This AI tech, smat-home, cloud compute etc would all be amazing if we could trust that it wasn’t built to harvest us.

We, the people, have become the Commons.

Neither should be popular. Ppl should be suspicious of both.

Now I know who to follow.

One thing I didn’t understand was about the IMF buying up a of the assets? I thought that the IMF just loaned money with liberalization agreements? Like, well give you money as long as you open up your markets, and privatize your public services.

Also, (still reading) what is the incentive for foreign capital to invest in regional governments? Is it like a bond thing? What would give confidence to an investor to buy local government debt?

Not by definition, all though there are definitely some.

In Taiwan? No-one invaded the Sovereign nation of Taiwan… Yet

Everything you said in a correct, but it will take time.

Agreed.

This is a good idea I hadn’t thought of.

Could do this in partnership with EU companies too.

Chinese Don"t need any supply chain help, they have incredibly good domestic supply chains.

Didn’t Trudeau make a number of tax ince tive deals relating to EV production years ago?

The issue now is likely tarrif related.

This is not a good idea for Canada. Canada is not able to handle logistics, nor the cost of running Northern defense.

Solidify national security, solidify international agreements, then re-evaluate insider divorce.

It’s an old meme, but it does check out.

It’s not Putin. Plenty of home grown idiocy in the US. At the most, the Trump admin is a loosely bribed bunch of useful idiots.

Have you tried ydotools, which works on both Wayland and X?

They are supposed to use immigration for that, bit they also use it to keep population growth, because the long term economy growth need it.

Are the Afd voters pedophiles?

If you have large part to f the population moving to support fascism, them they need to be addressed. Their real issues need to be addressed. It doesn’t just go away.

I never thought that I’d be impressed by soap

Here is the kind of comment I was referring to. General distrust leads to propaganda like targeting connecting general incompetence to anger inducing “enemy” targeting.

All of the 1st world rely on immigration to keep population growth - but in Germany it has created an enemy? Here is how the ADD garners support.

What about the earlier Russian governing of the Baltics, before the Bolshevik recolution? Do they get no credit?

Are the contents of the museum propaganda? Riga also has a museum of manufactured consent?