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crazy to imagine that the average American drank 3x more in 1830 than they do today. can’t even imagine what that looks like lol.
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when marxists say that capitalism, in order to function, literally requires unemployment and homelessness to discipline wages to ensure satisfactory profitability and maintain a useful social domination of the working class don’t take it from us, take it from capitalists:.
The ruling class is far too comfortable. Listen to this goon tell a business summit how workers now feel like bosses are lucky to have us and say "We've got to kill that attitude.".
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it honestly fucking owns so much that leftists now have there own “but what about Venezuela?” and it’s the United Kingdom.
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Sanders and Corbyn have proven that the mobilization of a large, impassioned base - endless hours phone-banking, canvassing etc - can't seem to match the overwhelming power of 'earned coverage' in the corporate media. criticism of the media industrial complex needs to be foremost.
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had no idea Adam Friedland would be this good of an interviewer lmao
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many tens of thousands out for a Free Palestine in Montreal right now. this is maybe half the crowd
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been true for at least 153 years straight
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there is a certain type of leftist - and I was once maybe one of them - who sees the mystifications of the culture war as intentional distractions from ‘material issues’ & desires to simply voluntaristically put them aside. but good fucking luck with that, given your enemy, bozos.
I’m sorry but if you think this is what "moving to the right" sounds like, you've lost the plot.
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oh I’m sure he loved that song.
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this is what happens to neurotic clean freaks when they are raised in bland newly built suburban homes and then dare move out of them. lady either get a grip or work through this with a therapist.
Me: Vintage apartment supremacy, I would never buy an apartment that hasn’t stood through at-least one world war! . The reality of living in said apartments:
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how did the sexual revolution and the LBGT+ rights movement not begin a century and a half sooner.
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30% more would be surprising let alone 300%. can’t imagine how anything ever got done ever.
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Adam Curtis already licking his lips for the local news footage when the Crypto. com Arena sign is taken down in like May 2026 or whatever. “They thought they could build a better world, one free from the regulators, treasury secretaries and bureaucrats they despised. But what th.
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@Hezbolsonaro some machismo far-right guy terrified to the point of refusing to go to Barcelona or Lisbon lmao.
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Steve Albini was wrong about all kinds of things but he never feared being seen as wrong —or admitting when he had been wrong. he long ago secured his place in Hater’s Valhalla. the world is more complacent and full of shit without him.
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Canada is the normiest country on earth so it makes sense we’re embarrassing enough to treat queen normie like she’s literal royalty.
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leftists need to chill on letting everyone know that this GameStop stuff isn't going to overthrow capitalism. bro we know.
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to have had this level of parental abandonment and then the world fetes your mother for her sublime empathy and human understanding - to the point of being awarded a Nobel prize - but only for invented characters, not for you…Alice Munro proved herself to be worthless, a monster.
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that's maybe the most deflating reality about the left upsurge of the past 1/2 decade. it has proven beyond a doubt that the elite's command of the superstructure largely still allows it to engineer whatever narratives and consent they require. I don't know how we transcend this.
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it would be lovely and grand to have the privilege of putting aside ‘petty cultural squabbles’ to ‘focus on the universal issues that really matter’. unfortunately you happen to live in a era of rising cultural reaction & it seems some US leftists would rather give in than fight.
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MAID has functioned as a sick parody of liberal ideology - the belief that legalistic equality is possible in a society with deep class and power inequality. The inevitable result is quite literally a eugenics program expediting the deaths of social undesirables. unforgivable.
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs
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or delude themselves into thinking somehow that if it wasn’t for trans people daring to wanting to exist in public that you’d somehow have medical for all right now. that narrative is pure cope for their own failure. it’s scapegoating.
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my apologies to our British comrades but you’re just gonna have to huddle together for warmth during the cold winter electricity blackouts, maybe even eat a dog or two, so that the international left can have a cheap and easy rhetorical card to use for the next few decades.
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Evo Morales driving from Argentina to Bolivia rn like.
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fwiw I long ago stopped using Omelas with students bc today’s constructed subjectivity is so given to crude utilitarian calculation (‘one boy has to suffer for everyone else to live in utopia? sounds amazing!’) that they’re not really all that capable of comprehending the point.
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CBC NEWS BREAKING REPORT: Minnesota shares a border with Canada, country we are from
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@BrotherHQ “I WILL NOT BE SILENCED” declares man who is not silenced in front of a massive audience, which he is unlikely to lose, is incredibly rich and is merely upset that people have chosen not to want to associate themselves with him anymore (which is apparently his birthright).
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the NDP is just full of fucking idiots.
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto. This is not okay. Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
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there are already renderings of the proposed replacement of notre dame cathedral smh
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@edleranalytics @neontaster Absolutely love that a Zionist freak would think GYBE would be on there side lmaoooo . You dolt.
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@thegreatIgnarus @chick_in_kiev I understand the context of prohibition, sure, but lets not pretend it was also bundled up with christian fundamentalism and a presumption that most or all social problems were the result of individual immorality instead of systemic issues. prohibition was still ridiculous.
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I also like this sort of socialist who entertains this idea that like ‘BLM’ or ‘trans issues’ are inherently alienating to ‘your average Joe’ but like being ‘a socialist’ or ‘socialism’ is entirely palatable. like let us dare be serious with ourselves for a minute here.
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@_johnsonator @Blarg08125613 the way you help people is to have no values at all and support the status quo, just as you do. you people are pathetic lol.
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sure, the left-most 20% of the population, you've already got them. but what of the next 30%? many of whom the type to enjoy TED talks, still hold The Guardian & The Economist as benchmarks for 'serious, sober reporting'? basically low-info voters who presume themselves high-info.
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apart from the minuscule numbers of feminist TERFS, the overwhelming bulk of the anti-trans shit is coming from people who wouldn’t in a million years support M4A anyway.
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this whole ���if it wasn’t for identitarian distraction we’d be living in a social-democratic dream world” reveals more the speaker’s own annoyance w/ ‘special interest’ than it actually explains reality. all their TERF dog whistles reveal is their own selfishly limited perspective.
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@anniebannany69 @KingBach @Lappos what a way to ignore the content of what is being said to impose a narrative to make yourself feel more comfortable with something you should feel deeply uncomfortable with. shame on you.
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oh god not cuomo no. I don't know if I can bear to ask who the other two icons are. I don't know if I can look. oh god. oh man. oh god. oh man. not the lincoln project's john weaver and ezra klein
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Canada’s international reputation quickly becoming: a rip off condo fuck wasteland where 1000s of indigenous kids are buried in unmarked graves & they’re so fucking stupid their entire parliament, led by a man internationally famous for his blackface, gives a standing o to a nazi.
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why are so many white people who always process politics thru their own personal culpability, guilt and shame so resistant to engage in 'actual reading' to have a better theoretical grasp of history & the structure of society? their horizon of engagement ends at self-flagellation.
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if Luigi Mangione is indeed the shooter his goodreads suggests a normie centre-right bro intellectual lol.
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there's no "buying your own home" for anyone currently 25-45 unless you have 2 people making professional salaries in a very rural location, or you have parents that can hand you down payments/equity. not now, probably not ever. we live in an aristocracy.
If you’re renting right now, you’re going to want to hear this.
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me after Canada nationalizes it’s grocery stores
If Canada nationalizes its grocery stores, I'm out. I'm leaving.
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tl;dr: you’re in a culture war whether you like it or not. the belief you can somehow ‘win’ by sidestepping or escaping it is more wishful thinking than ‘hard materialist analysis’.
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calling the US-led effort against the Houthis “Operation Prosperity Guardian” is really putting the vacuousness of western life on full display, isn’t it?. they can’t even be bothered to pretend it’s for some higher ideal than ensuring toasters on Amazon stay $22 instead of $26.
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@AdamFriedland you’re big time now Adam, even centre-left viewers like me change the channel from CNN to witness this new jewish talent going supernova before our very eyes.
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@Qoztwt You’re a weakling in a hospital bed so you have no business saying shit. Lay down and shut the fuck up POS.
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@neontaster Why the fuck should we care about dead Israelis when none of you ghouls give a shit about the genocide your country is carrying out.
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both Corbyn & Sanders - honestly like Blair - all understood the power of the media. in Blair's case, he obvs was willing to go out of his way to make nice with the media by thoroughly proving to them he posed no threat. Corbyn/Sanders couldn't, but decided not worth antagonizing.
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policing is one profession that will be paid in accordance to the cost of living in whatever city requires the control and criminalization of its unhoused population. cops will be ensured to have a personal stake in the propertied class by belonging to it.
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and there is nothing to suggest that such a strategy of waging war with the media would even work: endless polls and research indicate that 'the centre-left base' is the very most trusting (read: credulous) of the media, it's even central of their very identity to be.
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this also very much suits the fundamentally decent character and approach of each of these people: they're in politics to improve people's material reality, not simply to prove a point. neither got into politics because they wanted to first go to war with a slimy & powerful media.
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Is Matthew Green going to be the only MP standing in defence of Sarah Jama? Where is Niki Ashton? . We see in moments like this what the NDP really is: a party of landlord careerist politicians whose represent little else but more treats for settlers. the left must revolt.
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kinda getting used to wonderful news emanating from south america late every sunday night.
Yesterday Bolivia, today Chile, tomorrow Ecuador. It's possible for popular movements to win. Latin America has shown that numerous times in the past 20 years.
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your reactionary enemies are going to use every perceived weapon at their disposal. the response to that can’t simply be “but wouldn’t it be better if the fight was on our terms instead?” . that would be fucking great wouldn’t it, but they’re going to refuse to play by our rules.
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I have a lot of respect for those - even if lib-brained, naive or oblivious to the reality of bourgeois/empire-dominated geopolitics - who, unlike too many, confess their demystification via actually taking their principles seriously and carrying them to logical conclusions.
Angelina Jolie talks about how disappointing it was for her to find out that human rights and international laws are selectively applied
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can’t sleep at night because of the thin layer of dust under my refrigerator.
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we all witnessed how they managed to constantly smear these two decent men with near-spotless histories who worked tirelessly their entire lives to bring dignity to people's lives. they set such a high standard for conduct that the media had to manufacture phoney narratives.
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I understand the calculus: present yourself as cooly rational, perceptive and 'focused on the big issues', don't give the always venal pundits and columnists fuel for their bad-faith smears, try to use the media as a means to talk past them and directly to the public etc.
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peterson after zizek explains how marxism isn't the grade 10 social studies class bullshit he dumbly presumed it was
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so you either meet their challenge head on, while going on the offensive elsewhere or what else? let them ban abortion for half the US, let them teach that slaves enjoyed slavery, let them strip trans kids and even trans adults of their rights/medication and just shrug? oh well!.
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and yet it still worked. they got so much to stick because smears repeated often enough create a 'where there's smoke. ' instinctual response from people who are trying to ascertain the reality from limited means. these same people underestimate the power of cynical actors.
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the widespread smearing of any rally across Canada in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians as being “pro-Hamas” is another disgraceful chapter in the long history of liberal & social-democratic settler racism. what they demand is no public display of Palestinian solidarity.
I'm aware of the unsanctioned rally at Nathan Phillips Square today. My statement below:
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pretty confident at some point in the not too distant future that I’m going to leave Canada for good, move to rural Italy/Spain or w/e and continue to do my job online and buy a liveable house in a town with no economy for like $30,000. this country will destroy you if you stay.
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Corbyn & Sanders were highly aware of how 'more dangerous' they would appear if they went too much on the offensive against the media to the very people most put off by 'dangerous' figures who would 'dare attack an institution so vital as the free press.' they needed these votes.
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people who triangulate 'authoritative sources' based on what the Serious, Sensible People of the world turn to. such an instinct flows out of their very lifeways. how do you begin to present a critique of the limitations & perpetual corruption of the profit-seeking media edifice?.
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the very liberal instinct to defend the sanctity and value of the press - the sort of grade 10 civics lessons they hold so dear to their hearts like 1984 and To Kill A Mockingbird, the one time they were forced to read some novels - in opposition to reactionary attack is ruinous.
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preventing landlords from getting in to court to carry out evictions is a form of direct action worth more than a thousand peaceful walks around city streets. my heart needs this rn lol.
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this box around a john a. McDonald statue in toronto will be a memorable image of canada in 2020
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you know because these aren’t ‘material issues’ - these are just unimportant radlib issues in the scheme of things. giving them attention is actually preventing M4A etc. we don’t have any actual proof of that but it helps that those who annoy me are responsible for everything bad.
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it's ruinous bc it allows the reactionaries to pose as the outsiders when they are very much the insiders, willing to call an obviously compromised institution that has lower approval than congress out, all while liberals rush to associate themselves with it.
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I suppose Chomsky came closest while reaching as wide of a base as was possible. it's not like such a project hasn't been (fairly successfully) been launched before, but it dies at the very border where you enter the people who have invested themselves in the authority structure.
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@DavePelletier06 @amazeydazey @trackwanderer @Bret_Sears @Walid_MUFC I would only be so happy as to see you inbred racist yokels replaced in this country lol. keep threatening us with a vast improvement lmao.
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@MorePerfectUS I would be absolutely terrified for my life if I was a Blue Cross Shield executive right now lmao.
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very fact that the crown had such a weak case against Umar Zameer but proceeded to press charges and put him through the ordeal or a court trial anyway shows how deep the rot runs. they were so desperate to find a “cop killer” that they couldn’t be bothered to do due diligence.
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man, if anything happens to Matt Christman after the unfilled hole that Michael Brooks has left…. he’s well-known for chapo but it’s actually all the other things he does that makes him one of the millennial left’s most incisive articulators of our political conjuncture.
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definitely going to trust the deft and delicate touch of white American 22 year olds who became Marxist-Leninists in 2019, after a robust education on wikipedia and twitter, to be the final authority in comprehending the various nuances of indigenous subjectivity in postmodernity.
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love how opportunist republicans have to act shocked and outraged at Biden for Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, while democrats play the blasé realists preaching inevitability, when you can be 100% certain the roles would be exactly reversed if Trump was still president.
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and it is precisely this that middle-class people in general, and especially middle-class liberals, wish to just pretend doesn’t exist. life is easier that way. many probably don’t know out of simple ignorance and the unions have made no attempt to edify to their detriment.
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I get that this is also ‘just being a teenager’ but I’m also just as confident that this is how this society trains you to think.
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ok I guess it wasn’t just me who thought this was good.
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