Janet Bufton 🍁🌻
@janetbufton.ca
Canadian mum, 3D liberal in Babylon
Writing collected at janetbufton.ca
diversity dynamism democracy Detroit Lions
Elbows up.
Writing collected at janetbufton.ca
diversity dynamism democracy Detroit Lions
Elbows up.
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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻
@janetbufton.ca
· Jan 8
Democracy for liberal people
Market liberals need liberal democracy
www.janetbufton.ca
I've been working on a market liberal case for democracy. That case now spans four pieces, all of which are linked in my latest blog post.
ft most prominently Don Lavoie, Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social, Benjamin Constant, Adam Smith, and James Buchanan...
ft most prominently Don Lavoie, Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social, Benjamin Constant, Adam Smith, and James Buchanan...
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Called it, 15 months ago, for @liberalcurrents.com, to which you should lend your support. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...
![["Mass Deportation: If You Do It," Liberal Currents, July 30, 2024]
Anyway, after you yank them away from their jobs, they won't be able to pay for anything they need and want, so you'll have to.
But you won't want to pay very much, so you'll throw them into hot warehouses, or onto parking lots under some tents.
And soon they'll be hungry. Tired. Dirty. Gross. Sick. Out of touch.
Considering how much you were already being told to hate them, how Trump was already dehumanizing them while they were freely living their lives, how right will he seem after he's sealed them inside these godforsaken pens?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6er2qgkfqqdnbewf4m4c642g/bafkreiawoyzihidjvfssllbg3ub4zaie4pg7pbcn5op7qg7vsvtoutuk2u@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Called it, 15 months ago, for @liberalcurrents.com, to which you should lend your support. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...
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I'm doing video content now, on Youtube! www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/introducin...
Introducing Soft Power
A show about how realpolitik shapes the world
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm doing video content now, on Youtube! www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/introducin...
It would be interesting to follow their evolution if TFP types could be expected to react to the fact that self-proclaimed socialists don't govern like Lenin, but these people are boring. At best.
The Free Press' front page is four articles of MANDAMI PANIC, a Dick Cheney nostalgia essay, and one of the richest people in the world writing about why he gave $100 million to Bari Weiss' unaccredited anti-woke college.
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It would be interesting to follow their evolution if TFP types could be expected to react to the fact that self-proclaimed socialists don't govern like Lenin, but these people are boring. At best.
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Yeah. My policy views are well to the right (in some sense) of a lot of the self-described centrist Democrats, but on the "oppose fascism vs appease fascism" cleavage, I am not at all on their side.
i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yeah. My policy views are well to the right (in some sense) of a lot of the self-described centrist Democrats, but on the "oppose fascism vs appease fascism" cleavage, I am not at all on their side.
While I'm happy that Canada has not cratered on immigration in the same way the U.S. has, demolishing international student admissions hands two wins to the far right: concession that immigration is a problem and weakening higher education.
I hope I am just worrying too much about this.
I hope I am just worrying too much about this.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
While I'm happy that Canada has not cratered on immigration in the same way the U.S. has, demolishing international student admissions hands two wins to the far right: concession that immigration is a problem and weakening higher education.
I hope I am just worrying too much about this.
I hope I am just worrying too much about this.
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Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.
Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?
His policy evolution and the team he’s assembling suggest that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction
www.theunpopulist.net
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ahead of New York City's mayoral election, Tibita Kaneene, the political director of @cnliberalism.org's NYC chapter, lauds Zohran Mamdani as a champion of multiracial and multiethnic democracy, and suggests market-friendly liberals can be cautiously optimistic about a Mamdani victory.
Last Christmas.
White nationalist Nick Fuentes says that 2025 will be the year he turns his America First movement into a legitimate political operation. As such, he laments that he's "going to have to stop saying the N-word on the show": "We can't have a professional operation if we're always saying the N-word."
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Last Christmas.
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A highlight slide:
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A highlight slide:
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The one person with the most resources to do good for humanity has devoted himself heart and soul to lying about people from ethnic groups he hates.
Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.
Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The one person with the most resources to do good for humanity has devoted himself heart and soul to lying about people from ethnic groups he hates.
Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.
Money does not, clearly, make a man less simple, less gullible, less choked with bigotry.
I am now in favour of one more time change before being against them again.
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I am now in favour of one more time change before being against them again.
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The MAGA version of free speech includes the absolute right of the state to punish absolutely everyone if anyone says something they don't like.
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The MAGA version of free speech includes the absolute right of the state to punish absolutely everyone if anyone says something they don't like.
Mood.
Ancient Tiger Learns Balance - KPop Demon Hunters
YouTube video by Yule Ropple
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October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Mood.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
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If there is any silver lining to this whole foul era, I hope it at least persuades progressives that this strain of thought that views restricting trade & immigration as some kind of boon to the working class has always been dumb and ugly.
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If there is any silver lining to this whole foul era, I hope it at least persuades progressives that this strain of thought that views restricting trade & immigration as some kind of boon to the working class has always been dumb and ugly.
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New from me. On last night's trade talks blow up.
I think I'm largely just repeating myself at this point, but still feels useful to acknowledge how not normal* things are.
(*"Normal," as defined before 2016)
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I think I'm largely just repeating myself at this point, but still feels useful to acknowledge how not normal* things are.
(*"Normal," as defined before 2016)
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump's latest outburst is another reminder of how much has changed | CBC News
"I think we all cling to a model of behaviour of a president, out of comfort," Flavio Volpe, president of Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, said on Friday morning, "and I don't know what go...
www.cbc.ca
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New from me. On last night's trade talks blow up.
I think I'm largely just repeating myself at this point, but still feels useful to acknowledge how not normal* things are.
(*"Normal," as defined before 2016)
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I think I'm largely just repeating myself at this point, but still feels useful to acknowledge how not normal* things are.
(*"Normal," as defined before 2016)
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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A few weeks ago, he was dangling tariffs because of Canada‘s Middle East policy. Before it was fentanyl. And migration. And now it’s a TV ad. Maybe… stay with me here but…
Maybe… he just really likes tariffs.
Maybe… he just really likes tariffs.
Trump terminates trade talks with Canada because of tariff ads nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/24/t... #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch
Trump terminates trade talks with Canada because of tariff ads
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A few weeks ago, he was dangling tariffs because of Canada‘s Middle East policy. Before it was fentanyl. And migration. And now it’s a TV ad. Maybe… stay with me here but…
Maybe… he just really likes tariffs.
Maybe… he just really likes tariffs.
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But even a client state gets better trade terms than what America is offering Canada and Mexico. Client states are there to supply cheap labour and raw goods — Trump doesn't even want that.
Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.
Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.
October 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
But even a client state gets better trade terms than what America is offering Canada and Mexico. Client states are there to supply cheap labour and raw goods — Trump doesn't even want that.
Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.
Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.
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-countries would have to be plainly stupid to sign a broad trade agreement with Trump, nevermind rewriting deals they already have.
Canada is heading towards USMCA renewal next year, and it remains unclear to me what happens when Trump insists on tariffs. Because Ottawa and Mexico have to say "no."
Canada is heading towards USMCA renewal next year, and it remains unclear to me what happens when Trump insists on tariffs. Because Ottawa and Mexico have to say "no."
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
-countries would have to be plainly stupid to sign a broad trade agreement with Trump, nevermind rewriting deals they already have.
Canada is heading towards USMCA renewal next year, and it remains unclear to me what happens when Trump insists on tariffs. Because Ottawa and Mexico have to say "no."
Canada is heading towards USMCA renewal next year, and it remains unclear to me what happens when Trump insists on tariffs. Because Ottawa and Mexico have to say "no."
Occasional reminder that this is what it's like to have a signed, Trump-negotiated trade agreement with the United States.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Occasional reminder that this is what it's like to have a signed, Trump-negotiated trade agreement with the United States.
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"We need to have fewer things in the world that make us wonder whether everything is just made up bullshit."
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"We need to have fewer things in the world that make us wonder whether everything is just made up bullshit."
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Beef must be cheaper and also more expensive.
the king blames his subjects for complaining about his policies hurting them
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Beef must be cheaper and also more expensive.