I hate this thing people do (turbocharged by front-facing video imo) where they try to make what is essentially a self-interested argument sound collective-minded. No! You're annoyed at having to think about other people! Multiple people being self-interested doesn't add up to a community!

You may not like hearing this but actually free on-street car parking is objectively a ridiculous idea when you think about it for a second. Imagine if I plonked literally any other bulky item of personal property in front of my house and expected it to not require permission or payment!

“What a pisser!”

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

If you're against Canadian bilingualism, you're literally siding with Elon Musk

It's kind of funny to me how this is get interpreted entirely as a critique of left-wing fiction, when anybody who reads a lot of hard sci-fi knows that "books where the protagonist turns to the reader and complains about the protests against the Iraq War" are a sizable portion of the market.

we talk a lot about the information diet of the median american voter, but if this is even close to accurate, our median american voter looks like a model informed citizen by comparison

The strategic mistake by the Knesset is here that Israel's supporters can only applaud and defend extrajudicial death penalties but not judicial ones. Their cognitive dissonance will short circuit if they can't blame the victims for their own murder anymore.

Without dismissing of course that Syria's government these days is far from democratic in the proper sense, it is probably a positive mood signal that they're engaging in the sort of thing you expect from John Swinney rather than Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

Publishing in the 21st century has simultaneously become more democratic and much more exclusive, so writers are extremely vulnerable to the consequences of a viral TikTok or getting review-bombed on Goodreads if just one or two readers decide the politics of a book is Bad

I kind of agree with this as both a reader and writer, but the former being better is also reliant on good faith audiences understanding what you are inferring about your plot which is... lacking

Seriously basically no one talked about this: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Liberal Party of Quebec are going to win. I’ve always said this.

the right thinks that theory of mind is for pussies. (the hard left also thinks this.) liberals try to understand our enemies and they hate us even more for it, not because it makes us better at fighting them (although it may) but because it reminds them of how gay and effete we are

People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this

It will always be my favourite manifestation of “our brains can’t immediately grasp how big a billion compared to a million is” is DC accidentally making Bruce Wayne far too rich for the plot by accident.

If someone is willing to pay you millions of dollars on the condition you take a language class once a week, and you say no thanks, then I am not sure you have the business sense to run a multibillion corporation well.

i was a teenager in a town of around 35K people in the 90s, and any teenager with any ambition or creativity at all wanted nothing more than to move to The City, so i have a particular contempt for people from The City who wants to keep new people out. these are the people who built The City.

The good news is that he’s also a largely irrelevant loser and the people shrieking about his twitch views and pretending he’s one of the great media figures of our time are much, much more out of touch with reality than the 70 year olds who have never even heard of him.

Hasan is a racist piece of shit who openly stans some of the world’s most brutal authoritarians, and I have literally zero respect for the people who pretend otherwise for their own pathetic factional reasons

there are very few circumstances under which I will use the word kapo but describing the massacre of Jews on October 7 as 'miraculous' is one of them.

There is a a particularly fucked up kind of thinking in America wherein your morality, your ideology, your identity, etc, have nothing to do with the things you say and do. So in this case, "sinner" has nothing to do with the action of sinning, but is rather a distinct personality trait.

outrageous, the lack of civil liberties was only supposed to apply to the *poor* migrants.

I'm sorry, modern civilisation cannot be run as a hobby.b

Yesterday Britain generated 91% of it's power through renewables, and 13% through nuclear, while exporting energy to Denmark and Holland, and that's not even a *good* renewables day

I actually oppose fascism because it leads to neoliberalism

There's a big Hasan Piker discourse going on over on the other site. So in honor of that, I will repost my favorite Hasan video in history. Featuring: "Fuck you old lady. Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking idiotic old lady." "Suck my dick old lady." "God damn dude. Yo, fuck this refugee!"

There's a lesson for the Canadian left here in how the longshoreman's union leader whose whole deal was that he looks and sounds like someone who might've voted for the NDP forty years ago came fourth behind Tanille Johnston, an indigenous activist who got a fraction of Ashton's media coverage

I think that Lewis will improve on the NDP's 2025 result at least a bit for no other reason than that he's white.

Free trade is good. It’s like, the only thing that economists near-universally agree on.

This is also true of Canada, where indigenous people could not register to vote without losing treaty status until 1960.

i think we should lean into the idea of the face of trump resistance being female, because gender performance — hatred of women, love of a twisted eternal boyhood, sexual assault as worldview — is the one major thread behind trump administration

Would be nice if the British Prime Minister didn’t have a conscience that resembled a oil tanker with faulty steering

part of my contempt for these types is that they are huge cowards who shirk away from their own views when pressed on them

An absolutely fascinating pop culture time capsule is that there is an episode of Modern Family about the 2017 Women’s March

Overweight, overpriced, overheated: if anyone out there is in the market for a 12-ton metaphor for Boris Johnson’s contribution to British national life, you’re in luck.

Bit of a non-sequiteur but I was a thing talking about myself (sorry) and someone shot "oh so you think you're working class, huh?" at me and they suffered so much whiplash from me going "no, of course not" the conversation derailed completely

i think the two individuals most responsible for Harris's lost are RFK (creating permission structure for woo to vote for trump) and Biden (forcing Harris to have no daylight lest he murder-suicide her campaign and deciding to run for re-election and preventing her from sweeping a normal primary)

The funniest complaints are always from people who, in Mean Girls parlance, don’t even go here. The writer’s a particularly reactionary Catholic, of course none of this Anglican ceremony was done with her in mind!

Hot take: YIMBY analysis of housing policy is at its core substantially more Marxist than the liberal rights-based view of housing that comes from a lot of the left.

What did you think land back meant? Papers? Essays? Vibes? Losers. It means building skyscrapers in single family neighborhoods while the rich NIMBYs cope and seethe

I just remembered that the Governor General of Canada also cannot speak French, has spent $50,000 on French lessons during her tenure, and still can’t deliver a speech in French www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

lmaooooooo said the biggest socia media addict of all time

Hate to say it but Mamdani gets away with being a by the numbers municipal socialist because he's pretty and has a really good social media team

We should ban American posts about Quebecois language politics imo

NOT MY WORDS CAROL. THE WORDS OF ZEROGPT

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

Platner being a Nazi and a war crimes supporter really does feel like a joke being told about how far people will go to not vote for a woman

I’m past the halfway point and when I got to [SPOILER] I actually started shouting