260) Day 28 -- Reason #28 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Because it's what heroes do
Every time you felt that RUSH when the good guys went into battle, when friends rallied and faced down The Enemy, that was you, wanting to BE a hero, to rise to the challenge, to show that you too, are courageous, and on the right side of history.
259) Day 27 -- Reason #27 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
Whether you are interested in getting more directly involved in social change, environmental work, anti-racism, protecting democracy, anti-poverty, or related issues, here are my best suggestions for how to get started.
258) Day 26 -- Reason #26 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: You can make a difference
You are a courageous, intelligent, beautiful, bad-ass-motherfucker. Let that light shine.
257) Day 25 -- Reason #25 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Civil Rights and the Fight for Freedom
So yes, let’s use the connections we have to resist what’s happening. It’s almost 1939 now. We do not want to repeat that history. Remember all the deaths? Remember all the ceremonies we’ve had, our whole lives, honouring those sacrifices?
There has to be a way through this, together. And we HAVE TO stop being complacent.
256) Day 24 -- Reason #24 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
Now, as Canada faces a tariff war, and is being literally THREATENED to become the 51st state, our single-biggest weapon, now that we have to think of Canada-US relations this way, is our energy sector. We supply about 60% of the US’ oil and gas. And it goes through our pipelines.
255) Day 23 -- Reason #23 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 5 -- Trump's Inauguration Guests
Speaking of promoting fascism, also in attendance were four of the very most influential right-wing megaphones out there — Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, and surprise surprise, grifter-extraordinaire and huckster of right-wing bullshit wrapped up in flimsy intellectual-speak, Jordan Peterson. What better way to keep the MAGAs in awe than by inviting four of their key prophets?
254) Day 22 -- Reason #22 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: True Happiness
With very, very little in terms of material possessions, but rich in purpose, rich in play, and rich in love, you can be happy, every day, forever. And so can your loved ones, your neighbours, and people on the other side of the world. Happiness is not a zero-sum game, in which if one person gets more the others get less. But Predatory Capitalism, is.
253) Day 21 -- Reason #21 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 4 -- Trump's Even-Crazier Picks for his Administration
And this is all I have to say, currently, about Trump’s incoming Administration (unless they are stopped, which, so far, doesn’t seem to be the case). If this isn’t a red-flag factory that reeks of corruption, then literally nothing is.
252) Day 20 -- Reason #20 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
251) Day 19 -- Reason #19 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 3 -- Trump's Nominees for Top Positions
Is Trump really building a Presidential Team to make the United States enter some Age of Greatness? Or is Trump becoming, quite simply, a dictator, seeking to reshape the world in his self-perceived image? Is this to be America’s Golden Age? Or the American Reich?
250) Day 18 -- Reason #18 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political Corruption, Part 2: Matt Gaetz
It seems very telling that this is the one man Trump thought was Best In The Country, to give him legal advice.
And in terms of Predatory Capitalism, it is crystal clear that only in a system owned by the ultra-wealthy, would someone like Matt Gaetz EVER get close to one of the most powerful positions in the country. Indeed, Competence, not to mention moral integrity, doesn’t seem to be all that important.
249) Day 17 -- Reason #17 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Political corruption, Part 1
A man is known by the company he keeps. — Aesop
248) Day 16 -- Reason #16 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: David Suzuki
We are the Earth. This is not just a slogan. It is one of the deepest, most robust and profound facts of human existence.
And yet, we have built a civilization largely in denial of that fact.
247) Day 15 -- Reason #15 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
I remember reading articles about the coming insurance-catastrophe, THIRTY YEARS AGO, circulated amongst the re-insurer companies — which are ginormous pots of money that insure the insurance companies.
The re-insurers knew, decades ago, that climate change costs for insurance companies were going to rise to uncontrollable levels in the near-to-medium future. Which is happening…now. Literally now, in 2025.
246) Day 14 -- Reason #14 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Let's talk about Slavery in North America in the 21st century
Except, oh fuck, slavery never really ended. The cotton-plantation version of it that we’ve seen in movies, did end, sort of. But what really happened to slavery is that it EVOLVED. It metamorphosed into something that doesn’t sound like slavery any more, but still is. It got re-branded.
245) Day 13 -- Reason #13 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: "53 days"
Using ENTIRELY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS, one step at a time, Hitler dismantled the German government, and replaced it with his own authoritarian dictatorship.
This process, from Chancellor to Dictator with absolute power, took 53 days.
244) Day 12 -- Reason #12 to revolt against predatory capitalism
I am reminded of Pascal's wager with regards to hell. If you include the possibility of "infinite suffering" as the outcome to a choice, then that choice is insane, even if the chances are pretty low.
But the chances of mass destruction and infinite suffering due to predatory capitalism are not low. They are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
Humans have created a system that ONE HUNDRED PERCENT GUARANTEES unimaginable suffering.
243) Day 11 -- Reason #11 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
These are still the early days of extremist control over YOUR freedom. It gets worse from here. We are entering a hellscape of CONTROL, under the guise of FREEDOM.
242) Day 10 -- Reason #10 to revolt against predatory capitalism
If you give people something, like a button to press, that they BELIEVE exerts some control over an outcome, people will press that button and CONVINCE THEMSELVES they actually have control. Even when the outcome is completely, utterly, uncontrollably random.
241) Day 9 -- Reason #9 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism
The environment is our air. Water. Heart. Lungs. Mind. Community. Family. Peace. War. Starvation. Abundance. Genocide. Ballet. Sports. Music. Grandmas and Grandpas. Laughter. Love. Hate. Acceptance. Intolerance. Greed. Ethics. Sex. Beauty. Joy. Freedom.