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a code to destroy your phone from a distance and make it smile

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

“DIrectly”.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

I know I shouldn’t keep commenting on this, but it really blows my mind.

$1.45M per unit for 2,200 units that would have already been on the market, and at likely sold at lower prices than we’re buying them, had we not intervened.

It’s a an absolutely wild trade off.

With $3.2B, we could be capitalizing 6,000+ new “affordable builds”. More if we fixed how our housing system works.

This would have added even more affordable supply, helping more people while leading to more affordable market for everyone in general.

Given the scale of the homelessness/addictions issues we’re seeing in urban centers across the country, it’s just an unbelievable prioritization of public money.

If I had that money for Ontario, I’d be dedicating it to housing and treating those suffering on our streets, and giving people of this province their urban centers back. And I think the vast majority of people would prefer this use of money over a developer bailout.

It really tells us that this decision was not about creating affordable housing… because it is doing the opposite.

[Lisa @YoungStreete]

It has been revealed that the Vancouver condo king, Bernie Rennie, held fundraisers for Mark Carney and now we’re learning he did the same for Gregor Robertson, Carney’s Housing Minister.

Obvious ethics breach. This is pay for play BS.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying to keep Rennie from losing money on overpriced, unsold condos.

Let supply and demand determine pricing.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Taxpayer bailouts for developers and zero social or co op housing built.

Complete scam once again paying off the rich with corporate welfare

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The Liberals have used their newly acquired majority to push through major changes to Canada’s laws at the last minute and shut down debate on legislation with major implications for the lives of all Canadians.

This is not normal. This is what happens when a government thinks it can act with impunity.

[shushu 🎒 @mispentyouth99]

@CanadaFP 1)The statement is a diplomatic fairy tale: it pretends
“peacebuilding” is possible while ignoring the actual power imbalance, the ongoing mass killing in Gaza, and the fact that Canada is still exporting weapons to the side doing the killing!

[The Mayor From Jaws @OvertCanadian]

Guy who sucks at building boats: no, it's supposed to be like that. I made it like that on purpose.

[Dan Therriault @dantherriault]

The strategy of a “double-tap” strike, bombing first, waiting, and bombing again, is to kill survivors, rescuers, civilians and emergency medical workers. This is why the Geneva Conventions define this double-tapping as a potential war crime.

In the case of the school in Minab, the US in the second strike was killing parents in horror over the children being killed in a surprise attack and trying to find them.

This is the greatest number of civilians killed by the US military since the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War.

This strike on schoolgirls was perpetrated on the very first day of the war. When all strikes were meticulously planned in advance.

[🍉 @A_Smol_T]

They have normalized the double tap. Or rather, the genocide in Gaza has normalized every single war crime there is.

[josh! @queersocialism]

should be a national emergency just how much these liberal talk shows are continuously making millions of american’s gleefully incurious and belligerently infantile politically. just a tragedy that this is the source that millions of people are relying on to stay informed

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Could you imagine if there were journalists whose beat was covering magicians, but they think magic is real, so they're always breathlessly reporting on the lady they saw cut in half.

[Die Anglofrage @yurtbayan]

material conditions made me do it your honor

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

It's a process. Fascism isn't born or implemented over night. Bush began creating the framework for who was legal/ illegal; for detaining and disappearing people (enabled by Reagan, Clinton previously); Obama built and developed that apparatus tenfold; as well as militarizing police and curtailing civil liberties. Trump expanded it. Biden then maintained it. So don't ask how Trump is able to do all this today.

Obama deported more people than all previous administrations combined— empowering ICE unlike ever before (first appointing current director Homan), who implemented horrific measures against those deemed illegal— as well as building the facilities and the institutional capabilities that later Trump used to separate families and cage children at an even larger scale. Because nobody challenged him, it only empowered and emboldened Trump.

Both parties present themselves as diametrically opposed to one another in every conceivable way. Yet this is a lie and a sham. They're collaborators and collude to ultimately maintain the same political and corporate interests.

At the basis of their shared agenda is the maintenance of the empire and the settler state at all costs; they will never jeopardize or abandon this.

The state has been hollowed out through a corporate takeover across decades by oligarchs and now technocrats. The state is now merely a vehicle through which the wealthy and corporate elite purchase, assert, and protect their interests.

Both parties serve the same role within this dynamic; how they carry out that mandate differs only in the rate/ pace of implementation and the optics of how they package and sell that agenda to the populace.

Methods for enacting policies of violence may change between administrations, but the primary architecture and logic remains. There isn't actually a material divergence.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

I appreciated the candor of this speech. But its telling Carney has basically just acknowledged facts about the international legal order that left wing and critical scholars have been pointing out for decades.

Largely to apoplectic anger from true believers...

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

catching up with Bezos's hip vertical #content

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It'a amazing to watch mainstream western media outlets completely and brazenly distort what Mark Carney said.

They're pretending he was just attacking Trump: as if Carney was claiming we had a nice "rules-based international order" until Trump came along.

No. Carney said that this "rules-based international order" has long been a fraud that western nations pretended was true because it was in their interests to maintain this lie.

But establishment outlets like the NYT, CBC, The Atlantic, The Economist, etc. etc. can't grapple with or even acknowledge Carney's confession, because those outlets have been central to embracing and ratifying and spreading this precise fiction.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The best and most surprising part of Carney's speech is that he didn't pretend there was a "rules-based international order" until Trump came and ended it.

He admitted the claim was always a fraud, but that the EU, UK and Canada affirmed the lie because it benefited them.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Revoke 5-10% of driver's licenses and tens of thousands of lives will be saved, insurance prices for auto, property, and health will all decline, multiple forms of pollution and traffic will decrease, and there will be a new demand for robust public transportation.

Boomers will magnify all of these problems as the current system will let them drive long past their reasonable ability to do so.