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The modern Conservative base only cares about housing scarcity as a Trojan Horse for smuggling anti-immigrant bigotry into the discourse. They long for deportations, not duplexes.

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Conservatives hate solutions, even *conservative* solutions lmao, because if anything ever got better, they wouldn't be able to campaign on grievance.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 8h

Edmonton has some of the most affordable rents in the country. Can't let them get away with that shit!

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I’ve been saying for months that federal climate policy should focus on supporting and stimulating demand for clean technology, not pricing or regulating supply. Lo and behold: apple.news/Ao0r-K-C-QAa...

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$2B heat pump rebate program unveiled by federal government — CTV News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that his government is investing $2 billion into a new national heat pump rebate program, with the goal of incentivizing Canadians to retrofit more energy...

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 9h

A Heat Pump Strategy is particularly welcome news considering how the Climate Institute just reported that Canadian emission increases are currently being driven more by building heating demands than oil and gas, which has actually seen a decrease in emissions despite increasing production.

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Carney’s presentation in Quebec today is all about space heating. 🥳 “Heating a home with oil costs 70% more than it did two years ago. Now there’s another 6 million who heat with electric baseboards and furnaces who are still paying 45% more than they have to.”

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 9h

Remember, these are the same people who deride scientific experts as "out of touch elites". So genetic elitism is great, but professional elitism, not so much. We call this "Meritocracy".

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 10h

An "elite human being". An Übermensch, one might say.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 11h

Dang, seems like they want the perks of being a province without being a province.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 12h

Stop worrying about people who don't want to have kids, and start worrying about whatever the fuck *this* is.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 12h

“Why should I give up my comfortable natural gas furnace when someone else can cut their emissions instead?” “Why should I give up my hard earned money? Tax someone else instead.” “I’m uncomfortable with my gov’t having armed forces. Someone else should bear that moral weight instead.”

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 12h

I think this generalizes to the “low energy state” approach to a lot of political problems - the easiest thing to do is always to say “someone else should bear the cost”, be that pollution, the inconvenience of construction, or even just change.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 17h

Where I've landed with this is that municipalities (and neighbourhoods within them) are all basically trying make new housing go Somewhere Else. It's a collective action problem where everyone in the province benefits from abundant housing, but no one wants change locally. So we get *gestures*

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 12h

If you think that staying on X is somehow a brave, rearguard action to fight the nazis on their own turf, think again. You are way more likely to simply absorb far-right bigotry and derangement and incorporate it into your own priors, even as someone who proports to be a Leftist.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 12h

this is your brain on X, the nazi app.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 13h

Electrify everything. Heat Pumps for everyone. Relegate fossil fuels to a niche export commodity.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 14h

"Canada's oil and gas sector accounted for a lower level of emissions in 2025, despite boosts in production, while the country's overall emissions ticked up thanks to increased reliance on natural gas to heat homes." Another data-point for the critical importance of domestic electrification.

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I feel like modern tankies don't really have an expanding communist empire like the soviet camp to stan for, so they end up stanning for russian fascism out of pure muscle memory.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/10/2026

We have these types in Canada too, like Yves Engler (who was even briefly a contender for NDP leadership). They all fucking suck.

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average bluesky politics-knower: horseshoe theory isn’t really a thing german political parties: we would like to announce the horseshoe initiative

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 23h

nazis 🤝 tankies

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Some cosplay commie dorks think that the purest form of Socialism is simply rolling over for Fascism, and I think those people should basically be launched into the Sun.

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When someone on the Left starts talking to me about cutting aid to Ukraine, I know I'm dealing with just the worst kind of wrecker imaginable.

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I really fucking hate tankies.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22h

Man, I really hate when Horseshoe Theory gets vindicated.

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Communists and fascists United in the important work of allowing fascism to expand

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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elon Musk is South African because Saskatchewan wasn’t white enough for his grandfather in 1950.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Musk advocating for Quebec separatism then following it up by saying Alberta & Saskatchewan should leave too gives away this is just about dissolving Canada for being lib, but I'm glad he's too dumb to realize it undermines separatists' chances by further associating them with right-wing Americanism

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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the most effective legal tools Indigenous nations have for defending their rights is arguing that a proposed action is not in keeping with the honour of the Crown. The honour of elected politicians is much harder to locate, and rarely judicially enforceable.

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Honour of the Crown - Centre for Constitutional Studies

Honour of the Crown The honour of the Crown is a constitutional principle that is fundamental to Aboriginal Law, the branch of Canadian constitutional law that deals with the constitutional rights of ...

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I occasionally feel like the only way Canada could reasonably ditch the monarchy would be for "The Land" to take the place of "The Crown", and for the Assembly of First Nations to appoint the Governor General.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Only the pure, incorruptible, car-loving rural voter can defend the Natural Order against the nefarious urban mass-transit-taking barbarian hordes who seek to dethrone God and abolish internal combustion.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If one looks at the riding maps for the Quebec election this becomes wholly explicable - it’s ordinary rural gentry protecting their power. Mr Collins Theory remains undefeated.

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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In retrospect, how did we not recognize that the Glonzo thought experiment was shaped exactly like every stupid antisemitic conspiracy theory from the last 2,000 years? Yeah, Glonzo poisoned our wells. Thomas of Monmouth told me Glonzo kidnapped William of Norwich and sacrificed him.

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New rule is no one is allowed to set transit policy without surviving for one (1) year without owning a car.

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As a child of Hamilton, I want to see us really throw the book at the Stelco owners. Give Melanie Joly a bazooka. Make them honour the terms of the sale, or declare the deal null and void, and take the company back.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Co-conspirator? Or Open-AI fall guy?

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TFW your allies tire of your shit and stop buying your stuff, but you still need to buy digital asbestos hardware, potash and oil (at inflated prices, due to your self-inflicted quagmire in the Strait of Hormuz).

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