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  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Yeah, turns out people don't like surveillance against their will..

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • Keep licking boots.

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • What does that do for you?

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • 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.

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • Read it again bud.

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • 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.

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  • Exactly what the fuck do you think you're referencing?

  • Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights

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  • 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.

  • Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really scale up the sector.

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  • 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.

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  • Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.

  • Banana

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  • History of banana and why it's cheap.

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  • Haven't you heard? I blew up the White House all on my own with the MQ-9 reaper drone I keep in my garage.

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  • If you're too cowardly to try, then step aside.

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  • Tell me more about how much you don't read history.

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  • Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.

  • Landlords are parasites

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  • You can't buy a house because $2.5k per story pays the mortage for the landlord and the rental property.

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  • Trump is a fascist pedophile who will probably have to be killed to leave. The White House has been home to genociders and rapists many times before though. To occlude the historical brutality of the United States is self-destructive and makes you less curious about how and why a pedophile rapist is right at home in the White House.

    Tear it down with him in it.

  • It powers everything

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  • Oh. Well. I just thought I was passionate like the crashing of a thousand waves.

  • The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

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  • Almost like capitalism seeks to dominate every element of material life and the internet is dependent on its material infrastructure to function.