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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦

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(He, Him) I’m a lecturer at a university, where I teach Philosophy. I specialize in Deleuze, Marx, and Environmental Philosophy. Also, I have 4 cats. George Mason University

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Dec 13

Xmas is the season to brush up on your continental metaphysics.

Deleuze and Time is now available in paperback!
As a super-extra bonus, you can also get 30% off the cover price if you order from the publisher and use the discount code PAPER30.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deleuze...

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 2d

Every LIBERAL.
Every NDP.
Every Bloc.
Elizabeth May.
All rightfully voted against an authoritarian motion that violates so much Charter rights it’s an abomination.
Never forget this.
If the CPC gets power, we’re in big trouble.
#cdnpoli

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 2d

Avi Lewis first campaign video for those interested.

'The government and big business both hold hands - in your pocket.'

#cdnpoli #canada #ndp #liberal #conservative

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 2d

The structure of the 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 trade file terrifies me.

🇺🇸 is trying to bankrupt 🇨🇦.The 🇺🇸is waging economic warfare—creating the conditions for annexation.

PP is only fanning populist flames. The proletarian class can be dangerous.

This is a dire time for 🇨🇦.

#cdnpoli

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'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 16d

The only sane—human species preserving—response to the climate crisis is to leave it (oil and natural gas) in the ground.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 16d

this country could have decided to be a leader in solar and wind energy instead of a dying petrol state that contributes way more than its fair share towards global ghg emissions... and we are doubling down with the carney libs.
#cdnpoli #climatecrisis #nopipelines

Canada, other fossil fuel-producing nations, derailing world climate targets, report says | CBC News

Production Gap Report suggests countries are planning to produce 120 per cent more fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees, and 77 per cent more than what's ...

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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 19d

Even CTV has written about it, and the many complaints that civil society already has about Carney's government: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Progressive groups rally ‘common front’ to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging “common front” to elements of the new Liberal government’s agend...

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Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 @anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18d

If you cannot join #drawtheline today, donate to your local and federal climate/social justice orgs please! (if you can)

Thank you.

https://drawtheline.world/

Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.

Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 17d

Here is the Prime Minister’s statement on the recognition of Palestinian statehood.

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Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of the State of Palestine

Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East.

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 17d

Here are a few photos from yesterday’s Draw the Line March in Ottawa.

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 17d

Canada recognizes Palestinian statehood!

Yes, it was announced in advance; yes, it is mainly symbolic; yes, there are persuasive moral and political arguments supporting recognition of a Palestinian state; yes, it is wonderful when something good happens.

#cdnpoli

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Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel | CBC News

Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark ...

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 18d

It really doesn’t matter if Hamid doesn’t like our writing or venue—we are not writing for him.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 20d

Sometimes, when something really really needs to be said, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social just says it so well.

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Screenshot of the headline of a Toronto Star article. Headline: Opinion | This is the national project Mark Carney should have chosen. Below is an ariel view of solar panels. Article written by Linda McQuaig, Contributing Journalist.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 19d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 18d

It will be interesting to see what sort of funding is in the budget, and where it is said to come from.

In a perfect world, the new spending won’t be used to justify austerity measures. Alas, this is not a perfect world.

#cdnpoli

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Carney's 'Buy Canadian' policy expected to be fully in place next year: source | CBC News

A senior federal source with knowledge of the government's plans said initial elements of the proposal should be in place by as early as November, with the entire policy expected to take effect by the...

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 23d

An annoying thing that demonstrates that perhaps I am an idiot: recording a quasi-brilliant lecture on Descartes, only to realize that my mic was muted from the third minute mark onwards.

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 23d

Kirk was a man who spewed vitriolic hatred. He was killed both by and for an expression of that hatred.

Neither Kirk’s particularly loathsome brand of hatred, nor the ignominious actions of his killer should be celebrated.

It is below the dignity of Parliament.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23d

Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · 25d

He advocated the most hateful sentiments in the most vitriolic ways.

He also advocated for gun violence.

In a moral system that consistently applies a principle of justice, one reaps what one sows.

We validated his toxic views; his end is direct realization of those views.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is exactly correct. As the credit rating drops, the interest rate goes up—to compensate foreign investors for taking on more risk when they buy US debt.

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 11

Absolutely—a coordinated sell of of US T bills would force interest rates to climb, thus plunging to US into a simultaneous debt crisis and recession.

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · Jul 11

Time for Canada to co-ordinate with Japan and other countries and start selling off US treasury bonds.
Enough is enough.

Time to play hardball
#ElbowsUp
#CanadaStrong
#BoycottUSA #F**kTrump

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 11

The US leader really needs to learn the use and function of upper-case letters.

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · Jul 11

Trump announces a 35% tariff for Canada.

I cannot believe this guy? He is back on using the supposedly “Fentanyl influx” from Canada into the US to justify 35% tariffs? What type of ridiculous negotiation is that?

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yeah, pretty much.

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 11

So the gist is an ultimatum: 🇨🇦 becomes the 51st state or it faces a 35% tariff. The sane response: (a) expel the US ambassador, (b) cease all export of goods to the US, and (c) immediately get French and British nuclear weapons on Canadian soil.

#cdnpoli #elbowsup
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Trump threatening 35% tariffs on Canadian goods across the board | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to slap a 35 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods as the two countries have been engaged in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement.

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 9

It is certainly related by implication. It is also a crime against humanity all its own

Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 9

Here’s the thing: no country—the US included—imports raw materials because they like the exporter; countries import the raw materials their industry needs because there is insufficient domestic supply.

#cdnpoli

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Trump says he will impose 50% tariff on copper | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will announce a 50 per cent tax on imported copper on Tuesday — adding to the growing list of punishing tariffs that are causing economic dislocation in Canada and ...

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Robert W. Luzecky, PhD 🇨🇦 @robluzecky.bsky.social · Jul 8

Well this is utterly horrific

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Netanyahu says U.S. and Israel working on plan to relocate Palestinians as ceasefire talks go on | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a private dinner Monday, while Israeli officials held indirect negotiations with Hamas aimed at securing a U.S.-brokere...

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