Bird Site Migrant Angst vs The Latest on Emergencies Act Inquiry 🧵 #EAInquiry#cdnpoli
Wrote 100 post thread on this here #BirdSite about everything that'd NOT be covered by the #EmergenciesActInquiry & how we'll need a #Jan6thInquiry that digs into ALL OF IT, not just whether Trudeau was justified (because OF COURSE he was). /2
Lots worth adding today but I'm feeling the weight of being here. Building here. When every day it feels increasingly like things are DESIGNED to chase me and people that think like me outta here to somewhere else. It's gross these days. Getting grosser /3 #mastodonmigration
I set up shop over at #Mastodon. You can find me @TheGentYYC@mastodon.social. I'm still coming to terms with all this, yet another transition to manage but it's not just that. It's not just annoying. It's cheating. They can't win the debate so they seized the means of debate. /4
Progressive Twitter is mid-decimation but not through any failing of ours. In a lot of ways we've been winning lately. Being able to communicate around the world with good people facing the exact same forces & tactics has played a bigger role than we'll ever know. /5 #abpoli
Enter the world's richest man. Born rich bullshit artist who made Progressive noises when it served his needs to get gobs of federal funding for an electric car biz he never created, just bought. Now it serves his purpose to court the easy to manipulate racist bozos & fascists /6
Hmmmm. Is this my last thread on here? I wonder. I truly don't know. It all comes back to me lending this place credibility. Lending HIM credibility. Which lends THEM credibility. The people willingly or unwittingly co-degrading this world so only the wealthy win. /7
Downloaded my data archive. Maybe all that's left is to *really* tell him where to go. Get booted. Burn my account before he gets around to it. "You can't fire me, I quit." Burn in hell you eternally friendless oddly robotic greedhead/8
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I've taken this to heart ever since I saw it on a friend's wall some years ago. I think you could say the same thing about the pushback on "#woke" by genuinely bad people who'd rather we all just stayed asleep so they can make their gobs of money off a clearly broken status quo.
So I wrote a 100+ tweet 🧵on the great many & ever-growing failings rendering "Conservative" leader Poilievre unelectable as Prime Minister but it got mangled at the end. Given the 3x weekly proto-fascistic bozo eruptions of this man & his enablers, this 2nd 🧵was needed. Mahalo!
I was recently #BlockedByDanielleSmith but it doesn't matter because her political career is effectively over after this next election. A "Conservative" that can't win in #YYC can't win the province. Just too damned extreme for the business class. #abpoli
Bitcoin champion, convoy enthusiast and walking climate disaster Pierre Poilievre is officially the new leader of the "Conservative" Party of Canada. I'm told I should be *very* afraid he'll become the Prime Minster. I'm not. I don't think he has a hope in hell 🧵#cdnpoli
People have short memories and the (ongoing) pandemic feels like a lifetime ago which is why Canadians may need reminding what "Conservative" leadership would have looked like during that time had Polly been PM. No CERB. No nothing. You're on your own. /2
Might as well nip this in the bud: I'm not AT ALL advising anybody "let their guard down". I think this generation of "Conservatives" need the electoral reckoning of their entire existence so all future generations know not to float this extremist garbage at Canadians. /3
"All politicians are the same," they mooed lazily, chewing their collective cud in a field now openly ablaze. "There's no difference between political parties, *everybody* knows that!" /2 #cdnpoli
Just don't get yourself arrested. @CalgaryPolice are just as forceful as ever AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT AN ANTIVAXER. Might get hit with a bike or other blunt instrument. They don't even care if you're a senior citizen, right @neufeld_mark? /41 #yyc#yyccc
DO YOU GET THAT THIS IS YOUR WHOLE CAREER FLASHING BEFORE YOUR EYES CHIEF @neufeld_mark? This IS a policing failure. We don't NEED to be told its not & we don't NEED to be told to just LIE DOWN & TAKE IT. You need to EXPLAIN THE FAILURE. /42 #yyc#yyccc