Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC

10 Replies to “Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC”

1. Viewers choose don’t, as chosen by CBC News’ miniscule rating and its parasitic network down 50% from 2013.
   $1.4 billion, the part we know about, for 3.9% viewership. By what reason other than partisanship do they exist?

2. Alcohol Abuse in the Soviet Union
   By Mark G. Field and David E. Powell

   Red Plenty
   by Francis Spufford

   The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism
   by János Kornai

   The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy
   by Philip Hanson

   Economic History of the USSR
   by Alec Nove,

   Back in the USSR: What life was like in the Soviet Union
   by José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente:

   • In 1976 only two thirds of Soviet families had a refrigerator—the USA hit two thirds in the early 1930s. Soviet families had to wait years to get one, and when they finally got a postcard giving notice they could buy one, they had a fixed one hour slot during which they could pick it up. They lost their chance if they did not arrive in time.
   • In the same period, the USA had nearly 100m passenger cars. The USSR? Five million. People typically had to wait four to six years, and often as long as ten, to get one.
   • There was 30x as much typhoid, 20x as much measles, and cancer detection rates were half as good as in the United States.
   • Life expectancy actually fell in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s.
   • The USSR had the highest physician-patient ratio in the world, triple the UK rate, but many medical school graduates could not perform basic tasks like reading an electrocardiogram.
   • 15% of the population lived in areas with pollution 10x normal levels.
   • By the US poverty measure, well over half of the Soviet population were poor.
   • Around a quarter could not afford a winter hat or coat, which cost an entire month’s wages on average (the equivalent of £1700 in UK terms).
   Read the book here https://www.adamsmith.org/s/Back-in-the-USSR-final-3m58.pdf

   Canada under Trudeau’s I & II is deteriorating intentionally, out of spite and malice.
   The Liberal Party does not govern, it destroys.

   1. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_t9HXnVrwa4

      1. A little known fact that I love to repeat is that Russia, today in 2025, does not have container shipping. Not on rail, not on trucks. They take everything out of the containers and put it on box cars and box trucks.

3. The ads are for gen z and later who have low grade psychosis.. not for fossilized boomers. CBC wants to be seen as edgy and provocative with a dash of “heroin chic” thrown in which was quite successful among modelling agencies a decade or so ago.
   CBC doesn’t have to worry about abysmal ratings because it doesn’t factor in to anyone’s equation when it comes to funding. The networks used to piss and moan about CBC’s subsidized undercutting with ad revenue but they’ve been successfully bought off, so everyone is happy these days.

4. The “selling” phase. Propaganda push by the govt to convince the Cdn sheep that “something” must be done to mitigate the deleterious effects of free thinkers roaming off the govt reservation.

   Been going on for several years now but really ramping up in the last year as they begin to roll out censorship bills to “protect” us. Haha.

   Highly recommend following “Behaviour Breakdowns” and Chase Hughes on YouTube. Excellent primer is “Propaganda” by Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew) from the 1920s I think. (Maybe earlier). Crazy interesting how prevalent it is and how susceptible we are to it even when we know what’s going on and just how much science goes into manipulating the lizard? part of our brains.

   Enjoy the decline. 😉

5. Dear CBC Lurkers,

   Whenever I want to know what’s going on, I surf my way over to Small Dead Animals. Kate may not know what’s up on some given subject or event, but at least I know she’s not going to lie about it.

   The CBC, by contrast, for sure does not know what’s going on because your reporters are dumber than a bag of hammers. But unlike Kate, they lie as easily as they breathe.

   Also, Kate isn’t paid by the #Lieberal Party of Canada, another plus. The CBC cannot say the same.

6. What does the CBC get – about $40 from every Canadian every year now?
   They should be hit with that fact where it would hurt the most – a lot of food bank Canadians could better spend that money.

7. The CBC is the perfect representation of Canada on the world stage.
   Smugly self-important, yet grossly incompetent, that no one else pays any attention to.

   1. Pretty much.