Brian Gordon

Author of You’re Not Crazy, the World Is: How Narcissistic Leaders Have Perverted Morals and Countries - available online everywhere.

We need to move fast on climate and we’re still going in the wrong direction. We cannot get there without social justice and equality - all eco and justice groups need to join forces.

I blog occasionally about how narcissists and other sociopaths are literally driving us off the climate cliff. 1% of the population but they occupy most positions of power….

Smashwords: You’re Not Crazy, the World Is: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1829076
Kobo: You’re not Crazy, the World Is: How Narcissistic Leaders Have Perverted Morals and Countries: https://www.kobo.com/co/it/ebook/you-re-not-crazy-the-world-is-how-narcissistic-leaders-have-perverted-morals-and-countries
Amazon: You're Not Crazy, the World Is: How Narcissistic Leaders Have Perverted Morals and Countries: https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Not-Crazy-World-Narcissistic/dp/1968253033

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2026-03-15 21:50:08 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116234399208961946
"Trump should be impeached in Congress for his many gross abuses of power.
"People may say this will never happen. But the point is, it should – and must. This is the universal standard to which even the most powerful leaders must be held, or else all is lost. Trump has almost three years left in charge, what else might he do if allowed to rampage on unrestrained?
"Failing, flailing Trump poses a clear and present danger to the US and the world. Take him down."
#uspol #Trump #Iran
#note13j0…ppe6

2026-03-15 21:07:31 UTC

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I m sorely tempted to get a tube amp! And a record player....

2026-03-15 17:09:36 UTC

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LPs distort music in ways that digital media do not, but yes, I do find those distortions more pleasing than the harshness of a CD.

2026-03-12 00:23:07 UTC

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116212860531177440
So, Trump’s Iran war:
1. Causes big spike in oil prices just as Russian economy reported to be on the verge of collapse, in large part due to low oil prices;
2. Opens India to Russian oil again;
2. Uses weapons that could have helped #Ukraine; and
3. Hurts Americans.
Trump is a Russian asset or very useful idiot.
#IranWar #Iran #Russia
#note1z4f…8fet

2026-03-07 15:55:07 UTC

RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116188394921189910
It's amazing what can be, and has been accomplished by forward-looking governments, ie with vision. Ceding leadership to oligarchs has been a disaster in the west.
#note1h90…mexg

2026-03-02 23:05:45 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kathimmel/115836300435823694
The US has been known to overthrow democratically elected governments that were no sufficiently obsequios to US corporate interests.
#Irán #Chile
#cdnpoli this might explain why Carney seems to have lost his elbows.
#ElbowsUp #elbowsdowncarney
#note17w7…sufy

2026-02-21 23:29:56 UTC

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Great audio is in the ear of the listener! I had a half-decent stereo (mid-fi) and much preferred analog-recorded vinyl to CD. If you line up a song like Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac on CD and vinyl, same volume, the vinyl will sound much better. Less bass, but warmer, more pleasing to the ears. Digitally recorded material will be better on CD, best on super-audio CD.
"then Millennials started believing that vinyl sounds better on CD—even though this is technically untrue"

2026-02-07 18:42:14 UTC

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/116021134304260147
LOL:
"the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate” of $67,000.
#bitcoin #crypto
#note10me…4yg7

2026-02-05 13:32:29 UTC

From @npub1fdr…lvhs
"The question isn’t merely “How do we elect better leaders?” It’s “How do we make our leaders follow us?” Today’s Democrats are unserious quislings who keep bringing a squirt-gun to a mass-casualty assault-rifle spree-shooting. If we want Congressional Democrats to form a Nuremburg Caucus and start holding hearings on who they’re going to put in the dock when the Trump regime collapses, we’re going to have to drive them to it.”
#politics #fascism
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-02-05-contingency-this-too-shall-pass-9f00db6eb49f

2026-02-03 13:40:03 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@jnow/116006829765827233
Probably Musk or one of his flunkies said this. It's rubbish. Musk is doing his usual bullshitting to boost the value of the company pre-IPO. Numerous space scientists have said data centres in space is a nonsensical idea, never mind one million of them. It's all hype.
"#Musk company SpaceX bought the Musk company xAI 🤢 and someone said it's now worth a Trillion dollars"
#capitalism #SpaceX #xAI #narcissism
#note1aj8…kpcf

2026-01-29 18:39:29 UTC

I love that @npub1fdr…lvhs keeps hammering this message. He gets that it takes repetition - it’s not enough to have a good idea!
"Disenshittification Nation
"How Canada can defend itself from Trump, make billions of dollars, and build a new, global, good internet.
"I gave the keynote address at the 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit in Ottawa, Canada — an invitation only for CIOs, CTOs and senior technical personnel at Canadian federal ministries.”
#cdnpoli
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-29-post-american-canada-ottawa-0a9df32d23f7

2026-01-26 12:19:05 UTC

The US is threatening #Canada (again) if we don't but their F-35s. Here's what Denmark said about the ones they bought, and regret buying:
"They're in for repairs about half the time or even more," he said, "so the Americans have all the power of actually destroying our air force just by shutting down [parts] supplies."
#F35 #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-canada-us-f35-9.7059800

2026-01-24 15:03:04 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mercedesallen/115949924822186808
Great thread on US pushing Alberta separation. I encourage all Canucks to read it. The Americans are trying to destroy #Canada
#abpoli #cdnpoli
#note13cx…pa7e

2026-01-17 00:20:02 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs points out that
"a manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a “subscription”
And then gives example after example after example, etc of how this keeps happening.
#capitalism #enshittification

2026-01-16 23:58:18 UTC

From @npub1fdr…lvhs : United States #BigTech now poses the same risk to the world
"that China hawks warned of when it looked like Huawei would provide all of the world’s 5G infrastructure: allow companies that are absolutely beholden to an autocrat who is not restrained by the rule of law to permeate your society, and your society becomes a prisoner to the autocrat’s whims and goodwill.”
This should destroy the US as a global tech power.
#uspol #pathocracy
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-15-how-the-light-gets-in-theories-of-change-e3be07f7c468

2026-01-13 23:11:18 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs with another banger. Guess who was in his second term in 2012? Barack Obama. In case any fellow Canucks think the Democrats are going to put everything ‘back to normal,’ this crap is normal for the Americans.
"Back in 2012, Canada passed Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act. It’s a law that bans Canadian companies from modifying America’s digital tech exports. We passed it because the US threatened us with tariffs”
#cdnpoli #Canada #Enshittification #CANpoli

2026-01-05 21:18:12 UTC

Another insightful post by @npub1fdr…lvhs
But I wonder, at what point do billionaire narcissists decide they don’t even need a market if the #AI can crap out a new yacht directly?
"Billionaires love UBI...In the AI UBI fantasy, everyone who’s not a billionaire has been replaced with a chatbot, and our only job is to receive government vouchers that we hand over to billionaire grifters who run the institutions that used to be under democratic control.”
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-08-18-seeing-like-a-billionaire-npcs-7a7746fe64e8

2025-12-26 20:27:02 UTC

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I'll believe this when it's reality. Carbon capture is literally vapour-ware; it does not exist at scale and there are no known designs that work. More likely the government will give oil corporations taxpayer dollars to pretend to do #CCS, while emissions will keep going up.
"Carney’s pipeline proposal requires the oil companies to provide the financing to build it plus a working carbon capture process, the latter which will get tax credits."

2025-12-19 19:33:07 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/115747393292501092
I have accepted the idea that conservative beliefs are simply not compatible with a civilised society. Ultimately, conservatives are parasites who take all the money and joy out of a society as they collapse it into a ball of seething hatred.
"Conservatives will soon vote on having a leader comfortable shaking hands with a neoNazi as their leader. "Leger finds that 78 percent of Conservative voters are satisfied with Poilievre"
#politics #cdnpoli #conservatives
#note1wqf…amrs

2025-12-13 22:10:03 UTC

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/115714319553271172
This has proven true in countries with First Past the electoral systems. Well-designed #proportionalrepresentation systems seem safer.
Also, wouldn't the state always have the monopoly on violence?
"Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away."
#note13sc…glx3

2025-12-05 06:26:42 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/115663931261944070
More and more realize it's now or never, and politics as usual is not going to get it done.
#note1x7r…qahz

2025-12-04 04:25:47 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115657752544470676
Adding hashtags: #kesslersyndrome #space #starlink
#note1tq3…vfuc

2025-12-03 02:27:42 UTC

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If corporate media was honest and forthright like this, I would pay them some attention. Until then (and even then), there are sources like @npub1z6y…qah3
"#Hegseth later added: “We’ve had a bit of a pause, because it’s hard to find boats to strike right now,” drawing laughter from the psychokillers in the room."
#narcissism #pathocracy

2025-12-02 05:03:52 UTC

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As a Canadian, I favour less coupling with the USA, not more. This is not great.
"The USHL is applying to join the CHL.
"If you’re not a hockey fan, here’s the shorthand. The USA’s lone major junior league is now trying to join Canada’s major junior system. If it goes through, the USHL becomes the fourth league eligible to compete for the prestigious Memorial Cup."
#cdnpoli #hockey

2025-12-02 01:24:25 UTC

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Elizabeth May calls the Prime Minister of Canada a liar while trying not to. I wish she was wrong.
"the memorandum of understanding Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on energy — specifically the part that applies federal tax credits to enhanced oil recovery — amounted to a "significant betrayal and a reversal" which has her questioning the worth of Carney's word.”
#cdnpoli #Green #GPC

2025-11-19 02:11:10 UTC

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This is an escalation. He's thinking: 'Will the press in particular and women in general stand up to me, or did I just successfully push another boundary. This is unrestrained #narcissism in real-time, on display.
"Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein
"The comment continues the president’s long-standing pattern of denigrating female journalists."

2025-11-18 16:53:20 UTC

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I say let them get Mar-a-Lago face. It's like a permanent red hat so we can identify the fascists forever.

2025-11-07 23:22:42 UTC

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
-- Maya Angelou
"Nearly 90% of Canadians "want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation (...) even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against greenwashing"
#cdnpoli

2025-10-30 23:17:48 UTC

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From @npub14zr…7fn4:
"From 2018-2022, individuals and orgs from blue states contributed ~60% of all federal taxes. Red states contributed only 40%.
"That’s $4300 per capita from blue to red states—who are then undermining democracy with blue state money. It is time for Soft Secession.”
If cult members want welfare bums to starve, let them starve themselves.

2025-10-28 12:51:49 UTC

So, we're looking for ways to prevent chickens from catching a respiratory disease, but not humans? This very clearly shows that the government's priority is 'the economy,' not citizens. You and I can get sick or die, but not chickens.
"He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns"
#birdflu #Covid #CovidIsNotOver
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/avian-flu-breaks-out-bc-fraser-valley-farms-9.6954509

2025-10-27 12:31:59 UTC

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I have to think the Republicans are playing with fire by making millions of Americans, and their children, go hungry.
"Revolutions are hunger, EVERYTHING ELSE is supposition.
"You can read a dozen thousand page books about the causes of the French Revolution, or you can remember "Let them eat cake."
#uspol

2025-10-24 14:57:54 UTC

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This is exactly how sociopaths work. They push and take until they are stopped. Not asked to stop. Stopped.
"A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger."
#narcissism

2025-10-15 20:44:05 UTC

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This maaaay have something to do with his health problems:
"Peterson and his daughter have been going strong on year seven of their infamous "all-meat diet," described as consisting only of beef, salt, and water. Whether that has anything to do with his current health condition? We'll leave that to your imagination.”