[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

All it took is one day of illegal strike action to get this. More unions should take note.

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Canadian regime continues to violate human rights in the country. The Liberal junta which has held onto power for a supermajority of the country's existence has been denounced by international observers as constituting a one party state.

The unelected "Labour Control Board" has declared the striking of Flight Attendants illegal and seeks to force them back into unpaid indentured servitude. The union representing flight attendants has announced they will defy this order. It remains to be seen if the Canadian Secret Police will respond with the same violence seen in previous protests against illegal oil pipelines.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-canada-strike-illegal-1.7611447

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 78 points 4 months ago

Teen kills parents in attempt to gain funds to assassinate Trump. The teen was linked to the Order of Nine Angels, a neo-nazi/pedophile group originating in the UK. (Huge CW for looking up this group or any related groups for violence, pedophilia, animal cruelty, suicide)

Anyone have any thoughts on ONA or related groups like 764 and terrorgram? They feel very parapolitical to me in a strategy of tension kind of way. They've been linked to multiple terror attacks across Europe and the Americas, oftentimes carried out by people as young as 14. Right wing accelerationism seems to be on an upswing since COVID.

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 67 points 6 months ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-february-1-1.7447829

Canada announces retaliatory tariffs against the USA. Initial tariffs will be 25% of $30 billion as of Tuesday, followed by 25% of $125 billion in three weeks

Part of me thinks these tariffs from the US will remain until the next election and the Cons are elected. Trump will then drop the tariffs and the Cons can take it as a victory and claim they saved Canada

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 87 points 7 months ago

Just remember in any war of US imperialism the bourgeoisie of the invaded country suffers the least. The people who will suffer the most are the indigenous people of Canada and Greenland who will have their treaties annulled along with the poor and working class who rely on the basic social services Canada offers that the US does not.

Canada as a state sucks and the people in charge would deserve it, but they will not suffer, everyone else will.

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submitted 8 months ago by Kaputnik@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Currently trying to refund the new Indiana Jones game because it's unplayable without raytracing cri. My card isn't even old, it's just 8GB of VRAM is the absolute minimum apparently so my mobile 3060 is now useless. I miss when I used to be able to play new games in 2014 on my shitty AMD card at 20fps, yeah it didn't look great but developers still included a very low graphics option for people like me. Now you need to be upgrading every 2 years to keep up.

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submitted 9 months ago by Kaputnik@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

This is bad right? No known links means this is spreading undetected through the population right now. doomjak

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago

Trudeau bans Tiktok from operating in Canada, but not banning Canadians from using it? Essentially just forcing Tiktok to close their Canadian offices and lay off their employees.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-canada-review-1.7375965

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 73 points 11 months ago

All the talk about TIFF cancelling the documentary about Russian soldiers is breaking my brain. It's not enough that the documentary is already pro Ukraine by showing the Russian soldiers become disillusioned with the war, anything that shows Russians as human beings cannot be allowed in Western media. Knowing kkkanada they would gladly show a documentary humanizing Nazis but Russians are a bridge too far

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

I am receiving reports that the Trans Mega has ties to Shadow Inc. And is obfuscating the primary results

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

They're really trying to pull the US into this by escalating and provoking a serious response

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Setting up following this guide: https://mullvad.net/en/help/shadowsocks-android

And I have everything in OpenVPN and Shadowsocks set up like they say, but when I try to connect to the Shadowsocks server I get the error "Failed to detect internet connection: connection closed". The upload/download shows I can upload at ~30 kbps but no download.

I'm on MIUI 14 which may be the problem because I know it has some issues with...everything really... But I turned off power saver so it should be allowed to run in the background

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kaputnik@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

And not in a good way.

The movie is written by Nick Pinkerton, who I've never heard of before but is apparently associated with the Red Scare Pod in some way. The movie is a mumblecore surrealist comedy loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, where the main character travels through different parts of the United States and meets different characters. It's got some funny parts and it held together well enough in the beginning but it starts to drag by the second vignette and really starts to broadcast where it leans politically.

The main character essentially acts listlessly throughout the entire movie and calls things and people ableist slurs. While other characters are supposed to...I guess represent different political positions in the US? I don't really know what the point was meant to be, but the vibe is "caring about things is dumb". There's four main vignettes which boil down to the following:

spoiler

  1. A group of anarchists that never actually profess any political beliefs besides not working and eating food from the garbage. The main anarchist character is immediately shown to b a sex pest and the group then goes out to a field to fight Nazis that aren't there. (This is the only representation of the political left in the movie)

  2. An academic Nazi who takes in our main character and lets her live in his house. He is given ample time to espouse his ideas and does not attempt to sleep with the main character which is shown to be a big deal. She lives with him as a tradwife for some time, and is like happy with it I think? But eventually runs away

  3. Two New York film makers who are making a period piece. Sorry I really don't know what this one was trying to say it just felt random, but the film shoot ends when Nazis shoot everyone.

  4. An Arabic guy who saves the main character from the shooting, but oh no! It turns out he's locking her away to be his wife and also he lives in a terrorist training camp.

And then finally the writer of the movie shows up as a Catholic monk to save the main character and talk about miracles for some reason.


Maybe I don't get it because I don't really vibe with this kind of art. But genuinely this movie was pretty boring and it feels gross when you know the politics behind it. I will give them credit though, I was anticipating a TERFy joke the entire movie and I didn't catch one.

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Went to see Challengers last night (good movie btw) and before the movie they played the most unhinged ad I've ever seen. It was AI generated children talking about being victims of the holocaust. It straight up looked like one of those ai tiktok slop stories that bot farms make. Something about a giant image of a child talking about gas chambers while their eyes shifted unnaturally and gazed into nothingness really made me uncomfortable.

Apparently it was to encourage Holocaust education?? Just absolutely terrible execution

I haven't been able to find the ad online yet but if anyone does feel free to share with the class

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submitted 1 year ago by Kaputnik@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

If you're into the idea of a John Wick esque action movie where Dev Patel fights the BJP and RSS then I really recommend this.

It doesn't outright name the BJP but it's pretty obvious. It's also got some good commentary on land seizures, along with the treatment of indigenous and Muslim communities in India. Also some good representation of the Hijra community which I haven't seen mentioned in much Western media

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 90 points 2 years ago

The Toronto police have charged a man with a hate crime after he waved a PFLP flag at a protest this is pretty unprecedented and blatantly biased considering how often you see chuds flying Confederate flags in rural areas of the country with no one stopping them

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago

I have to live to see the collapse of the evil empire, I need to see the end of all the death it brings. Remember the third world is just around the corner

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In Canada the only party showing any support for Palestinians is the NDP, which is sad because they're the most milquetoast socdems I've ever seen and their support is similarly weak. But when one representative goes a little bit farther and actually calls for ending the occupation of Palestine, the party leadership forces her to apologize and the government of Ontario is trying to prevent the MPP from being recognized as a sitting representative. Literally exposing how meaningless our conceptions of liberal democracy are when the people who voted for this representative are being told they can't actually vote for those ideas because it's out of step with the western party line

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