Canadian politics are an existential threat to human civilisation. This sounds like a shitpost, but it’s not.
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Canada sits on enough oil to bring about catastrophic global warming if it were ever burnt. The two largest parties in Parliament are both basically committed to ripping that oil out of the ground and selling it as fuel as quickly as possible. There’s very little in the way of mass public resistance to this goal (First Nations land protectors honourably excepted) because apathy and misplaced politeness reign supreme in Canadian culture. The media is dominated by right-wing conglomerates who portray any opposition to oil development as loony, unhinged and probably foreign-sponsored. The main left-wing party still thinks that star-power and nostrums about hope are how one goes about building a mass movement.
“The media is dominated by right-wing conglomerates” you either don’t live here or are delusional. The majority of our media supports the left.
A coterie of intimidating lawyers. A deployment of charm. An aura of invincibility. A five-figure donation to a New York Times reporter’s favored nonprofit. A bullet delivering a message. Even, it is alleged, a cat’s severed head in the front yard of the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.
Such were the tools the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is said to have used to try to soften news coverage and at times stave off journalistic scrutiny altogether.
Before his death earlier this month, Epstein owned the largest townhouse in Manhattan, little more than a mile from many of the nation’s leading news organizations. He counted a former and a future president among his friends. He partied with royalty and supermodels. He was said to advise billionaires.
As governments around the world become more and more repressive, as cops with the full arsenal of high-tech surveillance tools collude with fascists on a daily basis, and as the alt-right grows its’ army of basement-dwelling incel internet trolls, it has become immensely important for activists to practice good security culture. Here are a bunch of articles and resources to help you get started.
