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Nigel Hakeem
@nigelhakeem.bsky.social
Writer, Bookseller, Marxist, Reality TV enthusiast. UBC CRWR.
this wave of canadian nationalism is so nauseating. there's no justification for supporting a settler colonial nation regardless of its relationship with the u.s. empire.
I wonder how the writers who sided with the Giller Prize and that sweet, sweet blood money over their colleagues last year are feeling right now. This is welcome news, but I'm gonna remember those writers going forward.
Now would be a great time for the left in Canada to have a serious, coherent agenda that seeks a structural transformation of material life in service of workers, rather than, you know, keyboard warrior emoji shit and first-year undergrad epithets.
ICE picking up every non-white person they can and putting them in detention centres is connected to all the tariffs. America is going to need to manufacture everything themselves, and those people will be used as slave labour. America is just getting ready to ramp up doing slavery.
A bunch of losers went out and threw Nazi salutes in Alberta, Canada yesterday while holding racist signs. Might be time for the media to stop calling them “hand gestures” and start reporting on this big fucking problem for what it is!
Fellow Canadians, I think now would be a good time for all of us to start learning about the French resistance and partisans during WWII. Feels like that'd be some good knowledge to have right now.
I just got my membership! I'm very excited to see someone so committed to uplifting people in Vancouver elected to council.
As I posted already over on the bad site, I am officially throwing my hat into the ring for the @copevancouver.bsky.social nomination! Please consider signing up/donating/volunteering and let’s tell ABC and the billionaire booster class that Vancouver is not for sale!
Peak liberalism is watching the US take off its mask so the fascism is looking all of us right in the eyes, and thinking a social media post calling Trump stupid is somehow a show of resistance.
America is doing Nazi salutes at their presidential inauguration and talking about how they are going to invade, and our leaders are arguing about who's gonna be tougher at the negotiating table. What the fuck are we doing?!
Rednote has opened a lot of eyes to how we've been fed propaganda and lied to about China. This is good. Now that we realize that, we should be thinking about what other countries have we been told lies about. North Korea, Cuba, the USSR, etc.
TV seasons should be 22 episodes long with no commercials, made by cable auteurs who get network money but work reasonable hours & there should be a legally obligated Halloween episode with a sexy misunderstanding
my sources are telling me that with tiktok banned Gen Z are buying thematically linked short story collections in droves
are you guys gonna be communists yet bc i don’t think i have another four years of this shit left in me
tv seasons should be 22 episodes long and at least 30% of those should be pure crap
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
The kids are dying without media literacy.
I dunno. After reading the first few chapters of American Gods, I was like, the author is fucked up. Same for the lady who wrote My Lovely Bones. It's pretty easy to tell, imo. Authors often expose their state of mind through their writing.
Just got on Rednote, and the first video I saw was a fancam of Luigi. I think I'll be staying there. The people yearn for the Communist Party of China!
Anybody know where Biden is? I feel that as president, he could at least weigh in on Trump annexing canada.
I think Tom Mulcair should run for Liberal leader. That'd be fun.
First day back to school. My poetry class meets in the basement of the business school, and that somehow feels totally appropriate to me lol
What's it called when the state starts to combine with corporations? I swear there's a name for that.
SCOOP: Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. He believes the inauguration is a great American tradition and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity.
The funny thing about a potential Bloc opposition is that it will be our only hope for a social democratic opposition party that knows how to do politics.