Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/05/2025covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power 131105982367
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Important note: most Canadians don't know this. It's a hard-kept secret. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025In Canada if a scanned price doesn't match the shelf price, the item is free if the shelf price is under $10, or $10 off the item if the shelf price is over $10. It's a voluntary program but almost all major chains have signed on. www.retailcouncil.org/scanner-pric...retailcouncil.orgScanner Price Accuracy CodeOn behalf of Canadian retailers, RCC manages the Scanner Price Accuracy Code, which has been endorsed by the Competition Bureau. 100
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025That would cost money. Much better to invoice the government a few million to move a painting or fix a toilet and take a vacation that actually fix the systems they're in charge of. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It's pretty blatant. "People have disposable income? We won't stand for it!!" 020
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Wonder if our American "friends" will return the favor from a few months ago and send help? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caemergency into a tragedy | CBC NewsFlags have been lowered to half-mast at the Manitoba Legislative Building to honour two people who died after being trapped by an out-of-control wildfire in the rural municipality of Lac du Bonnet. 010
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in 2294857883
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Lotta people glancing over that list of 4 times Habeas Corpus was suspended and not realizing the most recent one was used to build concentration camps for people of Asian descent on American soil. 041
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025If you're in the Southern Manitoba area and want a lovely young dog, my current foster dog is now up for adoption! www.facebook.com/share/p/19Bf...facebook.comRedirecting... 100
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The US Embassy in Stockholm threatened the city that any contractors fire their DEI employees. Stockholm blew them off: “If the U.S.A. terminates its acquaintance with the City Planning Office, the embassy will have a hard time with building permits." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukStockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US demand that city and embassy contractors be anti-DEIFrance was also hit with the demand. ‘France and Europe will defend their companies, their consumers, but also their values,’ said the French Foreign Trade Ministry 25035731114
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025media.tenor.coma close up of a cartoon character with the words luigi intensifies on the bottomAlt: a close up of a cartoon character with the words luigi intensifies on the bottom 0390
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025So as the US falls to tyranny, your solution is to finally do something about the one thing Americans have that exists literally for the purpose of fighting tyranny? Choosing the right side is literally a no brainer and somehow you still boned it. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I mean, the way property ownership is manipulated so anybody with multiple residences that sells one can easily claim it's their primary for "tax purposes" means even that would have loophole you could drive a lifted F150 through. 110
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025The fact that a politician can lose his riding and a week later displace another just-elected MP *in a completely different province* is the modern democratic facade laid bare. If you don't live there, you can't run for office there. This should be a fully uncontroversial take. 140
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I've never spewed so much Leninist theory in normal everyday conversations, *without pushback*, in my entire life....even up here in Canada. Even some of the scary words slipped through the filter and didn't phase people. The conditions are primed for revolution. 0110
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Under Trump, Americans are relearning the lesson we learned about the oligarchy during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. 762750687
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I'd argue that slashing education is the biggest single influence. An uneducated population is highly susceptible to propaganda, and in the modern misinformation landscape they have no chance against it. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025But...we don't need 30 kinds. The issue here is that families are struggling to afford food, never mind work 1 doll into the budget, with it now going up "a couple bucks"...which also amounts to what, 20% increase? I don't know how much dolls cost. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Fingers crossed he gets the hint and takes a walk. 110
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This. There's already talk of an Alberta seat stepping down, but the bye election call is in Carney's hands and he can wait up to 6 months to call it, meaning they'd be down another vote. 110
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I was watching this one, very happy she pulled out the win. She's the kind of MP this country needs more of. A lot more. 010
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Make no mistake Canada, this isn't as much a victory as just avoiding the worst option. 20 years ago Carney would have been a contender to lead the Conservatives. That's just how far Canada has shifted in the Harper and on period. Carney is a further push *right* from Trudeau. #cdnpoli #canada 020
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Too bad they can't vote to take away his 6 figure pension. 020
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I get up about 90 minutes before my wife but as I rolled out of bed, she didn't move, didn't open her eyes, she just said "He lost his seat" and I knew exactly what she meant. Never have to listen to that weiner again. 110
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This was the first thing my wife and I checked this morning and we had a little celebration over it. He is such a weiner. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I see they folded our checklist into a lock. Clever. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Thank you for the context. I apologize for any offense. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The founder famously bragged about picking a name "difficult for Asian women to say". 100
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I'm saving my empties to hurl at the campaign office of the local CPC candidate at 2am if Poilievre actually pulls one out. Hoping I can just recycle them though, it's a long walk. 010
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025It's election day in Canada, and I know some people are pretty apathetic about voting. But today is a rare opportunity to make Pierre Poilievre—who is, by all reports, a giant asshole on every single level—profoundly unhappy. How often in life do you get the chance to make a shitweasel bully cry? 1032905755
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Is this a Lululemon joke? Cuz gotta say, poor taste. Solid execution, but poor taste. 100
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/04/2025“I can’t believe anyone would vote for Trump,” says smug Canadian man planning to vote for Poilievrethebeaverton.com"I can't believe anyone would vote for Trump," says smug Canadian man planning to vote for PoilievreOTTAWA - A smug man from Canada wasted no time this morning chastising Americans for re-electing terrifying liar and felon Donald Trump, despite the fact that he plans to vote for terrifying liar and ... 852998
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025If you want a dog to protect your family in the end times to it's last breath, also Pyrenees. 011
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025They say pets start to look like their owners over time... 000
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 26/04/2025Trying to explain to liberals why dividing the working class into smaller and smaller groups is unhelpful 795905888
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I just saw 3 consecutive posts that included Stephen Millar's mug, immediately followed by this. I'm going to bury my phone in the woods. 010
Reposted by It is Tom 🇨🇦Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/04/2025“It’s no secret that Pierre Poilievre hates journalists, particularly anyone who’s going to scrutinize his policies. That is, quite frankly, an unforgivable sin for any politician.“ Poilievre’s disdain for the institution of journalism is shameful. An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.cultmtl.comPierre Poilievre has accomplished nothing during his 20 years in ParliamentIt's truly pathetic that Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has accomplished nothing worth mentioning in 20 years in Parliament. 611148
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025It provides just enough of an illusion of *access* to power and wealth for those that actually have it to centralize and sequester it. And we're at the end of that stage now. 000
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Bingo. By adding a couple of extra steps, suddenly if you don't have your needs met, you just didn't work hard enough. Albeit Macht Frei indeed. 110
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Wait until you expand that thinking to, "With your needs met, what would you do with your labour effort?" and promptly watch their head explode, realizing that selling pet bandannas on Etsy for $2 each is suddenly a windfall. 010
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Western governments have spent trillions on propaganda, narrative twisting, and interference wherever the alternatives have taken root. Scary things like "socialism" and "communism" are fundamentally about separating out what you should *have* from what you need to *earn*. 132
It is Tom 🇨🇦 @falconlakeguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025What you *earn* from your *labour* is something else entirely. Exchanging labour for things you should *have* is fundamentally slavery, and that's not something much of the population of the West in general can wrap their heads around thanks to years of economic and military intervention. 222
