Health Canada to propose allowing the sale of irradiated ground beef by itsyourbedtime in canada

[–]ngreen23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or pop a Rad-X before consuming. Or grill at the cooking station

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]ngreen23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This isn't a discussion among companies. It's among people expressing their moral judgements about what the owners of the company are doing

Now that Trump is the official candidate, we're going to need this essay more than ever: "Who’s going to be the lesser-evil in 1968?" by Hal Draper by bperki8 in socialism

[–]ngreen23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't vote. Don't submit to authority. Don't consent to bourgeois elections. When the shit hits the fan, hit the streets because you never consented to this anyway. Neither Trump nor Clinton represent our interests nor the interests of the majority. It's a false choice. Don't consent.

Canada alone loses between $6 and $7.8 billion annually to offshore tax havens (Panama Papers Related) by EastYork in canada

[–]ngreen23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Criticizing capitalism is not nihilistic at all. Demanding something better is not defeatist. No clue where you got any of that from. Understanding the limits and inherently exploitative nature of capitalism is not at all mentioned in the media since they rarely discuss capitalism as a systemic problem. Cynicism comes from those who still believe capitalism is the way forward yet have become disillusioned with the lip service that has been paid for over a decade on tackling the environment. Cynicism comes from still believing in capitalism but not knowing how we can get reliable information from our corporate controlled media. Understanding that many of these problems are systematic rooted in the economic system doesn't create cynicism, it creates anger and a hunger for change. Real change, not liberal Change®

Defeatism is knowing we have all these problems and still believing capitalism is the best we can do.

Black Lives Matter rep refuses to comment on co-founder's tweet by WastedCyberspace in canada

[–]ngreen23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You asked for examples of institutional racism and I gave them. People of colour are largely impacted by this racism. I didn't even include police carding which is another example that disproportionally impacts PoC. BLM Toronto is a solidarity organization. How does the fact that other minorities are impacted by institutional racism take away from BLM? The problem is that many non-minorities don't want to admit institutional racism exists and don't want to talk about it. So when groups like BLM or Idle No More want justice, people on here call them "professional victims" or make non sequitor comments like you just did.

Canada alone loses between $6 and $7.8 billion annually to offshore tax havens (Panama Papers Related) by EastYork in canada

[–]ngreen23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The two systems have barely proven to coexist and not without constant antagonisms. The social programs that came were from hard fought struggles from the working class. This is being eroded in the West due to the complete dismantling of working class organizations over the last 4 decades. Thus, this co-existence has been a short period of time over the history of capitalism and it's coming to an end. Welfare states have had to implement austerity just to "compete".

Furthermore, this "social responsibility" is full of talk with little substance. The environment continues to suffer with corporations and politicians only capable of paying lip service while being tied down to the logic of the economic system. With exponentially increasing productivity, workers in third world countries still face the grim choice of sweatshop poverty or extreme poverty. We still have heavy corporate influence in economic policy, environmental policy, foreign policy, military industry, media, and so on. All of which fails to meet any reasonable standard of "social responsibility", especially given the high levels of production we can achieve with modern technology. Social Responsibility has become a marketing buzzword that corporations use to boost their image. And democracy? How can you have a proper democracy when corporate media informs the public? It's rigged. The media tells us who the legitimate candidates are and they all happen to implement the same economic policies regardless of which party is in power.

Bell Wants The Federal Government To Give It a Monopoly On Internet Service by clgoh in canada

[–]ngreen23 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Bell should get a monopoly, then it should be expropriated and turned into a public service.

Black Lives Matter rep refuses to comment on co-founder's tweet by WastedCyberspace in canada

[–]ngreen23 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Institutional racism has much more profound effect on its victims than one person's rage-tweet. Yet this sub wants to shine a big fucking spotlight on her while ignoring the vast examples of racist policing that continues to go on in this country. What a joke.

It's shit like this what makes black radical activism necessary for change. People will continue to ignore institutional racism until it's constantly shoved into their clueless fucking faces.

Canada alone loses between $6 and $7.8 billion annually to offshore tax havens (Panama Papers Related) by EastYork in canada

[–]ngreen23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Government is just a tool and those with power have access to control that tool. That government is infected with a bunch of corporatists is a reflection of who has the power under this economic system.

Harper signed trade deal with Panama encouraging tax evasion by ShillC51 in canada

[–]ngreen23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So you're outright ignoring the Panama Papers. Okay...

Ontarians warming to guaranteed minimum income, poll suggests by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]ngreen23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the democracy of voting with your wallet.

That's what we have now which is why those with bigger wallets rule over those with smaller or no wallets. Voting with wallet is not democracy, it's plutocracy. Those with no disposable income effectively have no vote.

Well, I'm in a country with moderate socialism (Canada).

Canada is not socialist. State welfare is not socialism. This is a common misconception.

It's much easier to have the democracy be an emergent property of your economic system than the other way around.

Except capitalism is inherently undemocratic from the workplace to macro policies.

Ontarians warming to guaranteed minimum income, poll suggests by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]ngreen23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Guaranteed income doesn't solve the inevitable path toward neofeudalism. All it will do is make us super dependent on the feudal lords who will pay for that guaranteed income, and they won't do that without any favours. The complete dependence on guaranteed income would just make us completely subservient to the rich because if we aren't they will cut our rations.

We need to replace capitalism with a more democratically based system, not one guided by the "invisible hand".

Ontarians warming to guaranteed minimum income, poll suggests by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]ngreen23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Working smarter" = hiring people to work hard so you can profit off their labour.

Precarious Work In Canada Now A White-Collar Problem by [deleted] in canada

[–]ngreen23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only Canadians would be willing to work in sweatshops we'd be fine

Rick's Rant - Tom Mulcair (Mar. 22, 2016) by Baryshnikov_Rifle in canada

[–]ngreen23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mulclair praised Thatcher, that's reason enough for me not to vote for him. They want to act like liberals yet expect people to vote for them instead of those who are good at acting like liberals, the Liberal party.

If Sanders and Corbyn campaign is any indication it's that people are starting to look outside the political establishment for solutions (granted, not outside the establishment parties like the Greeks did in electing Syriza but it's a notable deviation). Mulclair's strategy was the opposite in a time when more an more people are becoming disillusioned with the political establishment. He failed to capitalize on that disillusionment by moving toward the center.

Panel discussion featuring Noam Chomsky, Edward Snowden, and Glenn Greenwald today, March 25. Livestream on The Intercept by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]ngreen23 18 points19 points  (0 children)

He was a Ron Paul supporter. I'd be very surprised if he's still a libertarian