Jay Bird

@PubIicReIation @PalmerLuckey @spicycardanon @AOC Wow, I think this take is completely under appreciated and spot on. The issue is it doesn’t paint a clear hero or villain which the general public has difficulty navigating. Hence why positions on issues are generally black or white, little room for grey area.

Agree substantively, but you won't win this battle politically - ressentiment is too strong a force. Combine this with the fact that most peoples lived experience with a lot of companies has been generally declining levels of trust within society, and the increased proliferation of scam business models putting their hands in peoples pockets. Rich and productive people won't win this argument on logically pushing back.

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

@bbambied “I don’t have an answer, you are on your own.”

literally what am i supposed to say

@MaddestShqip @Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub You trying to make assumptions about my life is hilarious.. whatever buddy. Better put that resume together for Subway or McDonalds now that ticket sales won’t work much longer for ya😂😂

Why is @stubhub allowing ticket scalping even after Ontario outlawed scalping in the Putting Fans First Act?

This is you coming to terms that some people will gladly not attend events where ticket prices go 2x or more above face value. The new law makes it harder for resellers to exploit the entire market. Official websites can do what they want to cope… independent resellers are screwed🥲

@jaybird_5 @Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub Not go to events. I can tell you have zero education or brain power to think based on your policy beliefs but please try harder to keep up in a conversation

@MaddestShqip @Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub Oh no what will I do without scumbag resellers🥲

@jaybird_5 @Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub You will go to no events then, fucking moron lol

@Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub Not going to any event that requires turning to the black market… oh well.

@jaybird_5 @ShaziGoalie @StubHub Yeah give it to ticketmaster instead and stay at elevated prices lol enjoy getting bent over for every event instead of high demand ones also doesn’t stop the black market from thriving enjoy getting scammed as well

@Peter_2_G @ShaziGoalie @StubHub Awe no more easy profit for those producing zero economic value/output. The vast majority of the population has zero interest in purchasing unverified back ally tickets whether online or not, so let em operate “underground” like the rats they are.

@ShaziGoalie @StubHub Take away the legal way things will go the other way scams will run rampant ticketmaster already doing dynamic pricing No reason for this stupid bill to begin with unless someone got a fat envelope from ticketmaster

@steeletalk Now imagine we had a government, both federally and provincially that led with resource development to grow the wealth of every Canadian over the last 10 years, as opposed to ideology, just how much better we would be as a country right now.

Integrity commissioner says her office is overwhelmed with complaints about the federal government trib.al/ziqhxrY

These are the results of 15 years of “standing up for the little guy”, little guys…

"The issue I have with this is I don't understand how you can say that puck is completely crossing the goal line. There's no official behind the net there." The Hockey Central Panel discusses the Game 4 OT winner in Anaheim

@real_lord_miles Allowing him to proceed just hurt any lawsuit case because the contract was preformed… uphill battle to argue ya but not that guy!!

It’s actually fucking insane how a man made virus caused the entire world to shut down and now everyone who didn’t purchase a home before 2020 is in the permanent underclass.

Why hasn't a clown-estate-agent come out to explain that if a condo owner wants to move up in the property ladder scam, they have to sell their condo first! 💀💀💀

@NeoliberalShell @Lifeinvestmoney Listen I know I’m obviously a huge nerd for saying this but you need proper licensing and approved storage to actually take delivery or the supplier could be held liable

@Lifeinvestmoney Seriously considered doing this during covid when oil prices went negative and they were paying you to take possession. My buddy has a huge pole barn we thought about storing them in but never pulled the trigger.

Learn from me Don't trade oil futures Neighbors are pissed

@JohnPasalis This is obviously the Realtor organization planting a fake story in the media. Corporations are going to buy cashflow negative condos in a failing city? Lol. Ok. Smart money,Talent and businesses are leaving Canada. Rents are falling. What Corporation is buying? Such nonsense

@matthew14580682 @TdLeaker Always has been.

@TdLeaker Sounds like the play is to be the lender then?

Thanks to the parents who “helped” their kids into the housing market by weaponizing home equity. You did not solve the problem. You outbid other families with bank leverage and helped turn shelter into a multi-generation wage-extraction machine for lenders.

@lamafat @jkenney Your point doesn’t add any value to the conversation. Saying “officers excluded”just made any point you had moot at best.

@jkenney To be fair none of those men (officers excluded) would have had enough education to qualify to teach at memorial. In fact a large number of those men would have been illiterate.

1% of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War. Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice. None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice. DEI has gone too far for too long. (BTW, I wonder if the same discriminatory hiring practices apply to janitorial, food services, and facility maintenance jobs. Or does the unjust treatment only apply to "elite" tenure track positions?)

@VinceP29847 @ShaziGoalie These questions were absolutely NOT properly asked/assessed by ANYONE who contributed to pushing average prices above 800k. They signed away a HUGE majority of lifetime earnings for what exactly?

@ShaziGoalie Almost 800k and 8X income to live in the costly snowbelt? You need winter tires, jackets, winter boots, warm clothing, shoveling snow, slip and fall, cold and dark 7 months of the year. Paying a premium for what? What is the bull case to buy in Barrie or even Ontario?

BARRIE… THIS ONE IS WILD 👀 This Barrie home sold for $1.2M in 2022. Then came the slow grind down: $899K $849K $839K $799K Final sale: $782,500 $417,500 gone. From bidding-war highs to chasing buyers lower. First sellers chase the old market. Then the market drags them to the new one.

Carney says the US is now a "weakness," but: -91.6% of Carney’s investments are in US companies. -He studied at Harvard (Only Canadian PM without a Canadian degree). -Half his kids currently reside in the US.