From a social investigation by kites in 2021, Chronicles of the struggling and dispossessed
Our caravan managed to interview a home-owner named Marie from Lillooet, a small town an hour up the road from Lytton. Marie was a healthcare worker, and the Federal government had just offered to rent or buy out her house so that emergency crew workers could be stationed in the region to battle the proliferating fires. Cheekily, comrades asked why she decided to buy a house in a region on fire:
Well it wasn't always on fire! But yeah, when we put an offer on the house, we did have friends say, "Are you worried about the fire zone?" I said "No, I mean, I know there's been forest fires, but nothing was that bad." My understanding was that the wildfire forest service comes in and they build a guard for protection and to protect the town, right? There've been histories of evacuations, but it didn't really cross my mind that a town could burn to the ground. That seemed like some spectacular event.
Comrades asked Marie if she thought this was creating a shift in people's perspective around the urgency of climate change:
I think people are still dealing with things in the day to day. I know in Lillooet there's still fires on each side: one in Lytton, one in McKay Creek. There's like 200 fire fighters within 80km of our town. Wait... no, more than that because Ashcroft is on evacuation notice as well, and so is 100 Mile House. Like, there's 125 fire fighters just in Mckay Creek, so there's encampments of forest firefighters because there's nowhere to house them. We actually had the federal government call and ask to rent out our house because there's nowhere for them...
And it never even crossed my mind: Where do all the people go? You evacuate 1,500 people from a town, where the fuck are they supposed to go?.. I think a lot of people still don't know if or what they're going back too.
What 80 years of peace at home does to a mf.
Predictive policing. At this point we will soon consider Minority Report a documentary.
So you're saying America bad? Even though they didn't nuke anybody for 80 years? Curious.
That's what peak revolutionary performance looks like.
Ngl I've been getting the same weird vibe from them for a while. Particularly when the questions are framed as "is this thing that we generally support actually bad, or maybe not?"
Talk to them about good political news as well. When all you hear is "everything everywhere is terrible" it's easy to just tune it out. Successful unionization efforts, protests, progressive legislature.
I prefer mocking them and making them invoke death threats towards me
This sounds extremely unhealthy.
JUST ONE MORE PACKAGE BRO
I SWEAR BRO JUST ONE MORE, I SWEAR
The LGBTQIA+ community came together to celebrate pride month in spite of police brutality, military enlistment office kidnappings, and general homophobic attitudes from the population.
Meanwhile, at the capital's main square gathered the "activists for traditional values". They waved the ultra-nationalist Right Sector and Azov flags, and chanted "To the Ukraine's enemies? Death, Death, Death". They started marching, and later ran towards the location of the pride parade, but by the time they reached it, the participants already have dispersed. Here's the video.
I don't think it's about people not believing in the all-encompassing systemic institutional racism. That's kinda impossible if you look at literally any statistic with racial distribution.
This type of stuff is deranged by any standards. With how extremely individualistic the people, especially the conservatives are, you normally expect the hatred to be projected outwards, not inwards. That's the whole point of in-circles. So I'd expect to hear something like "I will take my second amendment and actually murder this person for standing near my white child". And the "You're no longer my kid" - "K" is definitely not a typical interaction.