They’re stealing the power of information for themselves and kicking us back to manual labour jobs, until they steal that with robots too and we have zero means of engaging with the economy that controls all the world resources, so we just end up dying off, leaving them with the whole fucking planet to themselves.

Interesting this comes after trade deal with china to sell electric cars…so Canadian tax payers are subsidizing Chinese profits…

Oh sure, he doesn’t get a pardon…

China has cops here, the US has cops here, what other countries have police forces operating in Canada? Is this normal for a nation? When the fuck did this happen and why?

Why were they ever allowed here?

It isn’t about being better or worse, that’s not even relevant, it’s about having something that effectively protects us from American aggression. Your moral superiority won’t protect you from soldiers with guns anymore than they do Americans form ICE. Nukes will.

If nobody could have them, that would be ideal. But they do, so having them is better than not having them.

They’re gonna come for all of you, eventually.

Having an effective deterrent to being invaded seems like a pretty positive outcome.

Then you have to fight for it.

They will keep taking whatever they want because they can and we don’t stop them.

Yep. “How did democracy die?” No ody stopped it. “How did a dictator seize power?” Nobody stopped them. “How did they get away with clearly rigging the elections?” No ody stopped them.

None of mechanisms of government, designed explicitly to stop these things, is functional right now. If they do anything, it’s possible they will get away with it. You have the authority and power to do whatever you can get away with, at the most basic level.

They got bought off again.

Nuclear Weapons Now

It’s likely impossible to pick a link in this web of causation and blame it. Not a single part is impactful enough to change things, which is why most of us do nothing, feeling impotent in our tiny place in things. But some people have a much greater impact than most of us, and scientists and engineers are some of those people. Some of those people can prevent futures simply by not inventing it.

It would be nice to be able to unlock the truths of existence without worry someone would use it to cause harm, or chase power, but that doesn’t seem like the world we have. We know people will try with whatever new thing we learn or create. Where does the responsibility lie then for those who bring that new thing into existence, knowing it may be used to cause harm? We know Shell and BP and Nestle and Elon and Phillip Morris and United Health all cause harm in pursuit of power and use science and technology to enable their ambitions. Every new insight, every new technology further empowers the worst of us to do the worst to us and it seems to me like that isn’t going to be stopping in my lifetime. That was made possible by the consolidation of private wealth and control over collective resources capitalism enables, the technology of the corporation enabled.

AI is just an example of technology that empowers, pick any technology or any scientific discovery from TNT to CRISPR. The point is that new powers are being created and handed to psychopaths who are hurting all of us. At what point are these people held to account for handing billionaires the tools they use to herd us off a cliff?

Even if you get them they still have to be fair elections where everyone who can vote, can vote.

I would find it validating and encouraging since that’s what I already believe.

Which you can apply to Trumps entire worldview. He doesn’t respect anything so he doesn’t respect the sovereignty of anything. He raped children and abducted a head of state, kills Americans, ignored the entire notion of law or rights and is actively trying to remove democracy as the means by which authority is granted. He respects nothing but his own desires, which he is a slave to.

Politics and messaging. He’s isn’t an idiot he’s not going to express his counter moves publicly.