Kichae

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Federal government has the means and responsiblity to persuade and cajole provinces in certain directions when it comes impacts of policies they are implementing.

I'm not going to defend Trudeau. Not on any front.

But this is a bad take. Any federal government taking a take-it-or-leave-it approach to the provinces is attempting to operate as a dictatorship, and it's something that should be actively resisted or rejected.

The problem right now is that there are a lot of Conservative Premieres, and they can taste blood in the water, so they're circling and stonewalling.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

The Liberals have been unambiguously pro-business since Cretien. It's just which businesses have been the focus of their support that's changed somewhat over time. Neoliberalism has been at the heart of the party since the Red Book.

The current administration has been throwing all of its support behind big city "businesses businessing businessly" businesses. Think of Bill Morneau and his family enterprises, or anything B2B where it seems like something the client company could just do on their own, but they gain a lot of connections by working with the other business.

You know. Rich people bullshit.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like some corporate offices and some parliamemt buildings need to be burnt down

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Remember folks, you have the right to strike! Unless doing so actually meaningfully impacts anything.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

But these workers are not. These workers are fighting for their rights, and that's going to inconvenience everybody else. So, they're going to highlight that inconvenience, rather than the underlying cause.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Albertan minister, a Chamber of Commerce guy and a CN rail official. No union representation. This is a bit shameful from the CBC.

This has been par for the course for a while now, unfortunately. The CBC's most used lens is "How does this inconvenience the average Canadian?", followed by "How much does this impact shareholders?"

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

They just called the 5e charactersheet "overwhelming" wuth its, like, 8 numbers on it, and suggested players don't need to know pesky things like "rules", but you're going off on dice?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

"Never trust other people," they say. I'm not sure I shpypd believe them, though.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are we playing the "socialism and communism are different things" game today? Because that'snnever fun.

Authoritarians aren't communists. They're just appropriating the term.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

I can't believe they spelled his name right for once.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh good! Does this mean the government's also going to protect my stock portfolio and guarantee those investments always succeed, too? Because if so, I should start having a stock portfolio!

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

If it's still 9 months away, there's no real reason to announce it publicly before the Christmas season. The fact that the original Switch's sales are flagging is not a reason to announce, since it's not launching in time for the holidays. Its announcement isn't going to spurr Switch 1 sales.

When it's announces will be entirely deoendent on when retailers need to know launch details. Once it's outside of Nintendo, they'll have to announce things publicly or risk losing control over the narrative.

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