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As a slow cyclist, I'd totally wear this.

Having seen Poillievre, I don't think he will do this.

If he just shuts up about "the woke" and just talks about the price of milk, he'd have this in the bag, but he can't shut up about "the woke" because the kind of people who vote in CPC conventions talk about "woke" all the goddamn time, and he knows that if doesn't go on about "the woke" some opportunistic usurper will shiv him.

I sorely wish the CPC party members had voted for Chong or kept O'Toole. I'd be annoyed about austerity spending, but not worried about fascism.

Considering he's in power purely as a result of catering to the whackjob right that thought O'Toole was too sane, I would not put faith in his ability to keep the whackjobs under control.

It's the old "What's the problem with riding a tiger? You can't get off without getting eaten." problem that comes from courting populism.

Ohio just voted for a convicted rapist and felon who ran the worst campaign in modern history.

I don't have any faith in America at all and the US "heartland" specifically. If Trump told them to cut their own genitals off, they'd do it.

Because Ford needs you angry about bike lanes while he does his 413 land grab.

That's why bike lanes are in this bill: Ford doesn't care about them, they're just a hail-mary to distract for the other measures in the bill meant to get his highway-to-nowhere built and his developer buddies their ROI.

When you realize that a huge amount of the small- and medium-size right-wing media ecosphere is funded by herbal boner pills, you'll understand why this is a thing.

He's doing this to keep eyes off of the 413.

The more "bike lanes!!" ragebait he stirs up, the less people pay attention to the clauses in the act about eminent domain, skipping environmental assessments or skipping the civil engineers that are on strike.

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We used to have progressive income taxes that did this.

Reagan, Thatcher and their ilk pulled them because "trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats, thousand points of light, blah blah blah"

Steve Irwin would want anomalocaris

As we're seeing in the US now, and the in the UK with the ratfucking of Jeremy Corbyn, the owners of the mainstream media are not interested in covering actual left-wing values. Singh isn't great--I preferred Angus--but anything progressive he says will either get laundered by the media, or ignored completely

What just happened with the LA Times and the Washington Post vis a vis endorsing Harris should be a warning sign to progressives everywhere: the media, or at least it's owners, are already in the tank for the political right. It doesn't matter how much you try to be serious or sensible: the mass media will ignore or belittle you, while they throw softballs to the Conservatives.

It's especially an issue in Canada, where media ownership consolidation is worse than it is in the US.

This isn't to let the NDP off the hook: they need someone like Bernie Sanders, someone willing to bang the class-war drum, but what they're getting are consensus-builders who aren't much better than Trudeau et al.

He won't, but only because the point of bike lane removal in the Act isn't bikes or traffic.

The point of the bike lane removal in the Act is to keep people talking about bike lanes, instead of how the Act also has provisions for skipping the environmental assessment of the 413, as well as bypassing the requirement for civil engineers, who are on strike and will be for a bit.

The Act is all about getting the 413 built. The nonsense about bike lanes is to keep people from paying attention to the land grab and payoff to Ford's developer buddies.

Ford doesn't give a shit about bike lanes in Toronto, or traffic in Toronto. He cares very much about getting the 413 built so that his donors can realized their real estate investments.