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K Barn

@karlbarn.bsky.social

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Brood mother 🐔, union hoser ✊, ally 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇳 🇨🇩, formo journo, filthy leftist. F*k capitalism. Go home.

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · Apr 14

When people say voting strategically is harm reduction my question is:

Harm reduction for who, to what extent, for how long, and at the cost of whose lives and exploitation globally?

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

Nice anti-Canadian hit piece. Canada post has been a profitable service up until the Libs appointed the current CEO twice!
Also, Melanie Jolie's bro is the CEO of Intelcom, and firms like UPS, Pittney Bowes, and Amazon have lobbied the libs during postal negotiations.
Classic corruption. That's it

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

You've yet to miss, Rachel! It's so pathetic what legacy media did to you and other reporters of integrity, but I feel like it only freed you to do even better journalism via Bubble Pop

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

Oh damn! So Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger and his cronies who sit on the Purolator board still get the Amazon money and now that guy has to drive to some Purolator outlet miles away 🤦‍♂️
What the heck are we doing here with this country

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 6h

Canada Post doesn't pay mail carriers to deliver mail if there is no mail to deliver. The letter writer might also want to think about getting real.

Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 6h

Letters: I get maybe a letter a month. Canada Post has to get real

"Our government should stop letting the tail wag the dog, especially if the dog is on life support."

bit.ly

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

The real story that the legacy media refuse to tell is that this is classic liberal corruption and billionaire lobbying: Melanie Jolie's brother is the CEO of intelcom, and the Libs have been lobbied by UPS, Amazon, and Pittney Bowes during our negotiations. All the other reasons for cuts are bunk

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

The implication that Canada Post, the public service, can't be profitable is disproven by the majority of its existence up until the most recent CEO was appointed TWICE by the Liberals.
The refusal to make it adapt as many other post offices around the world have with service expansion is very 🇨🇦 ian

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

You're so unhinged 😂
I gotta say, best troll account I've seen on Bluesky yet.

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 4h

Zionism is a scourge on the Jewish community as the KKK are a scourge on Christianity. I smell some mossad propaganda

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 5d

You may want to dig into bill c2, the fentanyl tzar, the Golden dome, tripling military spending, and all of the cuts to Canadians services in order to finance these and any other projects Trump wants

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

That CIA manual on disrupting movements doesn't get talked about enough. Honestly it could be brought up at Union GMMs to have better meetings too 😆

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 7d

Today is the anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood and the acceleration of the decades long occupation and genocide of the Palestinians.

May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 7d

I like Engler's politics but everything I've heard from activist buddies and riding association peeps about their interactions with Engler shows he's not a leader, not an organizer, and is generally kinda rude and transactional.

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 7d

Look up the white paper called "extending Russia"

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome back to the less crazy version!

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to the end of this NATO provoked forever war, where our Ukrainian and Russian fellows are going to war to die so that Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, and other US defense contractors can make a buck and Trump can get rare earth minerals. So needless

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 8d

AI SLURS

*ahem*

Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Lol well played. This took me a few minutes too. It's hell is us!

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

True, but defying legislation is the counter to this and always has been.

Every time a union has defied back to work legislation, be it section 107 federally or the notwithstanding clause provincially, in the past 3 years labour has won. Union leaders just need to realize this.

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Same story here in Canada! A fine read

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Ngl I'd so be into a non-tariffed BYD car because it'd probably be the only car I can afford once my beater explodes 😅

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

Country whose politicians gave standing ovations to Nazi says Irish rap group hurt their feelings and are therefore terrorists.

The word terrorist still has no internationally agreed upon definition. In function, for the US and its allies, it means "whoever does stuff we don't like"

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 8d

Highly recommend this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast with Chris Gilbert on Venezuela and socialist communes - communal forms of social production that form the basis of a socialist and anti-imperialist national project. And now under direct military threat from the US.

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 8d

This is great. I never thought about it that way - how food in games is always a power up, but in an eating disorder in real life it's the opposite

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 9d

Lol true

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 9d

Lol I appreciate this even as a CUPW member. Appreciate all the support from the public on the picket line! Pictured: our tally of supporters vs detractors at my depot. For those looking for the real story, avoid legacy media and go to The Breach