The Post-Partisan Emporium

17 reasons why it is irrational to trust the medical community regarding the covid vaccines or anything else covid related Public health policies over the past two years have failed to curb covid at all but wrought unmitigated societal devastation. What exactly have they done right? Ashmedai One of the most intractable impediments to convincing people of straightforward facts relating to the covid vaccines is their instinctive and unshakeable trust of the mainstream medical community, and especially their personal doctor/s. To that end, here a series of arguments or reasons why it is not just imprudent but irrational to have faith in the mainstream medical community and everyone who relies on them as a primary source of covid vaccine information. Another objective is to empower people to articulate their clear and reliable intuition that the medical community lacks institutional credibility and objectivity rather than doubt their own intellectual ability. It is necessary to preface tha...

Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers! CJ Hopkins They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies like “FREEDOM TO CHOOSE,” “MANDATE FREEDOM,” “NO VACCINE MANDATES,” and “UNITED AGAINST TYRANNY.” Yes, that’s right, New Normal Canada has been invaded and now is under siege by hordes of transphobic Putin-Nazi truckers, racist homophobes, anti-Semitic Islamaphobes, and other members of the working classes! According to the corporate media, these racist, Russia-backed, working-class berserkers are running amok through the streets of Ottawa,  waving giant “swastika flags,”   defecating on war memorials ,  sacking multi-million-dollar “soup kitchens,”   and eating the food right out of homeless people’s mouths . Rumor has it, a kill-squad of truckers has been prowling the postnatal w...

As Workers Resist, the Left Recoils That recent working class anti-vaccine mandate protests have been met with either silence or derision from the Left speaks volumes about their allegiances. by Edwin Aponte Photo by Leila Mechoui If you consider yourself on the political Left, you might be forgiven for not knowing very much about the many acts of worker resistance against the COVID-19 vaccination mandates that have taken place all around the world over the last year. This is because the professional Left media and activist class—while happy to cover traditional strike action over union contract disputes, such as with last year’s  John Deere  Company and the more recent  Kroger strike  in the United States—have completely ignored comparable labor struggles undertaken by working people over an issue which defies contemporary cultural associations; leaping over most racial, gender, and social divisions. By making social and economic participation contingent upon the ta...

For the record, I don't consider the 'Build Back Better' crowd to be leftist, at least not according to the classical definition of the word.  I also know people who consider themselves to be socialists, who oppose the 'Build Back Better' crowd and support the Freedom Convoy.  Unfortunately, they seem to be the exception to the rule.   seizing the memes of production el gato malo if you want to see the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of an entire ideology on vivid technicolor display, it’s hard to beat what’s going on right now in canada. the totalitarian “build back better” structures endlessly justified with rhetoric as relentless as it was dishonest are being demolished and supplanted by precisely that thing they claimed to champion: the just power of the people to seek equity and agency. this is literally the alleged intellectual class of the socialist salon getting exactly what it is they have always advocated for and then freaking out about it. and it’s perf...