avidamoeba

If you have 25 bucks to spare (or 5 if unemployed) you should register to vote for a leader. There are better and worse options on the roster. So votes matter.

Any finn to willing to contribute some context?

Hacker ticked off a list of historical accomplishments for women’s equality in Israel: the 1951 Equal Rights for Women Law, considered revolutionary at the time; Golda Meir serving as one of the first female leaders in the world in 1969; the military’s mandatory conscription of women.

Yeah, cause socialist zionists dominated political power during that period. As racist as they were towards Palestinians, equality was increasing. That's not the ideological reality today.

(Austin Powers in) Goldhoser

I forgot my place.

Doubt, but I'd love to be wrong.

Canadian banks bought US assets for pennies on the dollar in 2008.

While that's true, there's a not-so-visible side effect. The AMCB (TD US) segment of the bank has very significant influence on decisions at TD Canada. The bank that was TD in 2008 is a much more American style operation today. Have insider info on this. Also its US side exposes it to the American meltdown-to-be, unlike the situation in 2008.

This is fucking gold-level hosery.

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With that said, an Avi or Rob NDP would probably fare much better during the next election, don't you think?

And he appointed a BlackRock exec for an ambassador among other interesting decisions. If you end up liking his track record by the next election, you could give him another vote. If you don't, there better be a decent alternative. But in any event, Carney having legitimate electoral competition from the left can only make him deliver better for us.

BTW, I did contribute to Carney's campaign and voted for him as he was the only medicine that could have prevented a PP government, but from what I've seen so far, I'm under no illusion that he's going to deliver substantially for me instead of the corporate elite. He's doing alright on some fronts and not so good on others. I see no motion to deliver for labour outside of helping corporations in the hope that lifts labour. Which is just good ol' trickle-down economics. My vote wasn't an excuse to not put my energy into helping the NDP become an electable, leftist alternative. We need that more than ever in recent history.

It's a small part of the price of a working democracy. A democracy where we don't perpetually vote between figures who don't really represent us.