i don't want trudeau to lose the next election, so much as i want him to step down before the next election and be replaced with somebody else in the party.

the ndp are worse than a joke, they're so incompetent as to even appear unelectable from the perspective of a far left voter. the greens aren't actually a real party. and, the conservatives are no more of an option than they've ever been.

the best outcome is to replace trudeau.

no, you don't...

i'm not any of your labels.

i'm disenfranchised.

i have been the whole time.

but, it's just getting worse.

i'm going to line up on the side of people arguing that trudeau walking around in indian robes (do indians even dress like this any more?) is akin to some kind of black face.

as is the case with so much of what trudeau does, this isn't just ham-fisted. it's blatantly racist.

there is no end of history; nor does history move in one direction.

you can call it a step backwards if you want, but it's only relative to a contrived scale that only exists in your mind.

there is neither a forwards nor a backwards to step towards, or even an anthropomorphized entity which can take steps.

fuck teleological hegelianism.

http://www.weijingsheng.org/doc/en/comfacism.html

china is even the most accurate representation of corporatism in the actual meaning of the term: more accurate than mussolini, and certainly far more accurate than hitler.

yes, china is a fascist state.

that's the technically accurate description.

russia is a kind of illiberal democracy. and, america is an oligarchy, in the old european feudal sense.

but, china is a textbook fascist dictatorship.

and, i'm sorry if that upsets you, but it's the actual truth.

i am sometimes indecisive, but i do not bluff.

you could say i'm ideologically opposed to bluffing. or, i can just tell you that i simply don't have time for that kind of fucking bullshit. i want full transparency and total honesty, and i'm more likely to just treat you like an insect than i am to "make a deal" if i conclude you're not trustworthy.

and, don't call my bluff, at least not to me. if you think you're calling my bluff, what you're actually doing is increasing the chances that i pull the trigger, because i'm likely to spend less time thinking something through once my sovereignty as an individual is challenged. the act of telling me that you don't think i'll do something is pretty much guaranteeing that i will actually do it.

but, i'm not interested in erecting elaborate plans for self-interest or world domination. i project myself as honestly and as plainly as i can, and i will very quickly escalate to treating you as a non-person if i don't get the same respect in return.

liars aren't people.

the temperature outside has fallen, and the heat is working, but i don't understand what happened well enough to react.

the next time that happens, i'll have to hit the heaters in the hallways immediately in order to do some further testing.

i mean, there's three possibilities:

1) the heat was turned off, building-wide.
2) management turned the heat off in the hallways, and that in turn turned my heat off.
3) a tenant did (2), rather than management.

i had initially assumed (1). but i'm currently leaning towards (3).

what i will say is that i fully expect this to happen again in mid-march or early april, and while i'd rather not wait, i feel like i must.

i suspect that most (all) people that want to legalize heroin have never actually known a heroin addict.

there are two drugs that i have no patience for, and you shouldn't, either, and they are opiates and methamphetamines.

these are drugs that nothing good can come out of, and that the community needs to fight with every tool available.

and, affected communities will tell you that, too. i don't know what communities in canada are particularly affected by heroin. but, mr. singh better bring bodyguards, if he wants to spread his message to affected communities in the united states - and i suspect there are a few in canada that would be just as dangerous.

campaigning on legalizing crack in certain (mostly black) areas of the united states could very well get you murdered by concerned parents, who are just going to look at you like another dealer.

it's pretty much the dumbest, least populist thing i could imagine a politician doing.

if we can get marijuana passed, and i don't think it's happening, we could look at legalizing mdma next. access to safe mdma, which is harmless, would actually save lives, as it is difficult to find; almost all e on the market is some combination of cocaine and meth, which is in fact a deadly combination, and should be done by nobody.

legalizing mdma would be the most substantive policy - more substantive than marijuana, because nobody dies or otherwise gets their life ruined from bad or mislabelled pot.

another drug that could be legalized more or less immediately with minimal negative side effects is psilocybin.

there is a category in between, and it includes cocaine & lsd. you can hurt yourself on these drugs, but you probably won't. that makes them less like pot or mdma (which are less dangerous than aspirin) and more like alcohol. to be reflective of empirical evidence, the level of restrictions around alcohol, cocaine & lsd would need to be a little higher than those around marijuana, mdma or psilocybin.

fine.

but, don't even talk to me if you want to normalize heroin use.

something else i've said is this, and please quote me on it:

the aim of the british empire was to use weapons to open up markets for it's exports; the aim of the american empire is to use markets to open up exports for it's weapons.

i just want to add that america's absent strategy is actually it's strategy: america does not want anybody to win, and does not want peace in the region, but is playing everybody off against each other in order to create instability and fuel further conflict.

the status quo is america's endpoint.

so, don't be surprised if they end up harder to get out of the region than makes any sense, although i'll agree that they've burned so many bridges that they're running out of rivers to cross.

pick your cliche.

the policeman is not there to create disorder. the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

but, i also like to point out that iran is on to something in calling america the great satan. for, this is what satan does, in the mythological literature: he divides and conquers.

and, that's why people find it so hard to get their head around it. america is supposed to be the good guy, supposed to have an end point.

http://www.atimes.com/article/afrin-marks-point-collapse-american-influence-syria/

no, i need to wait - because i need to experiment.

there's four floors in the building, stairways at opposite ends and a heater on each floor at each stairway, which is how many heaters?

i bet 30% of you can't figure that out.

but, i went around and turned them all on. then, the heat comes on in here about a half hour later.

it might be a coincidence. or it might be cause and effect. but, if i can just turn the heat back on in here by flipping the switch in the hallway, that's a lot easier than taking somebody to court.

i overheard somebody talking about their heater being connected to the ones in the hallway.

it also proves wrongdoing on behalf of somebody in the building. but, it expands the number of suspects to everybody in the building. i mean, i could be undoing what another tenant did.

if that's the case, and we can figure out who it is, i could maybe get the building on my side in coming down on them.

as before, this isn't about money. i just want the heat to work...

what i need to figure out is if my heater is connected to the ones in the hallway or not; if it isn't, i'll have to push back. if it is, i guess i have a fight with another tenant on my hands - one i intend to win, but one that is very different in scope.