article buried beneath news about trump and trudeau’s marital problems. what-the-hell

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Telecommunications giant Telus says it is trimming 6,000 jobs, citing its need to free up cash flow and remain competitive.

    You have only two competitors, and you all match each others' prices. Who the fuck are you competing with?

    If the NDP really wanted power, they'd run on a platform of nationalizing the telecoms. They'd win hands-down. But they're spineless succdems at their core, which means they don't want to win.

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      You could easily argue that it's necessary as a national defense thing, plus it's obviously stunting their economy to have such shit data limits and speeds.

    • earhart [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      the way they call it “trimming” is fucking infuriating too, as if they’re discussing a haircut and not 6,000 people getting fucked over during ANOTHER cost of living crisis in this country

    • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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      11 months ago

      The telcos own literally all TV news and a fair amount of the redt, you'd get fucked by propagandized boomers.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Looking at election results it's not like they're winning anyway, so maybe they should triple down on the "soc" part of socdem to try to attract non-voters.

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          so maybe they should triple down on the "soc" part of socdem to try to attract non-voters.

          they've been slowly moving the opposite direction of that for years