• Wordplay [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    They were Chinese! This is a six hundred page report that outlines that we just don’t know the level of nefariousness the Chinese are capable of. Also, no, we don’t have any evidence of actual violations or transgressions. They didn’t cause or create an actual threat to our national, but they could’ve!

    Absolutely ridiculous paranoiac stuff that will only fuel surging sinophobia in the Canadian public.

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I remembered posting where the actual evidence is in r/canada regarding all the secret police station garbage and all they do is just “hurr durr CCP and C****s taking Vancouver over blah blah blah” while my comment is in the negatives expectedly. Canadians being this nice group of people that gets talked by others still is one of the biggest lies to this day.

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      8 months ago

      prairie crackers watched their childhood racist bile against indigenous folks become mildly culturally unacceptable and have been frothing at the mouth for another target ever since

  • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I saw the front page of the Globe and Mail yesterday was crowing about this and I was like tf the Globe used to be just pretty bad now they’re full red scare?

    I’ve been thinking about how in Vincent Bevins’ If We Burn his colleagues defended the right leanings of their Brazil rag because newspapers content tends to creep toward what their paying audience wants to read. Is just the mere function that nobody under 60 even has a newspaper subscription anymore causing a general rightward shift of print media?

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      Not entirely because that presumes the editorial board and ownership of the media don’t have agency and are simply pandering to the “natural” right wing tendencies of the masses for simple profit motive when, in reality, they’re actively and consciously reinforcing right wing narratives because media reifies these narratives through their institutional legitimacy.