ChilliSchilli

We made it all up. All of it. Money, bills, capitalism, war, laws, the 5-day workweek, 3 meals a day, school, traditions, housing costs, food insecurity. Almost everything we say is “just the way it’s done” is something humans created, and it is important to remember that.

@SueLubowitz @wickdchiq As someone from said "other provinces", I can assure you progress has not been made.

@wickdchiq The second part of this opinion piece is in the smaller headline: " the popular prime minister points to progress in other provinces and billions already spent". Ford government is dragging its feed...maybe has spent the money elsewhere?

LOL told y’all this man has a troubling collection of negative policy actions that disproportionately impact women

When they tell you there’s not enough money for public services they’re lying to you

Too often, it's communal spaces or facades that get "refreshed" while much-needed in-unit repairs are neglected. Then, tenants get hit with an above-guideline rent increase (AGI). It's how bad landlords extract more profits while forcing poorer tenants out. It's win-win for them.

Robert Sapolsky es un neurocientífico de Stanford que demostró que el estrés crónico es el asesino silencioso que los médicos ignoran. Reveló 10 hábitos que haces todos los días y que te quitan años de vida. 1) Repasar conversaciones en tu cabeza

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

I really hate the “no person who works a full-time job should live in poverty” discourse. It should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We have to let go of the idea that we work in exchange for our worth. People are innately worthy and deserving of the basics.

@wickdchiq So if big tech and AI platforms are targeting young people, why is he so keen on getting AI data centres in the province? The math isn't mathing on this one.

NO. Fuck no.

they want us to believe it’s a national security emergency to fall behind china on Ai but falling behind china on high speed rail, renewable energy and childhood nutrition is a-OK.

Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more. That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

I don’t think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.

We’re all born Socialists until they try to indoctrinate you. Just ask a child if everyone deserves food and shelter.

“Work isn’t supposed to be fun,” “life is supposed to be hard.” Why? Says who? We operate under this belief that everything meaningful has to be difficult, when it really doesn’t. The whole point of progress is to make life suck less, not glorify unnecessary struggle.

In 1986, psychiatrist George Pollock documented that the nervous system activates grief responses at the same time each year - even when the conscious mind has no memory of the date

The United States has the largest prison population on earth. Not per capita. Total. More people in cages than China. More than Russia. More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports. 1.8 million people. Disproportionately Black. Disproportionately poor. Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure. This is presented as a "criminal justice system." It functions as a labor system. Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause: "Except as punishment for crime." That exception has never been closed. It has been expanded. The plantation did not disappear. It received a different name and a legal foundation.

I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

Lol love Winnipeg transit. My transfer expires before my second bus shows up. Cool schedules we got here guys 🫠

France made this wastefulness illegal cause it’s cruel and only causes more waste issues. Any food market or restaurant over 400 square meters has to donate all their good unsold food to charities and are fined if they do anything like this. That law should be applied everywhere

Yeah I'm sure this taking over will be fine