Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.worksplease god
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    30 days ago

    Are you kidding … my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time … but none of them so so it means that there is no hope … in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.




  • Here in Canada in Ontario, up until about five years ago, they used to sell panettone everywhere during Christmas … grocers used to stock them everywhere and about four or five different brands. Cheaper ones came in all plastic wrapping and more expensive ones came wrapped in plastic and contained in fancy decorative cardboard boxes. And back then, we had the choice of size and they were usually large sized.

    Now we have limited supplies and the displays for them are even hard to find. We only have one brand now ‘Massimo’ and they are more the smaller size. Every year now, all my Italian Canadian friends go on a frenzy looking for them … as soon as they come out, they disappear.

    Don’t know what happened to the supply but we don’t see much of them any more.




  • The morality of it is pretty simple

    If you want to wear a mask to hide your identity because of what you are doing … chances are you know what are you are doing is wrong and you don’t want to be held accountable for it later.

    If you honestly believe in what you are doing and have all the faith in the world that what you are doing is morally, philosophically and politically correct … then you should never have the need to want to wear a mask to hide who you are.

    Wearing a mask is the sign of a coward who doesn’t have the conviction to stand up for what they believe in.





  • I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family

    As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world

    It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.

    And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.







  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.worksAncient traditions
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    1 month ago

    lol … I had this kind of argument with my wife for years.

    She kept buying the smallest bottles of dish washing liquid for years … if it was smaller, to her it was much cheaper. I kept telling her that the price for the small bottle was more expensive per liter of liquid compared to buying it all in bulk.

    I kept telling her that if you just bought one giant bottle for the best price when it went on sale, you’d end up buying more liquid and saving money over time. I’d buy a big huge bottle every year or so and it would last us months, then she’d revert to buying small bottles again.

    Eventually, she realized that it was cheaper in the long run to buying big bottles … mostly because when you bought one giant bottle, you’d forget the problem altogether for about six months or even a year.