I carry an emergency $50 with me and I haven’t had to use it in a few years. I do not miss change jangling in my pocket.

We could also use the descriptor, “anti-genocide” for these protests, but that’s a bit on the nose I guess.

I’m referring to the push by Christian fundamentalism to implement Project 2025. It would functionally result in a dictatorship guided by religious zealots. That’s why the comparison to Iran. Canada is in a very precarious position these days, unless you’re fond of joining in with the dissolution of democracy and human rights that is advancing pretty relentlessly down south.

random article about it from a couple years ago

We can only hope that the disintegration of global politics, and the formation of a Christian version of Iran on our border will drive defense reform.

“…and receives well compensated board position at random corporation.”

The wailing of hedge fund managers and the minions of the super rich is what lets us know the government is doing the right thing.

Shocking, the super-rich warning the economy will collapse if they aren’t allowed to become utra-rich (as quickly as they can now).

If the criteria for declaring a state military organization as terrorists, is abuses of international humanitarian convention and the rules of war, then the Revolutionary Guard can pop onto the list along with the IDF. And a bunch of others really. Calling groups and people terrorists is pretty popular these days, but the word actually has a legitimate use, which isn’t to ratify Israeli acts of war against other sovereign nations. Even if, like Israel, those nations are run by shit heads.

This is the reality of what’s going on, the mainstream outlets aren’t quite able to bring themselves to say it out loud. Any other nation but Israel and the sanctions would be ramping up, but here we are, still wondering if this is the atrocity that means we should stop shipping weapons to them.

Well, Canada is a vast country with only 40 million people in it. Honestly pretty much everything said in the article is pretty reasonable. If you read through he points out the economic benefits of a growing population, but cautions that there needs to be a coordinated build-out of housing, transit, and social infrastructure like childcare. It’s not really anything crazy. The article was put out in 2019 and states a population of 37 million, it’s 2024 and we’ve ticked past 41 million. It’s more or less on track, except for all that infrastructure of course.

We’re at least having the argument. America and the EU are just shipping the weapons, business as usual. It’s perhaps more useful to support efforts to clean up our arms export system rather than imply it doesn’t matter because “historical human rights offences”. Every nation has darkness (more or less) but export reform feels like progress.