An anti-capitalist, pay-what-you-can cafe in Toronto is closing its doors just a year after opening.

The cafe also sold t-shirts and bags featuring left-wing slogans and books on radical, progressive politics.

Apparently, none of this was enough to keep the cafe afloat.

Breitbart News reports:

Toronto’s ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business

Toronto’s supposedly ‘anti-capitalist’ cafe, The Anarchist, has announced that it would be permanently shutting down after just over a year in business.

In a “nobody saw that coming” moment, a Toronto cafe that describes itself as an “anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land,” announced that it would be shutting down permanently by the end of the month.

To counter the idea that the business was itself a capitalist enterprise, the cafe introduced a “pay what you can” coffee, which the owner said cost the business money, but was supposedly subsidised by more expensive drinks on the menu.

Yet, this was seemingly not enough to keep the coffee shop afloat, with owner Gabriel Sims-Fewer writing this week: “Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term.”

Here’s a video about the cafe from last year:

Who could have predicted that this idea would fail?

Toronto 'Anti-Capitalist' Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year https://t.co/JopaZmC2jB

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 15, 2023

Toronto 'anti-capitalist' cafe fails miserably after just one year https://t.co/snI63rItit

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 15, 2023

Who would have thought an anti-capitalist cafe that let people pay what they wanted wouldn’t be a viable business.

I mean, except for ever economist ever https://t.co/igiWRrs0FA

— Jason Pereira (@jasonpereira) May 13, 2023

Perhaps radical leftism isn’t as popular as the media would have us believe.

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A new Netflix series about Cleopatra has courted controversy by being not only woke, but changing the race of the title character from Greek/Macedonian to African.

It is such an obvious rewrite of history that even the government of Egypt objected to the series.

Reviews for the series are absolutely brutal. It has the lowest audience score in TV history.

Forbes reports:

Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Appears To Have The Worst Audience Score In TV History

While I had heard about the controversy surrounding Netflix’s “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra, I hadn’t been tracking it much since it was actually released a few days ago. It’s #6 in Netflix’s Top 10 list, and I don’t think I’ve seen it go all that much higher than that.

However, the show has done something I didn’t think was even possible. It has not just the lowest audience score in Netflix history, it has essentially the lowest audience score possible on Rotten Tomatoes, a 1%. Not a 10%, a 1%. (Update: It just ticked up to 2%. Still an unprecedented low)

There aren’t many critic reviews in, but those are low as well, with the show sitting at a 13%. But those audience scores? I’ve never seen anything like this. Not with bad shows. Not with politically controversial shows prone to review bombing. Never this bad, not in Netflix history. Honesty, I think not even in TV history, at least with this many reviews in (over a thousand)….

The issue is the conceptualization of what purports to be a historical documentary saying that Cleopatra was a black “African queen,” as this season was supposed to be the first in a series covering different queens from the continent. But there is not terribly credible evidence that Cleopatra was black, and instead she was of Macedonian Greek descent. The country of Egypt in particular has taken offense to the show altering their history this dramatically and portraying it as something they believe is non-factual in a series that is meant to be a documentary.

The numbers are just stunning.

Race-swapped Cleopatra Netflix earns lowest TV Show audience rating ever on Rotten Tomatoes https://t.co/FEV6NeMQ7k

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) May 15, 2023

Netflix’s woke documentary about Queen Cleopatra lands a 1% audience score pic.twitter.com/RsMxxJcbtz

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 14, 2023

The public is tired of woke Hollywood.

The entertainment industry had better take notice.

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