A reminder that CTV is owned by Bell, one of the mega media organizations in Canada.
*mega media organizations in Canada … who support, fund, finance and back the conservative party … and most likely fascism if and when it would take power in this country.
When you put it like that, it makes perfect sense why the cons want to shut the CBC down.
I worked for a different subsidiary of Bell for a while. I can attest that they don’t give a shit about real people.
American here…
If there is one thing I’d hoped the world learned from us in the last 9 years or so, don’t bend a fucking knee to conservatives regardless of where they are. Don’t excuse, try to explain away or “Sanewash” shit they do.
Don’t publize them, call out that idiocy was said, show why it’s idiotic, and drop it. Don’t give them time to dominate the news cycle.
God damnit it’s frustrating seeing others go through the shit you just tried to stop, it’s like watching the cars continue to slam into a pile up on a frozen foggy highway.
Get in their faces and never fucking move, Canada. Keep fascists marginalized and weird at any cost.
Calling alt-right authoritarian regressives/reactionaries “conservatives” bothers me. It’s like “Damn those democracies and republics, like North Korea”, and “Nazis were nationalists and socialists - it’s in the name”.
Conservatism is being wary of change and sticking to what works. Like not fucking up the climate.
Conservative parties have been idologically opposed to the rights, freedoms, and prosperity of the regular person for centuries. Word meanings are contextual, and in the context of governing blocs, it’s never meant “wary of change and sticking to what works”. It has always meant “fuck you, I’ve got mine”.
When feudalism was the old way, and human rights and freedoms were new, they were literally conserving the old way. The name was technically true.
Anyway, my point: Don’t let enemies commandeer language with their newspeak where nothing means anymore what it apparently means and used to mean. If we agree to call them conservatives now, some literal-minded centrists (or whatever they are) will be fooled into voting them. We should repeat “that name is a lie, their actions are alt-right authoritarian”. It’s a mistake to go along with the lie and write on a map “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” or “Gulf of America”.
Do we have a technical term for “fuck you, I’ve got mine”? Some opposite of socialism? Selfish?
I disagree. It’s about the status quo. So to them it is about protecting regular people but in this sense the regular people are the status quo people. This is why they’re successful. They have higher social intelligence. The left even describes this system without realizing it. The left are more diverse sub groups. Minority groups within the pop culture. So political the right are mostly always trying to maintain the social order while the left looks to disrupt it.
The right are blue jeans and bubble gum America. The left are multiple sub groups of minorities all trying to make their main status quo while the status quo people reject all these groups in order to maintain their status quo.
This is why Republicans do try to conserve. They fight to maintain the blue jeans bubble gum way while the left fight to change it.
One day after Skamski’s tweet, a CTV Your Morning producer contacted Gilmore and notified her that her next planned fact-checking segment was being bumped due to a scheduling conflict with a Canadian premier.
A week later, on March 31, CTV Your Morning Executive Producer Jennifer MacLean contacted Gilmore and told her a decision had been made to “call down the segment” altogether.
In other words CTV’s handlers weighed in on the situation.
This is what they want to do to the CBC. Money talks when dealing with private news agencies. CBC has been less contaminated.
It’s like he’s running a “tell me you’re Trump without telling me you’re Trump” contest. Like, he isn’t saying it openly but each time his actions speak the quiet part out loud.
I’d laugh if it wasn’t a serious matter. And if it wasn’t the pot calling the kettle black about the liberals and their side of the media.
And that’s the sound of me unsubscribing from CTV content on YouTube.
