It really does come down to socialism or barbarism.

Sure, I’m not saying that winning elections would be bad in any way. I’m just noting that shouldn’t be the primary focus.

The constant need for growth isn’t about making life better for most people. It’s a structural requirement of capitalism itself because the system runs on profit which comes from the value created by workers. Companies have to constantly expand their markets to keep the rate of profit from falling, cut costs, and find new ways to generate more value from us. If the economy stops growing then investment stalls and unemployment rises because the whole financialized structure is built on the expectation of future returns. The purpose of the economy isn’t to improve our lives, and the whole growth treadmill we’re on exists because capitalism demands endless accumulation to sustain itself.

specifically, a lot of it is going to go to Lutnick’s family side hussle https://www.newsweek.com/howard-lutnick-sons-may-make-money-supreme-court-ruling-tariffs-11558345

That’s because there is no collective vision right now. This stuff doesn’t happen overnight. There needs to be an actual education process to explain to people what socialism is, how our capitalist system actually works, and how that impacts people in their daily lives. Vast majority of Canadians have no idea how any of this stuff works in practice or why they should care. Without that base understanding, there’s no way to build a movement that can endure. Elections are completely meaningless when people are voting on singular issues which are mere symptoms. The focus has to be on root problems that we have to address as a society.

Capitalism systemically selects for psychopathic behavior. People who only care about themselves and are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and step on others, are the ones who get to the top.

The US is very obviously going to be impacted when the economies of their vassals start crashing because the US economy is highly dependent on trade. Furthermore, everybody knows this was an unprovoked war of aggression by the US, and that’s already souring relations between the US and the rest of the world.

Yeah, Ottawa absolutely should crack down on slave labor Canada is doing:

• UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1140437
• Systemic racial discrimination via discriminatory funding causing “Millennium Scoop” class action certified; long-term reform negotiations ongoing. https://decisions.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/chrt-tcdp/decisions/en/item/521231/index.do?iframe=true
• Crisis fueled by human trafficking linked to resource extraction “man camps”; systemic inaction continues. https://afn.ca/all-news/press-releases/assembly-of-first-nations-afn-releases-2025-progress-report-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-mmiwg-calls-for-justice-highlighting-human-trafficking-crisis/#to-top
• Failure to legislate a human right to safe water and diversion of settlement funds from critical services. https://siksikanation.com/carney-government-reaches-new-low-on-first-nation-safe-drinking-water/
• Slavery charges against Canadian mining company settled on the sly https://theconversation.com/slavery-charges-against-canadian-mining-company-settled-on-the-sly-148605

I just love how China lives rent free in whatever it is that passes for a brain inside that head of yours

cause EU is better at negotiating I guess

the comment is from a dedicated spam account operating to spread sinophobia and hate

a lost redditor appears

I really think NDP should focus on building a movement through education and grassroots engagement rather than focusing on elections right now. What we need is a vision people can get behind and stay committed to for the long haul. The platform of socialism is the correct vehicle here because it offers a structural alternative to the current system. It’s not about this or that individual issue that libs and cons fight over. It’s acknowledging that our current liberal capitalist system is not operating in the interest of the working class majority, and that we need a fundamental change in how the country is run.

As Lenin so eloquently put it, every society is three meals away from chaos.

Welcome to another market manipulation Friday

not sure if they have live streams, but here’s the video of the launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Gyo-gFTmE

turns out fascists aren’t very good at logistics

none of this makes much sense to be honest, but the oligarchs have found ways to make money hand over fist in this economy and so it continues

That and climate change making Canada warmer in summer months.

What I really liked about the talk is how he connects different things there. The tariffs cause prices to go up because they’re a tax, and so you have economic contractions as a result. Meanwhile, the fed can’t bring rates down cause that causes inflation to go up. And deporting immigrants is leads companies to start laying off high skilled workers because their manual labor force is gone. So, all these things are working together to undermine economic fundamentals.