The A.C.E.R.B.I.C. Nerd

Been an ongoing thing since the Trudeau years, sadly.

This is not some neutral scholarly institution, it's a well-connected think-tank with an ideological agenda and everyone should be asking serious questions about whether they can be trusted to tackle hate and disinformation with glaring biases and blind-spots like these.

Or immigration....

Could also get into their content on Palestine...

Gender Identity - Macdonald-Laurier Institute

This wasn't an isolated incident, btw. The MLI takes a very consistent line on trans rights (content warning - there's some pretty vile stuff here).

Seriously, can we talk about the wisdom of trusting this much of our entire national disinformation and "online harms" strategy to an org that takes positions like "support for gender-affirming care is misinformation"?

Almost managed to contain my cynicism until it got to the part with Kolga.

If anyone ever cared to take an honest look at why our country has completely and totally failed to tackle disinfo, the dominant strategy of "give Kolga money" would be a really, really great place to start.

Regardless of his intentions it grants Peters a lot of exposure and the fact that Platner doesn't seem to be making any efforts to avoid doing this does suggest, at the very least, that he doesn't care.

Honestly soooo much of politics, esp on the fringes, instantly starts to make a lot of sense once you hear the phrase "ideological entrepreneur".

One retweet alone isn't a smoking gun, but it certainly doesn't look good for the already-lingering suspicions about the guy, and regardless, is "pls don't retweet one of America's most prominent Nazis" really an unfair request of aspiring elected officials?

Once again gonna remind everyone how much of Trump's base started out as progressives who embraced conspiracy theories as a way to lash out at George W Bush...

Just so everybody is clear about who the Nazi tattoo guy is retweeting here, this is indeed the same guy who promotes Nazi documentaries and scammed everyone with the fake "Jew-Proof" crypto.

I know everyone hates Varoufakis, I too hate Varoufakis, but how in the fuck do you arrest someone in 2026 for admitting to smoking a joint when Paula Abdul was still at the top of the charts?

Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death

Varoufakis involved with child gambling is the incredible stuff you learn from this website

Isn't this basically the default position of every mainstream politician in the Anglo world tho? Trudeau said this exact thing (see screenshot).

Kinda makes ya wonder why all these places have raging housing crises, eh?

Yeah turns out disabilities are fucked up and not quirky social media fodder

Oh totally. People who wouldn't touch Assad will guzzle the kook-aid for that one.

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole after my sister had a really horrible experience at a Cuban resort years ago. It's *bad*, but also basically not talked about by anyone on the left cuz Cuba is the final boss of tankie-ism.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

If you really, truly, sincerely want people to stop talking about [name redacted] then you could just... ya know... stop talking about the guy?

Making him the main character of this site every single fucking day is a choice.

Being able to better coordinate purchases and leverage collective buying-power would be a game-changer for small co-ops and it wouldn't be hard to set up a system to trigger purchases once the number of interested buyers crosses various price-break thresholds.

“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others" Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising in Iran in January 2026.

“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others”

In this interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the January 2026 uprising in Iran, comparing notes about resistance to authoritarianism.

That's the sanity creeping in. Gotta fight that.

I would imagine it's rather boring?

Did you catch the big "Avi Lewis is a warmonger" tantrum? I don't think he's doing well.

Sorry but this is really funny. Like... in a mean-spirited way. I feel *bad* for how hard I'm laughing at these dudes.

Did South Park make this?

I appreciate that the internet has made everyone into an amateur investigative journalist. But actual investigative work requires aggressively checking, double-checking, and trying to poke holes in your own work — not just rushing to publish because you want to believe it's true.