Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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Carney critiques the current global order but offers only a hardened neoliberalism as an alternative. His plan of tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, militarism, and pro-corporate trade deals, relies on a fantasy that a bloc of "middle powers" can forge a new order through nationalist strength while ignoring the structural collapse of capitalism. It's a delusional retreat into the very ideology that caused the crisis.
https://springmag.ca/carneys-realism-is-just-neoliberal-fan-fiction
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And it means reducing the leverage that enables coercion. Building a strong domestic economy should always be every government’s priority. Diversification internationally is not just economic prudence; it is the material foundation for honest foreign policy. Countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation.
Canada has what the world wants. We are an energy superpower. We hold vast reserves of critical minerals. We have the most educated population in the world. Our pension funds are amongst the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors. We have capital, talent, and a government with the immense fiscal capacity to act decisively.
And we have the values to which many others aspire.
Canada is a pluralistic society that works. Our public square is loud, diverse, and free. Canadians remain committed to sustainability.
We are a stable, reliable partner—in a world that is anything but—a partner that builds and values relationships for the long term.
Canada has something else: a recognition of what is happening and a determination to act accordingly.
We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is.
We are taking the sign out of the window.
The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.
But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.
This is the task of the middle powers, who have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from a world of genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power. But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently.
And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us."
Holy fuck.
The general sentiment amongst #Canadians today is that while a good many of us disagree with his domestic performance and that of the ruling #Liberals since our election last year, this speech was really.. really good.
What made it good was, as he says - everyone knows, but we all pretend to go along like its business as usual.
A bit like a battered spouse _finally_ realizes their friend is right, "this is NOT ok; u can do better".
Adam Greenfield
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Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
@yogthos @CommunismAndLove
Und dahin wollen Merz und Dobrindt Leute abschieben. Aber sie haben ja schon im Fall der Ortskräfte aus #Afghanistan gezeigt, dass ihnen Menschenleben herzlich egal sind.
Syrian regime troops tear down a Women’s Protection Units (Kurdish women forces) statue in the NE of #Syria.
This is the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, which has existed for a decade. The US withdrew its support from the SDF and Kurds.
Weird how we no longer hear a peep from the liberals, who cheered overthrow of Assad, about human rights in Syria.
Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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Pathetic. The MN sheriff's dept putting out fires that are completely contained and being used to keep protesters warm instead of investigating or protecting the protesters from being abducted by the gravy seals. Meanwhile, our leaders are telling us that they are capitulating to the regime while citizens are dying and being abducted. #ice #fuckice #liberals #protest #minneapolis
Pathetic. The MN sheriff's dept putting out fires that are completely contained and being used to keep protesters warm instead of investigating or protecting the protesters from being abducted by the gravy seals. Meanwhile, our leaders are telling us that they are capitulating to the regime while citizens are dying and being abducted. #ice #fuckice #liberals #protest #minneapolis
"Australians may be able to live and work freely in the EU under a TWO-WAY MOBILITY SCHEME put forward by Brussels, sources familiar with the offer say.
The scheme would make it easier for Australians to move to EU countries for work without needing a job secured in advance.
THE SAME OPTIONS WOULD BE OPEN TO EU CITIZENS LOOKING TO MOVE TO AUSTRALIA."
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/115903658422447392
Meanwhile Carney says Canada is the “most European country outside Europe”… but no boots in Greenland today, and no two way mobility like Australia might get either….
#canpoli #cdnpoli #australia #europe #eu #liberals #promiseLeftGovernRight
Liberals want to ban many guns, but leftists want to ban fascism. Which one is more likely to actually solve the problem of violence?
Chip Butty
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bhaugen
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#US companies are vying for contracts to rebuild #Gaza. This is what a lot of people don't grasp about #war & #climatechange. Their destructive effects always open new avenues of #capital accumulation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/gaza-rebuild-us-contractors
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
bhaugen
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It's so American how the Sackler family caused a national #opioidcrisis which ultimately led to the #fentanyl crisis, & instead of imprisoning them the #US eventually went "Hang on, we can use this as an excuse to start a war with a country that doesn't even produce fentanyl."
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
It's so American how the Sackler family caused a national #opioidcrisis which ultimately led to the #fentanyl crisis, & instead of imprisoning them the #US eventually went "Hang on, we can use this as an excuse to start a war with a country that doesn't even produce fentanyl."
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
#US companies are vying for contracts to rebuild #Gaza. This is what a lot of people don't grasp about #war & #climatechange. Their destructive effects always open new avenues of #capital accumulation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/gaza-rebuild-us-contractors
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
bhaugen
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Trump’s anti #Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All #Black / #African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful #criminals who are deserving of punishment & scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-somalia
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
bhaugen
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The richest 10% control 94% of total #capital ownership assets in the United States.
They determine how to use our #labor & #resources, what we produce & how our #surplus is deployed.
They determine the direction of our #civilization. It is the antithesis of #democracy.
https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/31/4/article-p90_3.xml
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
bhaugen
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Mounting #debtcrisis means #globalSouth governments are spending on average 15% of their revenue servicing external #debt. This figure has doubled since 2010.
More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on #health or #education.
https://globalinequality.org/debt-financial-outflows/
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist