Kiegan Irish
@kieganirish.bsky.social
Settler living in unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory. Striving for decolonization and collective liberation. A better world is possible.
this is why canadian thanksgiving is appropriately timed. american thanksgiving feels too close to christmas to me.
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
this is why canadian thanksgiving is appropriately timed. american thanksgiving feels too close to christmas to me.
I'd say the ambiguity you're pointing to in the thread also operates here in Ontario, so it's not exclusive to PNW. For us "sorry" is such a commonplace word, and used so casually, that its relationship with serious accountability or shared sorrow rings hollow.
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'd say the ambiguity you're pointing to in the thread also operates here in Ontario, so it's not exclusive to PNW. For us "sorry" is such a commonplace word, and used so casually, that its relationship with serious accountability or shared sorrow rings hollow.
Maybe you would consider the Canadian Liberals to be “radical centrists”. Which is certainly how they govern, but they did run on anti-fascism and dramatically turned the election around as a result.
September 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Maybe you would consider the Canadian Liberals to be “radical centrists”. Which is certainly how they govern, but they did run on anti-fascism and dramatically turned the election around as a result.
Yes but here in Canada and in the UK, although we have avoided the extrajudicial violence of fascism, we’ve adopted its policy platform wholesale. Liberals here are cracking down on borders, laying off government workers em masse, sponsoring oil and gas projects during apocalyptic wildfires, etc.
September 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Yes but here in Canada and in the UK, although we have avoided the extrajudicial violence of fascism, we’ve adopted its policy platform wholesale. Liberals here are cracking down on borders, laying off government workers em masse, sponsoring oil and gas projects during apocalyptic wildfires, etc.
Our boy has gone all in on AI whose only function is to cut jobs lol
September 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our boy has gone all in on AI whose only function is to cut jobs lol
I think it also has to do with the fact that the activist wing and the establishment of the Republican Party see themselves as part of a shared project. Whereas Democrats are engaged in a campaign to smear and disown the activists on the liberal left, who in turn hate the Democratic establishment.
August 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I think it also has to do with the fact that the activist wing and the establishment of the Republican Party see themselves as part of a shared project. Whereas Democrats are engaged in a campaign to smear and disown the activists on the liberal left, who in turn hate the Democratic establishment.
TS Elliot is still too much the supremacist to fit into this project?
August 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
TS Elliot is still too much the supremacist to fit into this project?
Its recourse to this weird servile language is one of the creepiest elements
August 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Its recourse to this weird servile language is one of the creepiest elements
I think they’re centrist insofar as they represent the remnant of a 20th C political consensus that favoured liberal democracies and constructed them proactively. This hasn’t been the case for a long time as the conservative movement has gained ground. But symbols and institutions endure.
July 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I think they’re centrist insofar as they represent the remnant of a 20th C political consensus that favoured liberal democracies and constructed them proactively. This hasn’t been the case for a long time as the conservative movement has gained ground. But symbols and institutions endure.
It’s the flip side of their own doomer marketing hype that Skynet is just around the corner. Now they have to make the positive case which it turns out is impossible lol
July 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s the flip side of their own doomer marketing hype that Skynet is just around the corner. Now they have to make the positive case which it turns out is impossible lol
Canada voted down Poilievre but got him anyway. Not only the austerity and pro-extraction policy agenda but also the whinging, roll-over negotiation approach. Carney said that he recognized a fundamental shift in Can-US relations, this set him apart from PP, but he didn’t take that to heart.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Canada voted down Poilievre but got him anyway. Not only the austerity and pro-extraction policy agenda but also the whinging, roll-over negotiation approach. Carney said that he recognized a fundamental shift in Can-US relations, this set him apart from PP, but he didn’t take that to heart.