We should be explicit about some things:

• It is the project of capitalists & the new regime to divide and conquer Canada by stoking the flames of western alienation
• Danielle Smith is merely the next step in a media pipeline that we’ve unfortunately allowed to progressively rot our country for the past 20 years
• She is openly admitting to the fact she incited a foreign leader to interfere in Canada’s sovereign elections
• The everyday people of Alberta are not to blame for this situation—their disillusionment and vulnerability to grifters like her did not come from nowhere
• When fascism rears it’s head, the working class must band together, and that includes reaching out to Albertans

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about the work we actually do without telling me huh.

The top level comment is about AI development not AI use.

Speaking as someone with more than a decade of experience developing AI: prompting ChatGPT to write your cover letter for an AI dev role is at best neutral to your ability to perform the job, at worst a sign of total incompetence.

It’s fucking funny to me how every two years people dream up new and novel ideas of what it is we do based off nothing but vibes lmao

Using AI is very different from developing AI.

any year is better than a future year

Not true for everybody. Sometimes people decide to put off transition for practical or safety reasons. They aren’t necessarily wrong for doing so. Earlier is not always better.

It’s okay I’m a millennial too…

it shouldn’t be a surprise

Yes it should. The working class is supposed to get compensated fairly for increases in productivity.

Through no fault of anyone

Billionaires are right there.

Big agree!

This is a great tip. But also SDV is so affordable given the value

Concerned Ape is such a wholesome developer who keeps giving us content so I have no issue paying full price on every platform

Great. And they need to start hosting publicly funded fediverse instances too.

People born in 2005 are now 20 years old and I’m not okay.

More specifically I think it’s important for Canadians to remember this is a working class vs capitalist issue. Not an American working class vs Canadian working class issue

anything short of perfectly gender conforming and straight

Shit, I fell directly into that category & I still delayed my sex change by 10 years after my first attempt at coming out.

It worked until it didn’t. And yes it was hell, I lost years of my life, and wouldn’t wish that on anybody. I think about how much I missed every day, but also, younger me wasn’t wrong.

asexuals undergoing mitosis

I support decoupling as quickly as possible

Me too, we just differ on how quickly that can happen without driving average people into the arms of fascists.

30% of our population would be glad to see it, and 30% is all it took in the US this past election.

What are you even talking about? Engagement in local politics and mutual aid is at historic lows, in large part due to the influence of US central social media corporations.

Why do you think the only two options here are your narrow ideas or nothing at all?

To be clear: the approach you’ve outlined is incompatible with anti-fascism. Therefore you can’t claim that moral high horse. Your approach is fundamentally flawed in that it’s still dogmatically invested in capitalistic top-down power consolidation.

Please, dear god. Get off the internet and sign up to help your local mutual aid organizations. We can do so so so much more to combat fascism by reminding each other of our collective strength, compassion, and humanity. That really is the antidote to fascism, and we all need to be working toward that more than anything our federal government can do via tarrifs or trade bans.

There are effective ways to fight fascism.

These are based on showing people there is a better way, and in particular showing average people that the left is working for them.

And then there are ways that directly embolden fascism by senselessly cratering the lives of everyday people thereby driving the masses directly into the arms of the far right.

You can’t just disentangle overnight, unfortunately. And I’m sorry but if you don’t think backlash is something that can/should be mitigated by an effective strategy then you haven’t been paying attention.

A far more effective antidote to fascism is mutual aid.

That’s all well and good until the electorate revolts by putting the CPC in charge next cycle. No thank you, if only for the fact it’s politically incompatible with anti-fascism. You can’t make such broad moves and expect there won’t be backlash. Canadians are NOT immune to the same thing happening up here that’s happening south of the border.

This is why I say it’s not the American people who are to blame. I wish more people understood this. Canadian society isn’t immune from the exact same thing coming up here, especially if the CPC wins and sells us out to the US. Lord knows too many of our population is culturally indoctrinated by US social media platforms.

70% of the US population DID NOT vote for Trump—they were either disillusioned with democracy (abstained) or voted for the least-bad option (Kamala). And of the remaining 30%, many of them don’t necessarily like Trump so much as they were duped enough into thinking he was less bad than the alternative.

Real talk: is there such a thing as a non-tariff response to what the US is doing that doesn’t amount to, essentially, rolling over while the US to curb stomps us? What’s the alternative? Because 70% seems low.