I don't mind Canadian investment in private equity. The CPP, Omers, OTP etc buying private assets. This is their function and it's essential.
I do mind having Canadian Media owned by American fascists and bleeting to the masses. Or the hollowing out of corporate Canada with an american branch plant economy.
Leopards ate my face.
I agree with most of what you said, but feel there is more to it. Slaves of the past had to risk everything despite having little to nothing. The same applies to modern day wage slaves.
One point of value of the article is the history lesson that the abolition of slavery took massive efforts from the people at the top and the bottom to get the job done. It had to be envisioned, articulated and proponents recruited and plans made and remade to shift civilization to make a new reality.
The rise in populism is not a natural phenomenon either. Intellectuals like Bannon, and Harper and Farage et al articulate a vision, recruit proponents, high and few at first, then wide and low. They have devised plans and carried them out over decades.
If we want anything other than a deepening of this distopia into the stuff of nightmares, it will take the same efforts and more. Time is not on our side.
I'm always surprised at how comfortable people are with flaunting their stupidity.
in the universe you reside.
I hear they control Time and Space now.
I believe in you!
Bootz not Sootz!
A massive scourge is US private equity buying up any successful Canadian business. Canada Goose, Tim Hortons, virtually all our private media.
Selling successful Canadian enterprise for a one time payout is, well, selling out your country.
The other problem is subsidising foreign capital to operate in Canada. How many billions have we given to US auto? If it was important enough that US auto companies needed the cash, our Federal and Provincial investments should have been in exchange for equity, like any investor. Welfare for the rich and cold hard markets for the poor is what lead us to this crisis.
A fucking idiot with about a plastic spoon's worth of microplastics in his brain. (Maybe two or three for him)
This is why we can't have nice things.
I was, of course, being facetious. These fuckers will build statues for serial killers.
While Tesla is now and forever dead to me. I would love an EV without the surveilance, self steering, self braking etc...
I want an EV that only I control, not run by some fascists software updates. Autodrive isn't something that frees you from the burden of driving, its control over where when and how you go anywhere. Its control marketed as convenience.
Give me the dumbest EV possible. It should also be cheaper to produce.