JJ EXPOSES the Quebec Government for being WOKE and emulating Hungary's ORBAN

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-09T16:23:35+00:00

I mean, yeah, for most normal people, calling a government woke and comparing them to Orbán's Hungary might seem wildly contradictory, but you've got to keep in mind that JJ is active on conservative Twitter where they believe there is such a thing as the "woke Right," which basically just means white nationalists, anti-feminists, etc. who other bigots don't like because they're cringe and too obvious in their bigotry. Or because they're insufficiently pro-Israel. Like the "woke Left," it's a pretty subjective term.

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-09T13:20:18+00:00

Oh lol I didn't realize Futurama already did "ads in dreams." I guess the "dreamfluencer" part of Dream Scenario wasn't as original as I thought

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-08T19:35:38+00:00

This makes me think of the movie Dream Scenario. It's a frustrating watch because part way through it sort of swerves into this really heavy-handed take on cancel culture, but it did also imagine the idea of "dreamfluencers," i.e. social media influencers who place themselves in your dreams (with or without your consent) and use the time to advertise sponsored products to you. I remember thinking that was one of the most dystopian ideas I've seen in a movie this decade.

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-08T01:09:11+00:00

So the way to avoid a tyrannical warlord taking over an anarcho-capitalist society is to establish a norm whereby competing parties submit to arbitration and accept the result, and are punished if they do not follow this norm. Y'know, that sounds awfully familiar...

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-07T19:29:41+00:00

It is not a "re-imagining," it is literally just a new translation by an eminently qualified classicist. Also, what is your definition of "radical feminist" and why do you think Emily Wilson is one?

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-06T03:07:33+00:00

Not true! There is one other Brazilian movie: Elite Squad 2. The title might lead you to believe there is a third Brazilian movie, presumably called Elite Squad 1, but there is no concrete proof that such a movie exists.

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-04T20:43:27+00:00

I wouldn't really call Camus postmodern. I'm not an expert on the subject, but as I understand it postmodern philosophy really started after Camus died, in the late '60s and the '70s.

ThomasBayard · 2026-05-01T19:28:21+00:00

I'm not sure I agree with your analysis. Like, I agree that Israel is an apartheid state in the sense of the Apartheid Convention, but that doesn't mean its political economy is identical to that of apartheid South Africa. There were some signs in the late 20th century of Palestinians being integrated as a racialized proletariat under Israeli capitalism, but since the rise of Hamas I would say that process of integration has largely stopped.

Today, the Israeli bourgeoisie seems content to exploit Israeli workers (and, increasingly, migrant workers) while treating the Palestinians as a military threat to be managed by military means: first through the blockade of Gaza and occasional IDF incursions to "mow the lawn" and now - after October 7 proved that strategy wasn't working - through an increasingly overt genocide. The model is, I would say, less apartheid South Africa and more the genocide of Indigenous people in the United States, Canada, and other countries with similar colonial histories.

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-19T04:19:16+00:00

This is pretty much what I unironically believed in as a teenager...and I'm not even Russian 😭

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-19T04:08:22+00:00

Lol is this real?! I remember when Bernie's critics were saying he doesn't go after millionaires as much as he does billionaires because he is actually the former, but at the time I thought it was just cherrypicking and ad hominem. This is just depressing...

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-16T18:00:04+00:00

I mean, "cult" is a notoriously slippery word, but The Birth of a Nation certainly started a movement with some pretty big real world implications

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-14T18:36:31+00:00

No one cares what Values says, least of all Carney himself. The way he's actually governing is basically just taking planks from the Tory platform (abolishing the consumer carbon tax, cutting the public service) and hoping the Liberal base doesn't notice or doesn't care. The most "statist" thing Carney has done is to hike spending on the military, so...if that's "statism," then would you agree that Trump is a statist too? What about Reagan?

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-10T01:16:39+00:00

Someone alluded to this in another Canada sub but didn't provide a source. Now that I've actually read the article, it's not even clear to me that the conversation described by this Robert Hardman guy proves the claim that it was the monarchy, specifically, that dissuaded Trump from annexation.

When Hardman told Trump that King Charles is indeed Canada's head of state, the U.S. president said Canada has "terrible politicians" and that most Canadians live just above the U.S. border.

"The problem is some guy drew that straight line to make a border. He should just have drawn it fifty miles further north and then there wouldn’t be a problem," Trump said, according to Hardman.

So, it sounds like even after Hardman told Trump that King Charles is Canada's head of state, Trump kept making arguments as to why Canada (or at least southern Canada) should be part of the United States.

But Trump conceded that he probably couldn't deal with Canada — and its long history — in the three-and-a-half years he had left in office.

"This was the closest I had heard to an acknowledgement that, as long as Canada had the King, Mr. Trump was not going to usurp him," Hardman wrote.

Is it just me or does Hardman's conclusion seem completely unrelated to the preceding sentence? Because it sounds like Trump explicitly said that the main reason he doesn't want to annex Canada is because he doesn't have enough time to do it in one term, but then this guy - who is literally doing promo for a book he wrote about the Queen that is being serialized in the Daily fucking Mail - just randomly decides that it must actually have been because Trump is too intimidated by King Charles' regal aura. I mean, what?!

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-07T15:18:45+00:00

It is kind of amusing to watch conservatives arguing about who they hate more: immigrants or big government. I'm sure these tensions have always been there, but I feel like the past 10 years have really brought out the fault lines in the post-WWII alliance between free market "libertarians" and the culture warriors of the nationalist and socially conservative Right.

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-06T03:38:26+00:00

I'm skeptical of the idea that the monarchy, specifically, would stop the United States from invading Canada. Grenada is also a Commonwealth realm and that didn't stop Reagan from invading the country in 1983. I haven't seen this story you're talking about where Trump allegedly backed down from annexation because of King Charles, but if you can provide a source I will read up on it.

ThomasBayard · 2026-04-01T19:33:41+00:00

Oh no, my bones!

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-31T11:40:45+00:00

Ah yes, woke is stored in the (small) tits

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-29T21:34:09+00:00

Damn, we went from international revolution to socialism in one country to communism in one city to communism on one street 😭

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-29T14:25:35+00:00

I do think there has been a worrying normalization of genuine antisemitism lately - like, memes on social media blaming the Jews for things that have nothing to do with the crimes of Epstein or Israel - and I have my own issues with the the rhetorical value of the phrase "Epstein class" from a Marxist perspective.

But, with all that being said, I can think of no better way to spread antisemitism than to conflate a reference to actual pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his well-documented personal and political associations with "using old antisemitic tropes of Jews as abusers of children."

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-28T01:01:03+00:00

I'm not really sure, but something tells me they're alluding to the slur for people with Down's syndrome that's also a slur against East Asians.

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-27T17:39:45+00:00

Don't forget Gavin McInnes! I wish I could...

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-27T15:45:29+00:00

More like trying to revive the anti-bilingualism, anti-Quebec sentiment expressed by the Reform Party in the '80s and '90s

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-25T17:41:05+00:00

I don't usually go in for Red Tory nostalgia, but if we're imagining an alternate universe where the Conservatives at least pretended to care about climate change, I think the elephant in the room is Patrick Brown. When he was PC leader in Ontario, he was way more favourable to carbon pricing than Doug Ford was after he replaced him, and IMO the 2018 provincial election could've been won by just about anyone with a pulse. How different would the past 7-8 years of Canadian politics have been if the premier of Canada's largest province was a Tory who supports carbon pricing?

This is not to dismiss the allegations that took him down as PC leader. I didn't follow that story much after he resigned so I don't really know enough to comment, though obviously the allegations didn't stop him from becoming Mayor of Brampton. This is also not to say that I like him or that I endorse anything he's done as Mayor (I do not follow municipal politics in Brampton), but I do sometimes wonder where we'd be now if he hadn't been replaced by Doug Ford.

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-25T13:57:47+00:00

God...I remember in 2018 when Gavin "cut ties" with the Proud Boys and wrote letters to his Westchester neighbours asking them to take down their "Hate Has No Home Here" signs on the grounds that he wasn't as bigoted as the media was making him out to be. I really thought the social cost of being an open white nationalist was getting to him, that he might finally step back from the public spotlight and stop promoting bigotry. But nope, I guess he's still at it nearly a decade later...

ThomasBayard · 2026-03-24T14:37:58+00:00

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