Canadian conservatives talking about “Soviet style bread lines” in response to Avi Lewis proposing public grocery stores, while there are literal bread lines at food banks.

Next Israeli election is in October.

FAFO Donnie.

Very manipulative title indeed. The BBC is notoriously pro-Israeli-biased at this point.

I’m not an economist.

“Normative” just means “this how I think things should be”.

In the very next paragraph they talk a about how he’s trying to work construction but there is a downturn.

He’d like to move into construction — siding, roofing, interior work — but the sector’s downturn has narrowed his options at the worst possible time.

That we have a housing crisis and a construction sector downturn and people wanting to work in it and struggling to find work tells you everything you need to know about the insanity of the profit-first economic system we have.

There is a widespread social need, there is infrastructure, and there are people ready to work to fulfill the need. The only hiccup seems to be that some ghoul can’t make enough of a buck out of it. This is market failure. The government should be stepping in, and hiring and training people to build non-market housing.

What a fucking waste capitalism is.

I’m made a normative statement, not a descriptive one.

AI does not automate shit. It can augment human productivity but needs human supervision. If companies don’t know what to do with the additional capacity of their workers, they can simply reduce working hours, while keeping salaries the same. After all, automation is supposed to make our lives easier.

It sounds to me you’re already somewhat inspired, and you’re already doing movement building.

I just want to say one thing about what you said about your skillset, because to me it reads like a feeling of disempowerment. Decades of neoliberalism has trained us to believe the way things work is that are some people who are experts and our part is to let them do their thing and we’ll just be good consumers. (I’m not making a personal criticism to you, I’m outlining a cultural norm.) But there is no cavalry. Lewis isn’t going to save anyone, he’s literally just some guy, and the staff that the party is doing admin work. It’s just us.

So if something is not in our skillset, then we’ll just have to be bad at it :)

It sounds like you just haven’t experienced living in a place with good transit.

I’m not talking just about clean and safe. I’m talking about frequent, dense, and reliable. Good transit. In Montreal we don’t even have an amazing transit system, just a decent one that covers only parts of the city, and I would never never drive to work except if I need to haul some heavy thing because who wants to deal with all that shit (traffic, parking, other drivers etc). On the regular I just hop on transit and watch youtube videos or read or whatever for 30 minutes. And that’s at a place that could use a LOT (and I mean a LOT) of improvement.

“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.” ~Enrique Penalosa

Correction: we shouldn’t wait for Lewis to do this or that. We should be doing this and that. If anything what Lewis has done is crack open the NDP and invited people to take it up and use it. So when you’re saying “Lewis should use the organizing capacity the NDP has”, turn that around: go join your riding association and use it as the platform to organize to do all the lovely things you’re proposing.

Let’s protest this shit.

I wrote:

We need to aggressively transition away from fossil fuel dependence. We need transit

What you’re saying confirms what I am saying. Our transit systems are shit. We need better transit, and we need more transit. And we need densification (as I also wrote), so that transit is efficient and reasonable. We need ways of organizing our cities that don’t make the private car to be the most obvious and comfortable option. Transit and active transportation should be the most obvious and comfortable options.

We need transit, bike and e-bike lanes, infill densification

The sentence opens with transit.

They are not talking about poor people specifically they are talking about the country on the whole, they are talking about the system:

Car centric country suffers when the basket they put all their eggs in increases in price.

Country. They are talking about the country.

Your analysis is not wrong, but it’s a bit short sighted because it ends with the hurt at the pump. The “plebes” are being hurt by the high gas prices because our system makes them vulnerable to fossil fuel shock. Because the governments of this country have systematically built car dependent cities.

We need to aggressively transition away from fossil fuel dependence. We need transit, bike and e-bike lanes, infill densification with non-market housin. The whole paradigm of fossil fuel based capitalism is just making us miserable.

That’s not what they are saying in their comment. You’re rage baiting.

The UAE fund genocide in Sudan.

Go be mad at something else, I’m not playing anymore.