you will never succeed in using capitalism to undo the effects of capitalism, and you will never succeed in using power to undo the consequences of statism.

fake leftists that suggest the validity of either of these fallacies pose threats to basic concepts of humanity and will inevitably lead to the wholesale slaughter of millions if allowed to enforce their will on others. they need to be violently rejected as fascists by all legitimate voices on the left.

they are not allies, and are often not even poorly thought through reactionaries. these are groups that actively want to oppress others, that are out to consciously hurt people to advance their cause.

they should be treated like any other fascists, and there should be no pretending that that isn't what they are.

this is probably the best white stripes song.

their "history" is complete bullshit.

deal with it.

this is very likely the correct approximate theory, although my understanding is that it still requires a fair amount of perfection to get right.

mohummad, like jesus, was essentially invented by the local military authorities for the purposes of generating a national identity.

so, i don't really want to have stupid debates about whether god spoke to this goof, or not - it seems to be exceedingly likely that he's entirely fictional in construction in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_to_Islam

what do the polls say?

that not much has changed - and for good reason, as they haven't done anything, they've just been sitting on their thumbs waiting to regain their entitlements, while systematically undoing the constitution.

what the polls say is that the outcome of the election will be determined during the course of it, and that there's a wide range of outcomes to project, depending on how the election unfolds.

but, i'm going to repeat my previously suggested wildcard - the demographics of the country have really been upended, and i strongly doubt it's in the liberal party's favour.

if the liberals cannot win back a majority on try #2, trudeau will no doubt be forced to resign, and that will kick off a leadership process in the party, which will freeland will certainly lose. trudeau is her strongest and really only substantive level of support.

that is what i actually want to see, so it's what i'm endorsing - a weakened mandate, and a slimmer majority.

let's send a message to the pmo that it is subservient to parliament, and force them to listen.

my position on the upcoming election is that i want to see justin trudeau resign and replaced by a member of the liberal parliament that is not chrystia freeland (who would be even more right-wing than trudeau is). i don't think he's very bright, and i don't think he's very liberal; he's more reagan than kennedy. but, my disinterest in trudeau's myopic brand of conservative faux liberalism doesn't mean my political positions have changed. and, the conservatives have certainly not moved far enough to the left to appeal to me, either.

i've always been on the very far left of the liberal party, which is a position that is sort of untenable and subject to rather extreme levels of abuse by the party, itself. there are pragmatic, functional reasons why i don't just vote for the ndp - the reality is that i don't agree with the ndp on much of the actual ballot issues, and it's because they often end up to the right of the liberals. i don't want to abolish the senate, for example (although i really don't like what trudeau has done to it, either). i've voted green a few times, and that's much closer to the vision i want to see. but, i'd rather see preferential voting (because i like the riding system.) than proportional representation...

i don't see a good option, right now, and the most exciting outcome is really for the liberals to be forced into actually doing what they said they would do by not holding the balance of power, to undo it. but, i can't vote for trudeau as a person, as a personality. i wouldn't vote for him if he was running for city council - i just don't respect his abilities or his intelligence.

so, i would like the liberals to remain in a minority parliament. much of the policy that the liberals produce in these situations nowadays may be phantasmic, but the chimera projected by a liberal minority remains the most appealing animal that the parliament is able to produce.

i will probably cast a protest vote for my local green candidate, and the ndp will probably hold the riding.

but, i would plead with the voters of canada to actually reduce this government's minority, so that the liberals need to rely on not just the ndp but also on another party, such as the bloc. in his tendencies to lean towards conservative decisions at every opportunity, mr. trudeau has not only not earned a majority, but has proved he needs even greater oversight and even greater deference to parliament.

a second trudeau majority will be a return to the days of stephen harper, if we ever really escaped them to begin with. and, his singular mandate was to be anything but harper.

so, my endorsement is anything but liberal.

don't give them a majority - they haven't earned it, they don't deserve it and we will all regret it.

i don't have anywhere near as many cds as i used to. so, i thought they'd all fit nicely on the giant wood bookcase i bought for $15 in march.

nope.

i looked around on kijiji and there was nothing, but i was lucky to find a 72" bookshelf on sale for $50 at walmart, with free shipping. i've been shopping around for a few months, and these items are usually close to $200. so, it's a god deal. and, coming...

so, i think i should be able to get all of the books on the two small cases and all of the cds on the two big ones. there will be extra space on the second cd case for extra books or whatever else.

and, it'll be here in a few days.

that's a major annoyance finally resolved, then. in my last apartment on bronson, i had.....6 bookshelves, in total - 1 taller and wider bookcase for cds (with 7 shelves), a medium case beside it for paperbacks and general textbooks, a tall case around the corner for vinyl and burns, a big case in my bedroom for binders and rough work and two very small cases for math, physics & programming textbooks. and, i had space.

i replaced the third case a few years ago, and now have two medium cases for books instead of one medium and two small. i'm going to have two tall cases for cds, instead of one. that leaves the big case for binders, but what i've really replaced that with is a couple of tables.

if i can get a last one, it's actually going to be for in the kitchen to put loose things on, as this place lacks sufficient cupboard space.

if these items survive - and i see little reason to think they won't - then i should have that problem solved, moving forwards. finally.

if you haven't been reading this since 2014, i initially wanted to build a custom shelf in the previous basement, but i kept getting foiled by bad weather, low funds and eventually clutter from troubleshooting the interference. i couldn't do anything in the last apartment. and, i've been waiting to clean this place forever...

but, it's solved, now.

so, i spent friday sitting down and posting to the releases timeline blog (https://jessicamurrayreleasestimeline.blogspot.com/), and in the process rewound back to late 2017. i'm going to do a little more of this before i put it aside for next week.

what i spent saturday doing was finishing the cleaning i started on wednesday night. i've now got most of my books out of boxes and on to shelves for the first time since 2011, and the same is true of most of the cds. the last step is to cut some wood for the shelves, and i should be able to do that as soon as this annoying month-long rain storm passes. i have enough wood in the space for two shelves, and i'm going to need 6. that should be cheap.

getting the books and cds out is a step towards resuming the alter-reality (i know.), and a step towards the place being clean and normalized again. so, it's huge progress, even if it seems silly.

the rearranging and reordering in this place should be more or less done by the afternoon, which will let me sit back down and refocus.