The sound you hear is of Alberta's energy companies shrieking. Sure is a good thing our premier ran all the solar production out of the province.

They just really model themselves after Cuomo.

Well the SNAP is a subsidy for companies that didn't want to pay people enough to eat. The SNAP itself was a form of wealth extraction. So are the ACA subsidies. We should just pay people enough to eat and have universal Healthcare.

Not, "Due to the shutdown, we appreciate it if you're able to help US Citizens affected during this time..." But instead, "You better not be helping them!"

I'd call first responders, sounds like grandpa's missed his meds again.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and thank you for your attention to this matter.

Said efficiencies never materialize either. The costs are all externalized and pushed on the public. Taxes don't go down either, it's a scam, always has been.

You have to know the super secret ritual to know. It probably involves kocling a dog.

If our proposed solution is to legislate all union disputes to binding arbitration, than using the NWC is honestly fine. Union rights are already dead in that case.

70% of New Yorkers aren't, "Real New Yorkers." Crazy.

Normally I'd disagree, but I'll Make an exception in his case: I wouldn't want to live next to a moron that has an unnatural relationship with his couch either.

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The screenshot was basically every Cuomo endorsement: "Pahleeeze don't terrorize us, just take our money and leave us alone." As powerful as Capital is, remember they are feckless cowards in the end, as all authoritarians are.

Imagine getting this mailer as a UCP voter and thinking they're not just trying to defund education. It's okay, somehow vouchers will solve it because then you can pay $5,000 per year out-of-pocket (vouchers will not cover full cost of tuition at a private school) and still have the same problems.

Imagine any other government doing/saying this.

It's almost like Russia can't be trusted or something.

Interviewer: Do you think your party isn't enough like Republicans. Jefferies: UUHH UHH WE ARE, WE ARE REPUBLICANS I SWEAR.

I wonder how many cards Trump has? Certainly not 52.

Heeee's Baaaaccckkkk!

We did it guys! We found a use for AI!

It's always been about power.

IQ tests are the real dummy. The correct answer to this problem is, "Who cares."

Well you see, they were real excited about the deregulation and potential to scam the shit out of everyone. Then came the destabilization and tariffs and all the money is just gonna go to Elon! So the money is sad now.

What would my tax plan be? Make personal income tax $0, tax wealth and assets instead. Own nothing, pay nothing. We all own nothing, the bank financing your house, car, etc... can pay for the wealth they take from you.

Any time someone talks about free markets, remember the markets aren't for you, they are for the millionares and billionaires.

Hallway healthcare at it's finest here. I'm at the ER (I'm okay) and they dump a patient back into the waiting room and they're in chronic pain. They can't sit in the chair so they make them lie on the bare floor like a damn dog. Do you think millionare and billionaires get this treatment?

So, the new AB budget is making the rounds. The average tax cut a worker will have is approx $750 pet year. Although that's likely inflated as the average wage is pulled upward by billionaires. Works out to 62 bucks a month, with a ballooning debt and crumbling services. UCP not worth the cost.

Oh it was a scam! Who knew? (I knew)

The trouble with Liberals is they are high-modernists and think systems just exist and work on their own. Ignoring the reality that we make the systems work. If we stop putting in that effort than the system will stop working.

I remember a particularly bad faith discussion I had on X-the everything app. Where they were hand wringing about the youth unemployment rate. Because kids should be working instead of being kids.

I like how we obsess about job numbers instead of figuring out how to have a better society.

"By the Editorial Board," that thing people do when they stand by their opinions in the current atmosphere of freedom.

The Captain's Logs, a Snowrunner (short) Story: youtu.be/2TxroTg7G

Imagine waking up in jail, and there's a white hole coming to visit you: youtu.be/6gXAWWFjYRc

There are some interesting things in the Star Wars prequel movies, but they're overshadowed by awful scripting, direction, and characters.

A tale of Elon and his apologists: Elon lets Nazis back on his platform - "he's defending free speech" He regularly amplifies supremacist ideologies, memes and conspiracy theories - "he's doing it for engagement" He does the Nazi salute (twice) - "he has autism-ish" Elon is a Nazi. The End.

A good time to remember that when The Don picked a fight with China, he had to bail out farmers with billions in Federal Aid because of the consequences. Crazy how these fiscal republicans always find money for bailouts from their stupid decisions.

Dinosaurs are valuable employees: youtu.be/cMnBLss4iJE

This was always the vision of those pushing this stuff. So long as those at the top retain autonomy and get to control the dials of power, everyone below them are better off as mindless automatons.

Of course it is! We can't stop now, it's gonna trickle down at ant moment! The rising tide will lift all boats! You'll see, any moment the billionaires will save us!

Time for an "Entrepreneur" to snatch em all up, charge people for them and take all the credit!

Imagine being dumber than Sam Harris.

Someone else that won't stand up to Caputal, yeah?

It's Liberalism, the idea thar institutions are things in and of themselves to be respected and are unbreakable. It's wrong, we make the systems work and we're charged with ensuring their continued operation and also making sure they serve us, not billionaires.

I mean, sure, but they could also just ban these sales and house people instead. This isn't Spain's first rodeo with foreign speculation: www.wired.com/story/spain-...

I'm unsurprised, they contribute so little to society, there's nothing left for them to do but punch down.

Gee I wonder why the they want to shut down the CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Maybe the reason groceries are so expensive is because corpo's are making the groceries so expensive.

If you don't want to get hit by a drunk driver, don't drive. Yes we designed everywhere to only be accessible by car, but it's still your fault. Repeat for any other health problem. The system was made to make you sick.

Is the UK copying Alberta or are we copying them? What I'm trying to ascertain is just which one of us invented economic withholding.

Basically what I'd be like if I were an SCP employee: youtu.be/Zj484jXCa80