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Jan 27 8 tweets 2 min read
I hope the Liberals publish a list of these Forbidden Views, so that we can report neighbours and coworkers who espouse them.
I just reported my electrician. We don't talk politics, but he drives a pickup truck. And that's good enough for me.
Why is the media not reporting the truth that all of these people are Confederate style racists who want to racism everybody? I have provided Toronto Star with incontrovertible proof that one trucker has the Dukes of Hazard theme on his spotify playlist. Do we need more evidence?
Now my electrician is playing the victim, reminding me that he's black. Nice try, uncle tom.
why do we even let "fringe" Canadians use our roads at *all*? They're just truckers, tradespeople & techs, i.e economic parasites. Not a single naturopathic pronoun coach among them. they might as well put on big fur hats with antlers. we are set for Jan 6 multiplied by A MILLION
I am pleased to report that I have reached an understanding with my electrician
In return for the emotional labor I have used to educate him, He will be decolonizing the knob and tube wiring in my Reconciliation & Reflection media room at one of my cottages
I need to end this thread now because I'm gutted and exhausted and I Can't Even.
I will add that my electrician is also driving me to Restoration Hardware so I can pick up the $17K Mindfulness Love Seat that those lazy truckers haven't delivered. I sat in the back seat, of course, so no one would mistake me for a blue collar person with Forbidden Thoughts

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Jan 27
"Ghoulish"? Last year, Canadians were told that these areas contained evidence of mass murder—of children, no less. Some killers could still be alive, and even putting others at risk. The remains could help identify & prosecute these killers. How is it "ghoulish" to seek justice?
Assuming that hundreds of children were slaughtered in cold blood and disposed of in secret midnight burials (which is part of the narrative), we are dealing with the greatest crime in the history of our country. Every day that passes means the evidence will degrade further…
Is there any other case where a nation is instructed that (a) an incomprehensibly horrific crime was committed—children thrown into furnaces and pits, etc., (b) that the evidence for such lies 2 feet below the surface, but (c) that it would be "ghoulish" to investigate further...
Read 6 tweets
Jan 26
a few years back, there was a movement among some conservatives to ditch twitter en masse. But these things move in cycles, and I'm sensing it may actually be *progressives* who end up driving any big exodus that takes place (if one does take place at all, which seems unsure)...
Late 2020 seems to have been the high water mark for performative social justice posturing on twitter. Since then, this stuff has started to wear very thin. You can no longer lazily tweet "Dear Purple People, YOU ARE LOVED" & get 1000 likes & RTs... low hanging fruit is gone...
I don't think this is bcuz conservatives are more powerful. The progressives have still won the culture war. Rather, I think it's bcuz the vast bulk of centrists & liberals, who once went in dutifully for some of these hashtags & social panics, are disillusioned & backing away...
Read 8 tweets
Jan 26
I've heard from some interesting tradespeople since I posted this. One thing I should add is that a major (& unfortunately unavoidable) frustration for homeowners (which contributed to my DIY approach) is when a specialist comes & tells u that u need another kind of specialist...
In my exp, this can be a partic issue with HVAC, since the field covers wide array of tasks, including plumbing, electrical, carpentry (ducts & pipes) etc. In my case, the water heater guy identified the thermostatic valve failure, but said I needed a plumber to replace it...
Plus, a lot of HVAC stuff is seasonal, with air conditioners and furnace crises tending to follow the weather. People have contracts with companies, and guys rush from house to house trying to complete jobs. If it's something requiring another specialist, they move on quickly...
Read 4 tweets
Jan 25
a good ex. of what happened last year, on a larger scale
In this case, the First Nation was careful to say that it had discovered 93 "potential burial sites"
But that doesn't sound clickbaity enough
So CTV's Tweet has it as "unmarked graves"
Which is what everyone will run with
I don't know any other area of Cdn media coverage where this sort of practice occurs. Stories about manslaughter (which is the underlying suspicion here), especially involving children, usually get the maximum level of editorial scrutiny in terms of word choice ...
But as soon as this story broke in May 2020, the media simply ignored their usual best practices (even when Indigenous groups themselves corrected journalists, reminding them they hadn't dug anything up) & our entire media became like a giant Anglo version of "Allo Police!"
Read 5 tweets
Jan 25
this is a thread about the plumbing industry
first of all, let me say that if you want to make a decent living without spending four years at university being hectored about your skin colour and pronouns, plumbing is for *you*…
I called my plumber this week, but he couldn't come because he's off to Fort Lauderdale "for a few weeks." (Flights are pricey, but he told me it's "not really an issue.") I asked if he could recommend someone else on his skill level for me, & he said they're all booked solid...
Read 15 tweets
Jan 25
extremely reasonable piece on the @wrdsb farce. @ZivoAdam makes a good case for the 2 books @carolynburjoski critiqued. But the real issue was @ScottPiatkowski pretending that even mere discussion was a hate crime (& then trying to hide video evidence)...
nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-z…
This wasn't just a disaster for @wrdsb, which is now the subject of intl ridicule thanks to @libsoftiktok (honorable exception: @Trustee_Ramsay). It also showed the hollowness of many "transphobia" claims: a lazy shortcut for boardroom autocrats to pathologize dissent as bigotry
And for anyone who saw the follow-up @wrdsb meeting last night, it reinforced all this. There was a strong presentation from an older trans woman. But Scott & his allies read glassy-eyed jargon statements that reinforced the lie about discussion being a human rights violation
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