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What are some changes Canada can make to further distinguish its self from the USA? (piefed.zip)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (18 children)

Decolonize.

Cede sovereignty over all territory to first nations.

Subjugate yourselves to a first nations tribunal for your crimes against humanity.

Transfer land and wealth to the first nations until a tribunal of first nations people have decided it's enough.

Shutdown the RCMP's operations that target first nations people and places.

Rename everything back to the original names the first nations had for them. Seek a first nations committee to rename anything with an English, French, or appropriated first nations name.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    In my region, several First Nations are fighting over the same land. Apparently even they have "colonization" problems with each other. I wonder which year/century/millenia we would have to go back to for everyone to agree on whose land it was?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Colonization and its legacy are much bigger than a regional land dispute. Canada will eventually need to come to terms with its history if it wants to move forward. It can't wear its dark past as an albratross around its neck forever. I do commend the prior prime minister for his efforts in bringing these issues to the forefront.

    I don't agree with everything freagle is saying but it's true that the RCMP has historically targeted indigineous peoples. Indigineous peoples are very much treated as the lower caste of Canada, similar to the Romani people in Europe (though with a very different history) and Canada could do better at remedying the injustice it brought upon the original stewards of the land. There's no reason that should offend any settlers or their descendants.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago

    No, that's not what colonization is. You should educate yourself on your own country. Let's take one example of how a land dispute between two First Nations is not equivalent to colonization.

    The First Nations didn't decide where their reservations would be, the English settlers decided that. That's colonization.

    The First Nations didn't decide which tribes would be legally recognized and which would not, the English settlers decided that. That's colonization.

    The First Nations didn't decide that tribal membership would be based on blood quantum, the English settlers decided that. Not only is that colonization, it's literally genocidal colonization. Why? Because the reservations and First Nations populations are tied together, meaning that if a First Nation is no longer federally recognized, their land goes back to the settlers. And since the settler government killed so many of them in the process of colonization, First Nations have low population. So when you say that you are required to have a minimum of 1/4 blood quantum to be a federally recognized member, then the tribe either has to intramarry and create huge genetics problems, or they need to marry across tribes and dilute their blood quantum. Eventually the settler system will breed out enough blood quantum that they can reclaim the land.

    That's colonization.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    You personally or the country that you are a citizen of? Because I never said that each member of the society committed crimes against humanity. But if you're going to use the land that your forbears made available to you through genocide, you might find that your protestations that you shouldn't be punished just because you've built your whole life around the spoils of other people's war crimes don't hold a lot of weight.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, the State of Canada, as a body politic, must undergo a full transference of sovereignty to the original inhabitants of the land who were subjected to genocidal violence, cultural erasure, displacement, and other crimes against humanity on behalf of the project for Canada which every inhabitant of Canada necessarily benefits from by virtue of their occupation of the land, the consumption of its resources, and the displacement of their externalities.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah, let's make ourselves weaker to a hostile US. That's going to go over so well.

    Did you actually think about that before you posted it?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Or you could put the Canadian military into the hands of the first nations people and collaborate with them as they lead the defense against the torchbearer of European colonial empire

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    What makes you think they're all going to get along and respect the sovereignty of a nation that no longer exists but expects military dominance over them all?

    A communist revolution that replaces the provincial system with a nation council would fair much better.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    Communism without decolonization is currently theoretical and in theory it's deeply problematic.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Cede sovereignty over all territory to first nations.

    Subjugate yourselves to a first nations tribunal for your crimes against humanity.

    Transfer land and wealth to the first nations until a tribunal of first nations people have decided it’s enough.

    This is what's problematic.

    It doesn't make sense to divide the working class like that when they should be uniting. The land shouldn't be owned by one nation vs another, it's to be shared along with the wealth.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That's for the sovereign people to decide, not the occupiers. If you want working class solidarity, you'll need solidarity with the occupied peoples first.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting to have a .ml but disagree with Lenin's understanding of guiding the unconscious worker into a conscious one.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Lenin didn't deal with the colonial question. He did, however, deal with the national question, and clearly the national self-direction of the First Nations is dependent on decolonization.

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