danielquinn

Everything people blame him for is basically what you would get from an average leader of the liberal party.

Exactly. He's a hypocrite, and drove a wedge through this country that won't heal for a long time.

• The man campaigned on the environment and then literally bought a pipeline to shield fossil fuel companies from financial risk.
• He later further subsidised the fossil fuel industry by sending the RCMP, armed like soldiers onto native land to evict people from their homes, literally hacking through their front doors with axes, all to clear the way for a pipeline.
• He wouldn't shut up about how progressive and welcoming Canada is, but the quotas for refugees from desperate countries remained tiny compared to other nations a fraction of our size.
• He lied about electoral reform, and when the working group returned with the answer he didn't like, threw out the whole process.
• During the pandemic he made a lot of (necessary) political decisions to limit freedoms, but refused to acknowledge the way those reforms affected Canadians differently. When the poorer classes reacted to these limits in massive popular protest, he labeled them racists and Nazis rather than acknowledging their plight and offering better support. He also made a lot of objectively idiotic decisions, like locking down the country while allowing international flights and blocking driving across the US border.
• He made a big song and dance about how Canada wouldn't sell arms to Israel due to their genocide campaign, then started shipping those arms to Israel via the US instead.
• Finally, on his way out the door, as one of his final acts as PM, he gets behind a mic and declares himself a Zionist.

All of this is about what he did. When a much longer list could be written about what he didn't do over a ten year term as the most powerful man in the country. He neglected critical portfolios like the environment, housing, infrastructure, and poverty while simultaneously devaluing the currency and allowing greedflation to balloon.

In other words, he did the classic Liberal thing of campaigning on what the country needs, and then doing the opposite or nothing at all.

As an expat, I'm glad to see the back of him. The man wrapped himself in the good reputation of my country and then sullied it. Canada is worse off now than it was in 2015 and zero progress has been made on the critical issues of our time.

Occupy, resist, produce!

I upvoted 'cause "types while bootlicking" was genius. The actual article is trash though.

This. The Liberals haven't earned union support, and electing Carney, who as far as I've read is just another neoliberal capitalist should be a warning that their pattern of abuse will continue.

A lot of people are going to tell you that "it's the algorithm", and there's some truth to that, but honestly I think it's a lot more straightforward:

The boomers got everything, and when they burned through that, they burned through the millennials' share too. If you're growing up a zoomer, you're looking around at a world literally on fire, and the emergence of what is effectively feudalism as the dominant world ~~religion~~ economic system. You'll never own a home, because literally everything is rented now. You're probably working 2 jobs, though they barely qualify for that word because there's zero security and you're carrying all the risk.

You're watching a literal genocide playing out on your phone, while the outgoing Trudeau proudly declares himself a Zionist, and literally everything is expensive, especially food.

Now, consider the political climate:

• The NDP (and to a greater extent, the entire global left) is toothless and obsessing over identity politics, and if you tell your friends you're going to vote for them you're either laughed at or told you're "wasting" your vote.
• The Liberals are refusing to recognise the dire state of the economy and the fear & frustration you have. Instead they go on TV and say that the problem with the economy is "vibes" and that voting for Conservatives means you hate gay people.
• The Conservatives acknowledge that fear and frustration. They don't gaslight you with claims that "the stocks are up, so the economy is fine". No, they cast blame: "Trudeau did this. He torched the economy for 'wokeism'. He put on silly costumes with foreign dignitaries while you had to move back in with your parents. He did this. Him, and those immigrants, and if you vote for us, we'll get rid of all of that".

They've got the best story, and their opposition is either inept or oblivious. If they hadn't made the mistake of cozying up to Trump, they'd be a shoe-in for the next election.

That's fair. Frankly, asking for donations is a half-decent way of gauging interest in a project as a whole, and if there aren't enough people in the whole world willing to meet a threshold for support, maybe the mountain of effort required to maintain said project isn't worth it.

"These Americans, they're out of their minds!"

Gotta love old people. They're all out of fucks to give.

Also, the dude is 101 years old and is sharper mentally than most people I've met over 60. We should all be so lucky.

You wouldn't go directly from country status to state. It would be from "country" to "occupied territory", to "state". My point is that we'd never leave the occupied territory stage.

A fascinating take on an old idea. I wish they'd spent more time covering the economics of mass producing these things.

Canada will never be a US state. The US has never dealt with us honestly or fairly, so why would they elevate us to statehood when they can just make us Puerto Rico North™?

We would be subjugated and pillaged. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.

That was remarkably good.

I loved it. I loved the whole series, but Jinx's fate still hurts.

I wrote a rather gushing blog post about it the night I finished it. It's all so beautiful.