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Éris Serène 
usernameswift@labyrinth.zone
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>The Ontario government is developing new measures that would require impaired drivers to pay ongoing child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian.
A rare W from this government
A rare W from this government
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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) 
eris@p.enes.lv
Before expanding the CW I let myself take a guess at what "onpol" stood for and all I could think of was "onion politics"
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@eris @usernameswift “onpol” like “on god”
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Edited 2 months ago
this, given the context of the thread, reminds me of a couple big mishears/misunderstandings i had about the national anthem when i first heard it as a kid
1. i parsed "our home and native land", as an immigrant who was taught repeatedly how welcoming to immigrants this place was, as "our home and Native land", like a front-and-centre indigenous land acknowledgement was built right into the anthem decades before it was cool
2. "we stand, on God, for thee!" was quickly corrected though had this been a few decades later i may yet be living under the impression that "on God" was a much, much older* expression than it is
*ok it's obviously one of those things that's appropriated from AAVE after breaching containment and thus much older than my POC-without-the-BI cracker-adjacentness could be aware of, but knowyourmeme https://knowyourmeme.c... doesn't trace it any further back than 2000 and that line was written by a white guy back in 1908
RE: https://ublog.kimapr.net/objects/2a4fc743-6efa-49ea-9444-0fed97d980e4
1. i parsed "our home and native land", as an immigrant who was taught repeatedly how welcoming to immigrants this place was, as "our home and Native land", like a front-and-centre indigenous land acknowledgement was built right into the anthem decades before it was cool
2. "we stand, on God, for thee!" was quickly corrected though had this been a few decades later i may yet be living under the impression that "on God" was a much, much older* expression than it is
*ok it's obviously one of those things that's appropriated from AAVE after breaching containment and thus much older than my POC-without-the-BI cracker-adjacentness could be aware of, but knowyourmeme https://knowyourmeme.c... doesn't trace it any further back than 2000 and that line was written by a white guy back in 1908
RE: https://ublog.kimapr.net/objects/2a4fc743-6efa-49ea-9444-0fed97d980e4
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