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Coincidentally enough, Danielle Smith is also owned by Republican-linked private equity firms!

What US tech? You mean the tech they buy from south-east Asia and slap their logos on?

This trade war is not just a disagreement over trade policy. It’s a war of independence, and the US has decided that we should not be independent anymore. We’ve already ceded so much of our independence to the US over the last 40 years via heavy-handed economic treaties with purpose-built backdoors, they’ve decided we shouldn’t have any kind of sovereignty at all.

War is hell. War requires sacrifices. War is destructive. We’ve not actually signaled as a population that we are OK with the damage this war is going to do to us, and it’s not at all clear to us what is necessary to survive this attack intact, and what is just basic shock-doctrine exploitation.

If Alberta would stop thinking not having their preferred political leaders in power is an attack on them, maybe we could talk. Until then, maybe they can stop being dicks to the rest of the country all the god damn time?

This.

For some bizarre reason, Americans are defined via international treaty as “not refugees”. Nothing the US government does to its citizens is allowed to be considered inhumane, oppressive, or persecution.

Man, that’s a pretty big management team for something that’s just a bluesky front end.

Except on election day. Where where these people when they could have stopped him?

This. The DTS was not a tax on American or foreign digital services, but all of them. Home grown digital services companies were certainly lobbying to get this killed, too.

What investment? We’ve pumped millions of dollars into these companies to get them to expand their networks to rural communities, and they’ve just shoved it up their ass like a cash enema. They’re definitely not spending their own money on improving services.

The only systems they’re incentivized to improve are the ones that funnel our cash into their pockets.

Speaks more to what I’m seeing in Halifax, too. We’ve been flooded with Teslas in the last couple of years, and it’s not beat up Civics they’re replacing.

“It’s computers, so it doesn’t count for some reason”

Ignoring the world definitely makes you good global citizens and not problems to work around. Good job. Way to go.

Yes, yes, clearly we haven’t given the rich enough power. If only we gave them more, then they’d solve all our problems! Let’s abdicate our responsibility to each other even harder!

That’ll surely fix things this time!

Honestly, I think it’s one of the most undercutting, least thought out features in piefed, that focuses entirely on the immediaye convenience of the end user over the health of the discussion groups and servers that make up the network.

It’s the eating a tub of icing for supper of social media features.

Hey, do I work for you?

So, there’s this issue that there is a significant fraction of indigenous people who aren’t interested in being called Canadian, in no small part because every interaction indigenous groups have had with white Canadian institutions have been done on the white Canadians’ terms.

White Canadians lobbying them to get on board the Canadian Unity train is… just more of that.

White Canadian political leaders stepping all over indigenous land and consultation rights is just more of that.

Nothing about the current discourse around national unity and inclusion is signalling that white Canada is looking for any kind of real partnership with indigenous people. It all just screams of an opportunistic shot at forcing indigenous people to get on board and shut up.

“They’re only killing other brown-skinned humanoids. We shouldn’t let that get in the way of expanding the markets of old-stock Canadians!”

So, are you a bot, or a liar? Because Carney was still in England when the carbon tax was implemented.

You can not like the Liberals, you can not like the carbon tax, and you cannot like Carney, but it’s deeply and openly dishonest to link Carney to the tax.

That’s not nation building, though. “Be only as others see you” is pretty toxic advice at any level.

Yeah. The rich go from funding it as a service, via their taxes, to making income off of it, via dividends. Everybody wins!

So long as you’re only counting the rich.