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Jeremy Powell
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Jeremy Powell<p>These Sonia Furstenau press conferences are wholly responsible for the maintenance of my sanity this election. Oxygen in anoxic waters. What a gift!</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/13-nKEABD3c?si=07oEp0qnr5wdmJ2k" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/13-nKEABD3c?si=07oEp0</span><span class="invisible">qnr5wdmJ2k</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/britishcolumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>britishcolumbia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bcgreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcgreens</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>&quot;We have to end fossil fuels and transition to clean energy—to wind and solar, for example—and we have to make fossil fuels more expensive, among many other things. Well, if you do that in a way that makes it so that working class people are spending a larger and larger fraction of their money on energy, and then they can’t afford to get to work and put food on their table, what are they going to do? They’re going to say, fuck this, we’re voting for the guy who says he’ll roll that back so that we can actually live, which is the guy who is the climate denier.</p><p>So, if you want to have your climate policies stick, you have to do it in a way that is funded by the ultra rich, who also, incidentally, are causing the lion’s share of global heating.&quot;</p><p>Sounds familiar...</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/nu0RpMX4G30?si=fluSM0OEWGIy9gGt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/nu0RpMX4G30?si=fluSM0</span><span class="invisible">OEWGIy9gGt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>climatechange</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Maybe it&#39;s the difference between &quot;We must stop these bigots and weirdos from gaining power&quot; and &quot;What would it take for these bigots and weirdos to stop being like that?&quot;</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>These days I&#39;m thinking about what might lessen the fears of xenophobes about immigration without legitimating their concerns (like so many centrists and liberals are doing these days). A UBI for citizens? Ambitious affordable public housing construction? A wealth tax that directly benefits workers?</p><p>The more I think about it, the less strategic &quot;strategic voting&quot; seems.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Watched it again. Damn. I&#39;m gonna miss this guy.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>In 2017, I voted for Charlie Angus for NDP leader. Speeches like this remind me why. Maybe we&#39;d be in a different place if things had gone a different way, maybe we wouldn&#39;t. Just wanted to say that I still think he&#39;s a standup guy.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/B6DGRCVQZBQ?si=Y6EbjiCSIWfhsI4-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/B6DGRCVQZBQ?si=Y6Ebji</span><span class="invisible">CSIWfhsI4-</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are much closer together than you remember.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>On my morning commute, I saw my first election signs. All five of them were NDP, which is a relief. I was kind of worried I&#39;d see a Lunatic Blue sign first and it&#39;d ruin my day.</p><p>But I guess it was never really in doubt that Adrian Dix would be re-elected.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>I hope the Climate Strike goes well today. I can&#39;t attend because of work.</p><p>Perhaps more people would be able to demonstrate how much they are worried about climate breakdown if events like this happened in the evening? Gen Z and Millennials are less unionized and have less flexible work schedules and more precarious jobs than older folks who (statistically) care less about this.</p><p>Just a thought.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateStrike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/VancouverClimateStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VancouverClimateStrike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vancouver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vancouver</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>0.2% and 0.5% at the moment tells me that Canadian Future Party doesn&#39;t have much of a future</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>I&#39;m imagining Stephen Root&#39;s character being played by a hobbit. His bare feet keep getting stepped on by his coworkers and nobody ever apologizes anymore.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Someone should write a novel set in Middle-Earth two or three thousand years after the Lord of the Rings. And it&#39;s just Office Space with Elves.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>I&#39;m sticking with the BC Greens, and this absolute roar of defiance from Sonia Furstenau toward the end of this press conference is a key reason why (starting at 17:05 or so).</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BCGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BCGreens</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/9caqSRi4Y7Q?si=MB2bl6nUeK-Wtm9Y" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/9caqSRi4Y7Q?s</span><span class="invisible">i=MB2bl6nUeK-Wtm9Y</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Sometimes a random thing gets stuck in my brain, and these days its the UAW&#39;s 2028 General Strike pledge.</p><p>I&#39;m not in a union, I&#39;m not from the US, I don&#39;t know a lot of people who are, but damn do I want help organize to make an actual general strike happen!</p><p>As with everything of course, I&#39;m liable to get bogged down in the &#39;how?&#39;. Maybe I should just walk out to the Skytrain station tomorrow with a clipboard and see what happens.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>I love how she uses the Fahrenheit 451 quote at the end: </p><p>&quot;..you can&#39;t argue with the four-wall televisor. Why? The televisor is &#39;real&#39;. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn&#39;t time to protest, &quot;What nonsense!&quot;&quot;</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/individualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>individualism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Ivd8so3vWjQ?si=lxCGUlHPIBHygemx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Ivd8so3vWjQ?si=lxCGUl</span><span class="invisible">HPIBHygemx</span></a></p>
Jeremy Powell<p>Like sure, it&#39;s scary that they might win. But it&#39;s going to be so delicious when it all immediately goes sideways for them.</p>
Jeremy Powell<p>I already feel like John Rustad and Liz Truss have a lot of the same &quot;dog-who-caught-the-car&quot; energy.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BCConservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BCConservatives</span></a></p>