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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 36m

On one hand, hell yes, getting paid to not have to interact with that monster sounds pretty damned great.

On the other, the world could probably have used a great video of your insightful self giving her what for in a public debate, if you had ended up taking on that stress for the public good.

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 40m

I thought I'd compile the basic content of your post, and the various additions in this thread, together into a graphic for convenient future use, and I'd like to welcome you to make use of it as much as you please.

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 1h

The guy who lost the election isn't who you need to focus on. Holding the people who won the election to account is the vital requirement. So why are you constantly talking about the loser without mentioning that the winner's delivering the same policies?

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not suggesting the CPC wouldn't do better with a different leader who lacks Poilievre's baggage & anti-charisma. They would.

But many said similar things about Trump.

Carney's actively giving voters something to despise & vote *against,* & progressives will never support him again.

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7h

If anything, it seems like the more information is presented, the more reflexively hostile the response.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly, to me it just seems like standard issue "die hard LPC supporters have learned to behave just like their Maple MAGA counterparts ever more by the day" that's on display everywhere lately.

They play act that they defeated the conservatives, while instead they've become them.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7h

Waiting for the next election is too late. With enough public pushback on bad policies *now,* we *might* get the PM to do better, but waiting is too much like watching a house burn and assuming you can unburn the ashes later rather than grabbing the fire extinguisher at the first glimpse of flame.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7h

I also observe the sure fire guarantee of an unassailably flawless rational evidence-based argument: a seeming belief that simply yelling the occasional word in all caps will make presenting evidence to back your position up somehow magically unnecessary.

Good luck with that.

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7h

Charming how you make baseless insulting assumptions about complete strangers with zero evidence of any kind, while pretending that a guy who just presented 30 pieces of relevant evidence that you apparently refuse to even acknowledge the existence of must surely be clueless while you act petulant.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

But hey, at least it will get a chance to wipe out a bunch of quality public jobs in Canada before it blows up in our faces, right? 7/

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

So now we're not just staring down an economic crisis like the one in 2008, but one that's orders of magnitude bigger, with the capacity to drag the entire global financial market down with it. 6/

futurism.com/ai-bubble-po...

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, it may be propping up the US economy, which could make a bubble pop an even bigger disaster.

futurism.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

Financial analysts continue to warn us that the math of AI proponents does not add up, & that the sector is massively overvalued just like previous economic bubbles, but on an unprecedented scale that we've never seen before. 5/

www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

www.marketwatch.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

AI, on the other hand, is even more environmentally destructive, which is really saying something. So both of these these prominent politicians are eagerly promoting climate kryptonite. 4/

r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

AI is terrible for the environment, study finds

Problem is getting worse as AI systems become more complex, researchers warn

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

Cryptocurrency isn't just a scam that promises to replace the authority of big banks with unaccountable douchebaggy brogrammers, it's also so emissions heavy that it could cost us any hope of a climate future all by itself. 3/

sustainablesong.medium.com/cryptocurren...

Cryptocurrency is Climate Kryptonite

Stop trying to sell me your bro culture doomsday money.

sustainablesong.medium.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

That's the number Forbes gives us, but it may be even worse than that. Other estimates say it's more like $800 billion. 2/

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 1d

Or is it $800 billion? Or is it $900 billion in #CryptoCrash?

And then lol, right wing media like Spectator UK, immediately roll out some propaganda telling people to not blame Trump. 🤦‍♀️🙄

$800 Billion Crypto Crash: Why
Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Altcoins Are Falling
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The cryptocurrency market suffered a massive wipeout, erasing nearly $800 billion in value within 24 hours.
Around $19.2 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated as panic spread across exchanges.
Bitcoin plunged to $110,951, marking a 16% drop, while Ethereum slipped to $3,795, down more than 12%. The total crypto market capitalization fell to $3.69 trillion, its sharpest single-day decline in months. Altcoins were hit even worse. XRP fell 25% to $2.34, and Dogecoin dropped 28% to $0.18. Solana slid to $177, Cardano fell over 25%, and BNB lost ground, trading near $1,122.

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The crypto market recently experienced a significant downturn, with estimates indicating that around $900 billion was wiped off its total value.
This decline was largely triggered by market reactions to new tariffs imposed by the U.S. on Chinese tech imports, leading to panic among traders.
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Recent Crypto Market Decline
The cryptocurrency market has experienced a significant downturn, with estimates indicating that approximately $900 billion has been wiped off its total value. This decline is attributed to several factors, primarily triggered by geopolitical events and market dynamics.
Key Factors Behind the Decline
• Tariff Announcements: The U.S. government's announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese tech imports has created panic among investors, leading to a sharp sell-off in the crypto market.
Liquidations: A massive wave of forced liquidations occurred, with over $19 billion in positions liquidated in just 24 hours. This was exacerbated by traders who had heavily leveraged their positions.
• Market Overvaluation: Many analysts believe that the crypto market was already overvalued, making a correction inevitable.
The rapid rise in prices over the summer set the stage for this significant drop.
Impact on Major Cryptocurrencies

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Don't blame Trump for the crypto crash
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undreds of billions have been wiped off
prominent Ukrainian blogger and influencer on digital coins has been
found dead. And traders are bracing themselves for a rocky start to trading on Monday as markets start to tumble. We will have to see whether it develops into a full-blown crash or not. And yet, all the major equity indices were already wildly overvalued, and a correction was always inevitable - it was just a question of when it would start.
There may well be a rough few days ahead for investors. An estimated $400 billion was wiped off the value of the main crypto currencies on Friday evening, while the Nasdaq dropped by more than 800 points, or 3.5 per cent, before the

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 9h

Neither #PierrePoilievre promoting #cryptocurrency nor @mark-carney.bsky.social promoting #AI reassures me.

For one thing, cryptocurrency markets just collapsed by more than $500 billion overnight. 🧵 1/

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 10h

Poilievre increased CPC vote share in 2025, & was only kept from the PMO by progressives who temporarily supported Carney instead of voting NDP or green in accordance with their values based on false promises he'd be better.

Carney's publicly betraying their values, ensuring they won't do so again.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 10h

When someone knows they can't contest the evidence, they make insulting ad hominem attacks on the speaker.

It's how we know they cannot present evidence that disproves what has already been said, so they want to lack-of-virtue signal by being derisive to the person presenting that evidence.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 11h

So does deliberately worsening the greatest existential danger to our basic survival needs that our entire species has ever faced count enough as bad policy for your needs, @gracealexander.bsky.social, or do we need to go on?

I can do this all day if need be, but we've covered some vital basics.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 11h

And by the way, just to underline the point, doubling down on oil expansion isn't just a great way to collapse our economy, and public health, and national security. It's also a great way to collapse our food supply. 31/

Awfully hard to thrive with no food supply.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Client Challenge

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 11h

So as terrible policies go, it's awfully hard to top "racing towards the collapse of civilization with billions of lives at stake." If you don't want to condemn all of future to humanity to a brutal hellscape of violence scarcity for millennia, oppose Carney. 30/

www.resilience.org/stories/2020...

‘Collapse of Civilisation is the Most Likely Outcome’: Top Climate Scientists

Collapse of civilisation may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the planet have been activated.

www.resilience.org

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 11h

The insurance industry, whose business model is dependent on accurate risk assessment, calls the climate "the mother of all risks." Every professional medical organization in Canada calls it our top health threat.

But Carney's into arson, so suck it, public health. 29/

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 12h

We're told this global scale arson is necessary "to protect our security," but military intelligence tells us warming the globe further is "a threat multiplier" that worsens all known national security risks while also creating new ones. 28/

sustainablesong.medium.com/climate-conf...

Climate Conflicts: What the Pentagon Means by “Threat Multiplier”

Wars already intensified by the climate show us what to expect next.

sustainablesong.medium.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 12h

The token gestures to climate action Carney offers to try to justify big oil expansion - as if arsenic in your supper will somehow be fine as long as there's some healthy veggies in there, too - are both the most expensive and simultaneously the least effective. 27/

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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