@QasimRashid

Now that we're five years into the Ford administration I have to ask:

What has he got right?

Toronto council size fuckery?
HydroOne leadership debacle?
Secret mandates?
Taverner as the head of OPP?
Cancelling LTC inspections?
LTC COVID deaths?
License plates?
Gas pump stickers?
Invoking Notwithstanding?
Underspending despite federal funding?
Teachers strikes?
Nursing burnout?
Abandoning Ottawa to honking?
Expanding for-profit healthcare?
Selling public spaces?
Greenbelt swaps?

What?

#OnPoli

@JosephMenn

"Elon literally blaming Jews for Twitter’s collapse."

Gosh. What an original scapegoating idea!

Jesus taught his followers that when they visit people in prison, they are visiting him (Matthew 25:41-46). What is visiting someone in prison but bringing them comfort?

It's strange how some of the worst prisons in the US are to be found in the South, where concern for God's law is voiced most loudly. We "protect" kids from drag queens, but we let prisoners die for lack of air conditioning. #Texas

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2023-09-03/a-long-hot-dangerous-summer-for-texas-prisoners

⚠️🇮🇷Russian launched Iranian drones attack Odesa Oblast for 3 hours, air defence responds (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/4/7418294/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #Iran #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

The number of websites blocking OpenAI's GPTBot crawler grew among the top 1000 most visited sites in the world, underscoring challenges in AI's use of copyrighted materials without clear legal or regulatory rules. https://t.co/uerwSbmc2b

“I personally agree with Greta Thunberg that nothing less than the total overthrow of the current capitalist system will save our planet. But for those who still fear even the mildest forms of democratic socialism, here are some historical facts. If you’re an habitual tabloid reader, this is for you.

The longest year-on-year period of economic growth in our nation’s history - 20 straight years! - was achieved following democratic socialist postwar reforms under the Labour government of Clement Attlee. Never mind Scandinavia, such measures were a resounding success right here in the UK.”

Full article:

https://libera.site/item/244517dc-d995-472d-828d-26109a5b913f

#DemocraticSocialism #PostwarConsensus #TabloidNonsense

English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇

https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#

Trump Biographer Thinks He Just Threw Eric Trump ‘Under The Bus’ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-trump-under-the-bus_n_64f5999ae4b0a7f6f1b2c1e1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#software #unexplained

One thing most people do not understand about environmentalism is that it was never about saving the planet. The planet doesn’t need us. Hell it will even thrive without us. Environmentalism is to save ourselves from extinction. Don’t think that the planet owes us shit.

Oh I missed the announcement that long-Covid is now classified an auto-immune disease.

Coupled with the fact that Covid is airborne (bio-aerosols, not droplets), you definitely shouldn’t want to catch this or spread it.

https://www.autoimmuneregistry.org/long-covid-announcement

Why should progressives accommodate conservatives' need to be socially accepted, when conservatives refuse to allow "others" to be socially accepted.

If conservatives want people to be friendly with them, then they need to stop being so actively hostile to people.

@JuliusGoat does a much better job explaining this idea in this essay:
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why

#Essay #Friends #LGBTQ #Ally #Progressives #Conservatives #Democrats #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USA

#blm #blackrights

Some hard truth here.

Addendum 3

Which Nation Taxed the Rich the Most?
Britain & the United States once competed for that honor. Times have changed
https://inequality.org/great-divide/which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most

* 8 decades ago (near end WWII) U.S’s richest faced 94% federal tax rate on income >$200,000
* with Ronald Reagan’s election by 1988 U.S.’ richest faced 28% top-bracket bite
* we’ve experienced no trickle-down
* instead an incredibly intense concentration of wealth

#DefundBillionaires #neofascism #WealthInequality #WealthConcentraion #taxation