do i think the us government should own a part of intel?

the collapse of intel would be very bad news for the united states. the government should ensure that does not happen.

i'm a socialist, but this isn't socialism. socialism is when the workers have control of the means of production. that's not what this is at all, it's the opposite of that, it's letting the government take control away from workers.

trump's economic system is not anything resembling socialism. what it is is an old tory economic system called mercantilism, associated with the british and canadian tories. 

canada used to have a fair amount of state owned industry, and it was mostly set up by the old tories. this was sold off in the 80s and 90s. i agree with the elder trudeau, who vociferously argue this was a tremendous mistake canada would live to regret.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn85n2vg04go

i don't think there should be limits on the amount of force a person uses in self-defense, and i don't think there really are. it's not really about reasonable force, so much as it's about proportionality. you may need to shoot somebody in the face several times to defend yourself, and a court should let you do that, and would.

however, there's a difference between self-defence and assault. if you're not defending yourself anymore, it's no longer self defence. this would be things like shooting at people that are trying to flee.

my take on the issue in kawartha lakes is that the charges by police are unjustified, and the individual will likely have the charges dropped, or be acquitted. that looks like self defence to me. this is why we have courts - cops are quite often very dumb people, and frequently don't understand the law very well.

in context, the officer should have sought a warrant for the individual's arrest. that is the step that police skip too often, and need to be retrained to do instinctively. police officers should not be making decisions like this independent of the courts. the courts should be doing all of the thinking; the cops are just dumb muscle, sent out as enforcement. they aren't paid to think, and should be explicitly forbidden from trying.

i doubt a judge would have approved a warrant in this case, and that would have been the end of it. as it is, i hope the process of acquittal is not too long or too inconvenient.

the media commenters have apparently all forgotten that the individual is innocent until proven guilty, and entitled to due process of law.

what i'm thinking about is trying to bring the party back from the dead via a series of entertaining debates during the nomination process. it's more about generating headlines and raising profiles. this of course isn't building a worker's movement, but real life can sometimes confuse cause and effect. it's probably a better idea, right now.

if you think you can participate and have some free time, sign up.

if engler does win unopposed, you can forget about the ndp. they're done.

a series of yves engler v naomi klein debates could itself save the ndp. i mean, people would pay for that.

the trotskyists are pretty no-bullshit. they don't bother with pretenses.

this is pretty accurate:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/21/sydf-j21.html

yves engler isn't saving this party from ruin. 

naomi klein might do it, though.

i just can't fathom settling for yves engler when we could have naomi klein, instead.

naomi!

naomi!

where art thou, naomi?

well, fuck. let's make this interesting. and that would be interesting.

is yves engler going to run unopposed for ndp leader?