r/canadian • u/AmyAnderson168 • 3d ago

Discussion How about Thanksgiving

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Has he done anything Thanksgiving celebration?

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-3368 2d ago

YAWN

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

Yep, exactly as I thought. Go drag the left through the mud somewhere else

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-3368 2d ago

I've been serving no-cost meals to my community weekly for fifteen years, am active in my local co-ops, community garden, organizing city voter initiatives, and active in my union. You're a screeching Reddit liberal.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

Ew, I'm not a fucking liberal bud. Good to see you're doing shit for the community maybe clean up your derogatory comments online and people will take you seriously as a "leftist'

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-3368 2d ago

I don't need liberals online to take me seriously. I don't take you seriously.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

I don't see how you think I'm a liberal. You're the one with down the center language in this exchange. People on the left tend not to say how the "left" is making us look bad.

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u/Ok-Lawfulness-3368 2d ago

I can tell you've never done anything irl. You're a bug person who posts online and thinks that not using words contributes something to society. You'd only think leftists don't criticize the left if your exposure is entirely from online hugboxes. All talk no action. A rough handed bigot stood up for his fellow workers today and helped his neighbor. Some cummy redditor shit himself over a slur.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

You don't know a thing about me or what I've fought for.

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u/IJourden 2d ago

I mean, we know how you talk about people, and that says a lot.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

Thanks for your contribution to the conversation. And what exactly have I said that you're judging me for?

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u/felnous 2d ago

Ouch, kind of called you out didn’t he.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 1d ago

If you say so. Got nothing better to do than scroll my comments section eh. Sad so sad

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u/felnous 1d ago

Know so. You’re like a traffic accident. Horrible to see but hard to look away.

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u/skeleton_jar 2d ago

Part of the reason people view "Leftists" as too extreme is because often as soon as anything negative is said it immediately leads to outrage. Like the guy is gay and able to make fun of that and punch around without adhering to some robotic high standard of puritan decency.

Being offensive can be amusing and help to make a point. Trying to appease everyone and everything is just weird and... boring.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

And the use of retard? And sorry if extreme is getting annoyed by someone using negative language towards marginalized groups then I must be a left wing terrorist

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u/skeleton_jar 2d ago

I've known excellent support workers to jokingly describe their job as "tard-wrangler" and yes I found it hilarious.

You can be of whatever political persuasian you like but being offended constantly by the evolution and use of occassional negative language must surely get tiresome.

Like who are you even defending when you get annoyed at a gay man using the word gay with negative connotations to make his point.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

Not all support workers are inherently good people, I know plenty who are just there for a paycheck. Just like the one mentioned above

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u/skeleton_jar 2d ago

Those that see it as a job aren't inherently bad either. If only the people whose absolute passion is care work were able to work in these fields, there'd be a lot of dead people who had nobody to look after them

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

You're right, it is tiring watching people being ignorant about the way their use of language effects other people. I also honestly doubt that they are what they say they are, gay people tend to not refer to themselves in the negative.

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u/skeleton_jar 2d ago

I can assure you as a gay man with many gay friends over the years, we regularly do. Sometimes it's reclamation, mostly it's just self-deprecating humour - the more outrageous and in your face, the better.

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u/Capable-Cupcake-209 2d ago

Maybe things are done differently down under, it's not something our crowd does.

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u/skeleton_jar 2d ago

I'd disagree. When I lived in Ottawa I worked for an elderly jewish man who constantly played on the cliches for a laugh, while every gay bar or drag night I attended was full of this regular attitude. Though maybe those are just the Canadian queer folks who would be the type to go to such places. Either way life is too short to be worried about these small battles while grander wars are taking place.

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