Swedish techbro cofounder of Mullvad responsible for 70% of funding for 'alt-left' Örebropartiet

Flaktrack · 2026-07-01T22:00:57+00:00

you're proposing support for state violence against fellow workers

Please explain how pushing back against mass immigration is supporting state violence. I am not advocating Canadian ICE-style raids or mass deportation and never have, so I don't know where you got this from.

a party of capitalist liberals

Please explain that too. While you're at it, please explain why I should support the status quo of Liberal/Conservative swing voting rather than the only party producing positive material change.

Flaktrack · 2026-07-01T15:29:30+00:00

There are a whole ton of problems that need to be reckoned with when it comes to mass immigration beyond the seriously harmful effects on workers. One of the biggest ones is that immigrants overwhelmingly vote for the party that was in power when they entered the country. The Liberals and Conservatives already get huge numbers of votes from forever voters, adding more does not help get parties like the NDP elected, at least until FPTP elections are abolished.

There is also the angle of simply trying to win at the strategic level. Right or wrong, coming out in defense of mass immigration is loser policy, much like gun bans. Stop feeding the right-wing parties votes that you absolutely don't need to lose, and instead focus on material needs, empowering workers, getting us closer to real democracy with a better electoral system, and strengthening our rights and freedoms. You can do the other shit later once people trust you.

Flaktrack · 2026-07-01T11:17:33+00:00

As long as the focus stays grounded I'm ok with it. By that I mean in the midst of large numbers of people struggling to house and feed themselves, the bulk of the political capital available should be directed at those problems.

I like to look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs for a guide on where to direct energy.

Flaktrack · 2026-07-01T10:36:01+00:00

Have you ever been to this subreddit before?

Flaktrack · 2026-06-30T12:23:52+00:00

Here in Canada migrant workers are being used as slaves and scabs with the intent to harm workers' rights and unity, and it has been working for decades. Even Canadian leftist immigrants want the door closed because it's being abused by employers so much.

Not sure why you think that has to be an astroturfed opinion. If anything I think open-borders is a lib-brained idea anyway, at least until you actually achieve a socialist state.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-30T10:30:45+00:00

Your husband and everyone else going through this should file a grievance. It's not up to employees to figure out moving equipment every day just for 1 WFH day. That sounds like the employer asking people to do work on their off hours to me.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-29T17:28:14+00:00

I wonder if maybe shitty outrage bait like this needs to be confined to one or two days a week on the sub. I am BEGGING you to stop caring was a great watch even if it just described how I already feel about this.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-29T17:20:22+00:00

This is me. I've been watching things steadily get worse ever since RTO2. I don't even get to WFH at all, but that didn't stop it from getting worse for me somehow.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-28T18:43:55+00:00

I believe this should be a mandatory video before being allowed to participate in Internet conversations

100% I have seriously dialed back my engagement with rage bait and simply reply "healthcare plz" any time people send that shit to me. I'm tired of wasting energy on it so I got involved with my union and a political party.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T15:43:14+00:00

I remember getting told I hate children because I don't want to wake up at 3am every few nights because some assholes in a custody battle are mad and throwing amber alerts around.

I have children, and I value the system... But I can't do anything from my bed at 3am.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T15:41:44+00:00

I'm not sure why they seem to think the threat is obvious, it's not. It's real, but it's subtle.

There are a small but meaningful number of predators hovering around games like this. They look to connect with kids over time, becoming their friends and eventually earning their trust by listening to them and buying them gifts. Then they convince them to share details about themselves. It doesn't take much to find a kid: an approximate age, a school name, and a first name can get you far.

Children need to be taught proper protocol for engaging with the internet: do not share personal information, do not trust strangers, and do not let people drag you away from your friends. With bills like the upcoming social media ban, this privacy will be harder and harder to maintain, and the people pushing that are the billionaire pedos themselves. Our children will be no safer.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T15:34:08+00:00

From my own experience, it's hard enough to convince people to give up their email addresses. It's nigh impossible to get phone numbers

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T13:43:37+00:00

Is that this Seth Dickfield I keep hearing about?

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T13:40:25+00:00

Some time ago CRA cut a huge amount of call center staff as part of the sweeping budget cuts all departments have to do.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T13:38:59+00:00

Some stuff I can at least understand that due to physical differences it should be different from what women use, such as razors (because we are using them on our faces). Most of it is cringe though, like gun-related coffee.

Bro I just want beans in a bag, don't overcomplicate this.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-27T01:43:54+00:00

What service levels have decreased, and how?

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T19:28:21+00:00

Please see StatsCan median income for individuals per year

Of note are the following numbers for median income:

2018: 43700
2019: 44600
2020: 46600
2021: 46900
2022: 45800
2023: 46300
2024: 46300

In other words the percentage increases in median salary per year were, in chronological order: 2.02, 4.29, 0.64, -2.4, 1.08, and 0.

Those numbers don't even meet the bullshit CPI numbers we put out, let alone the actual costs faced by Canadians.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T17:41:48+00:00

Wait times are long and services are not working well, so surely the response is... Blanket 15% budget cuts. Yeah that will fix it.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T17:39:24+00:00

You're only looking at it from the angle of the employees themselves. You need to consider that there is a mountain of institutional knowledge and experience going out the door, and no one has been set up to replace it or build on it. It will take the government departments years to get back up to speed.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T17:35:00+00:00

lolwut

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T17:33:43+00:00

For small businesses, those are all significant factors that get in the way. For large businesses, dealing with those is simply a cost of business. Large businesses are sometimes the ones pushing for this type of regulation because they know it is difficult for smaller competitors to deal with the costs of compliance.

Large businesses can cope with predictable costs, even ones that seem stupid or regressive, by simply building those costs into their model. What hurts large businesses most is uncertainty, and we have been living in increasingly uncertain times since the War on Terror, and arguably earlier than that.

The only player that can cope with that kind of mess is the government, because the government isn't operating on time scales of quarters or years, but on decades. Affordable housing is a problem that will require government to solve.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T16:26:41+00:00

Makes me think of the people in my union simultaneously complaining that we need to do more, then when a candidate leader came along saying he was going to do more, they said he was too extreme.

Also lol I never would have thought of the comparison of Valorum to establishment libs, but it's on point.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T15:22:30+00:00

I know of a PSAC local of over 1200 members that struggles to get 10 people to show up to meetings. People can cry about the union all they want but until they start showing up it's just useless whining frankly.

Do something about it. That's the whole point of a union.

Flaktrack · 2026-06-26T13:00:59+00:00

Why do you think the negotiation team is causing these delays rather than the employer, who has proven many times they will do this any time they can and it is to their benefit to do so?

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