Much of the support for renationalising the railways was grounded in the hope that state ownership would reduce rail fares (which are among the highest in Europe);
however, it now seems that will be unlikely, as any extra cash saved by nationalisation will be spent on maintenance, infrastructure & increased services (which in fairness are also what the network needs).
But as fares are what voters most immediately experience, how will this play out?
Canadian Tire is buying Hudson's Bay intellectual property, including their logo.
They should revive the Hudson's Bay brand as a Canadian competitor to Amazon, with a similar model that fulfils the same role. It would give us a Canadian alternative.
Regardless of PewDiePie’s personal #politics (which clearly, at the very least are problematic), it is fairly well known by anyone who has been following him for any number of years that the vast majority of his fan base are enthusiastic fascists.
Now #PewDiePie , who’s content centers around PC gaming and Windows, has decided to switch to #Linux and published a video encouraging his followers to do the same. This means a very large number of his #fascist fan base is going to be switching to Linux.
Now many Linux communities are going to be forced to more explicitly choose their politics. Like the parable of the Nazi bar, if the community remains politically neutral, it will become fascist in short order.
A few things to be wary of:
People asking you not to be “too political” or to “focus on the technology, not the politics” is a classic and highly effective fascist ruse to get moderators to lighten up on fascist elements posting in their community.
People complaining about free speech rights. The #Internet and the #Fediverse is already a domain where people can speak freely about their politics by running their own server and building their own community with few to no government constraints. You don’t need to compromise on whether fascists have the right to free speech in your community.
Arguments over your code of conduct (CC) and “safe spaces.” Keep them up-to-date. Research other people’s CCs, learn about the history of why these CCs came to be, learn about what the function of each clause of the code is included and phrased the way it is. These were usually designed to make explicit the fact that a community wants to be a safe space where underprivileged people can feel comfortable expressing themselves, and it is very easy to make people afraid to express themselves. Fascists understand these CCs and the concept of “safe spaces” were explicitly designed to exclude them, and often attack these ideas.
MAYDAY on the National Mall -- Impeach, Convict, Remove
Mayday Movement USA will establish a long-term presence on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in sight of the US Capitol, beginning on May 1st, 2025. We will remain there until Donald. J Trump is impeached and removed from office.
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…
#Politics It'll never happen, but I think that for a week, all the media should simply ignore Trump. Don't talk about anything he does or says, don't attend press conference, everyone just ignore him for a week. Man would he be ticked off.
"Pete Hegseth is by far the least qualified of any individual to hold a military leadership position in our country's history. He is an embarrassment to our service men and women," - Aure
The Trump regime Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on #trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non #fascists are least likely to defend.
Trump has deleted mentions of the Holocaust from the Pentagon’s websites. I don’t see how this makes America great nor how this makes America pro-Jewish or pro-Israeli.
I'm thinking German tourists are not really going to want to visit the US, with ICE and the tendency of our National Parks of killing them on vacation.
A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.
‘If a billionaire disappears, does the world lose a scientist? No. An artist? No. A healer? No. A teacher? No. A farmer a horticulturist? No The world loses nothing of value. Because billionaires produce nothing. They consume. They extract. They pollute. They destroy nature. They build empires on suffering. Their existence is not a triumph of the system. It is proof of its failure.’ of Economic Growth (GDP)
There’s a vital alternative system it’s called a #WellbeingEconomy
Really? You had no problems with having debconf hosted in the Zionist state. You even refer to that illegal entity by the name "Israel". Does the Debian project have the same values as the Zionist state? I understand a free software project not wanting to be on a proprietary platform, but this is ridiculous.
Could Montreal rents reach Toronto and Vancouver levels of unaffordability? Tenants's rights groups are calling for a rent hike freeze until measures such as a mandatory rental registry and a ceiling on rent hikes are implemented. #rent #housing #affordability #politics #Montreal #Toronto cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/re…
I was not planning to say much about this, because I have nothing to say that anyone else hasn't said already. Trump seems in many ways disastrous and dangerous, and the potential loss of US power and influence or the fact he may not be able to carry out his complete programme do not make up for much of the damage he is likely to cause.
However, I read this survey that shows that, out of many countries in the world, Europeans are the only people to be consistently against Trump. Now, I don't know about you, but when the world says one thing and Europe says another, I get worried; because historically Europe has been terrible for the rest of the world.
Does that mean I'm changing my mind on this? No, people can be wrong. It does however make me pause.
In this podcast, Grace Blakeley gives a presentation based on her recent book, Vulture Capitalism, at the LSE. There follows commentary and discussion.
Donald #Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator. —
There have been internal concerns that Trump Media could be misleading investors, a source said. But with its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of investigating Truth Social’s parent company.
Ronald Reagan’s real legacy, charted and graphed. Spoiler: It’s not the bedtime story we’ve been told. A visual breakdown of the inequality, debt, and mass incarceration still shaping our lives. 'Trickle-down' economics was never real. #economics #politics #reagan #WealthInequality #TrickleDown
I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:
"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .
"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy
Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.
But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.
NEW: What to Expect From #ProPublica in a Second #Trump Administration ==
Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the #president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.
We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.
