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If there is one thing I'd hoped the world learned from us in the last 9 years or so, don't bend a fucking knee to conservatives regardless of where they are. Don't excuse, try to explain away or "Sanewash" shit they do.
Don't publize them, call out that idiocy was said, show why it's idiotic, and drop it. Don't give them time to dominate the news cycle.
God damnit it's frustrating seeing others go through the shit you just tried to stop, it's like watching the cars continue to slam into a pile up on a frozen foggy highway.
I was happy with my Ontario Carbon Rebate cheques. The conservatives really had their way in the media, re-dubbing it "carbon tax" when it was actually a very good program with money back from. I hate how sports reporters have more tenacity than those covering politics.
Get in their faces and never fucking move, Canada. Keep fascists marginalized and weird at any cost.
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Calling alt-right authoritarian regressives/reactionaries "conservatives" bothers me. It's like "Damn those democracies and republics, like North Korea", and "Nazis were nationalists and socialists - it's in the name".
Conservatism is being wary of change and sticking to what works. Like not fucking up the climate.
Conservative parties have been idologically opposed to the rights, freedoms, and prosperity of the regular person for centuries. Word meanings are contextual, and in the context of governing blocs, it's never meant "wary of change and sticking to what works". It has always meant "fuck you, I've got mine".
When feudalism was the old way, and human rights and freedoms were new, they were literally conserving the old way. The name was technically true.
Anyway, my point: Don't let enemies commandeer language with their newspeak where nothing means anymore what it apparently means and used to mean. If we agree to call them conservatives now, some literal-minded centrists (or whatever they are) will be fooled into voting them. We should repeat "that name is a lie, their actions are alt-right authoritarian". It's a mistake to go along with the lie and write on a map "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" or "Gulf of America".
Do we have a technical term for “fuck you, I’ve got mine”? Some opposite of socialism? Selfish?
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That's not what Conservatism is. The ideology is and always has been about opposing equality and enlightenment values. The only difference between conservatives and the alt-right is that they're better at optics and lying.
It would suck right now to be a conservative with so much of world politics now being between centre left and radical right, with no simple conservative position left.
Unfortunately, before J.T., we had Stephen Harper. He was a conservative, Tory/Tories in Canada and other commonwealth countries.
Harper opened up some loopholes, and now a bunch of our news sources are owned by American VCs with close ties to the GOP....yaaaaay!
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A reminder that CTV is owned by Bell, one of the mega media organizations in Canada.
I worked for a different subsidiary of Bell for a while. I can attest that they don’t give a shit about real people.
My brother works for them too. He's far nicer about them than I am.
*mega media organizations in Canada .... who support, fund, finance and back the conservative party ..... and most likely fascism if and when it would take power in this country.
When you put it like that, it makes perfect sense why the cons want to shut the CBC down.
If you control the media, you control the minds of the people .... the first rule of fascists and authoritarians
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” ― Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
Thanks for fixing that. :)
Thanks for this. I recognize Rachel Gilmore from a post last year, but I had forgotten about it. I think her style is a little to, uh, young(?) for me, but I hope that means she'll grab the attention of the younger generations.
Fuck CTV. If you listen to the audio from their call with Rachel to let her know she was cancelled, the producer straight up admits the trolls won. https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/archive?sort=new
Worse than spineless. This is encouragement for trolls to keep threatening journalists they don't like with rape and murder.
Yeah it really is unfortunate they pulled her segment. Rachel is a friend of mine and the level of abuse she receives from the trolls and far right is shocking. They will literally track her down in the street to harass her. I have so much respect for her bravery to continue to push the truth to the surface.
For what it's worth, at least the producer owned up to it and didn't try to pass the buck, even though she probably should have.
It's like he's running a "tell me you're Trump without telling me you're Trump" contest. Like, he isn't saying it openly but each time his actions speak the quiet part out loud.
I'd laugh if it wasn't a serious matter. And if it wasn't the pot calling the kettle black about the liberals and their side of the media.
One day after Skamski’s tweet, a CTV Your Morning producer contacted Gilmore and notified her that her next planned fact-checking segment was being bumped due to a scheduling conflict with a Canadian premier.
A week later, on March 31, CTV Your Morning Executive Producer Jennifer MacLean contacted Gilmore and told her a decision had been made to “call down the segment” altogether.
In other words CTV’s handlers weighed in on the situation.
This is what they want to do to the CBC. Money talks when dealing with private news agencies. CBC has been less contaminated.
Elbows up.
Spineless "news"
And that's the sound of me unsubscribing from CTV content on YouTube.
Reminder big corporations just buy up all our information networks. Here is a list of acquisition resistant, Canadian Owned and operated media.
Just another example of traditional media avoiding facts when it gets to offensive for the Conservatives.
I'm sure they'll platform some far right stuff to "balance" things out.
well.. maybe it's time to give some pressure to "the pressure"
CTV is Canada's fox "news"
I feel like Constant Panic 24 is more like Fox "News", but yeah daytime CTV is not far behind.
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perhaps the 'news' should be reported by uninterested parties? shit, objective journalism died with Ea-Nasir....
Clicking the link got me no closer to finding out what she's supposed to have done to anger the idiots. I had to go to some random crazy-right substack to find out: "misleading reporting that tied an unrelated arson attempt to Freedom Convoy protests in 2022."
If you want to see the garbage she has to deal with first hand you can go to her posts on Tiktok and Instagram. You'll see someone threatening to rape and kill her within a few posts.
She has been receiving death, rape, stalking and many other types of threats daily since before the convoy.
And this fuckwit was the leader of the group
I love the "I don't consider myself a right winger, but I love when people call me a right winger". What an insane person.
Dude is from Florida, which explains everything.
He is Canadian. He's one of those maga Canadian florida equals freedumb dummies.
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