You are harming the narrative that Canada is categorically friendly and peaceful.

One redeeming feature of the history is that refugees of slavery in the US were able to find protection in Canada, though it was often quite difficult for them to reach.

I know, but the context is a pretense that liberal politicians are benevolent.

Your attitude is exactly the one that has brought us to the rise of Mein Orangutan, of demanding no more than whatever seems slightly more favorable than the worst case possible.

Advancing conditions for the base of the population would depend on much more than simply voting in national elections for the Democratic Party. In fact, it requires looking beyond the two-party machine, by organizing local campaigns, worker unions, and direct action.

The Democratic Party is not coming to save us.

No one is coming to save us.

We can be saved only by doing the work to take care of each other, to protect each other, and to relate to each other as members of community.

Imperialist atrocities are excusable when they are ordered by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

Licking boots is fun when they are worn by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

If you succeed, others will want to reproduce the process.

Are you the first, to your knowledge, to undertake a migration from Lemmy to Piefed?

Subscriptions is another aspect of user accounts that hopefully would be retained. If not, some users may wish to warned, so that they can make manual copies beforehand.

Thanks for the explanation. Will the migration retain our post and comment histories in our profiles?

I am new to SLRPNK, but not to Lemmy.

I began using SLRPNK because I wanted to use a Lemmy instance that would be friendly to my politics.

The comments in the post are the first mention I have encountered of a planned “Piefed migration”. I have been happy using SLRPNK for the past few days or so since creating my account, and news of a migration gives me the feeling of the rug being pulled out from under me.

What is the rationale for the migration? As a new project, has Piefed achieved usability and featurefulness comparable to those of Lemmy? Will current users of the site have an option to continue using Lemmy, in case they prefer?

Thanks for suggesting the additional reading.

In my comment I was trying simply to critique the posted video.

Trump does nothing himself. Sham justice carries the support of the entire political establishment.

It was never much more than a tool to repress the poor and marginalized.

The speaker seems to reject the understanding of solar punk as strictly an aesthetic, but her deeper representation seems as simply a capture of contemporary anarcho-communism. The apparent contradiction exposes a dilemma, of whether solar punk offers novel concepts but all in the form of aesthetic, versus its simply being a new packaging of preexisting concepts.

I feel we have yet to be offered any new concepts beyond mere aesthetic.

The emphasis on implementing slow living and adapting indigenous practices seems particularly aligned with the spirit of solar punk, but they also are not novel to its development.

You should expect that a kangeroo court has already been arranged.

The relationship of Latin states with the US has never been of negotiation between equal peers. South and Central America are subjugated under the colonialism of the US. They are kept poor because their economies are structured to be dependent on trade with the US.

The true effect will be to affirm the urgency for such states to develop deeper integration with the Russia-China power axis.

Strikes require unity across a workforce.

If some workers in a local context work instead of participating in a strike, then the business is not pressured to acquiesce, and the sacrifice is in vain.

Striking in any case results in lost pay, which promotes fear and threatens survival. Solidarity improves morale and saves lives.

Fostering unity and solidarity is among the essential functions of a union.

Do you know of any strong central leaders?

They rarely speak for everyone.

A general strike is not for negotiations, but for pressuring the political establishment to acquiesce to particular demands.

All we can do is rebuild.