Hunter Hitchens Carlin
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Political Economist
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December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets?
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Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference | The Walrus
How far are we willing to go to preserve our relationship with the US?
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November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As America declines, how far is Canada willing to watch, remain silent, and profit from its markets?
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Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire
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If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
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"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."
David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."
David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
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This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed some years ago that fascism is quite hard to define. It is not an ideology, she said. “I think it is a method,
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October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This, but just about every definition, is fascism. The only question now is whether everyone lets it continue. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
September 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.
BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”
Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.
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It's quite an experience to write a book about fascism while it's escalating in real time—enabled by cowardly media institutions that capitulate their way out of existence.
September 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It's quite an experience to write a book about fascism while it's escalating in real time—enabled by cowardly media institutions that capitulate their way out of existence.
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One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods.
It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.
It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.
Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods.
It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.
It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.
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He's just such a transparently evil scumbag, and he has the support of half the American voting public. What a broken society down there.
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
He's just such a transparently evil scumbag, and he has the support of half the American voting public. What a broken society down there.
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Anyone who thinks that Trump is going to sign a deal with Canada or make nice needs to wake up.
If he is willing to treat his own people with such reckless violence he won't hesitate to go after us.
Stay strong. Stay focused. Keep the boycott strong.
If he is willing to treat his own people with such reckless violence he won't hesitate to go after us.
Stay strong. Stay focused. Keep the boycott strong.
September 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Anyone who thinks that Trump is going to sign a deal with Canada or make nice needs to wake up.
If he is willing to treat his own people with such reckless violence he won't hesitate to go after us.
Stay strong. Stay focused. Keep the boycott strong.
If he is willing to treat his own people with such reckless violence he won't hesitate to go after us.
Stay strong. Stay focused. Keep the boycott strong.
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Donald Trump's half-baked decision to hijack the California National Guard into his own domestic police force to terrorize people in the LA area was never about public safety.
It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
September 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Donald Trump's half-baked decision to hijack the California National Guard into his own domestic police force to terrorize people in the LA area was never about public safety.
It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
It was only about dictatorial power and his political propaganda.
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Everything is perfectly normal and fine. Nothing to see here.
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Everything is perfectly normal and fine. Nothing to see here.
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Join a union and #resist. #LaborDay2025
a blue button with unions protect workers written on it
Alt: a blue button with unions protect workers written on it
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September 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Join a union and #resist. #LaborDay2025
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It is taught that rich people get rich by saving up their income.
Michael Hudson explains how this myth is garbage!
Michael Hudson explains how this myth is garbage!
August 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It is taught that rich people get rich by saving up their income.
Michael Hudson explains how this myth is garbage!
Michael Hudson explains how this myth is garbage!
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One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead.
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead.
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.
August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.
Trump: "We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day to the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water."
August 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.
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the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech