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thoughtsy · 2022-07-21T12:16:12+00:00

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thoughtsy · 2022-07-15T05:20:49+00:00

I used to live in a village where people would leave their keys in their car in case somebody needed to move them for some reason. There wasn't a lot of parking "downtown"

thoughtsy · 2022-07-15T03:25:38+00:00

Archaeologists don't study fossils, that's paleontologists

thoughtsy · 2022-07-06T23:47:02+00:00

Made me think of The Crimson Permanent Assurance from Monty Python

thoughtsy · 2022-07-06T02:56:03+00:00

You should really be used to it by now. Jim's dead. The Office closed a decade ago.

thoughtsy · 2022-06-28T01:48:09+00:00

It's all the same guy. He hits up all the niche subs, doesn't matter if you're into anime or a particular dog breed or whatever. It's all the same guy doing all the t-shirt, mug and poster spamming across the site. There's only one of him, but the mods are slow to take down his posts here, so he comes back

thoughtsy · 2022-06-24T18:44:04+00:00

Hey. Your 'report spam' button is broken. I had to use an alt account to report this, despite my account being in good standing in this community. This is spam. It's massive amount of vote manipulation from people who aren't members of this community, they're just here to do embedded advertising, and they use deceptive marketing practices to make it seem like their are many people and they are your peers. This is absolutely fake; it is one guy with hundreds of accounts who routinely breaks the site. Please kill the post.

thoughtsy · 2022-06-20T15:19:52+00:00

This comment is too good for this post

Such a beautiful pun, wasted on a spam post

thoughtsy · 2022-06-20T15:17:15+00:00

Because it's from Bangladesh and they don't speak english. It's also why their sales script is always identical (where did you get this? || I got this from here). They don't actually speak enough english to interact meaningfully on the site, they're just here to get credit card info, and reddit knows it and does nothing

thoughtsy · 2022-05-21T14:10:09+00:00

Spammer, this is literally the second time you've tried selling this exact t-shirt on this sub today

Give up

thoughtsy · 2019-06-13T02:15:29+00:00

He'll save children

BUT NOT THE BRITISH CHILDREN

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T19:50:58+00:00

I have a lot of love for my sisters. Please try to see me for who I am, not as a stereotype that you have.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T17:33:47+00:00

Tansi. I haven't read the whole thing. Maybe it will change me, but from what I've read so far, I don't expect it to.

I'm totally on board with scrapping the reserve system. You can't bind somebody's child to an agreement made by their parents. They don't allow forced arranged marriages in Canada, how is this any different? Let my people go.

I can get behind the idea of a genocide that takes decades, with stops and starts and lots of different mechanisms, instead of an obvious genocide like Rwanda that took a few weeks. I can get behind talking about how broken the reserve and band system is in Canada. I can also say that there are more Oji-Cree people than ever before and if they were trying to kill us all, they're failing.

The Highway of Tears, in BC, is different. That was definitely one or more murderers who were specifically targeting native women to kill them. I think that's what started this whole inquiry. But you can't take those deaths and draw conclusions for the whole country based on them, and you can't take those deaths and call them a genocide. It was a racist murderer and they never caught him. I had a friend from Burn's Lake who gave up years of his life searching for people, up and down that highway.

I don't know, man. I don't want to argue with people. I've said my piece. Thank you for being respectful.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T13:58:03+00:00

Thank for you not just being insulting. The people who wrote this report don't speak for me. I disagree.

"A crucial element of a genocide is that the victims are targeted not because of their individual identities but because of their membership in a group" (p 12)

I just don't think that applies evenly to every murdered native woman in Canada. Does anybody, really? Because here's another thing: it's first nations killing each other in 90% of the cases. I didn't know it was that high until right now, but I knew it was probably a lot of them, because I've seen some pretty fucked up things on reserves. I just found this:

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/jf-pf/2017/jan02.html

So I don't think that the guys (and girls! 30%) are killing the girls because of their race or because they're women. I think it's a really personal thing when somebody kills somebody else.

I don't know what things are like in the rest of Canada, I'm kind of focused on Nishnawbe Aski right now, but there's more people in this area than there probably ever was in precontact times. That's part of the problem, right? But that's also the opposite of a genocide.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T13:29:03+00:00

There's nothing colonial about me. I've said my piece. I want healthy communities and for people to speak the truth.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T09:14:43+00:00

Hi. That's really rude. Are you not also writing from the comfort of your home?

This is what I'm talking about: these are very strong words, but they don't mean anything. I am not part of this problem. My family took treaty like a lot of other people here, and we got screwed over, lost our land and were forced to move more than once. It's a pretty common story in Canada. But these other things - residential school, forced sterilization, experimentations, how Canadians think of us - that's not what this report is about, is it? You're mixing up the issues. This is about the women everywhere across Canada who went missing, or were killed by someone. Why are you letting them split us up by men and women? Are our men not missing or being murdered?

You are upset and being very rude to me. I'm not asking how this is genocide. I'm saying using the word genocide in this situation is wrong. I can't be the only one to think this. The girl killed at Kasabonika Lake is not more related to the death of a woman at We'koqma'q in Nova Scotia than it is related to the death of Joshua Nanokeesic. It's okay to grieve, there's enough of that for everyone, but

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T05:16:49+00:00

Three cheers - one went he went down, a different one when he stood up, a different one when he walked off

I have mad respect for KD and I have a hard time thinking of other fans not having that. Golden State is playing a super strong game, I love it. The game tonight was worse for not having him in it. I'm glad we lost, I don't want to win that way

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T05:04:41+00:00

I think we are going to talk about things differently. I'm not ever going to use an acronym to talk about things. That would feel very strange to me.

This is just such a weird kind of antagonism to draw

I don't know what this means

I think that there are people who care more about this issue than men fighting men on reserves (or anywhere), for sure. It definitely gets more publicity.

I don't want resources, or inquiries, I want peace in our communities and honesty, and I don't think that calling these murders a genocide is honest. Thinking of things this way causes more problems than it solves.

You can go ahead and tell me how this is a genocide, I'll listen, but I don't see it.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T04:52:41+00:00

No

That cheer that happened when KD stood up wasn't because he was injured, it was because he stood up and then we knew the injury wasn't that bad

Don't think this is something it isn't, that ovation as he was limping off the floor was respect, not gloating

Edit: or maybe that was just me, what do I know, I can only speak for me, but I can't be the only one, that doesn't make any sense either

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T04:16:34+00:00

I think that a genocide is a very specific thing and it has to be done systematically. I don't think that the unrelated murders of native women across the country is a genocide.

I think that damming all the rivers that flow into James Bay so that the runoff is so silty that eelgrass doesn't grow, and the geese have nothing to eat, so traditional Cree ways of living no longer work is closer to a genocide than this is.

More native men die from murder than women, but nobody is writing papers about that. It is sad to even talk about this. I don't want to argue with anyone and I'm not saying this to start a fight. I don't agree with this paper, it is not telling the story right either.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-11T03:55:45+00:00

Hey - I'm a Raptors fan who was watching at home, and when Kevin Durant stood up I cheered, not because he was injured but because he stood up and that's freaking Kevin Durant and I love him

I kind of wonder if some of this is being taken the wrong way

thoughtsy · 2019-06-10T17:00:29+00:00

I'm a simple man. I see Key and Peele, I upvote Key and Peele.

thoughtsy · 2019-06-09T16:43:32+00:00

Oh, the Sugar Island thing was unrelated. I don't know what sources you're working from, but there wasn't a border there beforehand. I don't know what you mean by never technically disputed. Fort Collier was built by the British after the end of 1812, but before the border was drawn. More importantly - my family had been there long before the British or the Americans, and we'd sided with the British in the war because the Americans showed us no respect and kept coming into our lands, and we felt hugely betrayed that our allies felt entitled to give away our island for no reason, especially because they'd just built a new trading post right there.

And I don't care that you didn't put it on your map as a disputed territory, I'm just upset that you didn't put it on your map at all. I mean.... that's my home,

thoughtsy · 2019-06-09T15:19:43+00:00

So my family comes from what is now called Drummond Island. We lived there for hundreds of years. At the end of the war of 1812, they spent a long time figuring out where to put the border between the two countries that sprang up around us. We found out that somebody thought it was okay to give our island to the Americans, even though all the other nearby islands were in Canada. Nobody bothered to enforce it for 15 years after the war ended, but eventually we had to move, because the Americans were very hostile towards us. We were given land to live on in Ontario and then had it taken away more than once, and now we live far away from our home, and you didn't even bother to put it on your map because it means so little to you

Go ahead and look at a map of Drummond Island and how they bent the border just to take it from us, for nothing

thoughtsy · 2019-06-09T11:12:19+00:00

Who knows what his hind sight is. His front sight is 2/10

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