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David Suzuki: Canada must resist anti-democratic crusaders (rabble.ca)
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While the pace of disastrous change in the U.S. is dizzying, we should have seen it coming. Billionaires and anti-democratic libertarians have been building up to this for decades. Much of it stems from the most profitable enterprise in history: fossil fuels.

In a chapter on taxes in her book At a Loss for Words, former CBC journalist Carol Off details efforts going back to the 1960s by “dark money” forces led by fossil fuel industrialists to overturn regulations, especially environmental, and remove barriers to companies by having the U.S. Supreme Court rule that corporations have the same rights as people, among other measures. This has substantially widened the gap between rich and poor that had been shrinking since President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. The richest one per cent now have more wealth than 95 per cent of the world’s population.

Referencing research by Democracy in Chains author Nancy MacLean, Off writes of “a small band of brothers” who in the 1970s created a “complete blueprint for a post-democracy world” that people in high places would put into play. The movement was sparked by political economist James Buchanan, a pro-segregationist who believed democracy and equality were incompatible with capitalism.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Man I'm American with a good thing going these days, I do NOT want to go all the way to Canada and fight against my hillbilly neighbors but if it comes to it...

On second thought, :joins the IWW again:

[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think you can do more with civil disobedience in your own country than you can by picking up a rifle for us. Unless half your damn country shows up willing to fight and die for us, we'll never have enough bodies to do anything but resist occupation and make guerilla strikes. Think less Vietnam and more The Troubles.

But America traditionally does very poorly in war without strong support at home. When Americans lose a war, it's never about guns and bombs, but always about domestic support falling through. And that'll be even more true under your newly minted fascist regime. The fascist lives and dies on the widely spread lie of its own heroic, masculine ideal. Undercutting that hurts the fascist regime pretty severely.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago

I'm too much of a coward, honestly. I'm trans, so if I get arrested I'll be made to detransition and sent to a men's prison and assigned to a violent criminal as his prison wife. I'll serve Canada though, if it comes to it.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Remember, you can always stay in your home country and fight for Canada through intentional gross incompetence:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 16 hours ago

Hey now, not all us Canadians are hillbillies! Some of us are rednecks, thankn y'kindly

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I saw David Suzuki treating the waitress like shit in a restaurant here in Victoria last year

Edit: I want to add more cuz I fuckin hate David Suzuki. Virtue signaling rich piece of shit. Talks big about indigenous issues but owns land on several of the gulf islands.

Know several people who have met him and dudes a total asshole

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Sadly, can corroborate. He was a jerk to my future wife at a book-signing 'cuz she didn't plonk a freshly-purchased copy of the new book he was reading from to get signed, but another one, after she gushed about how much his environmentalism and views had influenced her. I mean, yeah an author does readings and book signings to sell books, but a fan has still taken time to travel, sit and listen, and maybe will buy after the event.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lol maybe he knew her personally and she's a conservative voter 😂

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No he's a regular guest at the university I work at and I've heard so many nasty things. He's a fraud.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is he a fraud or is he a smart dude that's just a total asshole?

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

I would say that someone who says they care about the environment but owns multiple acreages on unceded indigenous territory is a fraud. He certainly doesn't put his money where his mouth is.

Fuck anyone who treats their waitress poorly btw. It's a given you are a waste of skin if you do this.