bluejade
I should have voted for the NDP, and I should have convinced the rest of complex to also vote NDP. and the NDP should have campaigned here more than once, and reached the people who aren't living in mcmansions and driving cybertrucks. and I should have volunteered for the NDP
forgive me
i mean, they aren't wrong.. but shut the fuck up Moscow?
Something about this.. I would want the storage to be offline, and collected at the point of an event with signoff from a judge, not another flock of virtually 24/7 camera streaming data to a datacenter somewhere.
I feel this. But also, you aren't the only one in your community feeling like this. And you aren't wrong, there is a lot of horror out there. But there are also a -lot- of people who give a shit, and we need to talk to each other more, face to face. We need to be building movements locally and having more of a shared understanding.
I want you to organize a barbecue with your neighbors, start a club, join a band, listen to the middle aged poet at open mic, whatever it is, and start listening to people around you. You have more in common with them than you think, and as a group, you can level each other out, enjoy life, and maybe even help steer the boat away from the iceberg, just a lil bit 🤏
can more canadians please let your mps know you're not into having backdoors in supposedly secure platforms that criminals would take advantage of?
We're easy marks, we grow up with no real identity to be proud of, no real connection to a canonical past, very little in common with our white neighbours. It's very easy to make us blame tall women or ethnic and racial minorities for our problems, people who don't line up with the fairy tale we're told. We elect the folksy white guy who is looking out for himself and his rich friends, and when we can't find a home we can afford or have to wait 4 hours in the ER, when we aren't the center of the world, it's easy to blame someone near us but superficially different, who we probably don't even talk to because we are looking at screens 20 hours a day.
but we're all in the same meat grinder together, except for the people turning the crank
Oil companies tend to be fairly multinational, and are perfectly able to spawn shell corporations or even hire local authentic corporations to push their aims. As an example, you can look at Lauren Chen, who operated Tenet Media, essentially a shell company to pay north americans to push a certain narrative to advance the aims of another group.
Would it be a huge shock to find out some conglomerate like Koch Industries or ExxonMobil were involved in an astroturf campaign in Alberta, or maybe the western cape, or other similar oil rich areas?
what are we even doing in this country dude?
I've been singing along in the car every time it comes on since last year. I am that much of a dork. great tune. Most of his work is a bit folky/bluegrassy for my taste but it grows on you
The bullshit is Oil cos can afford to build these things themselves, if they really want to. they've got permission, but they won't throw down the money, because it wouldn't be profitable for them. So why would it be profitable for Canada to do it?
It might create a few construction jobs short term, maybe. But realistically, the oil and gas industry relies pretty heavily on automation, and most of the companies involved are not even Canadian.
But you can still imagine convincing poeple to say they support the construction of a pipeline. "Do you think Canada needs to be more of a producer and net exporter of energy? Do you think energy production is leverage we can use to defend ourselves? Given that the petrol industry has significantly boosted Canada's economy, and unemployment is above 6%, do you think we need these big expensive government projects to give people jobs? Do you worry about the resilience of the CPP given Canada's dwindling manufacturing sector, or the decline of Canadian tech innovators?" etc etc etc
if you ask right (or arguably wrong) questions, you'll get a yes. it may not reliably measure sentiment towards overreliance on the oil and gas industry.
or maybe it does, what do I know