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by motohagiography 30 days ago
I worked in privacy and security in canada for decades. We could only hold them off so long. The whole country is being demolished to be reinvented as a technocrat machine levered against human desire.

It means the solutions aren't technical, and nobody votes their way out of this. I've checked out because the demoralization campaign worked, and there is nothing to save. The outs are Alberta separation, US annexation, civil war, or MAID. There is no longer a political solution. If there were, these surveillance controls would not be necessary.
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vkou 30 days ago
If you think becoming an American colony is going to be an 'out', I have some seafront property in Edmonton to sell you.
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motohagiography 29 days ago
The King is the head of state, it's trivial to switch that to a US appointee. It's the highest likelihood on the list of alternatives to accepting a surveillance state. Canadians don't have the anything for a civil war, nobody who believes in anything will take MAID, Alberta secession has to go through imported "votes" and a process designed to sabotage it.

If Canada had any kind of national identity it would not have become what was recently described as a "south asian country controlled by China," in a conversation about its relationship to US national security. Outside faculty clubs pickle ball courts, and maybe dog daycare pickup runs, there is zero resistance to annexation. It would be the only time the US would ever be "greeted as liberators."

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LocalH 29 days ago
The US is tripping over itself to enact a surveillance state with the assistance of big tech corporations. Becoming a US territory would not, in any way, prevent a surveillance state from taking over.
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vkou 29 days ago
If you think that Canada can be described as a Chinese puppet by serious people, I'm not sure I can take any of the rest seriously. I'd suggest that you stop listening to MAGA propaganda in the particular, and anglonews in the general.
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motohagiography 29 days ago
These serious people you know, do they read primary sources?

- PRC police stations in Canada: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlm...

- Foreign interference in elections: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=abo&dir=comp/m...

You have no serious people.

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