. No guessing games when the bill comes

Basically, common sense if you’re running a resto… if i’m going to be dropping $200 to go out these days, it better be really good. As it stands today, dining out in canada is a ripoff and mostly mediocre experience

You can only abuse your customers so much

you’d think so… but the number of friends and family who still put up with this shit is incredible. Ads in the start menu, copilot popping up every time you press a wrong button on the keyboard, the entire task bar changing overnight with ads and stock tickers…

That last one pisses me off so much… “i dont want to learn linux!”… MF’er, microsoft just rearranged your entire task bar and start menu overnignt and you didnt seem to have a problem adapting your workflow… why would switching to gnome or KDE be any different?

our votes mean nothing except choosing a national aesthetic for the same flavour of modern slavery.

i was with you up until this… this kind of defeatism isn’t helpful.

We arent america (yet). We have more than 2 political parties. Hell, vote marxist-leninist if you cant stomach the NDP. Just stop this red/blue see-saw game we’ve been playing for 70 years. Put your money in a credit union, unionize at work, join a co-op. Do ANYTHING other than give up. That’s exactly what they want. That’s exactly why they own most of the media. To feed us an endless stream of despair and brain rot.

If the largest city in america can vote for a “communist” mayor, surely we in canada can vote for some common sense as well.

Happy new years, friends!

Norway: turns their oil into one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.
Canada: best i can do is crippling fossil fuel dependency, and hundreds of millions in debt for clean up work.

Straight to gaol!

I spell everything the English way… the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.

I’ve adopted tyres and kerb into my daily spelling

Their words are better too… lorry > truck, hoover > vacuum, chips > fries…

I urge all canadians to start using more british english in daily speak.

And if it pisses off the yanks and albertans, even better

I’m full time on linux and have no problem using email and vpn without a desktop client

Because I don’t trust anecdotes from individuals

[proceeds to trust some random patreon website and some youtube travel influencers…]

anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion

the claim is right there in the OP’s meme… “…china is oppressing uyghurs”. i don’t know why you keep demanding “claims” when it’s right in the meme that i was responding to.

the meme suggests that the only evidence comes from some fucker named adrian, whom i’ve never heard of, and RFA and falun gong.

i merely suggested that first hand accounts from my friends might actually be valid… maybe at least something to think about… but apparently listening to actual uyghur people and talking to my actual family in china is just western propaganda… so discussion is already non-starter

anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion

my doctor already warned us she is leaving next april. she has 600 patients on her roster and the gov’t wanted to add more…

so i’ll have no family doctor next year… but, hey, at least we don’t be able to pray in schools!

QC gov’t: “no healthcare for you!”
me: “dear god, please keep us healthy…”
QC gov’t: “NO PRAYING EITHER!”

it’s a family i know here, who left china due to oppression… nobody said anything about violent genocide.

i really don’t need to type out their whole family situation because why waste my time getting instantly downvoted? you’ve all already decided that talking to uyghurs is fake news…

Clearly you can see that my point is that some criticism is real and some is not, right?

no, it’s really not clear what the criteria is for real criticism, vs. not real… seems pretty arbitrary when looking at two very prominent examples of china oppressing cultural/ethic minorities

“Critiquing” China based on exaggerations and atrocity propaganda is bad. LGBTQIA+ rights fall into the former category, the overwhelming majority of allegations surrounding Xinjiang fall into the latter.

i still don’t understand why you think that oppression of LGBT is real, and oppression of uyghurs is exaggeration and propaganda… why is it so OBVIOUS to you that the uyghurs are flourishing, but LGBT people are actually being oppressed?

i KNOW actual uyghur people and i KNOW at least one actual gay person in china… i am chinese and i have family there… i don’t understand how weird internet white knights can wave away the hardships of one group as OBVIOUSLY FAKE (despite likely having never spoken to an actual uyghur person, or even someone from another muslim minority in china), while just arbitrarily believing that china oppresses LGBT people?

by your logic, there are openly gay chinese youtubers who haven’t been executed yet… therefore, there is no oppression and it’s just western propaganda warping your view of china.

the uyghurs i know are not rich people who fled the country and hate china because communism took away their stuff (that would be my taiwanese relatives who DID lose all their bourgeoisie privilege to the communists…) why would they be making shit up about what is happening over there? and why would you be so inclined to dismiss what they have to say just to white knight for china?

unironically, i can’t wait for the AI Investment Advisor to start spouting off all the financial advice they scraped off reddit…

“yeah bro, yolo all your money into blackberry and gamestop! to the moon!!! i’d also put 69% (nice) allocation into dogecoin…”

while there’s very little evidence of a supposed genocide in Xinjiang.

again, nobody is saying china is doing an israel genocide on uyghurs… read the original meme post… it says oppression

while also believing China has a long way to go on LGBTQIA+ rights

why do you believe this? i heard that china is amazing at supporting gay/trans people… anything else you heard is just anti-communist western propaganda… you see how that works?

Right now you’re doing the bit where Zionists say queer people shouldn’t support Palestine because groups like Hamas are anti-LGBTQIA+ no, i’m doing the bit where a bunch of woke white people are strangely acting like china has zero credible criticisms… while also strangely admitting that china has a long way to go on LBGTQIA+ rights

the problem with how Xinjiang is portrayed is that it’s the most reactionary, anti-communist people that are pushing the genocide theory the most.

so just because reactionaries/anti-communists are pushing the narrative to support their own ends makes the issue fake/invalid?

so if neo-nazis started supporting palestinians to push an anti-semitic agenda, that makes their oppression fake/invalid?

The idea that China is pushing out non-Han ethnicities is wrong, China’s NPC has great minority representation, ethnic minorities are well protected, and Uyghur culture is flourishing.

lol, again…100% non-chinese telling us how great it is over there (for non-han minorities). how do i know most of you aren’t even chinese?? ZERO actual chinese people, even the most woke ones, announce their preferred pronouns…

i’d love to see all you “they/them” folks try actually living in china…

btw, not making fun of pronouns… i support… i’m just pointing out the irony…

i really don’t understand all these people on .ml (who clearly aren’t chinese) bootlicking for china

look, i’m a “communist” as well… i hate capitalism, blah blah blah… you guys are right about so many things. china is great, the west fucking sucks. i 100% agree…

but i don’t understand why it has to extend to, “ALL criticism of china is invalid”… china has a clear objective of unifying the nation and the culture. and that means pushing out the non-han minorities such as the uyghur people.

is this achieved through extreme violence? of course not. that’s barbaric and not-subtle.

china knows how to play the long game. decades if needed. the west doesn’t see anything beyond a 4 year election cycle…