I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he’ll have time to go out and discover it now.
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floofloof@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs67·6 hours agoBezos is a sniveling coward.
floofloof@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse10·7 hours agoYes, this chart shows how it’s not a good result for anyone on the left (though much better than a Conservative government):
Source: National Post
floofloof@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before MetaEnglish2·8 hours agoThey’ve gotten used to it in different political circumstances. But as people start to see how an authoritarian and vindictive fascist government works with surveillance tech to invade and endanger people’s lives, attitudes to things like always-on cameras may start to shift.
floofloof@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private MessagesEnglish57·9 hours agoWell at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.
floofloof@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before MetaEnglish4·9 hours agoBut think of the constant, total surveillance opportunity for Apple, and how this could help them win favor and contracts from the fascist US government!
floofloof@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before MetaEnglish40·9 hours agoIn the current US political climate, giving everyone glasses with always-on cameras run by big tech companies seems particularly dangerous.
floofloof@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB keyEnglish1·16 hours agoIt’s true. I remember it fondly as a very optimistic year.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by TrumpEnglish45·16 hours agoCertainly there’s a lot of strategic voting going on. But you don’t see the Liberal (centrist) seat count increasing as the NDP goes down: the gains are all with the Conservatives. If it were a matter of progressives deciding to just consolidate with Liberals, you’d expect to see the Liberal seat count go up as the smaller parties went down. To me this suggests either that some people are flipping directly from left to right or that there is a general rightwards drift, with right-wing Liberals going over to Conservatives and left-wing strategic voters filling in some of the gap they leave for the Liberals. In either case it’s concerning that when the Conservatives fielded their most far-right leader so far, their share of the seats went up.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by TrumpEnglish88·16 hours agoYes, we narrowly avoided going down the Trump route this time, but I don’t find this picture particularly encouraging (NDP, Green and BQ are the three most progressive parties):
Source: National Post
It’s not straightforward to understand that, since this is a chart of seats not votes, and you can get weird effects with first-past-the-post and strategic voting, but it certainly looks like the electorate is moving rightwards at the expense of progressives.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump demands investigations into negative approval rating polls4·1 day agoNot sure whether you’re joking, but no, the subject of “loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying” is “They” from the beginning of the sentence. Surprisingly, the whole thing hangs together grammatically.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump sends election message to Canadians: "cherished 51st State"36·1 day agoI think it’s that, and also that he’s serious about annexing Canada. Whether he can convince anyone else to be serious about it is another question, but we shouldn’t get complacent.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•‘IT WAS MEANT TO BE!’ Trump Trolls ‘Great People of Canada’ Let Him Take Over Country and Serve as PresidentEnglish101·1 day agoI need to remind you that only people from USA can vote in the USA elections and that not everyone you’ll find online is from USA. Have a good day.
I was addressing my fellow Canadians, because the Canadian election is today. Ironically, it seems you assumed I was an American talking about the USA.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump demands investigations into negative approval rating polls21·1 day agoI think of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, masters of aimlessness, crisis and noise, firing all those experienced people who have been quietly and competently managing government departments for years or decades. This only looks like progress to fools.
floofloof@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump demands investigations into negative approval rating polls34·1 day agoYes. Trump can’t spell.
floofloof@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Trump staff puts immigrants' mug shots on White House lawn8·1 day agoTrump’s making the White House as ugly as the people within it.
floofloof@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•‘IT WAS MEANT TO BE!’ Trump Trolls ‘Great People of Canada’ Let Him Take Over Country and Serve as PresidentEnglish224·1 day agoVote!
Edit: I’m addressing Canadians.
In the policies section of the page you link, there are a number of positions that are typically associated with “progressive” politics.