You seriously just got all of your history from reddit and twitter eh. A fundamental element in neoliberalism is corporate welfare dude, your misunderstanding of politics as simple “I like this” or “I do not like this” is incompatible with even the concept of appropriation as it depends on a world where interests are as pure as ideals. I’m sorry but the world is more complex than your funny memes online where fixing the world is as simple as thinking the right thing.

I will not be paying attention to you again, I will not even read your response. If you’re interested in actually learning, feel free to dm and get a reading list and nothing more.

Including you. You don’t even realize what you’re saying.

Okay I know I’ve been very sarcastic with you so far so I’ll be clear. You do not know what you are talking about. You’re just another arrogant asshole who thinks they’re imbued with answers just because you don’t challenge yourself to think differently.

Oh of course, we just gotta empower democracy and everything will be fine. Why didn’t anyone else ever think of that? How did you access such remarkable knowledge?

Now what a specific understanding of how politics works, one that just so happens to make the hegemony we live under fated to be, natural even. I wonder how you came to accept a worldview that is so beneficial to the hierarchy you were born under, socialized by, and apparently uncritically consume the media of.

Damn, I wonder why that’d keep happening. It’s almost like there is some fundamental element in a capitalist system that makes reform impossible. Fuck eh, what do you do to resolve the inherent brutalities of such a system? If only there was some way to identify those fundamental elements through like, the work of thinking about it really deeply with other people who want to end that system. That sucks though because obviously people are just bad and we should just keep doing this because the political compass memes told me that history is super simple actually.

Why are you saying this as though you know?

Listen, I know it’s frustrating for a lot of privileged people to adjust to the system’s increasing hostility toward them, but you have to think about others if you really want to help out.

It is not an assumption that you are privileged, it is a deduction. Anyone who is marginalized knows that their vote rarely counts for anything. African Canadians had to fight for civil rights, queer people had to fight for civil rights, disabled people still don’t have civil rights. You think indigenous peoples have the option to just vote their genocide away? None of these groups had the option to vote their way out of discrimination, we know that this system is rigged against us. That is not a “claim” like it’s some niche suggestion, it is a fact for the many people you clearly have not thought much about. Great that you live in a system that is built for you, I don’t care; I don’t. I’ve voted in every election available to me in my adult life – municipal, provincial, federal – and my choice has been completely irrelevant in each one. Voting is the absolute bare minimum amount of power afforded to you, you can do more and treating it like some solution to our problems is, quite frankly, laughable.

You have started from the flawed assumption that this system is all that people have to improve their material security. Not only is that wrong, your conviction to it is an important mechanism in its ability to dominate our lives and marginalize these groups. To ask people who will suffer homelessness within months of ratification of these policies to wait for a vote is quite frankly one of the cruelest suggestions you could make. They. do. not. have. the. time. When you people focus on some righteous moral value attributed to voting, you satisfy yourselves with convenient inaction that is useless to the people most effected by these brutal policies.

You’re forty years old at least? Howbout you grow up and accept that you aren’t the center of the world and maybe people who have had to fight this state longer than you have experiences you can learn from. Voting is only a solution if your interests intersect with the state. That does not mean that people who criticize voting advocate against voting, it means we recognize that fixation on the moral purity of voting is antithetical to resistance. Real action is what is necessary right now. If you are able to, get involved in local activism, go to MPP’s places of work and disrupt them until they give in. Take up space and make it impossible for them to take their power for granted, make local news pay attention to the problem, confront people you know about supporting them. People have used property destruction and defacement as a form of resistance many times in successful activist movements here.

Read it again bud.

It needs to be clear that this decision will kill people. They know that and they know they can try to kill people with impunity. That needs to change.

Exactly what the fuck do you think you’re referencing?

I am so fucking tired of these “we asked for it,” “we deserve this,” narratives. THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS GOVERNMENT. It was elected with 43% of the popular vote in a snap election that had a 45% voter turnout. This narrative promotes an individualist moral explanation for the fundamentally systemic issue that is our fucked election system.

You have someone to blame, good for you, that doesn’t do anything. People who vote Con do so because they do not care about other people and %99 of them never will; they are disproportionately represented by landlords. Many people who do not vote very often correctly identify that the system is rigged against their interests and will not recognise their choice.

Check local activist networks for any action directed at MPP offices. You can email and call but if your MPP is Con they will not give a shit unless you inconvenience them.

Y’all, they’re never going to adopt a solution that works. Climate change mitigation is an existential threat to capitalism because it would force the recognition of any imperative other than profit and infinite growth; it is infact antithetical to them.

Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.

History of banana and why it’s cheap.