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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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It makes sense that growing up in a certain part of the world, or growing up with family who did, might impact how you see certain things. And it's not surprising that not everyone does a great job analyzing and unpacking their ingrained biases. Plenty of us don't either.

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Some people are fixated on Middle Eastern politics, hating Jews and the West, and seeming sympathetic to or defensive about Islamist terrorism. I'm expected to never breathe a word about their coming from Muslim families, and what impact that may have had on their perspective?

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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 · 03/10/2026

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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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

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.)

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

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.

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

irisembury.substack.com

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.

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.

Iris @irisembury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know what you think racism will persuade me of.

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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 · 18/09/2026

Hamas wanted the release of all their people and for Israel to not enter Gaza. No human on the planet would have accepted their offer.

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The funniest possible outcome would be if Ed Sheeran donated half the money to Gaza and half to Israel.

Imagine getting DMs tone-policing your friends for being mad that hundreds of your people were slaughtered and taken hostage. yeah I'd have "cancelled" her too (literally all she's alleging is Chelsea Handler stopped inviting her to stuff bc she ruined their friendship w ts)

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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 · 16/09/2026

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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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.

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.

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?