VoodooMischief

joined 1 year ago
[–] VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

People need to demand more out of their municipal leaders. Public transport and pedestrian infrastructure needs to be higher priority. Social spaces like plazas, markets, and parks should be protected and expanded. Other public infrastructure like schools and hospitals and mom and pop stores should be supported to allow jobs to flourish outside of cities and reduce the need for people to drive if they can’t live in higher density zones. Cars make people miserable, both inside them and outside them. They destroy the environment with their noise, pollution, accidents, and concrete carpeting. They make people lazy and unhealthy. It shouldn’t be our number 1 priority for travel solutions.

[–] VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (19 children)

All part of the weapons industry plan. The myth that you need guns to be free, that you need guns to revolt, that the world is full of criminals waiting to launch an attack on your home, that global supply chains and regulations that disseminate the food you buy are not to be trusted and you need to drive 4 hours out of your suburbia to go hunting for meat - all an advertising scheme to sell you metal fireworks toys. Not negating their real utility in niche applications but those applications remain just that - niche. Civilized nations don’t need to kowtow to this predatory industry.

[–] VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

The world needs tougher ethical guidelines and laws surrounding corporations; especially when they depend on government contracts and greatly impact the ecosystems we depend on. We need to be able to pursue bad actors and put a stop to them; not coddle them and let them off the hook once the heat dies down. Tax them properly and put that money back into the communities they are supposed to serve. I think one of the first steps we need to take is to give human rights to nature. We’ve let them trample on that for far too long and it’s made them believe they can trample on nations as a whole.

[–] VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Hello to all the new users!

[–] VoodooMischief@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

This is simple sabotage. There is nothing beneficial about this outside of showing some green on Wallstreet LEDs. Pure pump and dump scheme.

 

I thought this was relevant in the wake of all this annexation talk…it’s good to remember history.

Of particular note: the Americans under Andrew Jackson were already running red hot from Tecumseh’s Rebellion and other various wars with Native Americans. There was a big racial sentiment at this time as noted by the line in the second column of the first page: “No white man fighting by the side of an Indian will be taken prisoner; instant destruction will be his lot.”

Makes you proud to think about the Canadians that fought in the War of 1812 in places like Fort Erie.