Snake Plissken

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

Government backstop to prevent the price of housing from going down, sick joke

[Jay Brody @theJaybrody]

Bailing out developers at speeds not seen in generations

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@KevinWeekes @AnaheimDucks @FlaPanthers @MapleLeafs

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @RonDeibert, @OpenMediaOrg and @cancivlib - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22.

They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:

- force companies to keep metadata for up to a year, making a vast trove of personal information vulnerable to leaks and hacks

- make encryption meaningless by creating backdoors in software that allow police and gov. agencies to scoop up our personal data and messages

- give US police and spy agencies direct access to Canadians’ personal data without warning or oversight

So what is the Carney government doing? Ramming C-22 through in the dying hours of the session.

Meanwhile, Minister Solomon offers a retail sales pitch for potential powers of a new regulator that won’t even exist for at least 18 months.

Instead of just banning surveillance pricing and protecting us from other forms of digital spying and extraction.

Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@cafreeland @CNN

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@MarkJCarney

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

This is honestly a national shame and what happens when successive governments have stripped down a public institution like CBC and sold it for parts. We should just nationalize Hockey Night in Canada.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

A national disgrace.

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@reporterchris ❤️ Iranian pirate streams ❤️

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@MarkJCarney They may have lived if their Local Emergency rooms were OPEN

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

Carl Menger's barter story is one of the most successful myths in economics.

The problem is not that it is theoretically possible. The problem is that there is little historical or anthropological evidence that societies actually developed money this way.

As David Graeber pointed out, anthropologists spent more than a century searching for examples of economies organized around pure barter and repeatedly came up empty. What they found instead were systems of credit, debt, obligation, and social accounting. People kept track of who owed what long before coins or commodity money became widespread.

The familiar story of a blacksmith searching for a farmer who wants horseshoes is largely a thought experiment. Real communities were not collections of strangers conducting spot transactions. They were networks of ongoing social relationships where obligations could be recorded and settled over time.

Historically, money often emerged alongside institutions capable of measuring and enforcing debts. Temples, palaces, kingdoms, and states maintained accounts, levied taxes, and denominated obligations in units of account long before everyday markets were dominated by coinage.

Coinage itself was frequently linked to states paying soldiers and then demanding taxes in the same currency. This created demand for money not because markets spontaneously selected it, but because political authorities structured the monetary system around it.

The historical record suggests that credit came first, coinage came later, and barter usually appears at the margins when monetary systems break down, not at the beginning of economic history.

The real myth is not that states played a role in the development of money. The real myth is that money emerged from a world of isolated traders solving the double coincidence of wants problem through spontaneous market evolution alone.

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@MarkJCarney

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@piersmorgan @elonmusk

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@TPAca Do the holding cells have cameras? You stupid fucking cops.

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@MarcMillerVM

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@AnitaAnandMP

[BS @this_is_walmer]

Metrolinx is not a transit agency, it is a money laundering machine

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@BR_OpenIce @SportsnetSpec @FriedgeHNIC Lololololol

[Snake Plissken @SgtSlithers]

@MarkJCarney

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

When the system is rigged for the rich while the 99% struggle to afford the basics, public ownership is how we take back the economy.