In short - no. There’s money to be made in privatization so it’s always on the menu unless we elect people ideologically opposed to it.

BTW you should see Dirty Business if you haven’t.

I think your opinions are so off-base that there’s little point to discuss. I now recall you thought that Libya today is better off than under Gaddafi. We’re done here.

Whataboutism is when double-standard is being pointed out.

Either way I don’t think you’ll find a lot of agreement here with your stance these days but feel free to share your opinions.

Yeah this has potential for massive pain.

The joys of Unexpected Keyboard!

They’re not Chinese. They’re pro-Chinese Canadians. Like when pro-US, pro-UK, pro-Israel, pro-Australia Canadians attend such lobbying events. I’d be happy to make such events illegal but they’re not. Painting the pro-Chinese ones with the scare brush tho is something else, while not doing the same for the pro-Americans. Especially now.

Also assuming our Chinese pop as proportion is a tad larger than the US’es. ~4.7% to ~1.5%.

Damn, I’m on the beta. Can’t leave a review.

Fucking A. Ever since this shit started last summer, I can’t just open !Canada to see what’s up in the fucking country I live in without facing obviously bad faith shit abt China. I’d be subbed to some of the !China comms if I wanted that.

And this shit takes up so much time from so many running around the same set of arguments every fucking day!

That’s the silver lining I think.

It seems like they’ll be selling a chassis kit for uprading from existing 13.

There’s an even wider material explanation. Israel’s territorial ambitions are only threatened by the resources coming from Iran. A moderate Iran would have sanctions lifted and would generate much more real reosiurces than today. Its economy grew 7% per year during the partial reprieve of the JCPOA. An extremist regime means more sanctions, more repression and therefore as little resources as possible spared for resisting Iarael’s territorial gains. And that’s in the in the interest of a lot of Israelis.

So apparently this isn’t tech related and is politics, hence removes from lemmy.world/c/technology. Interesting.

It’s their mistake. Proles are noticing.

Black pepper arrived. It’s the bomb. It only accentuates how sad whatever-the-fuck FreshCo sold my wife is. The difference is so stark, it’s like a different spice altogether.

In case you thought this is Scotty, it’s actually Sepia - likely another alt from the list.

I have a family member in one of these unions. Would be interesting to see if uni admins oppose it.

I did not take Pope Leo for a comrade. ✊

Is this what Lemmy is?

Well now that’s news!

/s

I agree that China is different in this regard. The gov’t has superiority over the private sector. That has pros and cons.

Western corps have money in mind when they collect data, whether legally or illegally, and use it to increase sales or fuck over competitors. They don’t work together in a coordinated way to help a particular government work an agenda.

I just can’t agree with that based on my observations. Private firms working with the government on profit-driven agendas has been happening for a long time. The gov’t very often hires private firm insiders at decisionmaking positions. And then when the gov’t has a non-profit agenda, private corporations still cooperate because it means better chance to cooperate on a for-profit agenda in the future. This is the economic basis of fascism. All of that is occurring south of the border as we speak.

I understand what you’re saying even if I don’t agree and I don’t expect you to agree with what I’m saying on this one.

E: I find it’s a lot more useful to think that private firms drive gov’t agendas in our systems, not the other way around.