John Muller

Schrödingers Boots.

Simultaneously on the ground, and on the table.

I suppose when a PM is broadly popular, the options for the opposition are to either work tirelessly to turn public opinion against them (the Trudeau treatment), or to act friendly, take the high road, and hope some of the popularity rubs off.

Poilievre seems very confused as to which lane to pick.

1. Keep taxes artificially low to "encourage development".
2. City becomes massive construction site with terrible services and a mountain of debt.
3. Cut services even more to attempt to manage debt.
4. City appeal plummets.
5. Return to step 1.

A really nice thing about having a Dem primary between two really, really solid candidates, is that there is no acrimony afterwards, and the runner-up can get right to work bringing the factions together in time for the general.

What is best in politics? To crush your enemies. To see your party driven to the left, before you. To hear the lamentations of their focus groups.

I bailed on Halifax around 5 years ago, and moved back to the valley, and *holy shit* do I not miss anything about living in Halifax.

Sometimes I wonder what Halifax would be like if it ever decides to be a real city.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

There are still some places in the US where Republicans are running unopposed, right?

There really shouldn't be.

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.

This is transphobia.

Theatre Critic" by J. Muller / S. Kinting. First panel: A stage, with two puppets held by offstage figures. Pink and Blue. The word "heyyyy...' from the figure holding a blue puppet. Second panel: Backstage. The figures are amorphous blobs of watercolours. One, mostly pink, has switched to a pink puppet from a blue one, which lies discarded. The other blob, mostly blue, says: "no fair!"

*cries in Canadian*

I'd say not by very much, if anything. Maybe some distinction based on the relative asymmetry of the conflict; insurgency vs invasion, etc. Kinda the difference between "If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me!" and "I will lay my life down for the glory of the Empire!", motivation wise.

"Fallout, shmallout. If you think about it, isn't all light just radiation? You don't HATE THE SUN do you? Anyway, buy Mountibank brand lead codpieces."

"This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death... The Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death."

- Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"

"For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex."

- Umberto Eco "Ur-Fascism"

This is a pretty great example of how fascism is doomed to failure by an over-reliance on sycophancy.

They don't even *try* to recruit talent, the only thing that matters is obedience. This does not the foundations of a stable regime make.

feels like a crime against language to call threats to invade cuba or greenland "hypotheticals" when they have been repeatedly made by top officials of the US government, including the president.

a house reno show where the hosts wildly swing between "we gotta tear this place down and start fresh" and "with some hard work and a decent budget, this place could be goddamn beautiful", but forever.

The US used to have serial killer energy, where they had careful and specific rituals surrounding their wars. Took the time to manufacture consent. Ginned up public approval. Hung up plastic sheeting. That kinda thing.

Now they exude more of a spree killer vibe. No real plan, just a global rampage.

If CUSMA went away, it would suck, but not nearly as much as it would suck if Canada made concessions to the regime in the US, and sacrificed our sovereignty or our dignity.

We can survive without CUSMA. We can't survive as a vassal state to the MAGA fascist movement.

I feel like economists must be watching the Trump regime with the same abject horror that the weather forecasters had in the opening to "The Perfect Storm" (2000).

A big thing that discourages voters from backing progressive parties is the credibility gap; the fear that they don't actually have the juice to win elections.

Well, after Gorton & Denton, it's clear that @zackpolanski.bsky.social's Green Party has what it takes. The tipping point has been reached.

Can confirm - I woke up this morning feeling normal, and then just a few hours later I realized I might be showing symptoms of rapid-onset Acute Canadian Syndrome

What information do you need? They're being tortured. They're being held in inhumane, unsanitary conditions, exposed to diseases and violence, and God knows what else.

Maybe it's time to stop asking the regime to tell you comforting lies, and instruct your state troopers to liberate the camps.

In all seriousness, it is really, really good to see that descendants of victims of Le Grand Dérangement are being granted Canadian citizenship, at least according to the experience of this reddit user.

Canada is still dealing with the damage caused by our own mass deportations, over 250 years ago.