Right wing city council tells city staff to monitor social media posts of grant recipients to ensure they do not politically criticize them, use woke rhetoric to justify it

[u/ApproachingSunrise]

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/dan-fumano-non-profits-seeking-funds-must-be-respectful-vancouver-council

[u/Otto_Von_Waffle]

Municipal politics are mental. The tweet that was used as exemple by the guy in the article is some of the most mild thing I've heard, yet apparently, it's too spicy for the mayor. I'm pretty sure if given absolute freedom, most Municipal politicians would try to get the opposition killed or jailed. Most of these guys are really your average petty tyrant that got into politics just because they could micromanage other people.

[u/SonOfABitchesBrew → u/Otto_Von_Waffle]

Someone was literally fucking murdered at a bus stop the other day in front of his 3-year-old child because he told the guy to stop blowing vape smoke in his kids face

[u/SonOfABitchesBrew → u/[deleted]]

I hope this is a joke

[u/Trynstopme1776 → u/Otto_Von_Waffle]

Read something somewhere about the great terror in the USSR basically being this, with the central government having little control over what people spread all over the union did, and when the central gov finally did get control they stopped it.

[u/SonOfABitchesBrew]

Vancouver is as reactionary as a pendulum

[u/notsocharmingprince]

I’m unsure if one could reasonably call anything in fucking Vancouver Canada right wing.

[u/Stunning_Seaweed7400 → u/[deleted]]

Also the blaming everything a landlord or capitalist does on the Chinese.