Ontario Man
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Ontario Man
@barrhavenist.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each
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If you want to make sense of where we are in history and how to meet the immense challenges we face, here’s a great place to start:
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The biggest trick capitalism ever pulled wasn’t convincing people its good, it was convincing them it’s the only option.
It's why “socialism” was made a dirty word, basic dignity framed as dangerous & why alternatives are buried.
When ppl believe there’s no alternative, status quo wins by default.
It's why “socialism” was made a dirty word, basic dignity framed as dangerous & why alternatives are buried.
When ppl believe there’s no alternative, status quo wins by default.
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The biggest trick capitalism ever pulled wasn’t convincing people its good, it was convincing them it’s the only option.
It's why “socialism” was made a dirty word, basic dignity framed as dangerous & why alternatives are buried.
When ppl believe there’s no alternative, status quo wins by default.
It's why “socialism” was made a dirty word, basic dignity framed as dangerous & why alternatives are buried.
When ppl believe there’s no alternative, status quo wins by default.
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It’s our task to mend the rifts in the working class, not to coddle chauvinists at all cost. People who claim the opposite just show which parts of the working class they view as expendable.
Here’s what Huey P. Newton had to say:
Here’s what Huey P. Newton had to say:
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It’s our task to mend the rifts in the working class, not to coddle chauvinists at all cost. People who claim the opposite just show which parts of the working class they view as expendable.
Here’s what Huey P. Newton had to say:
Here’s what Huey P. Newton had to say:
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People really need to stop treating military service like it’s just a job of no consequence and not an enabling of an administration or some imperialist agenda it has.
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
People really need to stop treating military service like it’s just a job of no consequence and not an enabling of an administration or some imperialist agenda it has.
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It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
He would become the first known COVID case.
Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.
Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.
Public health is a social justice issue.
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BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
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for the bread price fixing that pete buttigieg was involved in in canada btw
btw everyone if you haven’t applied for your $25 settlement cheque do that i think the cutoff is tomorrow or in the next few days
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
for the bread price fixing that pete buttigieg was involved in in canada btw
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
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I used to joke that phones were lovecraftian madness runes, made by the labor of thousands of slaves gathering material, and shaped by skilled artisans into objects that create mesmerizing lights which dazzle and confuse the minds of all who behold them. But it really does get more true every year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I used to joke that phones were lovecraftian madness runes, made by the labor of thousands of slaves gathering material, and shaped by skilled artisans into objects that create mesmerizing lights which dazzle and confuse the minds of all who behold them. But it really does get more true every year.
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so now that it’s starting to come to a wider attention that fed poverty is absolute horseshit
how long until it changes
how long until the systems change
how long until billionaires are no longer billionaires
idk i’m feeling french these days
how long until it changes
how long until the systems change
how long until billionaires are no longer billionaires
idk i’m feeling french these days
Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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wapo.st/3MeOGki
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An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
so now that it’s starting to come to a wider attention that fed poverty is absolute horseshit
how long until it changes
how long until the systems change
how long until billionaires are no longer billionaires
idk i’m feeling french these days
how long until it changes
how long until the systems change
how long until billionaires are no longer billionaires
idk i’m feeling french these days
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they should invent a bike accident where the car dies
September 2, 2024 at 10:43 PM
they should invent a bike accident where the car dies
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Pierre Poilievre says what Mark Carney thinks.
For example, the room of Canada’s top journalists heartily laughing as Poilievre mocks the concept of “Queers for Palestine” as “crazy.”
Yikes.
Yikes.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Pierre Poilievre says what Mark Carney thinks.
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any comparison of good old fashioned procedural generation with the gen 'ai' scam is offensive
there is no ethical way to use gen 'ai': its crooked owners have made absolutely certain of it
there is no ethical way to use gen 'ai': its crooked owners have made absolutely certain of it
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
any comparison of good old fashioned procedural generation with the gen 'ai' scam is offensive
there is no ethical way to use gen 'ai': its crooked owners have made absolutely certain of it
there is no ethical way to use gen 'ai': its crooked owners have made absolutely certain of it
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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This👇 is correct. I say that as a 73 year old person who grew up in a 'two gender solution' world, and who, as a cisgender traditionally male person has been quite comfortable in it. But I can now see that this model, though convenient for me, does violence to others. It is wrong & must go.
The so-called “two gender solution” is an unworkable fantasy
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This👇 is correct. I say that as a 73 year old person who grew up in a 'two gender solution' world, and who, as a cisgender traditionally male person has been quite comfortable in it. But I can now see that this model, though convenient for me, does violence to others. It is wrong & must go.
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Progressives can't just talk about delivering justice by prosecuting the crooks—they gotta pair it with plans to fix the harms caused by the crooks
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Progressives can't just talk about delivering justice by prosecuting the crooks—they gotta pair it with plans to fix the harms caused by the crooks
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BC Government approves American-owned Ksi Lisims LNG project - CAPE
Billionaire Trump allies win: British Columbians, the cost-of-living and the climate lose
cape.ca
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Gretzky is the kind of guy you can really use to sell expropriation (to be generous)
And he made Janet run all that defence for a while, before the horrors of ICE cranked way up. When the belligerence to Canada was on going. Now he still does this.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
Celebrities, meh, but this one was forced on us like some Canadian monarch. Boo him. Laugh at him. Forget him.
Trump went golfing with Wayne Gretzky today. That's FOX host Brett Baier on the right. Trump posted this on his Truth Social account.
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gretzky is the kind of guy you can really use to sell expropriation (to be generous)
How did we let AI fall into the hands of the Italians
"Italian defense company Leonardo on Thursday unveiled plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure, adding to Europe’s push to ramp up sovereign defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical tensions." www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/l...
Leonardo unveils 'Michelangelo Dome' as Europe looks to bolster sovereign defense systems
Italian defense company Leonardo unveiled plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
How did we let AI fall into the hands of the Italians
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Does anyone know a website or app that tracks and shows winter storms for Vancouver Island's west coast?
#stormwatching #vancouverisland
#stormwatching #vancouverisland
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Does anyone know a website or app that tracks and shows winter storms for Vancouver Island's west coast?
#stormwatching #vancouverisland
#stormwatching #vancouverisland
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We weren't meant to have chronic inescapable access to online brainrot that drives us insane. We were meant to go insane the traditional way: herbs snuck into the soup by the scheming women of the village
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We weren't meant to have chronic inescapable access to online brainrot that drives us insane. We were meant to go insane the traditional way: herbs snuck into the soup by the scheming women of the village
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Lmfaooo I need to start dunking on people and stop reasoning with them.
Most people against bus lanes and other data backed policies don’t care about logic, they care about vibes.
Have to serve the vibes back to them!
Most people against bus lanes and other data backed policies don’t care about logic, they care about vibes.
Have to serve the vibes back to them!
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Lmfaooo I need to start dunking on people and stop reasoning with them.
Most people against bus lanes and other data backed policies don’t care about logic, they care about vibes.
Have to serve the vibes back to them!
Most people against bus lanes and other data backed policies don’t care about logic, they care about vibes.
Have to serve the vibes back to them!
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Uh oh, Ontario transportation minister Prabmeet Sarkaria liked this IntegrityTO video blaming bus lanes for car congestion…
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Uh oh, Ontario transportation minister Prabmeet Sarkaria liked this IntegrityTO video blaming bus lanes for car congestion…
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Stop wasting people's time and just give the essay an A. Who cares. Grading and assessments are meaningless now. Either an individual has the personal standards and self-respect to work, study and improve themselves or they can just ride the AI waterslide. That's the world we're building anyway.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Stop wasting people's time and just give the essay an A. Who cares. Grading and assessments are meaningless now. Either an individual has the personal standards and self-respect to work, study and improve themselves or they can just ride the AI waterslide. That's the world we're building anyway.