DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My parents, animal rights activists, nonetheless brought me up with a cultural understand of hunting and fishing. I can shoot a gun and write code and I've got a natural eye for decor. Raised pagan. I don't care about genitals (do like tits tho). I'm mixed heritage in language and race. 14/14 220
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Oh, and I know what you're thinking; entitled undereducated white woman. No. I could use university level diction, but I choose not to. I long ago understood that writing to impress rather than communicate is stupid. 13/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I voted for a Liberal, because that was who could win. Do I regret that now? Yes, but I also would have regretted throwing away my vote had there been a close CPC win in my riding. But the landscape has changed. Poilievre is cooked. The LPC has a juggernaut of centre right to left support. 12/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026None of us are perfect in staying focused on our core principle. I did the 'lesser evil' thing too; I saw the real danger of a CPC win the Canadian federal election and advised folks to vote for the least conservative candidate with a chance of winning in their riding. 11/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Carney is the most conservative PM in most of our lifetimes, he's shredded Canada's regulations to promote investment from the worst people and industries, most of them from outside Canada. He's selling our country. He's meeting rightwing conservatives in the middle, eroding rights. 10/14 110
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm seeing progressives flip to support for PM Carney because he walked from a predictably fake trade negotiation. What are you people doing??? This is some Platner support level bullshit. 9/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Maybe it's because the revolution we commies are fighting for isn't one that's likely to happen in our lifetimes, at least not until we're old and feeble, that causes the divide with progressives. Different timelines, similar but different objectives. 8/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I am not someone who shields the person knocked to the ground, I'm the one who tells them to get up and fight dirty and teaches them how. I tell them to get over themselves and deal with reality. That's hard, both for the person hearing it and the person delivering the message. 7/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm a communist, which puts me to the left of 99% of you. We commies tend to be more, er, aggressive? There are core principles we try not to deviate from whereas progressivism seems more fluid. We want many similar things. However, I find you folks as frustrating as I expect you find me. 6/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Maybe my happy place being the average Bluesky user's nightmare stems from my interests skewing blue collar male coded. I like deathmatch pro wrestling and MMA. I'm comfy hanging with guys who do the whole banter thing. The dark woke crowd - who I shit on at times, btw - are more my speed. 5/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I actively involve myself in rightwing spaces because I want to know what they're saying, not hide from it. Knowledge is power. It's better to be in a position to act first rather than react. 4/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I spend a LOT of time confronting pure assholery on platforms that allow us to fight. That's my domain, not the land of cowardly blocklists. I compartmentalize my online life; hobby sites that skew rightwing? I don't need that and I'll walk. Getting into it with a Twitter fascist? Yummy!!! 3/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Bluesky is soft. Yes, I know that softness is what many of you came seeking, but it's suffocating to others. Maybe it surprises you that a woman would say this, but the rise of authoritarian boss babes should indicate we aren't all the same, not even under the (too) big left tent. 2/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Having given it a few months, I've realized Bluesky, while it's a valid platform, is not for me. Hear me out, because what I have to say includes things most of you need to listen to. TL;DR incoming, but you might learn something. 1/14 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So now leftists are just going to forget all about everything Carney has done - from rolling back climate regs to slyly making US military purchases - because he walked away from a predicably false deal. The left is talking like the libs and centrists. Fuck this. Grow a spine, babies. 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026No, but you really should just say Trump and not use silly nicknames or gifs. It's really hard for some of us to separate out who is a serious person and who is coming from the lib slop media world when we see or hear this. (I'm not including the OP in the "we", btw) 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I want him gone too, for different reasons of course, so ... good on her, I guess. He's pulled our country to the right in his quest to remake Canada as an investor-friendly AI and fossil fuel attraction. He let the US drag out this farce, and was willing to sign, until they dropped the mask. 000
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026They continue to platform the wrong Canadian politicians without knowing their alignment and views, ignore the key issues, frame it all as Trump being a baby, call it a win for Canada, lack any context for why we arrived here and don't realize Carney came to the table an economic conservative. 2/2 052
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026American media - including the independent side - is ignorant about Canada. They do not understand why the latest trade talks failed, what was proposed, why it mattered, how their government follows an 11th hour insane demands playbook in other talks or what the Canadian politicians represent. 1/2 152
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Republicans want hemispheric dominance where other country in the Americas is a pliant vassal providing support at international forums and granting the US exclusive rights to resources and investment. The Democrats paternalistically treat the rest of us like shit too, but this is worse. 030
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The problem extends to US independent media. None of them understand Canada and their 'reports' are ridiculous slop that get the facts wrong and platform the wrong politicians. I'm also getting really, REALLY tired of Trump being placed at the centre. This is a Republican issue; not one old man. 021
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Articulate and sane as usual. Thanks for this. I'm more of a confrontational sort who engages with the, er, less informed so my words are more on the blunt, easy read side. Being a tired and lazy girl at this point, I'm just linking my TL;DR around Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/debu... 011
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This is the most reasonable opinion - imo, of course - I've seen yet! Tired, lazy girl just here linking her own TL;DR at this ppoint: bsky.app/profile/debu... 000
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026He shouldn't have been talking to them this long to begin with. I'm lazy and tired of arguing, so I'm linking my posts on this and walking away (like Canada should have weeks ago): bsky.app/profile/debu... 030
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm tired of explaining why I feel Canada should never have entered negotiations, and that Carney should have know the real goals, so I'm just linking my own posts: bsky.app/profile/debu... 000
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm tired of explaining this, so I'm at that point where I link my posts: bsky.app/profile/debu... 120
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026He shouldn't have engaged with the Republicans in the first place. I'm tired of typing, so I'm just linking my own posts from now on: bsky.app/profile/debu... 000
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Carney seems to have thought shifting Canada to the right, remaking us as an industry-friendly investment option and realigning immigration and regulations to closer to the US would be enough to allow an "economic and security partnership" that didn't equal annexation. He was wrong. 3/3 000
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The playbook they use when they want something important is to drag out negotiations, constantly adding new demands, and then drop insanity on the table in the 11th hour. They did this with Ukraine. They do it with Iran. They do it with Palestine. They with several South American countries. 2/3 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I want to know why we engaged in this charade at all. The Republicans want hemispheric control, turning the Americas into vassal states who provide consistent support at international forums and grant the US exclusive access to resources and other assets. If I know this, Carney sure should. 1/3 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It's NOT about Trump! Stop focusing on him and look at the Republicans and the think tanks behind them. The US wants hemispheric control, creating vassal states providing support at international forums and granting them exclusive access to resources and other assets. Carney should have known. 220
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Carney thought his conservative, pro industry remaking of Canada would please them enough to allow an "economic and security partnership" that didn't amount to annexation. He should have know better. I mean, I'm nobody sitting on her sofa with a wise and vengeful cat and I saw what was coming. 6/6 060
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It works like this; keep adding increasingly punitive demands and then, near the end of the deadline, drop insanity on the table so that the other side has to walk. Then the US says they tried, but the terrible people they negotiated with didn't want to "make a deal". See Iran for the template. 5/6 150
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The negotiations were a charade. When the Republicans want something important, and aren't just seeing what goodies they can pressure other states into giving them, they follow a recognizable playbook. 4/6 141
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Canada, and other countries in the Americas, is expected to grant the US control of all foreign policy, trade deals and domestic economy. Essentially, be a non-voting state. 3/6 152
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026They expect these vassals to provide unquestioning support for the US at international forums and grant the US exclusive access to resources and any other assets. They want complete control of the hemisphere as they realize they cannot control the globe and fear the rise of other powers. 2/6 141
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Listen, I don't know why most folks can't see the pattern but I'll lay it out for you; The Republicans - this is bigger than Trump, so stop focusing on him - want to create a hemispheric block in the Americas of compliant vassal states. 1/6 154
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The Republicans want a hemispheric collection of vassal states that provide unquestioning support at international forums and grant the US exclusive access to resources and other assets. Carney dragging Canada to the right doesn't cut it. This is about dominance. 2/2 010
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Carney should have damn well known this was a charade. What the Republicans did is exactly what they do with Iran peace talks - keep adding ridiculous demands until the other side walks, then claim they tried but the terrible people didn't want to "make a deal". 1/2 220
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Why? You knew what they really wanted - a hemispheric block of vassal states that offer unquestioning support at international forums and grant exclusive US access to resources and other assets. Canada shouldn't have been dragged into the charade. Conservative policy isn't what they want. 020
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026They do this with Iranian peace talks. They do it with North and South American countries they want as compliant vassals. The goal isn't trade, it's creating a hemispheric block that supports the US at international forums and grants exclusive US access to resources. 2/2 020
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Can we stop saying it's Trump? This is a Republican problem. Anyway, Carney should have know this wasn't serious negotiation. The playbook the Republicans follow when something they want is at stake is to keep adding increasingly absurd demands until the other side walks. 1/2 110
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026He should have known this was the plan. He went in thinking shared energy projects and security could be negotiated if he pushed Canada further right and lowered regulations, but the Republicans want all of North and South America as compliant vassal states who provide backup on the global stage. 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You should never have entered into serious negotiation. The Republicans followed the same playbook they do when they want something beyond extra goodies - add unrealistic demands that force the other side to walk, then claim they tried. They deliberately wasted your time and set you up. 100
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As I said, the Republicans had no intention of true negotiation. It was a waste of time, a charade, and Canada should have not been dragged into it. Carney sought an "economic and security partnership" not US control Canada's over trade and relationships with other countries. 2/2 010
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"The suggestion that Canada would not trade with other countries or reduce our trade with other countries ... would reduce us to the economic equivalent of the 51st state," Eby said. And there it is. That is not a serious request, it's an announcement of annexation. 1/2 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caU.S. trade demands aimed to reduce Canada to equivalent of 51st state, B.C. premier says | CBC NewsPremier David Eby said that his government would support Canada's counter-measures in the wake of an escalation in the U.S.-Canada trade war. 111
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hey, I just took your dare and made a TL;DR post thread just for you! bsky.app/profile/debu... 160
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'd protect Canadian media from foreign ownership while strengthening our digital laws and taxes. I'd tax the rich proportionally. I'd invest in housing, creating a federal homebuilding initiative. I'd adapt to changes and setbacks as they came. And then I'd hope for the best 10/10 040
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'd take public ownership of natural resources and infrastructure. I'd enhance funding for national creation of generic versions of patent-expired medications, reinvesting any revenue in domestic medical research. I'd invest in drones. I'd ensure Canada has our own nukes as deterrents. 9/10 120
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'd invite foreign engineers, medical professionals and scientists to work at our universities and hospitals. I'd give them realistic, subsidized and rapid ways to certify in their fields, allowing them to get right to work at what they do best. 8/10 130