Avoiding Chinese companies is a factor for me, BUT if the choice is between a Chinese company that wouldn’t comply with a five-eyes data request vs one that would, then I would definitely prefer my data be stolen by a foreign country that doesn’t see me as a sovereign risk

It’s a tossup whether Germany runs with evil again for WW3. I have no clue where they will stand, and that’s pretty damning of them.

I hope he doesn’t cave to pressure. His recent media imagery has him looking like a whipped pup

1. Privatize education
2. Use AI to form personalized propaganda for each child
3. Lock in generations of ignorance and harmful behaviors while profiting

Interviewer: Margaret Atwood, what are your thoughts on the trend in the US?

Atwood: I’m Canadian

I bet those sales douches are happy with the bonuses they will get.

I don’t like sales dudes.

Are you for age (ID) verification? Are you fine with no channels of privacy? Do you support things like chat control in the EU?

If you do, then you are blind to how these people think and operate.

I sense a dangerous level of willful disbelief. Things in the UK and EU are going to get worse. The fascists don’t follow rules, and most of your politicians have the same weaknesses as our controlled opposition.

Do not be complacent, because they are already in your midst with blades to your throats. They are preparing to cut.

Ask yourselves, why do officials need ICE protection when they have the Secret Service?

Oh, absolutely! He will stumbling blocks thrown at him from every which way. And then his lack of progress will be pointed at by the propagandists: “look at this Democratic Socialist who did nothing! Blah blah muslim blah blah blah”

Adams is a dickhole collaborator. I’m surprised the contract was only around $600k. How much so you think Adams got on top?

I wish Mamdani the best. There’s so much happening to be able to ingest it all, but so far he seems genuine. My natural glare of “what SHIT are you up to!??” has so far yielded nothing; Good. More please!

Yup

https://odysee.com/@AbeScott:b/Netanyahu-talks-how-he-wants-to-control-all-of-the-media-and-social-m---1080p:2?view=shorts

I have never looked into his past, but observing him recently is making alarm bells go off for me. Knowing nothing of depth about him, I get the sense that he is helping to ruin the EU.

How can he be replaced?

Yeah, I feel my hypocrisy. I am trying to understand more, but my mind always ends up melting. Individuals I’ve met that maybe could do what I want done are a different breed from me. I am pushing myself to understand more, but I am pushing uphill and it will take years before I can achieve what probably so many all around the world could do now. While I sharpen myself, I ask: who were those in the V masks of years past?

These behaviors will only get worse, unless we change the system. We just need to help each other understand that, and then execute it!

Where are the hactivists?! Are they all too well employed?

Firstly, thank you for the discussion.

And my point is that you cant expect every culture act similary to 30’s/40’s white american nuclear family

I must be poorly making my point. I am writing about something all humans do in all times and future. No healthy animal decides to hurt itself. Parents instinctively protect and care for their children. Parents often try to safeguard their children’s futures by making them healthy, educated and financially secure. This has nothing to do with a nuclear family. If my friend takes medicine to live, I want them to always have that medicine available to them. If I have a pet, I want them fat and warm in the winter. I don’t want to die. I want to live. These are all things humans consider, or they are brain dead.

Please answer this question: Would you sacrifice yourself, and everyone you’ve loved, for your principles?

perspective afro american male It was this reason he was able to see the underlying causes of the injustices so well.

I am not communicating this well then. The hesitancy of the moderates was, and still is like your statement: “when people have lots of money tied to something, they try to keep things steady.” That is why I assert this is a fundamental trait we all share as humans. If fixing the status quo upsets my life, then I will probably temper my will for those changes. How do you not have this behavior? What if the changes necessitate a generation of austerity; a forced collapse of the existing system? If you have children, why would you NOT consider how it will impact them? This is basic human stuff. For me personally, I will likely die early for this principle, but I struggle with these contentions in my mind. I haven’t lived a nice life and I don’t have much of anything to lose in the way of children, partners, or money. But I do take care of my elderly parents, and my remaining siblings are both fully disabled in different ways. I imagine the situation where I get killed or jailed at the sunset of my mother’s life. She has experienced much pain hers. She has lost children. Do I want to send her off with more pain? No, and it absolutely affects my decisions. There are animals that I care for. I can imagine the stress and pain that they will experience when abandoned. Most people have WAY MORE to lose than I do, and my few things restrict me.

The Soviet Union was a communist authoritarian nation. I never implied that the strongmen were the oligarchs. Fascism is a particular flavor of bad people putting themselves over others. In this flavor of assholery, capitalist oligarchs have always had a large roll. It is part of the definition of fascism. People seem to think fascism == authoritarianism, but they are not the same, for one is a subset of the other.

There’s a whole spectrum of wealth. There are a surprising amount of batshit-crazy ultra billionaires. They have the same weaknesses as everyone else. They succumb to their own collective propaganda. They are narcissistic sociopaths.

Scholars also noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Italian Fascist and German Nazi governments after they took power. Business leaders supported the government’s political and military goals. In exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism

In the US, we have been pulling our hair out trying to understand why so many us are believing stark lies that lead to ruin. We have about a dozen billionaires in cabinet positions. Our oligarch class wholeheartedly supports Trump. Yeah, some push back when their pot gets disturbed, then they give the admin money or power in exchange for a carve-out and contract.

Yes please, but you must realize, that it is not a few that need to jump to prevent meal

From my shallow understanding and my observations, I sadly agree that Canada is also succumbing to the oligarchs, like everywhere. It’s painful when so many deny the reality of what is happening globally. We are all on a stove top in different pots being heated at different rates.