Now would be a great time for the left in Canada to have a serious, coherent agenda that seeks a structural transformation of material life in service of workers, rather than, you know, keyboard warrior emoji shit and first-year undergrad epithets.
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It would, but there's a number of things in the way of that - and, believe it or not, one of those things is accepting the disabled as human. Even the left doesn't do that.
A lot don't. You can't even get them to mask during events. But that aside, disability is one thing that will - through birth defect, illness, injury, or age - impact almost every human, however temporarily, before they die. It isn't an aside. It needs to be a focus for community, economy, etc.
Stop thinking of the disabled as a problem to be solved but as a population whose needs should be embraced as much as others. Able-bodied isn't the only default. As for specific actions, there aren't enough text boxes around for that. I suggest you go through @imanibarbarin.bsky.social 's content.
You were given an action. One that is extremely easy to achieve by most people, and makes a meaningful, immediate difference in someone's ability to access a shared space.
Comes off as if you're looking for actions YOU approve of or think are meaningful. I hope that's not true.
The issue is that this isn't a to do list that one can polish off one task at a time, but that's how many people treat it. It's a global attitude, a systemic one, a societal one, where attitudes about disability itself need to change. People need to stop seeing it as a moral failing, for example.
I'd like to hear how the 'left in Canada' could articulate a Gramscian 'reform with revolutionary potential' approach. E.g.: A tactical 'common front now' policy that also builds toward progressive structural changes. But that'd mean allying with centrists & liberals today, so ... .
It's gotta become labour vs. capital. The left needs to win back blue collar men. And it could. But it needs to reckon with how identity politics have alienated this demographic. Identity politics are valid forms of oppression, but blue collar men are oppressed under capitalism too
Check out Seth Klein's NGO Climate Emergency Unit. https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/
Esp. Since the Climate Corps for Youth mission just got axed in U.S.
The youth hunger to fight for a habitable future!
the whites are welcome to begin to practice true solidarity and actually care directly about the lives of non-whites instead of consuming the convenient statistics etc. that they prefer instead of actual human connection.
canadians are fucking racist, david, i moved to rural BC from south florida and the average white canadian sounds like a klan member when they talk about immigrants
Would be nice to have some leadership from the Federal NDP. A bit hard to know from the outside if they have a leadership problem or are simply unable to communicate. Do they even have anything to communicate? If so, I'm not hearing it.
The left in the US should do the same. It’s even more urgent in the left. Enough of the histrionics, posturing, BS about “threat to democracy,” and Nazi accusations.
Get Trump out of the head. Focus on developing policies that address peoples’s real concerns and can win elections.
Also, to be frank, Canada is a progressive nation by a roughly 60/40 margin. Having the left split between two parties is the only way for the Cons to win. Ever. The last Canadian election decided by an actual majority vote for the winner was 1984.
Show me polls/ data / facts Canada is "roughly 60/40 - progressive".
It's not a two party country.
3 national parties and one regional party plus numerous fringe parties.
Coalitions have been the ruling dynamics for about half of the time since Y2K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_parties_in_Canada
1 - the left needs to go all in on labour vs. capital. Cross sector worker movements need be the backbone of the new left because all identities are oppressed under capitalism.
2 - the left needs to reckon with religion. I think this will look like decolonization/embracing indigenous spirituality
Yes. International politics has pushed us all, as a country, to an inflection point. It is time to seriously ask who we want to be and how we wish to be seen on the world stage. I choose anti-fascism and will die on that hill. I can only hope I am not alone, but if I must, I will.
Now would be a great time for the right in the US to have a serious coherent agenda that seeks a structural transformation of material life to serve others rather than only themselves; but they won't, and they will be forever condemned for their want for hell rather than care
I dislike this sort of trivial, hyperbolic dismissiveness. Who do you think is on the left? How much do you know about what leftists do when not on social media? How can you justify making such sweeping and jejune assumptions?
People are going to have a hard time feeding themselves and staying employed. Probably good to focus on that and not whatever extremely-online shit is making the rounds today.
🇨🇦Bill 72, Digital Interoperability of Health Records.
We NOW need new interfaces with drug data providers since all our drug recalls, updates & medical study data comes from U.S. usually FirstDataBank.
I.e. Pharmanet in BC & WebMD rely on FDB who DID collate data from FDA, CDC & NIH.
Since 1985.
LEARN from the mistakes of the U.S. Traditional government-as-usual will NOT stop what's coming for you. Zionazis are an old enemy, but the playing field has changed drastically. Before it is too late!
If people think it is only keyboard warrior emoji shit going on, they may be the ones who are 'extremely online'. And\Or they may mistakenly believe there is a left in Canada with official party representation.
The right wing convoy nut jobs have been fairly quiet since winter. It's a bit cold and many lefties needed a rest after years of confronting anti trans & anti vaxxers. You could likely find a Free Palestine event if you look but some might think genocide is 'extremely online' only. It isn't. 🍻
does it? maybe a conservative that hates a liberal leader stance on sexual morality loves his stance on the tariffs. There are so many different issues and combinations of opinion that it's silly to segment by 1-dimensional spectrum and I can't help it if you don't see meaning in what I am saying.
Generally not what happens much, political ideas come from core beliefs and not grabbed randomly from a pile. Cons usually dislike trans people because of pro hierarchy reasons and that informs their economic views
You mean, learn from the total & utter failures of the past 30 years of liberal democracy to respond to autocracy, rather than burying their heads in the "demographics favor us and we'll win eventually" argument, with an existential threat like the American Empire on your border? Nahhhhhh
As opposed to broad tariffs #Felon47 thrown out that impact all americans while he opens the treasury to a nazi wannabe?
Canada'a measured response is well thought out & supported by all Canadians.
BTW Canada has the workers & their families backs. If the energy taps are shut off they're ready!
As I said last night, now would be a great time to stop exporting our lumber to the US and have the Canadian government use it to build tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of government owned affordable housing units across the country.
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Comes off as if you're looking for actions YOU approve of or think are meaningful. I hope that's not true.
https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/
Esp. Since the Climate Corps for Youth mission just got axed in U.S.
The youth hunger to fight for a habitable future!
Some parts of rural anywhere live in isolated bubbles, but the vast majority do not.
Get Trump out of the head. Focus on developing policies that address peoples’s real concerns and can win elections.
Seriously this - unite the left
It's not a two party country.
3 national parties and one regional party plus numerous fringe parties.
Coalitions have been the ruling dynamics for about half of the time since Y2K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_parties_in_Canada
2 - the left needs to reckon with religion. I think this will look like decolonization/embracing indigenous spirituality
Pretty much the very same kind of bullshit the post actually rails against.
What the hell else is he going to do other than spout nonsense for views.
It's always in-fighting on the details.
Apparently just fighting for human decency in general isn't enough.
We NOW need new interfaces with drug data providers since all our drug recalls, updates & medical study data comes from U.S. usually FirstDataBank.
I.e. Pharmanet in BC & WebMD rely on FDB who DID collate data from FDA, CDC & NIH.
Since 1985.
ProgCon 2025?
Can that be a thing?
I'm old enough to remember when the left opposed free trade, NAFTA, globalization, etc
Canada'a measured response is well thought out & supported by all Canadians.
BTW Canada has the workers & their families backs. If the energy taps are shut off they're ready!
Unless, of course, they are enrolled
in an actually useful program or specialization.
Point being, MAGA was elected almost entirely based on memes, circus performances (rally’s) and utter bullshit.