Duh.

All while they keep threatening us not to “interfere” with their election. As always with right wingers, every accusation is a confession.

Which is exactly what they would do if they were to switch. Starting from scratch would be incredibly stupid, and there’s no reasonable way to secure a brand new system when we simply don’t employ enough programmers of that kind at the govt level.

In this case it’s very likely American data centers doing the work.

Immigration isn’t an answer either.

Allowing the middle class to actually exist, and flourish, is how you correct for a lack of children. You don’t do it by taking adults (and potentially their kids eventually) from someplace else. That just isn’t an actual solution at all.

Taxing corporations and making housing both attainable and the middle class existing is how you get people to decide they actually want kids. No one that looks at the state the world is in is likely to choose to bring more children into it if they have any thoughts other than “I want kids.” I have a kid, but I’d never choose to have another because the world is in upheaval.

Immigration is a bandaid on a limb that has been lost. It’s not helping.

To be at least be partially replaced by Chinese manufacturers, and potentially European. Honestly American cars are such shit anyway it’s better we move away from them.

So far the concerns I’ve seen are that the Chinese will spy on you, as if that isn’t already the case with our “ally”.

And given how incredibly simple minded these CEO types are (and we know they are, given their reaction to “AI” and how “incredible” it is), I fully expect it’s just him kissing the ring, more than it’s that there are a lack of orders from Canada.

It’s only confusing if you’re an idiot. The American owner of Stelco is harming the Canadian Economy at the whim of Trump and his ilk.

It’s not more complicated than that.

Trust isn’t something anyone should give to politicians of any stripe.

To be honest, there’s a pretty good chance that Canada is taken over if things continue on the path they’re on now.

It’ll be bloody as fuck, but lets be real, right wing politics here is not different than it is anywhere else. And since all we really have is Far Right and Right and Center-Right parties, we’re plenty close to it happening for real.

Do any of these provinces that want to leave Canada have the military might to fight off the Americans? Cause there’s a nearly 100% chance they’d be taken over, especially with the current admin down there.

So 1-5 permanent positions then? Plus some contractors to keep wages suppressed, since it is Bell after all.

His name is out there on fucking gambling sites, no one has actually suggested he be nominated.

Based on everything that’s happened in the last 10 years, and how his camp has been preparing, I expect to see the Dem’s lose even more.

They’re not even putting up a fight though, they absolutely know how to get votes and what kinds of things the citizenry want, but those things go against their “donators” so they’re never going to move to the left and actually get things fixed.

We’re absolutely 100% going to watch America fall into civil war again in the best case scenario. Worst case is we get Fascist America until someone stronger destroys them and 75-100% of the planet with them.

I doubt anyone is scared that it applies, and simply knows full well that it does apply.

Last time we picked someone up on an International Warrant we ended up in a huge clusterfuck with China. And the US simply ignored their own warrant and stuck us with her because they didn’t want to piss off China (apparently anyway).

Now imagine that clusterfuck except it’s entirely the current US Government. China at least operate like they’re adults for the most part, I don’t agree with them on basically anything, but they were not about to launch military attacks against us to get the Huawei CTO back. Now ask yourself, if we forced that plane to land, and arrested Netanyahu for the purpose of dragging his ass to the Hague, how will the current US Government respond?

I’d put money on them AT LEAST going down the same path they did in Venezuela, and use their military to kidnap both Netanyahu and likely kill/kidnap our leaders as well. What position do you think that would put Canada in? Do you believe NATO would assist us? Would that assistance matter at all against the US?

The simple answer is no one would assist us at all. Just like with China except with much more severe consequences for us.

Now lets take Canada out of it. How would the US respond if France, Italy, or Greece forced that plane to land for the same purposes of arresting Netanyahu? The answer is the same. Honestly the answer is likely the same even WITHOUT the current US Government.

They’re not our allies, and they do not abide by the rule of law. They’re bullies and the only thing they care about is money and power.

Agreed. Social media and now LLMs are pushing ideas onto people that they haven’t spent any time considering at all for sure. Doesn’t stop them from being completely consumed by the propaganda being fed to them at every moment.

The political spectrum of your average person has definitely shifted pretty far to the right. The LPC is centre right to right. NDP are center it seems, and the Cons haven’t had anything but a far right to extreme right idea in decades. Greens can’t even figure out their own leadership so they may as well have no stances currently.

I would love to see actual left wing parties, and regulation of the tech world. But as far as I can tell the future holds Datacenters for military use and that seems to be about it. And this is true regardless of which country you live in. All of them are obsessed with automating ourselves out of existence.

And none of that even touches on our complete and utter lack of action on climate world wide. I’m unsure what the Epstein class has in store for the future that isn’t the obvious death of billions of people so they can go hide in their bunkers until they starve. They seem convinced that “AI” and robots are going to be sufficient to survive without all of us, but I’ve yet to see anything resembling actual AI at all, and the robots aren’t “replace labour” level yet.

For real, I tried having a conversation elsewhere about our politics and govt in general and the person I was talking to just kept repeating that the Carney Liberals hate freedom and shit.

I just want to discuss how we actually get better representation, and these idiots are all yelling into the void about how they hate the Libs, without even a single syllable spent on who would be doing better for us and how we can get them in power.

At this point I just assume most people are at least far right politically, and I’m so far left there’s zero point in even having a discussion with them. It’s exhausting.

Just repeating the same shit over and over isn’t going to result in any kind of discussion about how to actually move forward. You just seem mad that “your team” didn’t win this round with no evidence whatsoever to support your apparent claims that someone else would be superior in the current political climate.

I’ve personally stopped a 70+ yar old woman from taking Bitcoin out of one of those ATMs. The scam isn’t the ATM itself (it is, but not in this context) it’s the dude sitting overseas (usually) that’s running a social engineering scam.

The fact you’re dead set on nothing more than “Liberals bad” without any actual thought spent to which politicians are actually in favour of things we collectively want says everything needed about your complete lack of actual understanding about politics.

Just another pot stirrer with thing of substance to add.

You know full well “your team” wouldn’t do anything different than the Liberals, and yet you can do nothing but yell into the void about how the liberals are bad. The reality is they’re all largely all shit, and none of them want to help us. So insofar as that point you’re correct. Where your whole ideology falls apart is that you’re not even willing to put words to what you actually want and who might actually accomplish it.

Sad really, I was hoping for better interaction from Lemmy, but it’s clear that most folks only want to complain and not discuss solutions at all.

Good luck with that I suppose.

I’m sure you’re probably right, but do you believe our Government to be capable of actual high tech solutions to something like scamming 70+ year old grandma’s out of their money? Our same Government (along with most of the rest of the Western world) that is actively making it so encryption will be heavily curtailed, if not made completely illegal “for the children”.

Just because 2% or so of the population has a grasp of how Crypto stuff works doesn’t make it reasonable for the majority. There may be the odd older non tech background person that’ll learn all about it, but that’s not even going to be even a meaningful minority.

So, you’ve brought up your (honestly relatively minor but valid, all things considered) issues with how they’re dealing with Crypto ATMs and the scams we all know are happening every single day.

You’ve not commented on any other point I made, I’d like to hear what the Govt is doing against Cash. And whom you think is a viable solution that’ll actually do what we the citizenry need VS. what big business is going to force on us. Pointing out the issues while using inflammatory language generally doesn’t lead to any outcomes you might actually want, as much as it’d be nice if it did.

Which political group are you suggesting should get support, and why do you believe they actually deserve it? I’ve no idea how old you are, but in my 42 years, I’ve yet to see any of them stand up against big business, obviously the Liberals being lead by an objectively Big Business C level isn’t going to do much of anything for citizens directly, they always think that supporting business directly supports us, which it does not and has not in my entire life.

If we’re just here to criticize Carney and the Liberal party of Canada, that’s fine. But we’re never going to collectively solve anything if we can’t even discuss their political actions reasonably.

So, we know for absolutely sure that scammers are in fact using Crypto ATM’s for their scams. While I get that it’s a hassle if you want to use an ATM for such a transaction, how many people in the crypto spaces actually use those ATM’s for non crime related shit? Most everyone I know involved in crypto would never trust an ATM style machine.

Are you running into people using those particular ATM’s in the Crypto space, or are you just disliking how the govt is responding to scammers?

While I don’t disagree that they are very unlikely to reign in any of the Tech Bro’s, stating it in that way makes it sound like you believe that if someone else were in the Liberals position, that they’d actually do what is best for the citizens of this Country.

Expecting anything other than right leaning centrism from the Liberals is incredibly foolish, that’s all they are and all they’ve been for my entire life. Even if the NDP were in (which is an incredible long shot), I’d be incredibly surprised if they actually did any of the things that would objectively help the citizenry before the Epstein class.

Also, I’ve not heard of anything the Liberals are doing with Monero or Cash, care to share any info?

Don’t think about it as cops protecting AI.

Cops exist to protect the ruling class. That class just happens to be building datacenters at the moment.