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I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.

I for one didn’t expect someone to resign this quickly.

PP has Mr. Kurek to thank. Some of you will understand this statement differently than others. 😂

I guess because this one can execute this stupid shit at scale and has the profit incentive to do so.

It’s truly scary. I feel like this would have accelerationist effects.

I wonder if stuff like this could shock a decent chunk of people on the right into realizing who the bad guys are. It should play into anxieties about free speech and brainwashing.

Totally great for Tom in the short to medium term. Long term… maybe, if he finds an isolated self-sufficient place to spend the rest of his days. Either way he’ll be better off than the rest of us no matter what.

Not sure if sarcastic or I didn’t make my point well enough. Just in case I’ll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It’s not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck Prime would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you’ll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it’s happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, Big Entertainment does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money… for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they’re not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.

Yes this is how things are supposed to work in the system but my point is that it’s a) driven by the system, not individuals, and b) the consequences are unsustainable.

Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.

Thing is, it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to keep coming up with new ways to make ever higher profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then do a hostile or peaceful purchase of the dude’s firm.

1. The system makes people poorer in money and time, and social ability
2. People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
3. The system gives people artificial friends that cost less

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6. The system uses people’s artificial friends to reinforce itself

Would be nice if we got a Wildrose federal party. The CPC would never be in a position to form a majority government again, and whoever forms a government might be unable to ignore Alberta as easily. Albertans would feel more represented. Also Wildrose would have to play ball with the rest of Canada to get what they want for Alberta. Given how the CPC leadership is the former Reform leader, the CPC is a bit of a Wildrose themselves, but run candidates across all of Canada.

For example, Alberta wants a pipeline through Quebec. Their strategy today is to get a CPC majority government elected and use whatever federal powers are needed to beat QC into doing it. In a world where AB can’t get a federal majority government under their control, they’d have to negotiate with QC, share the royalties, likely get forced to extract more royalties from the oil&gas companies that would benefit from the pipelines too.

Well, they’ll need NDP/Bloc MPs to pass anything as it is. Does it matter much whether the gap is 3 or 4 MPs?

BQ represents QC’s interests and it seems to be doing it well. It improves the lives of Canadians living in QC, therefore keeping them content with being a part of Canada. As an Ontarian I think that’s a good thing.

In fact I wouldn’t be mad if there was a BO that represented Ontario more closely than a pan-Canadian federal party. If we have more of these we could avoid some provinces getting underserved by the federal government. I think it would increase the effectiveness of our democracy. 🥹

So is this like … concentrating… the people into a smaller area, like uh … camp?

I would keep away the bits about fascism and the choice between similar parties and all that. Instead I’d frame it around a simple argument about making it easy to elect them instead of losing seats to vote split. Every candidate/MP understands vote split and how it can deprive them from holding their seat/job. Also add in that context that you want to make it easy for you and your family and friends to elect them. Framing it in simple terms that describe benefit to them instead of moral / ethical terms should gain more traction with anyone looking at it, from the staff member reading the email to the MP if they get to read it. Staying away from fascism avoids potentially thought halting terms. If the audience already knows the problems with the current system in the terms described in OP’s blob, chances are they’re already on the electoral reform boat.

He’s waiting for the federal government to solve it for him. That way he can both get away with not spending much, and having someone to pin the blame on if things go sideways. So right now I think he’s waiting for Carney to start these federal initiatives so he can play the partner.

We can’t stop sovereign countries from banning services. We can however have external Fediverse services not comply with cutting off access to users from those sovereign countries, leaving it up them to ensure their citizens don’t have access. Since we’re not making off of doing business in those countries we can ignore non-legal requests instead of voluntarily complying. Then some of the more technical people in such places could use the existing tools for blocking circumvention in order to access the Fediverse if they really want to.

Oh yes, much better than the original article.

So fucking annoying. Not that I believed he’s reformed or anything, but I low-key hoped maybe something has stuck with him during his Trump heartbreak.

Ah yes, Berta looking at the effects of money in politics down south and saying - yeah I want more of that. This doesn’t bode well for Canada as a whole. A corporate-supercharged runaway clown car in Alberta can do a lot of damage to the rest of Canada. Perhaps the damage the UCP is doing is eventually going to snap some Albertans out of it.