Non-partisan pluralist & unfettered pedant. Politics major & DevOps engineer. Williams Treaties territory. INTP-A. Étudiant de la langue française. #a11y 🦻🏻
Mar 7, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A majority of my tweets call out Conservative politicians and supporters.
Yet, I am still nonpartisan.
If you don’t think these can both be true, you are conflating nonpartisanship & centrism, expecting argument to moderation, and/or are committing a false dichotomy fallacy.🧵
I am not a supporter of any party, or parties in general really. I call out lies, rhetoric, pandering, and hypocrisy – as objectively as I can. If a majority of those things happen to come from one side of the spectrum at the moment, too bad. That doesn’t make me partisan.
Sep 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Loblaw Companies Ltd. YoY net profit change:
Jun ‘21: ⬆️ 121.9%
Oct ‘21: ⬆️ 22.73%
Dec ‘21: ⬆️ 123.66%
Mar ‘22: ⬆️ 34.96%
So Loblaws was making huge gains, and this is all *after* the cost increase due to carbon pricing that we’re being told to blame for high grocery prices.
June ‘21 is only up 0.33%. This just means their profits didn’t increase *again* on top of the 122% last June. If that was the case last year then, sure, price increases could be attributed to carbon pricing. Instead we got both, & they’ve convinced many to blame the government.
Sep 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Inflation is not caused by government, but rather a lack thereof. It’s caused by unfettered capitalism & greed culture—where a CEO is duty-bound to feed the insatiable shareholder as much as possible. Your high grocery bill is going to record profits, not carbon tax.#greedflation
To add: all of the arguments I’ve seen are about carbon pricing on transport, heating the store, etc. These are Conservative taking points designed to confuse the ignorant into blaming the government for something caused by a *lack* of government regulation.
Sep 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
To all the unmasked public I interacted with over the past few days: you’re welcome. I had asymp. COVID the whole time & didn’t know it until now. I wore an N95. It was really easy to do. It wasn’t just about protecting myself. To those who couldn’t afford me the same courtesy:🖕
You know what.. no, it wasn’t easy to mask everywhere. I have hearing aids & glasses taking up real estate behind my ears, the last thing I need is N95 straps getting tangled with all that. 👏 I 👏 did 👏 it 👏 anyway. I lip read, but still encourage masking. If I can, you can.
