Thursday, August 30, 2018
well, the federal government didn't write the court ruling, rachel.
regardless, i've always thought the carbon tax should be federal, anyways.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trans-mountain-federal-court-appeals-1.4804495
regardless, i've always thought the carbon tax should be federal, anyways.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trans-mountain-federal-court-appeals-1.4804495
at
21:55
how many jobs might alberta have created if it had taken all the money it's wasted pushing 20th century technology and invested it into 21st century technology, instead?
and, i thought the canadian pseudo-left was supposed to actually understand that....
and, i thought the canadian pseudo-left was supposed to actually understand that....
at
17:03
windsor - like detroit - is being absorbed back into the ignorance of rural conservatism, brought on by a combination of religious immigration and capitalist decline.
what was once an opportunity to build a new communist society, here, has been lost due to the high levels of immigration, designed to return the working class to the ignorance of religion.
what was once an opportunity to build a new communist society, here, has been lost due to the high levels of immigration, designed to return the working class to the ignorance of religion.
at
15:59
the empirical deduction is that windsor is no longer a good place for a queer artist to try and eke out an existence in.
rather, it is a good place for conservative families to come and raise families.
and, is that really what windsor wants to be known as?
a haven for the religious to breed in?
i'd like to think that windsor would rather be known as an escape for a queer artist to exist in. but, if that was ever true, it appears to be too late to reassert it, now.
and, i am now the refugee, aren't i?
rather, it is a good place for conservative families to come and raise families.
and, is that really what windsor wants to be known as?
a haven for the religious to breed in?
i'd like to think that windsor would rather be known as an escape for a queer artist to exist in. but, if that was ever true, it appears to be too late to reassert it, now.
and, i am now the refugee, aren't i?
at
15:53
islam is not a culture, it's an ideology - and one of the ways that ideologies enforce their control is through the abolition and subjugation of all culture. this was as true under stalin as it was under saladin.
there is no self-expression in islam. no individuality. no questioning of revealed wisdom. no revolution. no democracy. no deviation from the norm. it's just violently enforced conformity. and, nothing we can meaningfully refer to as a culture can exist under these kinds of oppressive circumstances.
if this place goes full muslim - and if this mess around nafta gets bad, it very well might - they're going to convert the nightclubs into madrassas - or, perhaps, harems. any venue that promotes free thinking will be dismantled.
and, you can't fight against a majority.
i have a few more weeks to figure this out. but, if the end result is that a starving artist can't find a place to live here, then the proper conclusion is that it is not a good cultural fit for a starving artist to live, is it?
there is no self-expression in islam. no individuality. no questioning of revealed wisdom. no revolution. no democracy. no deviation from the norm. it's just violently enforced conformity. and, nothing we can meaningfully refer to as a culture can exist under these kinds of oppressive circumstances.
if this place goes full muslim - and if this mess around nafta gets bad, it very well might - they're going to convert the nightclubs into madrassas - or, perhaps, harems. any venue that promotes free thinking will be dismantled.
and, you can't fight against a majority.
i have a few more weeks to figure this out. but, if the end result is that a starving artist can't find a place to live here, then the proper conclusion is that it is not a good cultural fit for a starving artist to live, is it?
at
15:48
the discrimination in housing in ontario is not something i'm the first person to draw attention to. the appropriate boards have drawn attention to it - and argued it's too big of a problem for them to police.
it's the kind of thing that needs an education campaign.
you see it in every ad.
STUDENTS ONLY.
FEMALES ONLY.
BOYS ONLY.
INDIANS ONLY. and, they'll even specify -
GUJARATI ONLY, HINDI ONLY, PAKISTANI ONLY.
SENIORS ONLY.
WORKERS ONLY.
and, those are only the ads i can see - in english, and for public view.
the big thing right now is students. and, it's about to flip. a few more days.
and, they're starting to do things like mark their ads with URGENT.
yeah, well, maybe you should stop discriminating against your prospective tenants, if you want to fill the vacancy urgently?
this is an emergency. there's people lined up to live here. but, they're all white people with jobs. somebody find me a 19 year-old female, muslim pakistani student immediately! i thought canada was a free market?
ugh.
but, what's increasingly concerning to me is that there's no bohemian escape in this town. there's no art district. there's nobody that gets a call from a composer/activist on the dole and says "you sound interesting. the neighbours will like you.".
for a supposedly left-leaning town, the people here seem to be remarkably conservative.
there's no time for the disabled, no time for queers and no time for artists.
again: it's increasingly clear that i don't want to live here, that the culture is dead here and it's time to get out.
there's no hipsters. no art village. no gay district. no culture....
it's just korans & capitalism, everywhere you turn.
we can fix this, though.
what i want to see is an ad for a non-smoking apartment with these wonderful words in the body:
ARTISTS ONLY.
it's the kind of thing that needs an education campaign.
you see it in every ad.
STUDENTS ONLY.
FEMALES ONLY.
BOYS ONLY.
INDIANS ONLY. and, they'll even specify -
GUJARATI ONLY, HINDI ONLY, PAKISTANI ONLY.
SENIORS ONLY.
WORKERS ONLY.
and, those are only the ads i can see - in english, and for public view.
the big thing right now is students. and, it's about to flip. a few more days.
and, they're starting to do things like mark their ads with URGENT.
yeah, well, maybe you should stop discriminating against your prospective tenants, if you want to fill the vacancy urgently?
this is an emergency. there's people lined up to live here. but, they're all white people with jobs. somebody find me a 19 year-old female, muslim pakistani student immediately! i thought canada was a free market?
ugh.
but, what's increasingly concerning to me is that there's no bohemian escape in this town. there's no art district. there's nobody that gets a call from a composer/activist on the dole and says "you sound interesting. the neighbours will like you.".
for a supposedly left-leaning town, the people here seem to be remarkably conservative.
there's no time for the disabled, no time for queers and no time for artists.
again: it's increasingly clear that i don't want to live here, that the culture is dead here and it's time to get out.
there's no hipsters. no art village. no gay district. no culture....
it's just korans & capitalism, everywhere you turn.
we can fix this, though.
what i want to see is an ad for a non-smoking apartment with these wonderful words in the body:
ARTISTS ONLY.
at
15:09
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