Red Hector

An old world is dying, a new world is struggling to be born... Now is the time of monsters

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@cultmtl yeah, thats because he's an unlikeable loser with a platform that offers Canadians absolutely nothing of value.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@ABCommunist that being said, I respect the work and discipline that it takes to go door to door every day for weeks. I know its not easy. You and other Party members are doing incredible work. You have my utmost respect for putting your name and face to the platform. Keep up the good work.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@ABCommunist Now, as ever, the task is to build on that messaging. Showing up once every few years with an election platform unfortunately won't move people to action. Getting involved in & leading housing struggles and other issues that materially impact the community are hugely important.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@CAgovernor You don't have any sway over customs and the border.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@matthiasellis @fizzbhau You don't get to be gatekeeper of the left. People who are class conscious should actively shit on the Democratic Party, pointing to its failures and the role of social democrats in siphoning away people's energy to legitimate capitalism. People want change, not the fuckin DNC.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@Watchdog_MP @ctvottawa How have these protests impacted you? You sound like a delusional snowflake. Protesting is an essential component of liberal democracy, and protesting genocide that is being supported by the Canadian government is a moral imperative. Free Palestine!

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@CanadaSoccerEN and now Canada support Nazis in Ukraine. What a heel turn.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@3Bucs @TheChaosWeeber Not when you consider that nearly 1,000,000 people who aren't braindead morons didn't show up.

[brian @brianonhere]

Just invested my last $10K into a blast furnace for my backyard. Now Trump is backing off tariffs? How am I supposed to compete with Indian steel foundries? This is a disaster

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

MAGA are the weak men created by good times. Here come the bad times...

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@jesse_cbt @unusual_whales the US is a podcasting economy

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

If this doesn't include China and Vietnam then I don't think it's going to amount to much! As an addendum, Canada is in no position to lead and has no legitimacy except in the eyes of the world's most deluded neoliberals.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: In a shocking development Canada announces it will build a coalition of countries who share their values to build their economy and trade opportunities and will exclude the United States.

“If the U.S. no longer wants to lead, Canada will.”

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

"A Fairy Tale of Ukraine? Why We Need to Revisit Our Narratives, with Dr. Ivan Katchanovski. I’ll be honest—this was one of the most eye-opening conversations I’ve had on the Open Minds Podcast. I invited Dr. Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist, to walk me through what he calls the “Hollywood version” of Ukraine—one that Western media pushes hard. But what if that version is wrong? Or at least, dangerously incomplete?

Dr. Katchanovski’s work stands apart because it’s grounded in verifiable, peer-reviewed evidence. He’s not shouting into the wind with wild theories. Instead, he’s spent over a decade researching the political divisions in Ukraine, including its linguistic, regional, and historical fault lines. What he reveals isn’t convenient—but it’s necessary.

The biggest takeaway? Ukraine is not the unified, democratic underdog many Western outlets make it out to be. It’s a country long divided between east and west—linguistically, politically, and even ideologically. Before 2014, the eastern regions like Donbas and Crimea had strong pro-Russian leanings, not necessarily out of loyalty to Moscow, but from decades of historical ties and Russian-speaking populations.

But it’s the Maidan massacre that truly challenges the mainstream understanding.

On February 20, 2014, between 40 to 50 protesters were shot in Kyiv, most with deadly precision to the head, neck, or heart. The narrative that quickly followed was simple: Yanukovych’s forces fired on peaceful demonstrators. But Dr. Katchanovski’s analysis—based on hundreds of videos, ballistic forensics, and nearly 1,000 hours of trial footage—suggests something far more disturbing: many of the shots came from buildings under protester control, including Hotel Ukraina.

Let that sink in. Protesters being led into open fire by their own side. Snipers exiting buildings occupied by far-right opposition groups. Ballistic tests showing no match between police weapons and the bullets retrieved from victims.

These aren’t just academic footnotes. This was the pivotal moment that led to the violent toppling of a sitting president, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and ultimately, a prolonged and brutal war. Yet, these findings are rarely—if ever—mentioned in Western media.

Why?

As Dr. Katchanovski notes, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” Western governments, like their Russian counterparts, benefit from a simplified good-vs-evil narrative. And when there’s political consensus in places like Canada and the U.S., media often falls in line. It’s a sobering thought: if narratives are shaped more by strategic interests than truth, how can the public ever really know what’s happening?

There’s a cost to that silence. Zelensky was elected on a platform of peace, but quickly became—using Dr. Katchanovski’s phrase—“Poroshenko on steroids.” Rather than negotiations, he pursued military escalation, tightened language laws, and curtailed opposition, all while being lauded in Western parliaments as a modern-day Churchill.

But is he?

The fact that Canada gave a standing ovation to a former SS veteran during a Zelensky visit tells you something. We aren’t just passively supporting Ukraine—we’re actively rewriting history without asking enough questions.

And it’s not just about Ukraine. It’s about us.

How do we respond to uncomfortable truths? Do we dig deeper or double down on what’s familiar? Are we willing to accept that the world is messier than we’d like it to be?

I don’t have the answers. But that’s the point of Open Minds. I want to challenge you, not comfort you. To raise questions even when they’re inconvenient. Dr. Katchanovski’s research is free to read—open access. He’s not hiding it behind a paywall. So why are so many journalists, academics, and policymakers ignoring it?

Is it fear? Groupthink? Or just laziness?

When we talk about NATO, about sending billions in aid, about risking further escalation, we can’t keep pretending that this war started in 2022. It didn’t. And unless we’re willing to revisit the Maidan, we’re building foreign policy on a foundation of myths.

So here’s the question I leave you with:

What other conflicts do we think we understand—only to realize we’ve been watching the movie version all along?" https://t.co/bOmpzfzghh

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@NorthbackCA Fuck off, you parasites

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@RazzberryYams @duncankinney Yeah, no chance Singh wants what Duncan's saying. Just like with telecoms, he wants more market competition.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@ABCommunist This snow has been relentless. Depressing

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

Fascism is imperialism coming home, or so the saying goes.

Part of me can't help but think Canada, as punishment for being a junior partner to US imperialism, deserves the threat of annexation. Every major political party and its supporters have paved the way for this. FAFO?

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@anthonygalli @JasonOnTheDrums @MarkJCarney The vaccination rates of truckers mirrored the general public, dipshit. It wasn't a "trucker protest" - this was a convention of petit bourgeois, right-wing morons.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

@QueensParkToday Having these anti-communist, Ivy League frauds join U of T should not be celebrated.

[Red Hector @LetItBurnDown]

Baudrillard couldn't conjure up something more emblematic of simulacra