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And the neoliberal train continues on its way to Fascism station.

More about the disconnect between the leadership and the membership:

Crombie said she felt confident heading into the voting, with the support of the party’s executive council, her team and the caucus. Src

That's right. If they had not mentioned him or mentioned a few examples, him among them, that would have made the optics very different.

The benefit also being increasing their power over the rest of society by means of exercising control over their assets and public institutions staffed by likeminded people. For example by buying news media and shifting focus away from those same issues that provide those benefits.

E: Saw headlines about a couple of rumors - David Ellison buying CNN and Larry Ellison buying TikTok. The first is the same Ellison who bought CBS via Paramount and is planning to install Bari Weiss as head of news. The second is his dad, Oracle owner and a top 3 richest person in the world.

And yet these folks were like, "we'd like to try again."

Isolating the market power context, yeah. But that's an important differrence. Is it the dominant player in the product line you're using that you more less have no choice but to use, or is it a small firm with next to no such power doing it. Is it a for-profit enterprise exercising their market power to maximize profits or is it a small non-profit trying to maintain sustaimability. I would react with curses to MS doing it, while being unbothered or even appreciative in the latter case. Assuming this isn't happening with such frequency as to cause annoyance.

57 per cent voted no.

This is why things are fucked. 57% thought she's okay to run against Ford. That's over half the OLP delegates basically voting for a Ford win.

E:

Crombie said she felt confident heading into the voting, with the support of the party’s executive council, her team and the caucus. Src

🙈🙉🙊

Does anyone know what's going on in this context? Is this a part of the trade negotiations or something?

Sure. An ad for a promo of a product by the firm whose product I'm using does not cross any lines for me and it doesn't even register as an ad in the colloquial sense in my mind. It's like when my local bike shop worker co-op asks me if I want some other product or service when I'm ordering. But I do ubderstand this isn't a universal view.

Isn't that a promo for Proton itself?

I think this goes even further back to the second or even the first red scare.

Must be the stroke.