As someone in the school system, this is both true and heartbreaking. We simply do not have the correct supports in place to provide a safe environment for all students when studentswith complex needs are present, and it always comes down to the same thing: money. The personel isn’t there, the supervision isn’t there, the training isn’t there and the policy isn’t there. We need specialists. We need people attending to the complex needs. They cannot be a time-sink for classroom teachers, untrained in dealing with students with complex needs, who already have students fighting, stealing each others stuff and otherwise misbehaving. And when someone calls out, there needs to be a plan in place other than “call mom and tell them to come pick up their kid.”

Smaller class sizes, having specialists available and in place, and clear policy are all required to give the students the inclusive environment they need without actively detreacting from, and in some cases even endangering, all children in the classroom. When one of the less well-behaved kids takes advantage of the classroom teachers attention being placed on the student with complex needs whose support staff called out sick and does something stupid resulting in harm to themselves, or others in the class, who do you think winds up with blame? Spoiler: it’s not the district, and it’s not the government.

The whole issue breaks my heart, because the only winning move is “please stop under funding schools and passing the blame,” which falls on deaf ears, or worse, becomes a part of the “starve the beast” strategy pushing towards privatization.

Just like the far-right of the west, they believe in rule by perceived merit. They just have a different idea of what merit looks like.

Unfortunately, rule by a small privileged class is oligarchy at best, fascism at worst, regardless of what system of merit you use to define who should rule. Not that they’ll ever grasp that.

.mk lives rent free in their heads.

9/10 times it’s someone from .ca

You don’t even need to work to find the projection. He just offers it up.

I remember when trolling meant something! It used to be about making people mad, evolving emotion, and getting them embroiled in embarrassing positions they can’t take back! Now it’s just saying wrong thing and being politely corrected!

As a huge Cassette Beasts fan, agreed. They didn’t attempt to imitate the (superior imo) explosive bomb design, with the tail as the fuse and the black fur turning to jagged red to imitate an explosion.

Pomeranians exist. What a twist.

Honestly, knowing the platform was rooted in tankie ideology, it was never going to be good. It just took many of us way too long to see it.

At this point it’s how I kill time on the can. That’s tbh all it deserves.

Piefed.

I am not.

A meme is, by definition, something that is being copied, spread and reused. In order for this to be an “original meme,” it needs to be the origin of a new meme format, which will then be copied and iterated on, usually by re-using the language or re-using the physical format.

You just posted your shitty opinion in speech bubbles and called it a meme, because you don’t know what a meme is.

You’re not old too old; OP just doesn’t know what a meme is.

Canada has in fact deeply fucked up with it’s indigenous population, though the specifics of just how deeply the graves left by the residential schools go is something that seems to shift every time I dig into it. There’s no debate that the Canadian state killed a lot of indigenous people’s though.

However, that doesn’t have anything to do with correctly identifying the Russian disminformation machine. Even in some kind of “whataboutism” argument, Canada has legally taken blame for those deaths and created the entire Truth and Reconciliation movement to start trying to set things right. Comparing Canada saying aloud “we have fucked up and we want to fix it” to any state-run media in Russia is just laughable, at best.

Nothing says “free speech” like banning protest.

Damn, man. Thank you for sharing, genuinely. I always appreciate the opportunity to learn of lived, firsthand experiences in these topics.

They’ve completely lost the plot in what left/right was intended to identify, and instead associate it with “the guys I like are left and the bad guys are right.”

They’re just just right-wing nationalists arguing for merit-based authoritarianism based off a different set of merits than the the white-christian nationalists of the west. Despite that, they have more in common with them then genuine leftists, who see the rule of any one party as invalid.

Sure, appreciate that. I’m on my way to bed, so I’ll have a little fun with it. It’s not like anyone else is this deep in this dead thread anyway, so really this is just for me and you. Might as well have a little reflection.

Sometimes I find myself with a bit of free time, and I enjoy telling off Internet bullies and lying fascists. It makes the world a marginally better place, and it’s entertaining watching them turn to belittling and infantilizing others in an attempt to make themselves seem strong, knowing that reasonable people see the squirming and know what’s going on. It feels good, and makes the world a tiny bit better, so it’s a win/win. Besides, I can just put down my phone and go back to my very satisfying life when I am bored of it. It’s easy to put it away, so why not make sure that fascists lies are apparent to anyone else who stumbles in, you know?

“no u” isn’t the own you seem to think it is, and the lies you love to parade aren’t fooling very many people. We’ve both seen it frequently in the passing months. You like to bring up downvotes in a dead thread with one lurker, but this means you’ve seen how absolutely blasted you get on the regular when you spew your bullshit. It’s nice to know that you’ve been checking the votes all that time, and you must be well aware by now how little of your propaganda is being consumed. I hope that you’re in it for yourself then, at least. I can put down my phone with a smile on my face and not load Lemmy for two weeks because at the end of the day I only pop on here when so want to entertain myself. I can’t imagine how much it just hurt to come here looking for some kind of gratification, only to have to put on the Internet though guy schtick and watch downvotes roll in if you actually need that satisfaction for some reason.

I think what I’m trying to say is, I hope whatever happened to leave you playing these games, day in day out, gets better. My experience is that no one turns to these extremist ideologies, and plays mental gymnastics like this, when they’re well. So, seriously, I hope things get better. Maybe one day you’ll look back and feel a little embarassed, but know you’re better now. At least, I’d like to think everyone is capable of that. But who knows? You might genuinely read this and continue to tell yourself that I am some troll who’s fuming at the things you post, or whatever nonsense you use to validate yourself. But I can’t be more frank here: I’ve really, truly, been nothing but honest. Not always correct, sure, but never dishonest. I do wonder if you can say the same.

Oh no, maybe one other lurker who follows Yog, of all people, is downvoting me in a dead thread. How will I ever validate myself? C’mon man, even you must see how pathetic of a take that is. If I cared about votes, I’d stick to Reddit, and I certainly don’t care about what people who would follow you would think. .ml is a Nazi bar, so if they don’t like what I’m saying, I am doing something right.

If that’s your “recap,” the whole reading comprehension problem is worse than I thought. I’m genuinely impressed that you were willing to take a step back and say “yeah, the connection between Canada and Hitler’s quote isn’t that solid in today’s socio-political circumstance.” There’s no sarcasm there, man. I genuinely thought you’d continue the weird mental gymnastics and backpeddling, and I was pleasantly surprised you stepped back and were willing to say “yeah, okay, it’s not Hitler bad,” despite the fact that, again, what else is the purpose of this thread? So, good on you.

Oh my God he did it. I’m impressed, Yog. Genuinely. This might be the most human moment I’ve seen out of you. It’s unfortunate that the rest of the response is laced with such personally targeted vitriol.

If you think I am a “transparent troll,” you might need to get some perspective. I have literally never been anything but honest with you. But I guess it’s easier to repeat falsehoods, twist truths, and mislead others when you accuse anyone who disagreed with you of lying.

Literally the only purpose of this main level post is to equate Canada’s past behaviour to Hitler’s ideology. Then, in response to a very simple “good thing we’ve verbally and legally recognized these past faults and literally are not doing the thing Hitler described,” you double down. Meanwhile you dismiss that the majority of these atrocities were hard stopped in the 80s with the death of residential schools, a point you brought up yourself, while the others have slowly been brought to light, culminating in the Truth and Reconciliation act. And yet you have the audacity to act coy about the purpose of this thread when someone with a real reading comprehsion is willing to call you out on it. Get real.

I’m not sure what you think “game” is, but if you see trolling around a niche community like Lemmy and trying to spread discontent with Canadian government as “game” that you’ve become good at, I can happily say that I am glad you perceive me as being on the outside of that. It’s not something people need in their lives.

Sigh, political troll it is then, I guess. I hope someone is paying you well for this. The alternatives are just beyond pathetic.

What I pointed out is that Canada has not substantially changed its policy towards First Nations.

It has, and your posts made no attempt to make that argument.

Say Canada is not currently attempting to commit genocide the way Hitler’s Germany did. It’s a false equivilency, right? I’m building a straw man? Say it. Canada is not currently attempting to commit a genocide. Say it.

C’mon now, Yog. Surely even you, in your infinite bias, can recognize the pretty clear distinction between current day Canada, with the Truth and Reconcilliation movement and a constant stream of government actions and grants, and Hitler’s Germany.

I’d agree the Canadian government hasn’t done enough, but you can’t pretend these two things are one and the same. Please try and present yourself as an actual, thinking human being for once, capable of critical thought and, honestly this is a generous over use of the word but, a nuanced understanding. Or are you literally just a political troll?

I’m glad you can find the clear distinction between Hitler and the Canadian people: we recognize our past mistakes and work to rectify them.

Same. Posted fairly blissfully ignorant for a couple months, until I shared my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese university exchange students in the same room. Obviously, I got banned.

That’s about the point I became aware I was hanging out in a nazi bar just because the atmosphere was nice and the beers were cheap.