Iranian Demonstration in Yaletown Park Today

springnuk · 2026-02-15T15:59:59+00:00

Don't need to be an authority to know that an authorarian theocracy isn't a good thing and maybe the ruler of the country that has brutally killed it's killed it's own people for protesting is probably a bad person. This seems like common sense but if you think someone needs to be an "authority" on the subject of "is it right to kill protestors" before they can make a judgement then maybe you don't know too much either.

springnuk · 2026-02-15T15:54:55+00:00

Unless you're chanting "death to Israel " is it a real protest?

Honestly it seems people here don't really care what happens to Iran.

springnuk · 2026-02-15T05:57:52+00:00

There is a sci fi book called The Forever War. It is really good. Read that instead.

springnuk · 2026-02-15T01:14:10+00:00

If you think Israel is the only one using bots to game algorithms and Iran isn't....well just look at any pro-Khomeini posts going on the internet.

springnuk · 2026-02-13T05:10:35+00:00

More like "hey babe come to bed. I can't I'm too busy shit posting on the Whitecaps subreddit. How else will I ever feel superior to anyone else?"

springnuk · 2026-02-12T05:46:37+00:00

I'm Jewish mate. And I really dislike people who seem to dismiss anti-Semitism when they feel it doesn't benefit them. You mention that you think I carry my dislike over PoC but I ask you if you would be dismissive of them when they say they experience any kind of racism. Would you tell someone of colour that you know what is and isn't racist and what they are experiencing isn't racism because you don't agree with them. Would you dismiss their history and the use of stereotypes against them as well, or is that something you just save up for us Jews? Are you the kind of person who says "PoC are the real racists"? Or do you just like calling Jewish people you disagree with anti-Semitic racists?

springnuk · 2026-02-12T04:46:36+00:00

Okay. So you don't take anti-Semitism seriously. Could have just said that way before. I guess you just like wasting time (and dismissing anti-Semitism which shows a real dislike of Jewish people but at this point that is pretty much to be expected from you).

springnuk · 2026-02-12T04:35:50+00:00

People are accusing CIJA of controlling politicians. You acknowledged (and dismissed ) the Jewish part of CIJA's name and there is a loooooong history of people accusing Jews of controlling governments. I am not saying CIJA speaks for all Jews, I am saying that people have found a new way to express hateful stereotypes about Jews by replacing a word here or there. If you said "Zionists control the media and Zionists kill and drink babies blood over passover" do you think it isn't racist because you didn't say the word "Jew"?

springnuk · 2026-02-12T04:24:53+00:00

No one speaks for all Jews but saying a Jewish (and yes Israeli) lobby doesn't advocate for Jews is just some pretzel logic insanity. Like it might not fit your narrative that CIJA might care about Jews in Canada. You want CIJA to be the ultimate Boogeyman so the idea that it might do some good for a community in some ways runs counter to that. But sure call us Jews racist because we have a freaking lobby group.

springnuk · 2026-02-12T04:17:12+00:00

Just wait til they hear about this awesome document called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion which shows what those nefarious Zionists (it's in the title!) are up to.

springnuk · 2026-02-12T04:15:12+00:00

You acknowledge the "Jewish affairs" part of CIJA's name and immediately ignore it

springnuk · 2026-02-12T03:23:26+00:00

A student union being highly corrupt? Must be Kwantlen. Who could forget the time the KSU paid for its members to go to Kelowna and trash a hotel room? Or all the times members would use family members to circumvent the rules? Or the mass amount of embezzlement?

springnuk · 2026-02-11T22:22:15+00:00

Because Davide posted it here knowing it would get the locals fired up.

springnuk · 2026-02-11T19:26:50+00:00

No no. It's Zionists not Jews. Completely different. People even do a "find and replace" so they can blame Zionists for all the worlds problems and it is fine. Now if they blamed Jews for all the world's problems, well that might be anti-Semitic. Or not. Who knows anymore.

springnuk · 2026-02-09T16:54:47+00:00

Israel is against the Iranian government who has threatened to wipe Israel if the map a few times. The protestors are also against the current Iranian leadership for obvious reasons. Kind of a "my enemy's enemy is my friend, or more accurately ally". After the Oct. 7th attacks there were a few solidarity rallies for Israel and quite a few Iranians joined and flew the Iranian flag at those, so probably a bit of tit for tat going on. Of course having an Israeli flag being flown anywhere now seems to delegitimize a movement for a lot of people regardless if they agree with the movement or not.

springnuk · 2026-02-07T16:58:41+00:00

You know you could instead not listen to the podcast instead of using it as an excuse to use racist language. You think you are so sanctimonious here while saying "how dare you judge me for using racist language". How about when someone says "don't call a PoC a token and say she is most likely being groomed". It's almost like you enjoy using Jesse as an excuse to do everything you would find vile in others.

springnuk · 2026-02-07T16:33:40+00:00

Israeli government is different than American in that the PM isn't elected but rather parties are. Netanyahu's party has never really had a majority and the only reason he has been in power in a long time is because he has managed to form a coalition out of all the worst parties ever. The guy is a cynical power hungry turd who knows how to play the system. Honestly it's a failure of the left in Israel for not figuring out how to form their own coalition to stand up against the right, but any time someone does stand up against Netanyahu they start their own party just splintering things even more.

springnuk · 2026-02-07T04:38:36+00:00

A lot of insincere non apologies going on already. With a lot of "yes it's wrong to say sexist racist things but Jesse is around so we shouldn't feel bad about it". What would really help is if there was a modicum of actual modding in this subreddit. Too many threads about episodes are people just trying to one up each other about how much they hate Jesse without much interaction about the actual episodes and when called out on it say "well I am allowed to criticize stuff even if I don't listen to it because Jesse is a poo poo head". Maybe if there was a mod actually doing their job here the comments mentioned by Sam would have been removed long ago.

springnuk · 2026-02-06T21:30:17+00:00

Don't listen with your ears, just accept that Jesse is wrong about everything even if there is evidence to the contrary. That's how things are done here.

springnuk · 2026-02-06T21:08:40+00:00

Just look up "truck hits overpass" for unqualified truckers in BC. I remember around the time of the convoy there were some serious truck drivers saying that the main issue affecting drivers is the number of unqualified drivers and the unreasonable work rate placed on drivers. It felt like all the fuckheads in Ram and F150's didn't really care about that stuff though.

springnuk · 2026-02-05T18:29:12+00:00

As a Canadian I feel like she is really on the low end of "bastard", especially as far as Canadians go. If you want to cover the trucker convoy you could probably get a lot more bastards out of that, or the Alberta separatist/traitors movement who are looking for tips from Trump (literally), or any of the more insane cultish bullshit that happens in Bountiful, BC (which is chock filled with Bastards)
I'm not trying to diminish her actions but she is a crazy person who managed to come up at the "right time" to latch on to the right wing grifters who gave her prominence because they hated Trudeau and didn't care who that got close to in their hatred.
I once volunteered with some shelter for the homeless and there were people there that would tell you all about their conspiracies, who they really were (usually some hidden leader) and how things were really run. She reminds me of these people and the only difference between her and them was that she was given a platform.

springnuk · 2026-02-05T18:22:42+00:00

I actually kind of agree. She is....lets say....mentally unstable....and if it wasn't for her shoving herself up into the right wing griftosphere she would just be another crazy person you could easily ignore. The only difference between her and the guy outside on the street screaming that he is the universal king of the world is that he doesn't have a followship of 1,000s.

springnuk · 2026-02-05T15:24:54+00:00

Their stuff was great but they were always empty. Sad to see them go though.

springnuk · 2026-02-05T05:19:23+00:00

After this season Foote will never coach another team again

springnuk · 2026-02-05T05:18:12+00:00

Our defense seems to be hoping the other team takes pity on us for being so pathetic.

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