Wait… You’re telling me that people born into extreme privilege and wealth turn out to be self-aggrandizing, egotistical, sociopaths who drastically over-estimate their own importance and contribution to society?

My world view is shook!

There really should be a focus on government-level efforts in the EU, to force mobile manufacturers to standardise and open source all firmware sold in its jurisdiction. All OSS mobile OS’s (not on custom OSS hardware) rely on Android solutions because mobile hardware is bespoke, closed source, and non-standard from device to device; the opposite to the PC ecosystem that enabled Linux. The Apple/Android duopoly won’t be broken if mobile hardware vendors can continue creating custom closed-source firmware for their hardware, and there’s simply no reason to allow this anti-competitiveness to continue.

The correct response would be to expel their ambassador.

No neoliberal will ever have the balls to do such a thing, though.

It’s called economic terrorism. Fascists try to financially harm anyone they disagree with… until they gain enough power to murder anyone they disagree with.

Nothing’s been done about it because the oligarchs who own every political class, in every country, are using big data and analytics to wage psychological warfare and infect the global population with a sort “disinformation psychosis”, “broke mind virus”, etc … corrupt societies logic and mental health so significantly they can enslave us, rob us blind, use us for cannon fodder, etc, etc.

Representative democracy is the only threat to their wealth and power, so their goal is to exterminate it.

Corporate-whorism

Neoliberalism

Money

How could an animal that has perfected <evading detection> evade our detection?

Truly the noodlest of noodle scratchers.

This is how public money should be spent. Every dollar spent on proprietary code is money wasted. Every dollar spent on public code benefits every other country, org, and individual who runs that software. It reduces the cost for everyone, in perpetuity, instead of enriching some sociopathic technofascist and their oligarch investors.

This would almost make sense if there weren’t thousands of corporations, and 8 billion other humans, doing whatever the fuck they want…

That would only be possible if we lived in real democracies, instead of a “corporate dictatorship masquerading as democracy”.

At least he’s wearing the swastika so everyone knows who he is.

Is this Trump related, or neoliberal related?

That was inflation + price gouging. There was never any reason prices would go down after Covid. With this there is, though I doubt they will.

Corporate dictatorships, masquerading as “democracy”.

As an Australian, who has kept a close eye on politics across 5 eyes for 20+ years, this is the same across all of them, and almost every western “democracy”.

There is no leftism left in any major/mainstream “leftist” party. There is only conservative/fascism and neoliberalism, both of which create the economic and social conditions in the working class that lead to fascism/dictatorship. I’ve come to the conclusion that capitalism is likely incompatible with democracy… maybe even human psychology is incompatible with democracy, as it seems the most greedy, sociopathic, and authoritarian tend to gain popular support and end up in power eventually, no matter what.

Yes. All of Canadas mainstream political parties are subordinate corporate whores. Did you expect a career banker to possess a backbone?

The jobs minister has absolutely heard about it. If not, that’s the kind of gross incompetence that should require immediate resignation. She is feigning ignorance because the average shmuck isn’t aware of it.

Our governments are functionally equivalent to corporate dictatorships at the state and federal levels. Sure, you can vote for whomever you want on election day, but 90+% of politicians have been pre-screened, pre-positioned, and pre-financed by the wealthy. They act in the oligarchs/corporations financial interests; not the citizens. In capitalism you vote with your wallet, and a small minority hold the majority of the votes.

It’s like people who manage their tasks by simply writing them down on paper…

You fucking what!?! How am I supposed to manage hundreds of tasks with a piece of paper… They won’t fit. What if I lose the paper? How do I filter the tasks by location, date, time, or any other context? Your ancient methods are pure insanity to me.