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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

To paraphrase Mamdani 'wr need to stop voting for the lesser evil and start seeking a greater good'. If the best you've got to support Carney is that he is better than PP you are supporting the lesser evil. And hanging around with Maxwell and Andrew isn't a good look either.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Why do so many @mark-carney.bsky.social supporters quote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when Mamdani stands for supporting workers over billionaires? Carney like Cuomo stands with the rich against the poor and thus one would think he was more their speed

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EA @elliottanderson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good. - Zohran Mamdani in groovy font

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A really good read on the dangers of worshipping politicians as heros substack.com/inbox/post/1...

substack.com

The Cost of Hero Worship in Politics:

Why Elevating Leaders Risks Us All

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

In #Canada both #Federal and #Provincial governments have the ability to build the infrastructure and services people need, it's called investing in your own people. #neoliberalism dictates that they give our money to private interests instead and find excuses for why life doesn't get better.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The NDP choosing a progressive leader, with actual progressive policies, is the only way to avoid this future. 3/3

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

3rd - The societal disaster from Carney's cuts will hit and Liberal support will eveaporate 4th - Ford will campaign on a 'Stop Carney' platform and will become PM 5th - Ford will devastate Canada 2/🧵

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Here are my political predictions for the next few years in Canada: 1st - Enough CPC MP's are going to defect to the Liberals to ensure the budget passes 2nd - PP will resign after the leadership review in January and will be replaced as CPC by Doug Ford 1/🧵

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Both corporate CEO's and politicians are masters of saying what people want to hear and then doing the opposite at the first opportunity. His budget is 100% a trickle-down budget.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

When I was a child I would try and use the excuse "but everybody else is doing it" and she would always respond "and if everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you?" Now #Canada is abandoning #climatechange for #oil and #gas and literally using the justification "but everybody else is doing it"

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Zohran did the exact same thing Obama did in 2008; he offered people hope for a better future and a viable plan for changes that would be directly beneficial to them (no trickle down tricks required)

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Isanthrope @isanthropia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Yes - socialism agendas work because striving for equality is something most humans actually prefer. Give the billionaires a trophy for winning capitalism then tax them out of existence. Capitalism works best when there is a government that enacts rules, oversight and watchdogs.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Increased militarism? Abandonment of addressing climate change? Slashing of public services? Billions in handouts to corporations? Those are acceptable to you, but criticizing tax breaks on yachts is your deal breaker? I have no problem with your choice of an insect based diet, it's a free country

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PSAC-AFPC @psac-afpc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Instead of investing in frontline services and the workers who keep Canada running, the government is doubling down on job cuts and AI chatbots that will weaken Canada’s social safety net. psacunion.ca/federal-budg...

psacunion.ca

Federal Budget: Government plans deep public service cuts and weakens workers’ bargaining rights

<p>The Public Service Alliance of Canada is deeply concerned about the federal government’s plan to slash critical public services, cut more than 40,000 federal public service workers,…

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 04/11/2025

Appreciate the high speed rail — but what about the rest for working-class Canadians? Cutting taxes on private jets for the 0.01% may help corporations, but won’t help those who will lose their jobs because of AI and austerity. Canada Strong must mean *all* Canadians, not just a minority thereof!

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Write the @ndp.ca folks! Make sure their MPs know how Canadians feel!

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

No we can't do it alone BUT we could have held the line on what we were doing (which was already inadequate) instead of moving in the opposite direction of actively encouraging emissions. Long term this is going to leave Canada wildly out of position when the pendulum swings.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And of course tax breaks for buying private jets and yachts... cause that's what Canadians need!

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What do you like about it? Massive military spending? Abandonment of climate change? Massive cuts to the programs Canadians use in the daily lives? Billions for corporations?

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It's the Canadian version of North Korea's Songun, aka the Military-First, policy... we are truly fucked

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

- Slamming the door on climate refugees - Eliminating carbon cap (because more emissions somehow help fight climate change) - 'Investing' in Carbon Capture (technology that doesn't work but will but billions into O&G shareholders pockets)

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 04/11/2025

#FossilGas is bad for #Climate, bad for business, bad for Canada. #LNG #cdnpoli bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

All the red tape/work requirements etc put on social safety net programs aren't there to improve the efficiency of the program and are functionally useless. They're there to make the rest of us feel morally superior to poor people and reassure us we won't end up like "them". bsky.app/profile/nber...

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

If #Canada wants to keep it's #sovereignty we need to take control of our #media 1) Ban foreign ownership of all #Canadian media (including non-voting shares) 2) Ban any individual from having a controlling interest in multiple media outlets #cdnpoli #freepress #pressfreedom

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Brandee @bcontroversial.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"The risk to our country is not that Canadians will be too cautious in embracing AI, but that our government will act too rashly, tying our democracy, prosperity, security, sovereignty and collective well-being to a questionable product and its reckless promoters."

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I'm 100% certain that when a recall petition gains enough signatures the Smith regime will pass legislation abolishing recalls (using the NWC if necessary)

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Western #capitalists have been #offshoring their production to #China to take advantage of low labour costs, an action justified under #capitalism. Now Chinese companies are exploiting those same conditions to export to the west and those same western capitalists are crying foul. #hypocrisy

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's frustrating watching smart people compare bad to atrocious and then declare the bad to be good #cdnpoli #politics

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Radio explained it (calling it the Ohtani rule); if he starts they can leave him as DH after relieving him but if he's a reliever he can't stay in as DH

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The difference between the Carney Cult and the Poilievre Posse is the colour of their jerseys; no action or evidence will convince their members that they can possibly be wrong, and if evidence is presented that challenges their world view the presenter becomes the enemy

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Mark Carney did apologize to Donald Trump #cdnpoli

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

As an act of #reconciliation every #Indigenous language spoken in the lands #Canada occupies should be given official language status. No Indigenous person should be forced to use a colonial language in their daily lives if they do not wish to do so. #cdnpoli #colonialism

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Augustina @augustina.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Dear @pmcarney.bsky.social & the Gov't of Canada, Please make this AI shit illegal for politicians to use. We all know mini-MAGA #PeePee and the #CONservatives will go full out with this nonsense. And look how ridiculous it makes American Republicans look. Let's not look like this. #cdnpoli

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Accepting a little cruelty because you are afraid that someone worse will rise to power eventually guarantees the worst finds you #abpoli #cdnpoli #politics

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

-sigh- it looks like she forgot to convert the units; it's a sliver of Miller to an handful of Satan's warts

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

All 3 levels of government must get back to directly building housing as they did prior to neoliberalism taking over

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Pouring billions into O&G takes money away from shifting to renewables. You don't keep throwing gasoline on the fire while trying to put it out.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

To put this into numbers for folks: If you bought a cabin at $100,000 and sold it for $500,000; Your capital gain is $400,000. Under Trudeau's rules you would have had $268,000 of income upon which you would pay taxes; under Carney you only pay taxes on $200,000 pocketing an extra $68,000 tax free

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Prior to taking office he also frequently expressed knowledgeable opinions about carbon emissions being responsible for climate change; since taking office he's become an unabashed supporter of increased O&G production and exports to boost the economy at the expense of climate.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Your partner paid income taxes on 50% of the capital gains from the sale of the cottage, the other 50% of the capital gains where tax free. The total amount paid is not the problem, the amount exempted from taxation is.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Implementing legislation specifically allowing an action and then saying that any criticism said action is an 'idealogic narrative' is ideological in and of itself; and at no point did I say any of those actions where illegal, thus shifting the goalposts to reference the SCOC is a logical fallacy.

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