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SHOCKER! ANTI-CAPITALIST CAFE Shuts Down After One Year · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So who could have ever predicted that an anti capitalist business would go out of
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  business. Well, apparently that's what's happened right here. Here's the headline from
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  zero Hedge Toronto, anti capitalist pay when you Can cafe shuts down after just
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  one year. You know, I can't help but feel like it could have
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  been anticipated that this anti capitalist cafe's communist clientele, it probably wasn't going to
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  pay for anything. Let's see it says the Anarchist describes itself as an anti
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  capitalist, anti colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land.
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  You know this trives me nuts. Okay, if it's on stolen land,
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  then get off. I mean, if it bothers you that much, you
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  could just leave the stolen land. Right. It's always the same with these
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  people with the land acknowledgements and the anti colonialists and the stolen land. They
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  seem fine staying on the land. You'd think it would bother them a little
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  bit more than it does. Anyway, let's watch this little video that's at
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  promoting the Anarchist. And by the way, they're not anarchists. They're communists,
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  all right, They're always communists anyway. The anarchist is a worker owned,
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  anti capitalist, anti colonial cafe shop and community space. Gabriel opened the
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  space after leaving Vancouver due to its unwelcoming sense of classism. Though we never
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  felt comfortable working in a coffee shop in BC, he knew if you were
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  to have one of his own, it would have to adopt the values that
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  occupies such a huge part of his life. A place devoted to radical leftist
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  politics, revolution ending capitalism, improving the world's economic system that benefits everyone and
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  not just elites, and most importantly, sparkling conversations that will help implement these
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  ideas. Other than delicious coffee, which Gabriel is most definitely an expert in,
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  the shop has a rich selection of progressive political books that he's selling at
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  wholesale prices. I was happy to try some great light roast espresso here.
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  I even tried my first espresso tonic, which is something of a micro revolution
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  in itself. I highly recommend paying a visit to Gabriel at one ninety Jarvis
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  Street, if not for great coffee or even greater conversation. Seems awful bourgeois
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  for an anarchist cafe, doesn't it. Apparently it's really expensive to everything if
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  you do pay, it's really expensive. So I mean, you've just got
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  this fancy, comy cafe because commies actually do still like nice stuff. Although
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  I'm sure the coffee and the food and everything was actually probably just awful.
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  It's probably all beyond next level vegan plus, you know, made out of
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  fifty percent shredded Jenny's newspapers. But aren't these places always just somewhere to pose,
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  to be a poser, to sit there with your little red book or
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  your copy of capital. But in any case, yeah, this didn't work
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  out. It lasted one year, says Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth
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  seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season
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  or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer term. The owner,
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  Gabriel sims Fewer, wrote last week. Yeah, it was that lack
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  of generational wealth and seed capital from the ethically bankrupt sources that was the problem,
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  not the fact that it was an anarchist cafe. Well, here's a
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  quote from Breitbart, says. The Anarchist, which opened for business in March
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  of twenty twenty two, went viral last year, with Internet users mocking the
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  leftist cafe for charging high prices for its specialty coffee, as well as selling
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  radical art books, clothing, jewelry, tote bags and stickers, just like
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  good anti capitalists. So I guess the combination of high prices and then just
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  telling people they could pay whatever, it's a bad business model. I guess.
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  Let's see quote. Fuck the rich, fuck the police, fuck the
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  state, fuck the colonial death camp we call Canada. Hi, can you
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  know what you could leave? If it's that bad, why try and open
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  a coffee shop on it? You'd think they'd be the last thing you want
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  to do. And you know, if this was the general attitude of the
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  place, it's a bit of a downer, right, I'm not surprised that
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  the freeloaders were the only people who didn't stay away. Well, let's end
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  it up with this cheery note quote. It's been an amazing experience connecting with
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  so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure
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  of conservatives that includes you and narco capitalists and libertarians, fulfilling the dream of
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  most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class traders at
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  pigs and military and experimenting with living and working in ways that don't enthusiastically embrace
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  the pure misanthropy have capitalism, he continued, Yeah, you know what,
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  I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and just suggest this place was
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  doomed from the start. I don't think that that is the dream of most
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  service workers, to not be around the police or military. Yeah, that's
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  just way more of a degenerate communist thing. And if you want misanthropy,
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  capitalism isn't exactly the first place you'd look. Try communism. Although if you
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  lived in a communist society, this sole cafe experience wouldn't have happened in the
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  first place. You would have been far too busy at the concrete factory.
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