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Category: politics

  • don’t read Tony and the Beetles

    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40964 [Orbit 1.2, 1953]

    don’t think about every amazing Philip K. Dick story or novel that has been made into a good or bad movie

    don’t think about allegory

    don’t think about maga and carney and the c/a/n/a/d/a project

    don’t think about south africa, or ground penetrating radar or residential “schools” or marked graves or mass graves, or “Indian Day Schools” or the “Indian Land Trust” [which is maybe worth C$600b to C$3t] or the great canadian genocide [ongoing, as well as historical]

    don’t think about what “Indians” means

    don’t think about Indigenous women making up less than 4% of the population here, but 48% of the federal prison population [it was 24% a decade ago, and 12% two decades ago]

    don’t think about how “remigration” is straight out of the nazi playbook

    don’t think about Nakba, or October 7 or eight decades of slow or brisk genocide of zionist psychopaths in Palestine, or zionist settler paramilitary death squads, or how canadian settlers are…on someone else’s land

    don’t think about Gaza or the manifest destiny of greater israel

    don’t think about the flotillas and the beatings and torture and sexual assault, or how the canadian and swedish governments did sweet fuck all to maintain how they are appeasing the zionist psychopaths, so they chose to not support “their” citizens who merely seek an end to genocide, when our elected leaders cavort with those fuckers

    don’t think about antifa and how we were all antifa until 80 years ago, and now with most wwii vets dead, we’ve let nazis and fascists exist under cover of civility politics

    don’t think about how mairikkkans are afraid to physically stop, let alone shoot or kill masked terrorists in their streets kidnapping people, under the guise of homeland security

    don’t think about how naive it is to think that if we protest peacefully the fascists will just stop, but they don’t think like us, and when 80 years ago we had to kill them as fast as possible to stop a global fascist takeover

    don’t think about the global fascist takeover happening right now, shhhhh

    don’t think about how so many people think antifa is an organization with a leader, whose girlfriend has been taken into custody by ice

    don’t think

    just, don’t

    but do, do read Tony and the Beetles!

  • antifa? wherrrre’s antifa?

    antifa? wherrrre’s antifa?

    Harry Bailey, almost at the very end of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. #antifa, through and through.

    pssssst, here.

    like, everyone I know is antifa

    at least if they aren’t, they should fuck off:

    I’ve started talking to people about my favorite fictional character who was antifa. Harry Bailey. People generally know who he is. I talk about how he saved so many people’s lives on that transport ship, because George Bailey was there to save him as a child. That’s what anti-fascism means to me on a real empathy level.

    The president even gave him a fucking medal for his heroism because he saved other antifa, by killing fascists.

    And thennnn they get to badly argue why It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t an antifa film, because is sure fucking is.

    And we all watch it every Christmas.

    It’s also anti oligarch, and pro community housing and credit unions. Fuck Mr. Potter…

    Fascists hate that shit.

  • end racists, don’t appease them

    end racists, don’t appease them

    This is so vile! This sick, racist verbal assault at Coquitlam Centre mall.

    The c/a/n/a/d/a project pretends to be friendly and polite. Sometimes we are nice, but we are rarely kind.

    We ignore our, and other genocides.

    We are steeped in white patriarchy in our systems, culture, institutions and sport (Hockey Canada rapists included here)

    The tri-cities used to be predominantly white decades ago, so it’s no surprise the whites are emboldened to spread their racist filth out loud, in public.

    But GENERATIONS ago, the tri-cities was Indigenous land, which is mostly lost on white people despite Coquitlam being an actual Indigenous word. Colonialism is a core, unexamined identity here.

    White people: our jobbbbb is to intervene and confront racists we encounter. There are no bystanders, but enablers and appeasers.

  • leave the TwitterMetaBroligarchCesspool

    when they tell you right out that misogyny doesn’t violate the community standards, leave…

    because racism, misogyny, fascism and hatred ARE the community standards

    join me on Mastodon

    from instagram (where I only exist a few times a month now)

    regarding the Hockey Canada Rapists…

  • no, the genocidal, occupying, zionist state of israel needs to go…no 2state fuckery

    no, the genocidal, occupying, zionist state of israel needs to go…no 2state fuckery

    https://mastodon.social/@Maxfieldripken/114944792650033372

    ok several things happened last night in the chain, linked above:

    1. they forced england out of Ireland 103 years ago
    2. they forced england out of India 78 years ago
    3. Czechoslovakia transformed into other things since say 1991
    4. the c/a/n/a/d/a project needs to go, same with mairikkka
    5. because of 1-3, we can do 4
    6. because of 1-3 we can get rid of israel, which is why that since 2023.10.07, zionist shills worldwide pushed the existential narrative that “israel has a right to exist” and “but do you condemn Hamas?” even though international law is on the side of the occupied (including in North America)
    7. Christians, Jews, Muslims and so many others coexisted in Palestine for centuries before they introduced the zionist cancer (with apologies to cancer)
    8. this Mastodon post above, and so much more, happened–read it, and the chain that followed, to see a variety of views about what we need to do with Palestine…and the 2state fuckery is not it
    9. also, this will help you orient to a 21c where we remove occupying empires…https://www.threads.com/@the.harm.in.harmony/post/DMxLXyPx5Ub
    10. and Rachel Gilmore first alerted me to slash-and-cut-carney pondering recognizing Palestine…so while the c/a/n/a/d/a project is inching forward on Palestine, it’s for almost alllll the wrong reasons.
    11. kthanksbye
    12. oh and fuck off american eagle master race fuckery too, and all you dine with

  • the lazy epidemic of passive income

    passive income = getting something for nothing, yet OTHER people are lazy?

    nothing…especially when it’s inherited!

    does that feel right? either way, here it is, much more eloquently:

    https://www.instagram.com/kaburbank

  • the hockey canada rapists

    Statistics Canada data shows only 36 per cent of police-reported sexual assaults ended in charges between 2015 and 2019, and fewer than half of those ended in a guilty verdict.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sexual-assault-court-process-canada-change-1.7593766

    and what percentage of sexual assaults don’t even get reported? someone left that enormous number out of this article, as a testament to failure

    too drunk to be credible, but ok to provide consent

    5 hockey players know enough to coerce her to “provide” consent on video?

    the bar is so insanely high for beyond a reasonable doubt, that it’s no surprise that racist genocidal colonializing upper class white supremacy men a few centuries ago, created our legal system

    these 5 hockey players…a pox upon anyone who pays them to wear skates

    they are in the stanford rapist circle of hell

    let’s make sure they stay there

  • #ElbowsUp #BuyUnion #BuyCanadian

    #ElbowsUp #BuyUnion #BuyCanadian

    https://canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/

    hey, here’s a list of unionized goods and services for you to prioritize in your spending

    you don’t have to be a political economist to know that with threats from #mairikkka (invasion, tariffs), climate breakdown, #BigCarbon, the wicked #CarneyCuts coming up to federal programs…one amazing thing to do, with very little effort, is to buy things made here by union workers

    we buy things anyway

    we want to improve our economic resilience

    we want to support other people in our communities

    we want to buy things that benefit workers, which unionized workplaces help accomplish

    but it’s hard to do all the research to make sure our money doesn’t help impoverish others or bleed out of the country (the database website doesn’t note foreign ownership, but some of the brands will be obvious to you)

    and it’s hard on your own to do all this research and filter by product or service, by city, etc.

    luckily the Canadian Labour Congress has done all that for you!

    go to there, isolate for your city, get familiar with what you could be buying

    and I suspect you’ll also see lots of things you’re already buying that are made here by unionized workers!

    Canadian Union-Made Products and Services
  • canadians are nice, but not kind (Tim Hortons version…)

    canadians are nice, but not kind (Tim Hortons version…)

    nice is when we pretend to be good people, but deep down our racist, colonial, genocidal blood festers

    kind demands authenticity that we mock with “nice,” and it enhances human dignity

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL-Loodgz41

    heres a cool video about a pay-it-forward chain at timmies

    great ad concept, mostly because it perpetuates the mythology

    most comments are heartwarming, naturally

    then there’s this:

    i love me a good canada

    i haven’t seen it tho

    the c/a/n/a/d/a project is vile, but we can make something better

    reconciliation is fake because we skipped the truth

    anyyyyy day now we can start embracing truths and build a real place that doesn’t depend on the false comfort that comes from racism

    one of the many ironies of this place is how timmies is a mairikkkan company now and this particular racist talks about the staff, not the ownership

    someday can be today!

  • slapp suits are vile, and a sign of a decaying, fascist and feudal society

    https://open.substack.com/pub/taylorlorenz/p/unitedhealth-got-a-docuseries-removed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9zc7r

    when billionaires, capitalists, fascists and corporate imperial feudalists want to shut you up, slapp suits are handy

    whenever you see them, just know that a free, democratic civil society is 37 hit points lower

  • paying off your home? don’t. just don’t.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/american-couple-buys-italy-apartment-instead-of-us-down-payment-2025-7

    I actually started looking to buy in DC back in 2014, and I thought the pricing was crazy. It’s only gone up exponentially since then.

    I just could never wrap my head around owning a million-dollar one-bedroom or two-bedroom condo. Why would you want to do that? It just means you’re going to have to continue working forever until it’s paid off.

    most places in canada don’t have real estate that rise by 4-15% each year like in hot markets like vancouver in the BeforeTimes. for some people in some years, their home appreciates more than the income they made as a human being working a job.

    it’s the rising land value from a high-demand location. we know this because mobile homes are subject to entropy and depreciate annually, as would any physical structure. even a house.

    many people maybe can “pay off” a house then have no housing costs beyond taxes and upkeep, etc. but if you don’t ever pay off your mortgage, you’re a failure, even if your home grows in value by 20-300% over the time you own it. and really, why pay off a home when its growth is higher than the mortgage? and why beat yourself up because you never get to have a “burn the mortgage papers” party.

    but since so many people can’t even get into the housing market, our high-demand areas have added systemic anxiety.

    if you own a home in such places, the idea of ever paying it off may seem idiotic.

    instead we have learned to get a down payment [way too often from a wealthy relative dying [“wealthy” includes people who bought real estate decades ago for less than $100k and sold it for millions more recently]], then we pay down the mortgage to build equity, never burn the mortgage, sell the place, maybe see an appreciation in the land–or not, then take the equity and buy something different/smaller/bigger/whatever, depending on the stage of life we’re in.

    but a massive number of people can’t ever get on this treadmill.

    north america is scam. a “buy real estate with no money down” infomercial of grifters and “presidents.”

    i love reading stories of americans emigrating to other countries and never paying off their rapacious student loans. education should be free, not just k12, luckily many european countries have figured this out. north america? barf.

    @usa.mom.in.germany is also a treat to watch. plus, socialism!

    and the clip at the top?

    mairikkka and canada [to a lesser degree] are increasingly fascist, imperial, colonial and neoliberal. these are not new things here, as we’ve been such things for a long time; now it’s just accelerating.

    sooooo many countries approach life differently, and people should consider leaving, as these 2 north american countries slide further into slime.

  • gaza as gentrification+?

    compiling a list of the most vile gentrification+ projects of homo sapiens, inspired by the sickest consulting manoeuvre I’ve seen this year.

    • Gaza, particularly 2023+
    • “north america ” 1492+
    • what else?

    Grim truth!

  • revolution, now would be good

    revolution, now would be good

    I expect most of us* in “north america” didn’t expect to have to fight a moronic murderous fascist regime in our lifetimes.

    Still, here we are. It’s a bit startling but who the fuck cares.

    Roll up your sleeves!

    That is all.

    *Us, especially socio-economically and politically privileged cishet straight white dudes…

    oh wait, let’s start with: 25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they’re down to $78m

    Sunset, July 5 2025 364 days to 2026.07.04, the formal end of #mairikkkan democracy Get busy babies!

  • the bc government needs to steer leffffft, fast!

    privatizing public transit and offshoring industrial capacity? #elbowsup demands more.

    why aren’t we contracting in privatized public transit that uses shitty European multinational companies to provide shitty service to vulnerable citizens?

    here’s a 3 post thread on why.

    why aren’t we building ferries here? like we used to?

    here’s a 3 post thread on why. (ok, this thread got big…)

    greed, stupidity, lack of vision to think and act 1-7 generations ahead?

    a BC HandyDart rider and driver

    this is NOT the BC government’s industrial procurement policy, but it reflects the same principles

  • corporate media? yeah, they hate public healthcare, duh!

    hey, what Canadian Health Coalition ad about public healthcare did canadian tv commercials shit their pants about, and NOT air?

    yeah, this one. pass it on!

    #cdnpoli #bcpoli #canlab #Medicare #healthcare