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Pragmatical 🇨🇦

@allij.bsky.social

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Pro-science. Pro-critical thought. Pro-democracy. No use for idiots and liars of any political stripe. The centre has to hold or the wheel comes apart. I’ve no use for anyone’s ideological purity tests.

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · Mar 26

Only 3.5% of the population needed, engaged in non-violent protest, to shift things. In Alberta, that’s 168,221 people; in Canada, 1.4 million; in the US, 12.2 million. Coordinated, regular protests X cities & towns. @cmcalgary.bsky.social @naheednenshi.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 55m

Social media could only do good in the world at one time too…

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 56m

Ah. Well. You had me going until this clause: “…when responsibly deployed by well-intentioned actors."

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Bogs @bogs-of-the-wood4.bsky.social · 18h

LOL Yes.

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 22h

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

I used to get facials from a woman who started touting the benefits of “fruit stem cells” in the potion she was applying. I asked her why I would want a peach growing off the end of my nose.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

These paragraphs in particular. It reinforces why a broad centrism is the only viable option for societal peace and longevity, however imperfect it is.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely required reading.

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Opinion | Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.

The American experiment will soon turn 250. Is its time running out?

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

That is likely part of the problem. People now expect that politicians will just do whatever the hell they want once in office anyway, so what’s the point in voting? It’s become quite an act of faith to vote, and so often that faith is misplaced. Accountability is crucial.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

Where’s the merit here?

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking Malfoy.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

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Being hopeful isn’t about avoiding the world’s hard realities – it’s an act of resistance

Hope demands that we shift the narrative away from the sense that we are helpless in the face of forces beyond our control

www.theglobeandmail.com

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 1d

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Being hopeful isn’t about avoiding the world’s hard realities – it’s an act of resistance

Hope demands that we shift the narrative away from the sense that we are helpless in the face of forces beyond our control

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

You literally have NO credible party to vote for in your country. None at all. Pretending that there is one is what’s pathetic.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

These grifters wanna run a country, y’all…

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

It — doesn’t have any interests at heart. It doesn’t have any interests, period. It’s a computer program.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

Well, perhaps dying from vaccine-preventable diseases will be a marker of political identity too.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

Spot the idiots who don’t realize this is satire.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

It would not surprise me in the slightest if Trump opens an investigation into this.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

Dems, supporting a candidate who promotes open political violence. Pure desperation. Pure uselessness. Pure pathetic-ness.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

Good god, isn’t it obvious? It’s his hair. The man hasn’t had a decent haircut in decades. Having to look at that hair all the time, I mean,

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When celebrities break up, everyone’s a forensic expert

The divorce of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban marked the internet’s latest opportunity to look for breakup signs in hindsight.

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’ll introduce a resolution today that will honour me with a multi-million dollar lottery windfall. Because that’s just how it works.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 3d

Wait — where are all the condemnations about this being antisemitic? (And anti-Islamic, but we know this regime doesn’t care about that)

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 3d

And Dems. Useless.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 3d

How about the Ig Nobel?

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 3d

Utterly detached from reality.

Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 3d

I just blocked Jessie. I didn’t care for the openly hateful, ageist way she was crafting her tone.