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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 4h
If British & French settlers coming so early confers no special relation or consideration, then so-called "indigenous" people deserve no status either, because they're just immigrants too, and we've established that arriving earlier than other people means nothing. How does one reconcile this?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 4h
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 22h
I made a video going over my thoughts about leftist YouTubers. youtu.be/R_xfJqp3M4g
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Thoughts on Leftist YouTube
YouTube video by Iris Embury
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm glad to see some pushback by the government on MAiD. Canadian courts keep trying to remove practically all restrictions on it whatsoever.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I normally disrespect online "debate" content, most of it's terrible. This is one of the best I've seen in ages — actually calm, responsive, staying on point. Really high quality for a confrontation of this type. youtu.be/nFDwAi7x0PU?...
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He Came to Convince Destiny Gaza Is a Genocide. It Got HEATED.
YouTube video by Destiny
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I remember right-wingers used to talk about "the unholy alliance" meaning Leftism and Islamism. Whether you thought they sounded insane or like they were onto something depends on your reference point for "leftists": accepting progressives, or anti-Western militants.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like when it comes to white people, or straight people, or men, people are a little better at seeing patterns and spotting potential biases. I'm having trouble figuring out the right way to frame a conversation about Middle Eastern identity politics and its biases.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The racism against Indians and other South Asians (people can't tell the difference so we just call them all Indians) is a still-growing and pernicious political force. It really exploded over the last 10 years and is probably not going away any time soon. It hasn't even peaked.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm confused by the concern about Chinese cars. There's already Chinese-made cars on the streets of Europe, Australia, & Latin America. We also have lots of Chinese-made smart phones in use. How could Canada importing Chinese cars be the big red line that changes everything?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
until there's any evidence to suggest otherwise I still believe Trump chose both Pence and Vance just because he thought their names were cool
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
extremist cliché
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is false. MAiD was not decided democratically by Parliament nor voters. It was randomly foisted on us by the SCC & other courts via creative interpretations of the Charter. The 42nd Parliament did not even try to push back; Trudeau just said "the court has ruled." @choosehappy.bsky.social
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's fascinating. It's like he just keeps getting stupider.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish Noam Chomsky didn't teach leftists the word "manufacturing."
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember, when Trump says Canada is bad because we made a deal to trade more China, that's not a real reason. He just needed an excuse and saw a headline about China so that's what he blurted out.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 2019, Trump falsely warned the public Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama (no forecast showed this). Then, because he's incapable of admitting wrongdoing, he doubled down by drawing with sharpie onto this map and pretending it proved him right. (Right pic: pre-sharpie map.)
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're a young person and feel like you're not sure what you're doing in life, consider joining the military.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote about all the problems I have with Canada's opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, here: irisembury.substack.com/p/216081530
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The Problems with Pierre
Laying out all the reasons – of varying importance, and in no particular order – that I do not support the Opposition
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week in viral online Palestine hysteria:
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jake & Logan Paul are popular in the sense that everybody seems to know of them but unpopular in the sense that I'm not aware of anyone who actually likes them.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tweets are too short for some topics. If you're interested I wrote some thoughts about Canada's airport privatization debate here: irisembury.substack.com/p/216649667
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Airport privatization in Canada
Though it’s been a big topic of conversation over the last year or so (ever since Mr.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Patriotism being more left-leaning isn't unique to Canada. For the last decade if you meet a right-winger online from France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, etc., chances are they trash their country and simp for the U.S. It's an effect of political globalization via the internet.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what is it about somebody jumping on blocks through a minecraft environment that the human mind finds so alluring
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
someone: does a thing internet: he has a weird obsession with that thing. not a good look. he's so out of touch. he can't read the room. this has already backfired for him.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Gadsden flag, featuring an American timber rattlesnake, is a classic symbol of American liberty and resilience. Christopher Gadsden, the guy who created it, was a massive slave owner who died wealthy still owning slaves at age 81. Kind of ruins the symbolism, you know?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The funniest possible outcome would be if Ed Sheeran donated half the money to Gaza and half to Israel.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A comedian called Salma Hindy claims she got cancelled after trying to privately call out Sarah Silverman and Amy Schumer for "disgustingly racist dehumanizing posts" about Palestinians. Then she shows the posts, and they literally weren't that at all. So ridiculous. And this was October 2023.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gaza and Lebanon deserved to be destroyed by Israel. Sorry, wait, no, I just meant Israel attacking them is blowback. Have you heard of that? It's a CIA concept. This is out of context.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reporters should start asking Trump whether the U.S. should give up Hawaii because I feel like there's a non-zero chance he'd randomly be like "yeah."
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think Ukraine is easily the most important thing happening in the world right now and if you're going to purity test anybody on anything it should probably be their attitude toward that conflict.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran said he didn't want political messaging at his concerts because he doesn't want to take sides in stuff. This image then went viral, because the pro-Palestine crowd is very sane and understands politics very well and is totally worth trying to appease.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There needs to be clear language to make the sex distinction. We can't take everything off the table and leave normal people confused about what language they're supposed to use. Trans women are male by definition. If they were female, they would be cis women. Keep it simple.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In my opinion there's a big difference between your name and country vs. your private id or geo info (address, phone, SSN, place of work). And doxing obviously refers to the latter. If you say "doxed" but you just mean a name then nobody really cares.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The queer community purity-spirals into stupidity by telling you it's all or nothing and you're not allowed to draw the line anywhere. If you disagree with them about anything ever, they freak out and say you're a traitor who's just trying and make Trump supporters like you.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is there any proof Grindr actually has outages because there's some Republican Party event somewhere as opposed to just claiming they do because it gets their app constant free advertising?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd still support a politician whose stance on trans sports was "we shouldn't let trans people in women's sports because it's not fair" and that's it. Like, whatever. Very different question in principle from washrooms or prisons.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe a contributing factor to the Democratic Party having such a low approval rating is because of how much of the left-wing media that would-be Democratic voters listen to spend half their time trying to convince their audience to hate the Democratic Party?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pics of Macklemore in this 'Jew costume' trended alongside news of him at a concert with Ed Sheeran, so for a minute I thought he just did this days ago. But it was from 2014, and at a glance I find his explanation about it back then reasonably plausible.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe a lot of people reacting to the German election news have mistaken it for being about a national election, as opposed to a state-level election in one of Germany's lowest-population states.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/09/2026
MAGA’s hunt for a “censorship–industrial complex” has failed to yield any evidence, yet the conspiracy theory persists—with real-world consequences, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argues:
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The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Something I cannot stand is how people who talk politics online have started using "raped" to describe people they dislike. It's gross and I mute every account I see talk this way.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are people who consider immigration so sacrosanct they basically admit they would rather fascists win than do anything to address it. Their strategy is to insist, against all evidence, that nobody actually really cares about immigration, so we can just ignore it, forever.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish performatively edgy people understood how boring they are.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Do you think Cenk Uygurexperiences some kind of actual Jew-induced psychosis, or is he just playing a character for clicks à la Alex Jones?
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ford said this because taking questions is normally the very last thing they do before they leave, so because there were no reporters, he could just go, event's over. It's like saying TGIF, or a janitor saying "oh good, no spills to clean up, shift's over." Harmless. #cdnpoli
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don't really care about Israel. I'm not Jewish, I don't know any Jews, it's just some country somewhere, a dart on a map. Still, I can't not notice how "Israel is doing genocide!" has been warped into a permission slip for some of the most vicious people on the internet.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
reminder that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid were pushing for government-funded healthcare before any of you had heard of Bernie Sanders. If the American public had elected just one (1) more Democrat to the Senate, the United States would've got a public option in 2009
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian think Dem politicians who condemned Hasan Piker were taking orders from Israeli handlers from Tel Aviv.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I get the feeling American left-wingers don't even realize Ted Cruz runs a podcast because I never see it referenced anywhere. It's called The Verdict. His co-host is Michael Knowles. They started it 6 years ago. I think the fact it even exists is wildly inappropriate.
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Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't hear as much as I should about Gov. Abigail Spanberger. Won big in Virginia in 2025, has been pushing many Democratic initiatives since then. Where is the online campaign celebrating every breath she takes, like you see for some other politicians?
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