"If the LSBC were the institution it pretends and purports to be under threat of its monopoly being taken away, this noble, shield on heart defender of zealous advocacy, then it would be worth preserving, obviously; except it isn’t, so it is not." dockcurrie.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-ho...

This is what 'getting to 2%' looks like, in practice. 80 Billion dollars, of Canadian public money, to 'buy' a warship, the main apparatus of which is not in fact controlled by Canada, but rather by the United States.

ottawacitizen.com/news/nationa...

Because the crises Trump is basing his executive actions and state of exception on do not, in fact, exist, this procedure is not only an open attack on Canada, Canadians and Canadian sovereignty, but at the same time a profound erosion of he rule of law in the United States.

What John Rustad and his grotesques like Angelo Isidorou and Gavin Dew are doing right now is beneath vile, absolutely contemptible. They are using an attack on Canada and BC to side with the attacker, to join in the stupidity and belligerence of the attacker. It is absolutely beyond the pale.

NATO is a fig-leaf for US Empire and its dilapidated productive apparatus, nobody should pay any of their GDP to be in NATO, the US should have to pay member states to be in its awful, extremely offensive alliance, to get sucked into its absolute ass proxy wars every week.

Justin Trudeau sucks, but the uncritical hagiography of Chrystia Freeland is noxious. Freeland rose to prominence in the Trudeau Liberals by almost single-handedly gutting a half century of Liberal peacenik foreign policy and made us an adjunct arm of the US State Department.

“The court is being threatened with draconian economic sanctions by another permanent member of the Security Council as if it was a terrorist organisation,” ICC President Tomoko Akane

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

Six massacres in Gaza in less than 24 hours.

Yes, Netanyahu is maybe the weirdest person to be allowed power in Israel. Sort of like Trump here, who is so virulently anti-American/pro-dictator (esp. Putin). People all around the world are victim to this class of right wing insanity, boosted by foreign influence campaigns and brazen lies.

Haven't fully migrated yet, but I'm getting closer. It is nicer to be the rowdiest and most gregarious on a learned and professional platform here than to be the most sane on a platform which is increasingly just AI videos and extreme racists.

Happy Birthday to Friedrich Engels who was born on this day, 28 November, in 1820! 🎉

He was an autodidact, composer, sketch artist, and, most importantly, a revolutionary

In 1839, the 19 year old shared several compositions (includ. the chorale below) and sketches in his letters

"Today men are put in the coop on the strength of a piece of paper. Some of us slaves can read the law, but very few of us can understand it. . . But without the law the master class cannot exist, hence their efforts to retain their henchmen in office.” - E T Kingsley, BC Federationist March 15 1918

The great secret of society is that it is impelled by the interests of classes, the working class and the owning class and that those interests differ and are opposed, and this conflict plays out in all discursive material and intellectual arenas, economic, political, legal, cultural and linguistic.

never read him before but this is great