Conservatives have been trying to hock the LCBO for years, but couldn't make the dollars work. Heck, even the Ontario Liberals flirted with it until their accountants told them it was stupid fucking idea.
Ford, being Ford*, just doesn't give a shit.
This will remove billions of government revenue, cripple any succeeding government (because they'll need to raise taxes or cut services to compensate), enrich the already-wealthy and break a relatively strong union. I mean, there's zero downsides if you're a conservative.
where "being Ford" means being a short-sighted, corrupt piece of shit.
Apparently, Jews for Hitler are also having some trouble. They're commiserating with the black members of the KKK and the Association of Marxist-Leninist Landlords.
Disney will just cry and whine about how their streaming service isn't making enough money.
And that's their problem. Not ours.
Their failure to develop a business strategy shouldn't mean that the rest of the world should pay for it. Netflix made money back when they were the de facto streaming service, maybe the old model of vertically integrated production & distribution doesn't work any more, and maybe, just maybe, they should try catering to consumers who just want a one-stop shop , instead of trying to muscle in on every segment of the supply chain?
As a society, we should never have let content producers and content distributors merge. And while we can't do anything about Disney in Canada, we could, eg, force Bell to turn back time and split into it's network and production businesses. Same for Rogers. Same for Shaw and so forth.
/r/toronto is a lot like /r/ontario that way, though /r/ontario it's a little more hit-and-miss, depending on if you hurt a right-winger's feelings that day. Normally it leans left, but if you say something even slightly risque (other than cheap jokes about Doug Ford) and someone gets their nose out of joint, it'll get you banned.
I managed to a few days ago, comparing Doug Ford to the protagonist from Denis Leary's song Asshole. That got me, in no short order, a Reddit Cares email (which I report, because those really are the lowest form of harassment) and a ban for a day alter when, I suppose, that same right winger caught flak for abusing Reddit Cares.
The time defore that was a suggestion that "things won't improve in Ontario until the rich are afraid for their bank accounts, or the lives". That got me another Reddit Cares message, which I complained about, and, yup, another ban.
My local sub (/r/Peterborough) is remarkably level-headed. I'll give it credit.
The problem with the US (and Canada, and to a lesser degree the UK) is that the centrists would rather lose to the far right than legitimize actual leftism.
We’ve seen this in Canada several times, at all levels, where the Liberals would rather go down in flames in an election, knowing that they'll get another shot in a few years time, then share power with actual leftists in order to keep the right from doing more damage.
I'm really impressed with Macron. That's a level of long term holistic thinking that you don't normally see from neoliberal politicians.
I went to a gay Muslim wedding a few years back. Somehow everyone didn't kill each other.
Blaming religion for making people assholes robs them of their agency, letting them off the hook for being assholes organically and allowing the institution to shoulder the blame.
The onus would be on the left-wing parties to deliver actual progress for people, but that's not a problem with FPTP or PR: both systems have problems with neoliberal rot, where left- and centre-left parties forget they need to do things for citizens and not billionaires, and their progressivism devolves into green- and rainbow-washing.
The right has the same issue, only when they fail to deliver for citizens, they just scapegoat brown/Jewish/queer/whatever folk and start with progroms.
The Liberals would rather lose to the CPC for a cycle or two than implement PR, which a) drag the whole country leftward, economically, which the donor class doesn't want, and b) would see them never realize a majority government.
Yes. Because as we've seen, sunlight is not a good disinfectant for this kind of thing. Because "sunlight" results in these ideas can get visibility and by association, traction.
Naziism needs to be stomped on whenever, wherever and however it sleazes out from the sewer. Karl Popper made this very clear.
The people who can stop this are sufficiently privileged that they don't feel they'll be affected by Trump, and/or they hate paying taxes more than theyre worried about fascism.
They're also oblivious to history, both recent (Nazi Germany and the Night of the long knives) and modern day (Putin's Russia, and the fate of oligarchs who crossed him)
"We clearly haven't made the working class desperate enough yet. Let's have immigrants and students fight over jobs to make everything even nastier!"
I'm sure this won't in any way result in a huge cohort of angry underemployed young people. No siree.
I'm also starting to think that businesspeople aren't the Galtian ubermenchen that they think they are, given that they by and large can't plan more than six months in advance.
We knew he was a garbage human being during the Anita Hill hearings.
That he's still a garbage human being now that he had even more power shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with any understanding of how people work.