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There is a lot of awfulness in Canadian politics right now, including the ongoing uncovering of genocide against Indigenous peoples, Alberta running with arms outstretched to meet both the plague and climate catastrophe, and *gestures vaguely around at the general state of the world*, but look, I'm going to talk about the latest Green Party drama because it's much funnier.
The context, for non-Canadians, is that we have a Green Party. I hold certain conspiracy theories as to why we have a Green Party and their purpose, which is neither to win elections nor to put policy ideas into the spotlight that wouldn't otherwise get heard. They're a motley coalition of crusty and crunchy conservatives, disaffected young liberals, and naïve progressives.
Their current leader is one Annamie Paul. Demographically, she is quite intriguing—she's the first Black, Jewish leader of a federal party, and she does have some impressive equity creds. Unfortunately, she is also into silencing pro-Palestinian voices and her policies aren't substantially more interesting than anything going on in certain corners of the more established parties. The overwhelmingly white old guard of the party doesn't like her because she's Black; the left doesn't like her because she favours market-based solutions to the climate crisis and because she shut down another member of her party for pro-Palestinian statements. (Said ex-Green then got shut down by the Liberals, of course. I'm not sure what anyone thought would happen there.) Currently, the Green Party is a hot mess that's largely making headlines by splattering its own infighting all over the press and distracting everyone from whatever the Libs are up to.
But this post isn't even about that. Just keep it in the back of your mind.
Like any party, the Green Party has put out some swag (organic cotton and Canadian-made, of course). Among their t-shirts is this incredible work of art.
It's so good. Isn't it so good? Naturally it united people across the political spectrum in mocking the shit out of it. A few years ago, that might have been the end of the story, but we live in an age of miracles and wonder. We have technology. Specifically, we have copyright bots that troll the internet looking for images that people are talking about, and people are talking about this.
Which means that you can now buy a rip-off version of it through a sketchy site and a bot is spamming people about it on Twitter.
This fills me with so much joy. I have too many t-shirts so I'm not going to buy one, but if you feel differently, please buy it from the sketchy site and not the Green Party official site.
(Hat tip to Audra Williams for the links.)
The context, for non-Canadians, is that we have a Green Party. I hold certain conspiracy theories as to why we have a Green Party and their purpose, which is neither to win elections nor to put policy ideas into the spotlight that wouldn't otherwise get heard. They're a motley coalition of crusty and crunchy conservatives, disaffected young liberals, and naïve progressives.
Their current leader is one Annamie Paul. Demographically, she is quite intriguing—she's the first Black, Jewish leader of a federal party, and she does have some impressive equity creds. Unfortunately, she is also into silencing pro-Palestinian voices and her policies aren't substantially more interesting than anything going on in certain corners of the more established parties. The overwhelmingly white old guard of the party doesn't like her because she's Black; the left doesn't like her because she favours market-based solutions to the climate crisis and because she shut down another member of her party for pro-Palestinian statements. (Said ex-Green then got shut down by the Liberals, of course. I'm not sure what anyone thought would happen there.) Currently, the Green Party is a hot mess that's largely making headlines by splattering its own infighting all over the press and distracting everyone from whatever the Libs are up to.
But this post isn't even about that. Just keep it in the back of your mind.
Like any party, the Green Party has put out some swag (organic cotton and Canadian-made, of course). Among their t-shirts is this incredible work of art.
It's so good. Isn't it so good? Naturally it united people across the political spectrum in mocking the shit out of it. A few years ago, that might have been the end of the story, but we live in an age of miracles and wonder. We have technology. Specifically, we have copyright bots that troll the internet looking for images that people are talking about, and people are talking about this.
Which means that you can now buy a rip-off version of it through a sketchy site and a bot is spamming people about it on Twitter.
This fills me with so much joy. I have too many t-shirts so I'm not going to buy one, but if you feel differently, please buy it from the sketchy site and not the Green Party official site.
(Hat tip to Audra Williams for the links.)
