When people like Ron De Santis talks a “war against woke!”, he’s talking about a war on things that make privileged people uncomfortable and poor people pissed off.
They know that if more “woke” gets out there, it’ll result in the rich potentially having to share.
I mean, Windows 98’s “Active Desktop” was pretty much this.
Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they’re sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we’ll finally accept it.
Yeah, because just letting Russia have what it wanted worked out really well the first two times. I’m sure that of Ukraine just rolls over That the Russians won’t be back in two or so years.
I know it seems weird to think about this now, but back when Mandela was being released, the conservative establishment was calling him a terrorist and insisting that we still needed to support the apartheid government In South Africa against terrorist communists like Mandela.
Reagan and Thatcher were both quite explicit about it.
So this really is nothing new. The Right is always going to back the powerful against the powerless, and will always come down hard on any person or group that challenges the “natural order”.
No, they just love money, and the idea of public money going direct to public workers and students without someone making a buck off it horrifies them.
Conservatives have had a thing about public education and healthcare for decades and they’re so close now they can just taste it.
Canada’s Competition Bureau has launched investigations into the parent companies of grocery chains Loblaws and Sobeys for alleged anti-competitive conduct, court documents reveal, with Sobeys’ owner calling the inquiry “unlawful.”...
The LPC (and the CPC) quite like the current setup where they can get a majority with 30ish percent of the vote. This means they get exclusive access to the levers of power every four to eight years and have to trade off periodically, which suits them fine.
PR would mean they’d never get another majority again. It’s also mean that the NDP, BQ and/or Greens could get real political power and drive legislation without their involvement, and since the Canadian electorate is generally more left wing that. It’s politicians, that would mean more progressive and less business-friendly legislation.
The LPC would be effectively shut out of power as they know it, and their donors would be dealing with a Canada that looks and acts more like western Europe.
The LPC would rather FPTP, where they’d lose an election or two on knowing they’d eventually get a chance again, then see PR where they’d be shut out forever.
For the record, the CPC would have it even worse. They’d instantly lose their protofascist base to extreme right-wing and/or western nationalist parties. There’s very little ideological room between the LPC and CPC if you take away the latter’s playing footsie with fascism.
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A new report commissioned by an industry lobby group on the federal government’s proposed emissions cap stirred up strong reactions from both oil and gas supporters and environmental groups on Monday....
Oh no, not the capital investment! Anything but that!
For the record, the oil industry’s global profits were $4T. Not revenue, profit. $75B in investment sounds like a lot, until you realize all it means is that they’ll need to dig into that $4T to fund stuff, and that $75B is less than two percent of $4T, and the actual hit to revenue and income will be even less.
This is like healthcare, which every other nation has mostly solved, but the Americans bend over backwards to find the most byzantine “solutions “ for just to avoid taxing the rich and/or implementing a functioning welfare state.
The latest hysterical example was importing drugs from Canadian pharmacies because apparently buying from a (barely) socialist country is okay, but basic bargaining is somehow immoral.
What’s true, and scary, is that while 60% of Canadians own homes, almost half are Boomers and more than half are Boomers and elder Xers, and they’re looking to cash out because the death of the defined-benefit pension (and frankly, pensions in general) combined with low interest rates on bonds, shrinking dividends in favour or stock price growth and repeated recessions that sapped their investment holding means that house equity is the only way these people can afford to retire.
I work at a company that sells to LTC and private healthcare, and let me tell you, the executives that run those businesses are looking to make huge amounts of money by soaking old Boomers for every red cent.
When enough of them cash out, and with younger Xers, millenials and zoomers priced out, expect the market to crater.
The best time for the governments of this country to do something about this was twenty years ago when things started to get overheated in the GTA and GVA. But the money was too good, so they let the tumour progress a bit, and now they risk killing the patient.
The problem is one of distribution: too much money on one side, too little on the other. Government has some great tools to fix that, but curiously doesn’t use them.
Biden doesn’t really have a good path either way, and Netanyahu knows it.
If he goes too easy on Bibi, he loses support and Netanyahu gets Trump, which is great for Netanyahu. If Biden goes too hard on him, the same thing happens. It makes sense when we realize that Netanyahu’s goal is to get Trump I’m office so that both he and Trump can stay out of prison.
What Biden is doing is probably the least bad option, and if he wins Netanyahu’s toast.
(The Conservative one is similar, only they spend the money to get a Big Four accounting firm to do an audit to tell them there’s no fat to trim need to invest more)
This is the era of modern neoliberalism; “thoughtful studies”, “follow-up” and “enforcement” aren’t things we do any more, not if there’s money to be made.
Have you seen most Ontario communities? At least the ones being built today?
People drive to Penguin Centres because there are no corner stores anywhere outside of older downtowns, and said Penguin Centres are so large you have to walk quite some distance to get from your parking spot to the store, and you really have to drive between stores in the centre,
Anywhere you can walk to buy a chocolate bar won’t see a problem. Anywhere else is going to be a train, er, car-wreck.
Did we really need to spend more than half-billion dollars to make this happen a year early? I really struggle to see what problem this is solving for Doug, other than his gnawing need to do something cravenly populist and perhaps to show the LCBO unions who’s boss.
It’s like we elected the protagonist from Dennis Leary’s Asshole Song as premier.
It was never left or right, it’s about power and money.
The Palestine protests threaten the wealthy but things like LGBTQ rights don’t. The former could be a flashpoint for general anti-capitalist action, while the latter has essentially been subsumed into mainstream neoliberalism ans is, at best, a great way to distract and redirect from class issues to culture war bullshit.
The rich are happy to have us fighting culture wars instead of class wars. That’s why they’re pushing the “antisemitism” narrative because it keeps people’s eyes off of the real issue.
Because these people write big endowment cheques to the university, whereas faculty and students are just blood-sucking overhead.
This is interesting to watch, in sad sort of way: the universities were generally fine with protests and activism as long as it didn’t cost them anything or threaten their donors’ ego. LGBTQ or race issues? Fine, that’s okay, no threat there, heck painting things rainbow and waving flags makes us feel good! Offend some rich donors and out comes the proverbial–if not literal–nightsticks.
I still remember being at UofT in 1995 and the only protests (on campus, not those directed at Harris) were when the administration got uppity that bands and student groups were making it hard to hear the TD Bank pavilion’s marketing spiel as they tried to hook students on 25% credit cards. Normal drunken debauchery-slash-activism was fine, but don’t dare get in the way of profits!
Clarence Thomas Just Set Civil Rights Back 70 Years (www.theroot.com)
Canada is out of control (lemmy.world)
If Windows XP was released in 2024 (lemmy.world)
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A new Steam Deck rival is coming, and you’ll never guess who makes it [Antec] [expected price range $600~$900] (www.pcgamesn.com)
Well, children aren't THAT important (lemmy.world)
13 Harvard University students who participated in pro-Palestinian encampment will not get degrees (www.cbsnews.com)
Colorado GOP calls for all children to be pulled from public schools (www.9news.com)
US Speaker Johnson: "We don't put any international body above our sovereignty" (youtu.be)
Republican National Committee’s headquarters evacuated after vials of blood are addressed to Trump (apnews.com)
Homelessness increased by 20 per cent despite $443 million Liberal plan: PBO (nationalpost.com)
Loblaws, Sobeys owners under investigation by Competition Bureau for alleged anti-competitive conduct (www.cbc.ca)
Canada’s Competition Bureau has launched investigations into the parent companies of grocery chains Loblaws and Sobeys for alleged anti-competitive conduct, court documents reveal, with Sobeys’ owner calling the inquiry “unlawful.”...
China is after Canada’s pulp and paper industry – it’s a national-security issue -- (Opinion) (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Oil and gas lobby group says emissions cap could cost sector $75B in lost investment (www.cbc.ca)
A new report commissioned by an industry lobby group on the federal government’s proposed emissions cap stirred up strong reactions from both oil and gas supporters and environmental groups on Monday....
Wealth inequality starts at birth. Lawmakers debate whether child savings accounts can help, the 401Kids Savings Act (www.cnbc.com)
How Canada’s media manufactures sympathy for the landlord class (breachmedia.ca)
Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country (www.theglobeandmail.com)
The group says food security is rising in all 10 provinces and one in four Canadians have inadequate access to food
US and UK to back Israel over ICJ ruling after blurring their Rafah red lines (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli officials take down AP live shot of Gaza, US urges them to reverse block (apnews.com)
Original headline “Israeli officials seize AP equipment, citing new media law”
Alcohol sales coming to Ontario corner stores by September (www.cbc.ca)
How campus protests flip-flopped America’s free speech debate [Colin Meyn | 05/25/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
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U of T faculty who don’t leave pro-Palestinian encampment before deadline could face termination (www.theglobeandmail.com)