avidamoeba

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.

Word

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.

Hazel made a top vid on this.

Did they kill him?

LOL, like we took control after the DotCom crash or The Great Recession, or the pandemic.

We can only hope to gain control by organizing and exercizing our labour power. Economically and by extension in AI. Until then, the political class would keep serving whoever holds capital at the moment, bail them out with our surplus and pretend to regulate them.

That's odd.