Some of his ideas, like defunding CBC, are foolish.

I don’t think Pierre Poilievre is a Nazi. Statements like that are unhelpful.

Fair enough.

I think hardware companies should make money selling devices. They should be banned from jailing their users in a locked proprietary ecosystem.

The Xbox doesn’t have the majority of the gaming market.

The smartphone market is basically a duopoly.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows

This is nothing but pure extortion.

Thank god for the EU, which forced Apple to back down:

Fortnite, one of the world’s biggest video games, is available as an iPhone app for the first time in four years. However, it will only be available to players in the European Union. This is because EU law requires Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices - other parts of the world do not have comparable legislation. The game was removed from the App Store in 2020 following a payments row between Apple and Epic.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70j5rx72yvo

As for canadians/americans, they are in jail.

Imagine your friend in Europe sends you a phone invite to play .

-“Oh. I’m sorry but I am not allowed to do that 😢”

Installing Linux was one of the best decisions of my life.

I have not gone back to Microsoft Windows.

Don’t listen to people telling you it’s hard. I don’t have an IT degree or engineering degree. Installing it was easy. It works just fine.

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded they use them.

This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

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If you want to see what ideology can do to a nation’s elite, look at the United Kingdom today.

London isn’t a global financial center because the British have special genes for money. London is a global finance center because the United Kingdom was the most powerful global empire that the world had ever seen.

Throughout history, the powerful nations scream “FREE TRADE, OPEN YOUR MARKETS. NOW !!!” because they are confident. They know that their big corporations can be unleashed on the small countries. At the peak of its power, the UK was the most free trade country in the world. In London, the UK elite were 100% confident their corporations could dominate the world. The Chinese try to resist? They don’t want to accept our corporations ? We will make them open their market, whether they like or not.

For a long period, the US was actually a protectionist country.

Why did the entire US elite became a cheerleader of globalization after World War 2 ? Extreme confidence. They know that globalization means Coca-Cola, Starbucks Coffee, Amazon, Adobe, Boeing, Microsoft and Apple can be unleashed on the planet.

From Tokyo to Mumbai, from Montreal to Rio de Janeiro, from Mecca to Sydney. They want to see McDonalds and Starbucks everywhere. They want Amazon everywhere. They want Adobe Software and Microsoft Windows everywhere. They want to see Apple phones everywhere.

In recent years, the Chinese started to build sophisticated large corporations capable of threatening US dominance in fields like Pharma, Satellites, Chips, Robotics, Technology, Planes.

That’s when the US elite really started to worry. Under the Biden administration, the americans tried to throw money at Intel and Boeing. They created a powerful wall to protect car corporations against BYD. Trump is just a symptom of the american panic, but he is crude and ignorant.

The British are no longer an empire. They are increasingly a small little country like many others. And like all small countries, they are fucked by corporate empires like Starbucks Coffee or Amazon

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-19967397

https://www.channel4.com/news/amazons-tax-bill-and-government-grants-revealed

Make absolutely no mistake. Going to Amazon is worse for the economy than going to a British-owned book store. Going to Starbucks is worse for the economy than going to a British-citizen owned coffee. Anyone telling you otherwise is taking you for a fool. In one case the money is leaving Britain and increasing the foreign deficit. In another case, the money is taxed and stays in Britain.

The London elites, still believe they run the British empire. They openly scream “We LOVE globalization, we LOVE free trade”. These fools went as far as selling their critical water infrastructure to foreign investors and bragging about it (“Britain is open for business”).

Now, Trump openly declared a trade war on them. The British Chancellor reacts by saying calls for buying British products are bad because it’s against free trade.

That’s what happens when you completely swallow your own bullshit.