This honestly reads like AI it so dependably hits neoliberal talking points.

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.

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

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198885516/these-tech-giants-are-at-the-white-house-today-to-talk-about-the-risks-of-ai

https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2025/03/government-of-canada-finalizes-investment-to-support-canadian-born-ai-leader-cohere.html

Okay, that’s fine you’ve been in “debates” in internet forums, I’m actually an academic who writes about cultural and social norms, and knowledge production professionally.

I’m not going to engage with anything here because its obvious you aren’t a serious person but very much want to be recognised as one without the work. Nothing here is honest and you’ve chosen to argue that I’m just stupid; both good signs that you are very dedicated to your anti-intellectualism.

This has not been a “debate,” this was me explaining a useful skill to you. Some honest advice: stop feeling satisfied with yourself just because you feel smart on the internet. You’re an adult and nobody is going to force you to grow into something better.

I’m going you ask you how you would explain fermionic condensates to a child who does not even know what the states of matter are let alone subatomic particles and quantum states; what quantum means even. (Do you know what it is?) I think it’s obvious to all of us why we simplify things for them even if it’s inaccurate for professionals.

Also, you entirely ignored any reality around the preservation of natural knowledge through these cultural practices, which I mentioned to encourage you to also consider how wildly racist this stance is. Countless cultures accurately record their histories and knowledge through practices that dont necessarily conform to the Euro-settler-colonial imagination of knowledge or evidence.

Education systems in liberal states don’t prime children to subscribe to distortions because they simplify things, they do that through obscuring the skills to develop that knowledge and through the systemic enforcement of industrious teaching pedagogies that objectifies the students as labour. Yes, that fails to educate students adequately to grow into intellectual adults, but that isn’t the purpose of those systems. To conflate necessary elements of growth and education with politically motivated education systems is once again ironically anti-intellectual.

Most of your comment is obviously unreasonable, and I think it’s safe to give you the grace to assume that you understand this as well. No, women who get into a witch phase aren’t guaranteed to be anti-intellectual or believe in magic as they get older and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that it does besides your vibes. I called you a doomer because this is a doomer narrative where alternative ways of knowing are not only discarded, but actively constructed as pathological. I’ve used “ironically” more in these few comments than I have anywhere else in the past year; but this way of thinking is ironically superstitious.

Yup, you failed the charisma check. So desperate.

I’m going to be 100% honest with you, I dont trust the people in this community to know what that means, let alone abandon the notion that political ideology is an identity.

“Racism is when you say colonialism is bad.” It is wild to hear people unironically admit to identifying so strongly with an oppressive system that they cannot seperate themselves from it. There is no complexity in how you think.

Anything is the definition of anything.

See, if you said it was grade A+ nonsense, then I’d be hurt.

This is not a new thing, access to housing has always been a fundamental mechanism of control in settlers colonial states. This was only recognised as a real problem once it affected privileged groups who have experienced enough generational wealth to normalize homeownership.

You’re right, most representatives who make our decisions on housing happen to be members of a privileged class which is actively invested in profiting off that control. It does not end at housing, the exact problem with reform in a capitalist system is the link between privilege and material wealth ensures that the interests of capital remain paramount in society.

This is an ironically anti-intellectual way to engage with it. Magic isnt real, but knowledge on the natural world and medicine has been maintained through cultural practices like “witchcraft” in the past. Even beyond that, there’s knowledge gained for young women in a patriarchal society when they develop relationships with other women and identify with a group that is explicitly counter-cultural on the basis of women empowerment.

Knowledge isn’t just facts, it’s skills and introspection. Belief in something “bullshit” is often necessary to learn something that is not “bullshit.” We teach kids scientifically inaccurate information when they are young because they dont have a basis of knowledge that would enable more nuanced and accurate understandings. They “believe” in something like three states of matter and two genders/sexes because we judge that as a necessary belief to foster the skills that will enable them to learn the reality of these things later.

If they gained self - understanding and empowerment through this phase, then it isn’t bullshit. You should challenge this doomerism.

which history book, specifically? Why are you so confident you know anything about what you’re talking about?

Gotta afford the jets and oil subsidies somehow.

It wasn’t rhetorical, it was meant to encourage you to question the current conditions the EU exists under because imperialism never ended despite the European assertion that everything is fine now because they feel bad about it. Yes, colonised people are part of the EU as they are part of ever fucking nation on this planet because of the scope of effect that trajectory of colonialism achieved. You’ll notice that Irish people are far more vocally decolonial than French or German people, how curious.

I do not care who was the naughtiest imperialist in the past – though that history teaches us a lot about how this system developed – because the EU is still fundamentally a colonial system. The dissonance many Europeans on these threads express is that their understanding of colonialism is conveniently drawn at the borders and exists on the scale of severity you described above. Notice how this understanding also positions the violence in the past, as though it functions to obscure the continuance of that violence. EU states invest in colonialism directly and foster corporations – which are also conveniently imagined as separate from formal organising despite neoliberal policies – that engage in colonialism. Pick any commodity around your house, and look up who owns the resources that built it. Where does your phone battery come from, the fish you eat, the oil that fuels your cities.

The world extends beyond your doorstep.

Lmao, source?

Yes, you dense motherfucker. Where do you think that came from?

It really isn’t, are there any states within the EU that do not benefit from the concentration of wealth that colonialism has generated?

Refer above. It’s tough to believe that people from such a civilised place dont know what colonialism is.

I think it is genuinely funny how many of you did not even consider that slavery outside the borders could happen. Almost like youre primed to think of it that way