The casting alone is all you need to know to expect an unmitigated disaster.

I generally agree with the sentiment, and I generally view immigration as a positive. That being said, to suggest that immigration doesn’t put any kind of pressure on housing, employment, and social services (at least short term, probably not long term), will defeat your argument before it reaches the ears of the people who need to hear the rest of it.

I don’t know about elsewhere in Canada, but here, Bell and Rogers compete directly in the mobile space, and Bell competes directly with cable, and all of those options have multiple resellers at half the price, thanks to CRTC.

Are the prices the lowest in the world? No. Can you tell a company to fuck off? Yes, you can.

I don’t know. The Canada described by OP might be a foreign land compared to the part of Canada I know.

Yes and no. I’m sure there is an argument to be made that a house can be too big. Bigger houses require more maintenance, cleaning, higher taxes. Downsizing a house is also a retirement strategy.

and whether it’s a game or real life people stop cooperating once they think they are competing for something

Capitalism has a lot of problems, but the “competing” part ain’t it. Competition is the natural order of things, a large reason our biosphere exists and is self-sustainable. In the natural world, species and individuals compete with each other to ensure only the most adapted consume the limited resources efficiently. This is natural selection at play. Collaboration/symbiotism is the exception, virtually exclusively where species do not consume ressources.

In economic theory, competition is an important driver of innovation, and a source of bargaining power for labour.

If you want to expose the flaws of capitalism, I would start with unregulated capitalism, which brings antitrust/uncompetitive practices, worker exploitation (usually also because of uncompetitive hiring practices), and myriad issues around income inequality and equity.

In 1 year of being on Lemmy, I think this post is the first one to bring up the topic of identity of Fediverse participants in any form (besides an OP if identity is the original topic).

(Maybe I’ve just managed to steer clear of communities that exist solely to discuss identity hatred?)

AFAIAC, y’all are genderless, faceless, amorphous thought bubbles writing words that compete exclusively on the merits of the weight of their arguments. Y’all might as well be LLMs, whose identity is essentially an NVIDIA card and whatever corner of the internet was scrapped. Anyway… The identity of commenters has no place on the fediverse. They are either off topic, ad hominem, or anecdotal data points exclusively (again, original topics of identity being a distinct exception).

Just give em the benefit of the doubt that they are really just conservatives, who may be misguided, but who are generally still operating in good faith, unlike the Trumpists simply looking to seize power and abuse it.

Let’s not confuse conservatives with Trump supporters. “Republican” is an outdated label.

Although I don’t agree with a lot of “conservative” policies, I respect people with conservative views who advocate for those views respectfully and in good faith, where their only crime is to be a bit misguided.

The Trump movement, meanwhile, is just a naked power grab by everyone involved. Absolutely nothing redeeming there.

The point of this comic changes radically based on the perception around the word “giving”:

• Literal meaning of “giving” as in a giving charitably? This implies the freedom to decide to not be charitable. In that light, the comic makes no sense.
• A slightly less literal meaning of “giving”, as in handing over goods, services, or labour as part of a mutual exchange? In that light the comic comes across as either arrogant or just naive.
• “Giving” as in giving away under the presumption of coercion? Then yeah, this comic makes a lot of sense.

I don’t think the last interpretation is going to resonate very well with the people who need to hear the message the most.

I’m surprised this isn’t the central plot device of some blockbuster property.

This in Canada, BTW, but I s’pose that doesn’t invalidate your general statement.

Being friends is off the table, but solidarity among workers is important.

Which coincidentally was also its golden age (including VI).

Why make games at all when you can just milk the same game as a subscription service over and over?

Hang in there! I hope you find new meaning in old things or old meaning in new things.

So by “encouraging”, I take that to mean a mixed system? I’m all for the Nordic model. I think a hard-line approach is ultimately too disruptive and unpalatable to a majority of people’s current personal situation, and I feel like it’s important to communicate that for buy in.

Genuine question. How would a transition to socialism work in practice?

Eating the billionaires and “nationalizing” publicly traded companies is the easy part. Saying “you can still possess your car” is also easy. The hard, and ultimately unpopular, part is everything else in between. Summer cottage? Family farm? What happens to pensions/retirement savings, land ownership, inheritance, small businesses, the apartment your are renting out to pay for your own rent…

Yeah, I know, these things tend to be out of reach for younger folks these days, precisely because of hyper wealth concentration. So with billionaires and mega corps out of the picture, the question still stands.

The thing holding me back is multi monitor support. It’s just atrocious on Linux (and has been for a long time). I have issues with:

• can’t duplicate screens (“not supported” huh?),
• random screen not detected,
• broken layout when screen changed,
• flickering and constant layout changes

Not sure if anyone has tips? NVIDIA and Intel displays, scarred to even try VR.

Trump supporters just have small minds; it’s why they have been conned by trump to begin with. Concepts such as “liberty” and “civil rights” are too complex to explain and champion to them. Instead they understand only primitive things, like “weird” and “ugly”.

Half of voters don’t care about any of that. Half of voters have primitive caveman brains.

Trump is a weak man’s idea of strength, because weak people don’t understand what strength truly is since they haven’t experienced it themselves.

Replace “weak” and “strong” with various other attributes, and you instantly see why Trump can con people into voting for him.

Anyway, Trump supporters don’t understand “dangerous for democracy”. It is not part of their vocabulary. But being ostracized for being “weird”? That might just work. To speak to Trump voters, unfortunately the only way to communicate with them might be to use their primitive appeal to emotion.