Work is slow so this should be a great opportunity to work on the podcast a bit and get ahead but for some reason Teamviewer flagged me as a commercial user and now I can't connect to my home PC to post and edit. Very annoying

Democrats by and large believe that the political system is the means and ends. They think that the US's representative democracy is the best a political system can be and therefore winning in it is the same as being right. That's why they are trying so hard to find common ground with the GOP.

Prisons function as an economic engine. They turn people into unpaid workers while corporations profit and politicians expand the system. Communities are broken apart, and the label of “justice” hides what is really organized exploitation.

AI doesn’t replace hard labor. It replaces jobs that people were told were safe if they had degrees. Meanwhile, the most brutal work still depends on miners, farmhands, and prisoners. That’s the gospel of greed at the heart of capitalism.

I think I'm just kinda bored with the vast majority of tv shows that exist. Ive watched everything I like and the stuff that's left just makes me bored or mad 🤷‍♂️

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Romana Didulo’s arrest in Saskatchewan exposed how fragile her cult really is. Conspiracy theories, authoritarian control, and social collapse all feed into the empire of crisis. Nick Girard and I talk through what it means.

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Collapse comes as a slow accumulation of failures. Authoritarian laws stack up, monopolies tighten their grip, cult politics spread in the margins, and ecosystems unravel in the background. Together, it creates the reality we’re living in now.

Why the political system does not respond to what we want, however "democratic", and what to do about it: youtu.be/875o0SSm7JI

More people in the U.S. are open to socialism because propaganda only works until reality pushes through. Wages that don’t cover rent, medical bills that break families, and endless wars do more to teach people than slogans ever could.

There's already a trucker shortage. They're going to bring this country to a standstill and they can't even see it. www.turnto23.com/us-news/tran...

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Sixty percent of Earth’s landmass is now at critical failure. That number should stop us in our tracks. Instead, the system shrugs. Nick Girard and I cover this and more in Loose Wires 9.

AI isn’t a harmless toy. From hallucinations to psychosis, these systems are already hurting people. We break down how AI harms connect to authoritarianism and corporate control.

The fight for sexual freedom is really a fight over who gets to control culture and whose voices are erased. Kaytlin Bailey and I talked about how moral panic fuels repression and how people can push back.

Why does it seem like "royalty free" music is largely a scam that means you have to pay a fee to use music and not get sued? I think I'm going to reach out to someone real and stop browsing these websites that claim to have royalty free music

American capitalism depends on state control to keep monopolies alive. Google, Amazon, and Meta are propped up by regulation and enforcement that guarantee their dominance, all while being marketed as the face of freedom.

You don’t need to be rich to need a will. Without one, the government decides who gets your stuff. I spoke with Drew Adamick about why estate planning is survival under capitalism.

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Surely there are more important things to deal with in the country? As opposed to this nonsense?

Liberal capitalism concerns itself not with justice or morality but "legality" - the issue is not the killing of human beings, but that it was not properly sanctioned by the law. Fascists, and wider right wing politics, cause deaths across society, defended and permitted through this paradigm.

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Some emergencies get headlines, like Trump’s occupation of DC. Others are ignored, like ecological collapse. Crisis is how the empire runs. Nick Girard and I talk about what that means for all of us.

I hate credit so much. I hate that the world has been set up so that we can't actually buy anything that we need without it

That family member who is MAGA that you avoid confronting, that misogynistic friend, that coworker who says anti immigrant things that you just ignore, the people in your church group who are terrified of cities. These are who you need to be addressing in your own communities, fellow white people.

I find it very difficult to believe a single word that comes out of anyone in the Trump administration. They're such liars that I would have to verify that the sky was blue and the grass was green by checking for myself before I would believe them

Sixty percent of Earth’s land is already breaking down under climate stress. Collapse is unfolding in real time while the people with the power to change course refuse to act because protecting life doesn’t pay.

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"What didn't you like about Charlie Kirk? You can't use the things he said though." Fuck off

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I don't believe in arguing with apologists for fascism, racism, misogyny or bigotry in all its forms on social media. I'm not convinced that it's very productive and I have much better things to do

Authoritarianism is already here. Federal troops on DC streets, bans targeting trans people, conspiracy cults filling the gaps. All of it shows how the system runs on crisis. Loose Wires 9 digs in.

I'm kinda frozen at the moment. I have two interviews and a stream later today and I feel like I should be doing something to prepare for them but also I'm stuck like I can't think of what to do next. I think I need more caffeine.

AI is marketed as progress, but the reality is different. These systems hallucinate, reinforce bias, and fail in ways that land hardest on the people with the least power. What’s being built is automation for corporate control, not intelligence.

When people join cults, it isn’t because they’re gullible. It’s because the system left them desperate, isolated, and searching for meaning. Conspiracies offer certainty when the truth is unbearable. Even when a cult leader collapses, the damage is already done.

Tylenol is bad. It's not a safe pain medication. Cocaine has a wider safety dosage range. But it doesn't cause autism and it's fine to be autistic. Just another way to be a person. We need neurodivergent people. I can't believe the fash are making me defend fucking Tylenol.

I've stopped hard-coding my subtitles because I can now upload SRT files to nearly all the places I publish videos, or they have their own transcribing tools that are just as good as the one I use.

American capitalism says “free market” but copies state capitalism when it suits the ruling class. Google’s monopoly proves it. We talk about how the mask slips and why socialism is starting to gain ground.

New episode of The Saskatchewan Survivor's Guide is out

Capitalism tells us to save and prepare, then punishes us with fees and clawbacks when we try. Drew Adamick is a financial planner who doesn’t sell products, and he explains what survival looks like in this system.

Lots of people sure seem to have faith in capitalists and the state to do the right thing despite ample historical evidence to the contrary

Sounds like a wealth transfer from public coffers to private developers hands that will end up with more housing but not affordable housing. More expensive rentals owned by developers probably.