Ontario rips up $100M Starlink contract ahead of U.S. tariffs - eviltoast

Ford’s office made the announcement Monday and said the government is also banning other American companies from provincial contracts going forward

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    It’s not sane US citizens doing this

    At some point we need to hit their pocket too.

    33% of American didn’t even bother to show up and vote. They’re complicit in this, and they deserve the pinch to wake the fuck up as to what their country is doing.

    And if that’s not enough, well… the sane ones might need to get off their ass and start doing something about the rampant assholes running around shitting on everyone.

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      Speaking of turnout, Ontario has an election coming up. Last time, Doug Ford (Conservative) was voted back in with a turnout of 43%. So about 57% of Ontarians didn’t bother to take a few minutes to vote. And now our healthcare and education systems are being dismantled for the sake of profit. Maybe on February 27th we can get a slightly less shameful turnout and vote for someone who will actually stand up for Ontario’s public services and stand up against the USA’s bullying and threats?

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      Lol, I did vote for all the good it did. I’m no more complicit in the actions of Trump’s administration than any run-of-the-mill Russian civilian is for the actual land war being waged by their government.

      Me, you, and all the other little guys worldwide, we are being punked by global oligarchy.

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      Great, sure, and I’m in the 33% that said, and is saying “hell to the power of fuck NO”.

      Edit: By which I mean I voted against the current shitshow. Sometimes my engrish is unclear. ;-)

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          Ah, you misunderstand. Allow me to be explicit: I did vote against this shit show. Donvict47 won by 1.5%, and 19 million fewer voters in that election. It was voter suppression that won that election.

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              And how do you feel about propaganda that encourages people to not vote? If the propaganda effectively stops people from voting, e.g. bomb scares at polling places, or you’re not in a swing state so your vote doesn’t matter, would you call that suppression? Just asking.

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            You’re comfused. 33% of Americans did not vote. To say you’re part of that 33% means you didn’t vote.

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              They didn’t say they were part of that 33%, they said they were “part of the 33% that said…” Which is a different third of the population

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                  33% didn’t vote. That means 66% did vote. Of the 66% that voted half of them voted against Trump.

                  Now, what is half of 66%? 33% is half of 66%.

                  So the commenter is saying they are in the 33% of Americans that voted for Kamala.

                  33% Trump, 33% Kamala, 33% no vote.

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      There is evidence that voter suppression + not counting/disqualifying forced provisional votes created Trump victory.

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      Why don’t we bring our skills together in a massive co-op that pays us fairly, that starts to compete with these mega corporations

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      33% of American didn’t even bother to show up and vote. They’re complicit in this

      Millions in CA, whose votes went to the Dems. So tired of people pretending they can just lump all non voters together when they can’t

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        If you’re not against fascists you’re with them. There’s no middle ground

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        You can lump most of them together (I’d make exceptions for those with a genuine reason they couldn’t, a medical issue or absolute lack of transport options for example). even if your state is, and was, solid blue, enough showing support to the Democrat candidate would have meant that Trump couldn’t claim a mandate as the popular vote would have gone the other way. Sure, it wouldn’t change the outcome itself, but would have given some comfort to those suffering that the majority of voters didn’t want this. As it is, he scraped the popular vote, and the record shows that, in fact, the majority of those who could be bothered to vote actually deliberately voted for this.

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          They’re talking about the ridiculous electoral college which should be abolished. But voting is still important. I am in one of the reddest states and I still voted. There were important ballot measures and it’s important to still vote even when you know it won’t count. Now the dipshit gets to claim a mandate because he won popular vote. And of course with his lying he’s calling it a landslide.

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            Not American but Canadian and live in Alberta. I get off my ass every election and vote even though I know there is not a snowballs chance in hell anything but the cons are getting in power. They have been in power my whole life and longer except for one blip. Hoping for another longer one.