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Where do Canada’s soaring corporate profits go? Not ‘back into the country’ ⋆ The Breach

#s:politics #t:article/essay | Loblaw and other corporate giants are investing less of their profits than ever before, putting the lie to the ‘trickle down’ promise of neoliberalism

3 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto ⋆ The Breach

#s:policing #s:politics #t:article/essay | A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and ‘trumped up charges’ against the Palestinian solidarity movement

4 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

The World’s Most Annoying Man

#s:politics #t:article/essay | You know, of course, what the most grating and infuriating human behavior is. It is not when another person is simply being unreasonable. It is when that person is constantly insisting that they are Just Being Reasonable, and wondering why you’re acting so crazy and irrational, while they themselves are in fact being extremely goddamn unreasonable. It is not when they are just wrong, but when they top it off by patronizingly explaining your own views to you, purporting to refute them, while not having the faintest understanding of what those views actually are. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is that guy.

4 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

The magical thinking of guys who love logic

#s:online #s:politics #t:article/essay | Opinions from Youtube men are not facts. Getting mad about philosophers you haven’t read isn’t reason. Insulting your girlfriend because she questions your sudden political shift isn’t logic. For a group of people who claim to hate the supposed redefinition of words when it comes to gender and race; for a group of people who are very mad about the postmodern tendency to say nothing means anything (or at least this is an aspect of postmodernism they seem to have gleaned from their favorite subreddits), the new young reactionaries are remarkably devil-may-care about certain words when they seem to lend credibility and strength to their opinions. By repeating the magic words, they avoid having to deal with a gruesome fact, one that really doesn’t care about their feelings: that they are just a person on a computer with an opinion, talking to other people on computers with opinions.

4 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

Anti-hate: the new face of political policing by T.Y. Kui

#s:palestine #s:policing #s:politics #t:article/essay | The state’s cynical use of hate investigations to repress dissent reveals the real function of “anti-hate” as a counter-insurgency strategy.

8 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

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