Keith Johnson (he/him)

Bounced around Canada a bit (MB/NS/ON). Obsessed with Agriculture, Can/US Politics, Gay things and International Relations.

[joshstrap @joshstrap13]

i can’t stand gay guys who aren’t friendly to other gays. life is hard enough. we can just smile and be nice to our sisters

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Kelsey's thread about the seething contempt for women is worth reading, but I want to emphasize this point.

It's not lame to care. You should care desperately about things, you should be passionate, you should give a shit. There's been an epidemic of detached irony over the last several decades. Society spent years telling us that people who care are nerds, the cool kids are the ones who are above it all. "haha you're so mad" as though that's a sign of weakness.

To hell with that. Develop attachments and care about things and do it with sincerity in your heart. You'll be a better and more complete human if you do.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The reason millennials are so nostalgic is that they got a brief taste of a world that wasn’t entirely controlled by the stupidest people who’ve ever lived.

[tanya @Tanya_Sabrinaaa]

ok sure, let's say that the government *should* be run like a business.

in that case, it should maximize shareholder value.

and who are the "shareholders"? the taxpayers, obviously

[Ren's Den 🍂 @PALE0PUNK]

So funny the chronically late crowd is boiling this down to a NT vs ND thing because the reality is I'm autistic and if your late ass throws my plans off I'll have an entire meltdown

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Water is free. It’s the cleaning and consistent reliable delivery at 45-60 PSI that costs money.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

So yeah, let's be bold in fighting corruption and injustice at home and human rights atrocities abroad. But if our boldness is not bound by morality and intelligence, we will become no better than the other side. It's on the leaders to insist on this.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

One of the things I mourn the most in the current political era is that we've lost an important idea - that people who run for office should, at the very least, be competent people and good people. Not crazy. No major scandals, no outright evil views.

Nobody cares any more.

[Girl 🇪🇸🇳🇴 @satoraurgojo]

Maybe I’m just too classy of a lady but I never got the appeal of waiting for celebrities outside hotel or personal spots bc you know these celebrities lowkey judging how crazy u look like we either run in naturally and youre charmed by my beauty and wit or we don’t ever meet idk

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

I think Montréal, Vancouver and Toronto are all nice places and we should all be nice to each other :)

[ghost of kaitlyns past @fmrghosthunter]

canadian embassy had a cardboard cutout of hudson williams on their pride parade lmaooo

[Keith Johnson (he/him) @Johnson_KeithS]

@ds00za It’s too bad because I genuinely liked his housing and transportation policies. Don’t necessarily love how Rachel was framing the connection but I also don’t love his response to her tweet :(

[arne ness @arne__ness]

yupp

[Ale @aliasvaughn]

The fact WH is fretting about this is incriminating in and of itself. Also… Let me be clear: if the reporters actually got incriminating recordings and they sat on them to publish a book instead of breaking news, that is a complete dereliction of duty.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

It’s been one weekend but so far the World Cup is following the pattern of every previous World Cup and Olympics: tons of negative stories about infrastructure, costs, people not buying tickets etc and then it starts and it’s amazing

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Call it “soft as fuck” if you want but one thing the World Cup always seems to do, almost as soon as it begins, is remind you that you’ll likely enjoy your life a LOT more if you welcome people in and try to have a laugh rather than being consistently aggy.

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

This is a fake comparison.

SpaceX did not “lift America out of poverty.”

It created paper millionaires for people close enough to the equity structure.

That is not the same thing.

An IPO or liquidity event can absolutely make employees rich. Good for them. But that proves ownership works for people who are allowed into the ownership pool. It does not prove the economic system works for everyone else.

SpaceX’s value was not created in a vacuum by Elon handing out magic capitalism dust. It rests on NASA contracts, defense spending, public research, launch infrastructure, regulatory protection, tax law, capital markets, public procurement, engineers, technicians, welders, logistics workers, and years of investor tolerance.

So when someone says, “SpaceX created thousands of millionaires,” the honest translation is:

A public-private, state-backed, capital-market-driven company had a massive equity event, and people close to the cap table became rich.

Fine.

But that is not a rebuttal to Warren.

Warren’s job is not to mint millionaires through stock options. Her political argument is about wages, consumer protection, bankruptcy rules, health care costs, student debt, corporate power, taxation, and whether ordinary workers get a fair deal.

Saying “Elon created millionaires and Warren did not” is like saying a casino jackpot did more for one gambler than food stamps did for a hungry family.

It confuses concentrated upside with broad public welfare.

The real question is not whether 4,000 or 5,000 SpaceX insiders became millionaires.

The question is why America treats that as a civilization-level achievement while millions of workers still cannot afford housing, health care, child care, retirement, or a few months without a paycheck.

That is the propaganda move.

Turn rare proximity to capital into proof that the system works.

Then tell everyone outside the cap table to applaud.

[Natali Simmonds @NJSimmondsbooks]

I say this to my kids all the time. Do it for the plot. Do it for the story. Tell yourself if it all goes wrong it will just be a funny story. Ironically job interviews, dates, and public speaking go better anyway if you're just happy to be there and not overthinking it!!

[swag enthusiast @xx_sw4gqu33n_xx]

I love when people tell Canadians that "30c isn't that hot", bro my region has an annual temperature difference of over 60c, come here during January when it gets to -30c and you'd be bitching and complaining even more