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Choice is just one part of liberation. Keep it Class Conscious 🌈✨
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Homelessness isn’t solved by more homes. It’s solved by more responsibility rental policy and enforcement, better programs for vulnerable renters, and community-level supports. People near homelessness aren’t able to access newly developed homes. Too expensive.
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…spend half his assets, remain rich, and solve deforestation and food insecurity instantly. Instead, we’re stuck with shitty cyber trucks and other useless garbage meant to make us feel better about being systematically rendered powerless. Not worth it.
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These consumer solutions drain our wallets under the guise of environmentalism. That responsibility is consistently offloaded onto us, working people. If Musk gave even a fraction of a shit about environmentalism, he’d…
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… but the city as a whole, as was said, is a weird place for a Tesla dealership. Did you know working class and poor hamiltonians die younger than folks in more affluent areas? Our babies are more likely to be underweight? Our use of ambulances higher? Teslas aren’t solving these problems.
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Beautiful example of basic polarization imo. Good luck
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Look folks, someone plops a high end ultra expensive retailer down in working class communities, and that business owner is making a strong suggestion about what types of people they prioritize. This dealership, granted, is located in one of the better off parts of Hamilton, but…
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How can you be certain of that? On what grounds? We’ve for decades known, empirically, that status is conferred via one’s stuff. Embodying status is one of the primary forces behind contemporary consumerism. I’m not saying it’s the only reason. I’m saying those are the two most embarrassing ones!
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Everyone? For that specific reason? How certain are you about that? That you were in debt to begin with isn’t the fault of other leftists either; no one’s been forced to buy Teslas. Elon has sway bc of prestige and status regardless. Besides these cars are in the lot, not owners’ driveways.
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It’s deeply depressing, as a Hamiltonian, knowing my neighbours waste money a) proving they’re richer than everyone else around them, or b) trying to look like they’re richer than everyone else around them. It’s working class hatred.
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That would be better, I agree. It’s boggling how difficult it is to convince people to not waste their money on ridiculous garbage sadly.
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lol it does seem to have some effect no doubt. The positive thing about actions like this is a) it gets press, which furthers curiosity and critical thinking, and b) causes would-be buyers (lot owners, dealers, and individuals) to reconsider and put their money elsewhere
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These are unpurchased and still in the lot. As described. In the article. This hurts the dealers’ bottom lines, which informs dealers’ choices regarding the value of selling teslas. Which affects Musk’s sales. It’s a domino effect.
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The press from the vandalism helps legitimize anti-Musk ideas. Ambivalent readers will be influenced to try to understand more about why it’s happening. Some of them at least.
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The right wing victim performances are wearing thin, I agree. Idk if it’s worth any substantial paranoia tho. Regardless who did it, it effectively unites anti-Musk sentiments, which is mostly useful.
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“No Effort Must Be Spared”, eh? So we’re agreed that you’ll not be sparing any amount of your massive savings accounts, assets, and business connections in your efforts? I think complete transparency about what the rich /are/ sparing is more useful in mobilizing support for persecuted peoples
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Yeah I was thinking something similar — the types of folks who say the first three things are “me and my rights” ppl, not “us and our democracy” people
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It feels like we probably totally know who needs to hear it 🫣
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Relevant reminders. I’ve just found an opportunity to begin some entry research on mainstreaming in the Canadian context (gaging applications for the Miller-Idriss thesis). I’ll add these two to my reading lists for insight. Any Canada-based books you’d recommend?
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I think about that line of questioning a lot lately. It’s like the geopolitical equivalent to womanizing megalomania 🤦🏻♀️
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Well then! Phew — It’s a real good thing we’ve got someone who’s such an authority to tell us plebs how it is. It’d be a real shame for everyone to openly deny and invalidate his self-claimed identity and expose him to such broad ill will.
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I wonder if the subscription tiers reduce/remove ads. I seem to recall seeing somewhere they did… 🤔
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I’ve done this too. I miss a lot of content I loved on other streaming platforms, no doubt, but most of what I prefer for casual viewing is the type of content on Gem. Good docs and very interesting investigative productions are a great bonus
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Full Disclosure: I know nothing about USA Shipley other than that he has some semblance of a backbone still in tact. Still, that constitutes being a member of the left I guess at this point?
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Enjoyable Sidebar: There’s a Cdn David Shipley, CEO of Beauceron Security (cybersecurity). I think, based on a (now redacted) quote, these two should maybe consider grabbing coffee sometime.
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lol who did that?
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This is too good. Enraging, but excellent 😵💫
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Anyone remember what happened in that late 2021/early 2022 hiccup showing a spike in PPC coinciding with a dip
In CPC?? What was that?
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You might get some solid lols out of @alexfalcone.bsky.social
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Resolved as a problem?
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Can you demonstrate that? Like, if a young reader who’s just shown up never having heard of the term “centrist” wanted to verify your claim, can you provide reliable, verified sources for them that could support your claims?
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Every time? Like, every single instance of centrism across the globe? We get those things, yes; the right is gaining traction, yes. But the extent to which this is happening remains in progress. If it happened “every time”, neither of us would be able to have this conversation.
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Polarization can be enabled by ignorance, yes, but here, well-researched centrism is the opposite. Polarization is mostly enabled through things like acceleration and extremism. These can include finger pointing, absolute language, and close mindedness, which the OP is cautioning against
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Because polarization, basically: By showing the left a larger toolkit (including the tools we don’t like looking at), some centrists focus on slowing the rate of polarization. It’s a both/and strategy about broadening and combining tactics, not abandoning.
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The reason for this may be that centrists are — sometimes at least, and perhaps more often the vocal ones — members of the left who attempting to support the left by speaking directly to us rather than by wasting time with more close-minded folks on the right. From experience anyway
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IMO our Liberal Party has been a version of centre /right-side centre since post-Mulroney-Campbell — ie they only looked like the left relative to early neoliberal leadership. It’s been a continued pattern of rightward slippage since. A few feet is increasingly undetectable 😵💫
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Love this. Wholesomeness, pleasantries, and genuine caring community building feel is like an underrated relief in tense times - especially when spending so much time and energy scrutinizing those tensions
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lol I love how zany this is! “The dads had guns, guys - we gotta have em.” They also had wigs, tricornes, n lil pumps but idk if those are included in the appeals to nationalism
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Is this a legit tactical move in American arguments?? Attempting a guilt trip for betraying presumed loyalty to the guys whose values have made most folks’ lives increasingly garbage? Gee, what gal!
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Ty! I’ll seek them out :)
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What would it take to get the HSR to purchase and regularly use a handful of these??? 🚌
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Re snow buildup, accessibility + HSR — is there already any kinda HSR riders’ union you might know of? This weather has really increased my interest in transit users advocacy.