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Just because they operate out of China, that doesn’t make them anti-capitalist. Frankly, despite its name, China has a capitalist economy, just with much stronger authoritarianism than most.

I can’t understand why anybody uses these products.

Okay, I can, it’s marketing and ease of access. I guess it just annoys me that people don’t care.

Great to see the “housing first” model making news! MSP has the right approach here, and I hope the city stops making things harder!

You can find stats showing that support for the Conservatives falls in Canada as education rises. So depending on region and definition, it’s not just you.

That being said, that doesn’t mean there are zero. Jordan Peterson as a famous example.

I think it’s worth clarifying that this comes alongside countries with a weak 4th estate. One of the notable connections between countries that are more critical of their own democracy, is actually having a stronger independent 4th estate to keep that democracy accountable.

That is, it makes sense Russian people would also have very high approval of their government and believe it’s democratic, which by Pravda (best source we have) they do. I don’t think this reflects reality, rather it reflects a powerful state apparatus that pushes for social harmony over information freedom. It’s easy to be less critical when your only news source can’t mention Tiananmen Square for example.

To be fair, one of the big trade issues the US is mad about in the auto industry is Canada allowing Chinese EVs into their market. I feel like Canada is fighting for EVs (less so now with Carney), we just have a giant thorn stabbing us in the side.

What are we supposed to do, not defend ourselves? China isn’t making annexation threats against Canada. They’re terrible on human rights records, but they’re less overtly dangerous to Canada than the U.S. is with sharing a border. I can’t see any future where China tries to annex Canada.

Thanks! That makes sense, I did some research and was guessing the same thing.

They tend to get within 1-2% of the actual vote on election day, so I wouldn’t say pointless. They can certainly miss a tight issue, but trend lines are meaningful too.

I would describe it as very rich. Also fruit adjacent, not quite fruity but sort of like that flavour.

I’m curious, any reason for Motorola specifically? I would say they’re still a U.S. company, and in many ways no better than Apple.

I apologize for linking to a U.S. website, but here’s a polling average for the midterm for those curious: https://www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ballot-average-2026-nate-silver-bulletin-congress-polls

It looks like Trump’s party is indeed behind right now at least.

Because my wife likes it, and she’s pretty important to me.

You’re right though, it’s certainly not a private p2p network.

I always forget that Snapchat has a public side to it. My wife and I just use it as a messaging app for videos/pictures.

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I am appalled that Carney has such high approval ratings among Canadians. I think it speaks to deep cultural problems in Canada, that we have been importing from the U.S.A…

I think it might be a deeper cultural problem than that. I suspect Carney appeals to more Canadians specifically because he is more neoliberal and closer to the Conservatives than his predecessor. Just assuming that people only like him because of Pollievre is, in my opinion, a bit dangerous because it glosses over the need for deeper cultural change.

Broadly speaking, we live in a democracy with a strong 4th estate, so Carney’s support speaks to the ideals of many Canadians. And THAT is the problem.