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Fan of socialism environmentalism degrowth MMT RSS Hegel Marx Lacan
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I got put on some Canadian turbo-Lib's blocklist that has like 2000 Canadian turbo-Lib subscribers, and I no longer have to deal with any of them.
It's suddenly dawning on me that I should be incredibly thankful for this 😁
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I admire your optimism, but I don't share it. Anyway, Trump's still going to be in power after the G7, and is impossible to appease - not that we should be trying.
Carney is leveraging a perception that he's 'good in a crisis' to ram through his agenda & keep criticism at bay. Let's not enable him.
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The way these people are, I genuinely think you have better odds if you say you'll do it for $16B
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me too, it's hard to describe though, hmm ... urgh it's white on the tip of my tongue
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Carney is talking about Carbon Capture & Storage, and used the phrase "decarbonized oil" a couple days ago.
If that's the guy who is supposed to be knowledgeable about the environment, then we're in an enormous amount of trouble
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Yeah that speech was well-written, but absolutely terrifying. He's tying everything to national security super explicitly now.
But none of our problems are gonna be solved with more weapons. This is feeling like an economic pump and dump before these assholes retreat to their New Zealand bunkers.
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Great point! The feds are talking a lot about reducing interprovincial barriers, maybe they could focus on people and not just profits
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They're called Value(s), and no we don't
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Haha if you had only seen how long it took me to learn what to do & get everything prepped!
Learned a LOT though, my home server now connects to a VPS via tailscale, login via codeberg-hosted OIDC, and TLS terminates on a machine I physically control. *And* client IPs are forwarded to that box 😊
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Turns out I just hadn't opened port 1965 on the VPS lol 😅
Stil might need to adjust the config a bit but it's reachable thankfully
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It's quite possible they did ask Dougie as well, but this just so happens to be them asking Carney to do something to help Ontarians. I don't think Carney cares about us regular folks any more than Ford does, though
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looks like it went ok except for my gemini capsule 🤔
something to do with PROXY protocol I'm guessing, will investigate
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From your first link, it looks like the only change the Carney govt has made is that now the minister can approve specific exceptions to the sanctions rules 🤯
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Israel just upped the stakes by kidnapping Greta Thunberg, who in your book you claim to admire.
Your sternly worded letter didn't do a damn thing.
What is Canada doing to stop Israel committing a genocide?
When will you back up your words with action?
Or is it all just PR to you?
#FreeGaza
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Feds always have leverage, let's be real here. Ford wants things, make him do stuff in order to get those things
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I saw a lot of people promoting their own extremely generous readings of his book, which in my opinion was written in a way where people can sorta project a reflection of themselves onto Carney. Rhetorically, he continues to sit on the fence on issues; 'decarbonized oil' is the latest example
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So, I'm asking if you intended to vote for the things Carney is doing, or if you expected something different.
For example, his vocal supporters pre-election seemed to be under the impression that he's an environmentalist and got mad at anyone saying otherwise. Now he's shilling pipelines.
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I mean, you said that Carney has your vote in your earlier comment, so
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Part of the issue is that a lot of Canadians voted for a PM that 'sounds reasonable' and then completely checked out. So far, most have still failed to notice how destructive and corporate-friendly this guy is.
The press are starting to wake up though, thankfully. Give it a little time!
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Did you vote for fast-tracking pipelines and running roughshod over environmental rules and Treaty rights? For expanded surveillance both online and off?
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Meanwhile many provincial governments are also ratcheting up the stakes, virtually daring First Nations to set up blockades, as they try to ram through resource extraction projects. Thankfully the press is finally starting to wake up to who this PM really is. Genuinely fucking infuriating :(
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Lol no, their job is to represent their constituents, many of whom are being evacuated due to wildfires from climate change while Carney wants to ram through new pipelines and make things worse. If the Liberals want support, they need to earn it.
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Yes, however there is money to be made by specific industries, so Value(s) be damned
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At least Liberal party faithful would be opposing Poilievre doing any of this stuff - with Carney they're cheering 😬
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True yes, but also (and more prominently) with CDPQ. Even his wikipedia page doesn't mention MILA. His bio on CDPQ mentions SDGs and investing, but nothing about a tech background or knowledge of that field, so my best guess is that he's on the board of the AI place purely as a finance guy.
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Canadians waving their flags while cheering "we aren't Americans!" as their civil liberties die. peak 2025 vibes
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Really not sure what you're asking about.
My point is that I don't believe we can trust that Carney is good on these issues, given that he's surrounding himself with folks from companies like Palantir.
Anyway his new chief of staff is an investment guy, not a technologist.
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Me neither, hoping the other commenter feels the same!