Competition is the spin-doctored way of saying exploitation.
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I stopped trusting it much when I noticed there's a huge difference between the same product on amazon.ca and amazon.com. On one domain it can give something an F grade while on the other domain it will have an A grade.
It's a nice idea but when you think it about it's actually kind of hard to determine the quality of a particular listing apart from the obvious checks you can do yourself. Like if the seller is some random drop shipper or actually Amazon or the manufacturer.
Judging reviews with whatever AI system they use is not very accurate anyways. Once again the obvious fake reviews can sometimes stand out. But the better ones a machine can't tell any more than you can.
Yeah it was a close election. We absolutely did not reject Trump with any consensus. There's not as much to celebrate people think.
What people don't know is the Conservatives here have had a revolving door of leaders in search of a Trump-like candidate. The past several election cycles have been this way. The party has sold their soul to MAGA style politics a long time ago.
They just had the best showing ever in this election even though it was a loss. And this is with the best Trump wannabe candidate they've managed to field thus far. A belligerent authoritarian-like tyrant with zero shame. They are not going to stop this any more than the Republicans would to turn back from Trump. They may even keep the current guy even though he lost his own seat.
Canada will inevitably elect a conservative government. It's a defacto two party system. It will all go to hell. Especially if MAGA is still ruling America at the same time.
Liberal cabinet
Stopped reading there. You know why.
For everyone else who doesn't. They're lying through their teeth. It was a random MP. Not the Liberal cabinet.
You're always being recorded. Techbros do this on purpose. If they get caught they feign innocence.
They skirt the fringes of legislation anyways so it's not like there's ever legal consequences. On the rare occasions there are. It's a paltry monetary fine.
It doesn't sit right with me either. A similar thing happened when the MPs who were accused of being agents of the Chinese government agents based on hearsay. When the news stories broke they were immediately dropped by the Liberal party.
Years later it turned out to be a nothing burger. The courts found that the news outlets ran unsubstantiated stories. Independent commissions found no evidence of anything. Of course these news stories did not get any attention.
That one MP Hang Dong just announced he isn't running for re-election. So basically they ended his political career over nothing. Not many places you can say this but it looks like there's a political purge of politicians of Chinese descent.
Luigi hasn't really sparked much more than social media posts. The powers that be know they have us sedated.
That doesn't make him neoliberal.
Carney isn't a neoliberal.
I've been trying an experiment on r/onguardforthee. I block the belligerent reactionary accounts. You know what I've noticed. Not only are there repeat customers. Some of these accounts are playing both sides.
It's not uncommon to see a top comment presenting a popular rational take. Where some time ago I've blocked it because it's a shit stirring right winger.
They are also quite often the OP of top posts in the subreddit.
That's an Americanism. Canadian boomers aren't as malignantly conservative.
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You can fantasize about the kitchen sink of left policy all day long. None of this matters if the population is centrist neo-liberal minded. Carney is proof of this. Doug Ford is proof of this. Ford in particular is smart enough to know not to mess with social politics. That angers the broad spectrum center voters.
Your dream NDP candidate and platform will not suddenly enamor the population. People don't personally want to do hard things that are required to address critical issues on the economy and environment. The status quo is the path of least resistance even though the long term consequences are significant.
The problem is not so much platform. Leftist platform is well known. By now it's a big scary boogeyman thanks to conservative propaganda machine. The task is making such platform palatable. In other words selling it ways that people won't be fearful that it will put them personally under hardship.
People are short term myopic operators. The idea of a greater good for better personal outcomes does not compute. This is the fact of the matter. Why should anyone individual place big lofty but nebulous national/global issues ahead of food on the table for their family. My kids need to eat, is what anyone is thinking really.
I know you love leftist platform. You can give the list of policy all day long. That doesn't matter. What matters is making population not recoil at the thought of even one item on the list.
This is why the NDP became indistinguishable from Liberals. They could not figure out how to sell leftist platform. They got gradually nudged and scared from their convictions.
Every party is like this. They're timid inspite of some of them being blustering strongmen. They're all basically signalling to the the population not to worry because they won't be the one that makes your life harder than it already is. Unfortunately for left parties the world is right minded (though not necessarily at heart). It's the hardest to sell platform by simple metric of absolute distance. It's not about policy itself. The challenge is making that distance to left platform less scary.