Yup, Ron Jr.

He’s actually very progressive, especially given his upbringing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Reagan

Way to go, Bibi. Putting all of Israel and every member of the Jewish diaspora at risk just to save your corrupt political skin.

Oh, and killing tens of thousands of innocent people.

How about we just tax millionaires & billionaires more and use that money to fund the public system?

Society used to work when marginal tax rates were much higher. It stopped working when we let the rich get richer at the expense of the rest of us.

Gee, maybe you should have spent more time improving the lot of everyday people and less time playing footsie with billionaires?

A lot of neoliberal erstwhile-progressives are about to find out the consequences of selling out their principles for a seat at the rich kids' table.

Most of Europe's already found this out, Biden and Trudeau are looking at the same thing, and I expect Starmer will be out on his ass after four years of failing to help the poor and middle class, as he's so busy right now assuring everyone that he's not a socialist like Corbyn.

The other point from that thread is that the whole idea of having to price shop when you need care seems sadistic and inhumane to anyone from any other civilized country.

Even if pricing was transparent, it's still the wrong way to manage it. Healthcare should be a utility, paid for by taxes, like it is anywhere else in the world that isn't a capitalist dystopia like the US is.

They shoot people who point things at them. They'll simply say they "feared for their life” when someone tries to take a picture of them at a distance.

It's a man-bites-dog story, both figuratively and literally.

People being cruel to animals as part of the food chain? It's a day that ends in "y"

A potential vice president of the United States killed a dog because she didn't like it? That's newsworthy.

It might focus attention on animal cruelty.

Side note: Joe Biden very clearly likes his dogs, and treats them perhaps a little too well. Donald Trump famously doesn't have any pets, and uses euphemisms like "...like a dog" to invoke cruelty. Make of that what you will.

No, he, and people like him, are the cause.

Yes, they're part of the system. But it's a system that they run, grow and benefit from.

Wait, you mean middle- and lower-class Canadians--who are most people--aren't buying cars?

Could it be that they can't afford them, and even if they could, they can't charge them at home because they don't own a home?

Car makers took the EV revolution as a sequel to the SUV revolution: a way to boost average margin per unit, or rather, as a way to squeeze more juice. Unfortunately, real estate investors and Galen Weston have already squeezed our collective lemons.

Fascists gotta fash, even if they're Hindu fascists.

Yeah, this. It’s the story the world over when neoliberalism tries to be progressive, because neoliberalism is quite happy to be progressive when it doesn’t cost anything.

Lax drug enforcement laws were great! You could spend less on police and incarceration, and it’s fine since the fallout from drug related crimes only affects poor people anyway.

Once it started to affect rich people, though, then the calculus starts, and there's no way to effectively monetize treatment, mental health care and public housing, so enforcement it is!

That's how it's supposed to be, and why this is such a challenge for the political Right. For them, the cops are allies, and it was incomprehensible that they would put up any opposition at all.

By and large this has always been the case, the the police are guardians of order and the primacy of capital, and that's the side the Right is almost always on, so it's understandable how precedent would have led them to believe that it'd always be the case.

And they were shocked and hurt to find out that it wasn't.

For the record, they feel the same way about the military.