Carighan

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (5 children)

"Open the door to Chinese EVs" isn't a simple solution because it has wider reaches than restricting Tesla-imports. There's a reason Germany just effected tariffs on chinese EVs, namely because they are arguing that as china subsidizes their EVs, naturally non-subsidized local companies could never be price-competitive.

I don't know how that situation is in canada, but I bet similar things have to be looked at.

I like the solution, but it's not a simple one.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

Oh I think you misunderstand me.

I'm not criticising who disagree with both parties, just those that did not vote and now want to pretend that didn't have an effect largely the same as a vote. Most voting systems cannot model non-voting, and hence it ends up being a vote in effect, and for whom is something you let somebody else decide then. It's silly to pretend otherwise. Abstaining means giving a vote to someone who you know won't win, that's the only way sadly.

To make abstaining visible you'd have to say, directly assign seats if the house to parties including that the percentage of non-voters forces seats to be left vacant or such. But I'm not sure anybody uses something like that, don't think so.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And yet people voted a fascist into office who is now actively acclerating genocide including wanting a country fully depopulated.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And yet now you got a fascist himself who also actively supports fascism and actively supports and accelerates Genocide in two countries, including wanting to entirely depopulate one.

BOY THAT NOT SUPPORTING FASCISM WORKED OUT WELL FOR YOU!!

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And so you voted by splitting your vote based on your local outcome. Which still, factually makes you have voted for either of the two.

One of which also wants your cost of living to go up (and is doing that now), social security to go down (and is doing that right now), reduce oversight of large corporations, massively expand corruption and corporate control of the government, reduce public safety and limit personal liberties.

If you got a choice between +9-1 and -11 (bonus for the Reps accelerating the genocide instead of abiding it) , and that's your two options, you don't pick the latter. And not voting is the same as voting for the local majority, so it matters fuck all what your intent was.

You, also, misunderstood what the vote was about, quite clearly.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (28 children)

The voters, genuinely. Because they misunderstood what the vote meant. It wasn't about electing a democrating candidate, it was about keeping Trump out of office*. Note that this is not limited to non-voters, but includes every american.

*: This is not what a vote for the president is meant to be about. But hey, desperate times, desperate measures, that kinda stuff.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems to depend massively on the sub though, most I am in will never see a right winger above -20 and constantly mocked at best.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Go fasc lose cash.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It also would not be legally enforcable in most countries, but I guess in the US it's Yeehaw law, so whatever the big corpo says goes.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So/so.

You only have the option if it's your instance that you're having defederated. You cannot prevent anyone from:

  • Spinning up a new instance then federating with you, then bridging the content from there to the defederated instance.
  • Simply using a web-scraper and a bot to post your stuff on another instance.

The second part is basically what is happening here.

Importantly, I feel people misunderstand on a fundamental level what it means to post things openly on the internet. Your only way to prevent this is simply to not post to a site that people can access freely and without a process through which you are vetting them for whether you trust them. As in: Just like IRL when you decide whether to tell things to friends or acquaintences or well, not.

But, on the web, you not only cannot prevent someone taking your public data and copying it over to wherever they so desire, you don't even know since they could be posting it in a place that you in turn have no access to so you cannot see it there.

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