The owner of a well-known Toronto sports bar is coming under fire this week for his financial contributions to the failed 2018 mayoral campaign of ...
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Y'know, looking at the hundreds of posts in the BlogTO FB thread related to this article--and mind the fact that I generally don't Twitter or read such comment threads for that reason--I've come to understand how Goldy managed what, to the left, was a "shocking" number of votes. That is, her "all the more reason to go to Shoxs!" supporters are so aggressively omnipresent: they're her viral campaign team, for those who casually gravitate to such social media. They're, like, to use modern parlance, "influencers"--and in a depressing universe where for many, the comment thread has usurped the alpha role of the article it accompanies. And the longer the comment thread, the more monolithic a mass they (and those who are trolled into "reacting") become.
Something to keep in mind whenever someone like BurlOak tries to alibi Goldy. But really; just existing within a universe of such comments is like living on a street of garish McMansions in York Region, where their omnipresence can kill off any positive affinity for what constitutes "taste" and "culture"...