Liberals can suck my dick, and I’ll make sure they don’t enjoy it.
Months old now, but yeah, Canada’s investment into “AI sovereignty” is to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into a closely US-aligned company founded by a bunch of UoT jagoffs. If you read through their partnerships with Canada and the UK, it is filled with vague buzzphrases about improving national services and “sovereignty.” Apparently , this could mean anything between writing emails for govt employees – which means they’re even less accountable for what they say and do – or straight up making decisions for our public works. When was the last time you saw the federal government invest that much money into its services? Strange that they should make an investment like this alongside a massive expansion of military spending.
https://cohere.com/blog/canada-uk-government-partnerships
https://cohere.com/blog/secure-ai-in-government-use-cases?ref=cohere-ai.ghost.io
https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-chooses-cohere-ai-startup-best-alternative-openai-2023-6
It’s absolutely incredible to me that libs are funneling 3.8 billion to buy jets from the US, and funneling who knows how much money into these AI pyramid schemes instead of investing in things like our healthcare system, infrastructure, housing, or domestic industry. Our government will spend money literally on anything else other than actually improving living conditions in the country. And people wonder why the far right continues to be a growing force in Canada.
Why is it incredible? The only time liberals invests in public works is when they are forced to. That’s how this system works and the current conditions are extremely favourable to further neoliberalisation of public funds. Canadians are white supremacist settlers in a particularly energetic nationalist moment. It is not hard to sell privileged people on the idea that Canada is threatened by the empire it is a part of and, because they are neglected a understanding of that system, many do believe that military expansion is how that happens.
This is not why the “far right” have experienced successful platforming in North America, it’s because their rhetoric is already consistent with the interests of capital. While there are certainly poor fascists, most white people in this country are not so dependent on social welfare programs that erosion of those services fundamentally alters their politics. They already subscribe to those values, and perceived threats do not magnify them, they focus them. It is easy to tell middle-class white suburbanites that jobs and housing are bad because there are too many brown people because they already hated having brown people here and they correctly identify that they are privileged enough to weather whatever consequences may come from that.
Oh I was being facetious here, and I very much agree with everything you’re saying here. We live under the dictatorship of capital, and they only throw us enough scraps so that we don’t riot.
Unsurprising and good to know.
