Buckle up, it's time for a wild ride into #FluTrucksKlan Twitter. 🧵

Just under 100K tweets using pro-convoy hashtags were collected. Since that's far too much text to read and analyze, I built a bi-term topic model to distill the content of the tweets down into 70 topics.

1/ The topic model assumes that:
1. that tokens (words/hashtags/@) that co-occur in tweets are more likely to belong to the same topic;
2. each tweet represents one or more topics;
3. each user's body of tweets is a mixture of topics.

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Canadian capitalism's climate contradictions. Canada acts like a renegade petrostate when it comes to the #ClimateCrisis. But the energy sector is only a moderately sized and declining share of GDP, so why does it have such a dominant role in Canadian capitalism?

1/9 Since oil/gas production takes giant investments of capital, few jobs are created in the sector. Other than in Alberta, it's a really minor share of total employment. So the 'jobs, jobs, jobs' rhetoric they trot out to defend their climate mega-projects rings rather hollow.

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We should be wary of #UBI for so many reasons, it's hard to cover them all here. I will do a full length post on UBI in Canada and why we should stay far away from it soon.

To summarize (sources at end of thread):

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https://twitter.com/pia_berger/status/1405587851480293376

In practice UBI will be used to destroy/commodify vital social programs. Left-wing proposals exist, but this is the form we're most likely get in reality. The one supported by right-wing economists, billionaires, and the drive of capital to commodify everything possible.

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