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People should never trust Apple

They slowed down their iPhones on purpose to encourage people to buy new ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/10/apple-questioned-us-senate-slowing-down-iphones-french-investigation

If you want to see what ideology can do to a nation's elite, look at the United Kingdom today.

London isn't a global financial center because the British have special genes for money. London is a global finance center because the United Kingdom was the most powerful global empire that the world had ever seen.

Throughout history, the powerful nations scream "FREE TRADE, OPEN YOUR MARKETS. NOW !!!" because they are confident. They know that their big corporations can be unleashed on the small countries. At the peak of its power, the UK was the most free trade country in the world. In London, the UK elite were 100% confident their corporations could dominate the world. The Chinese try to resist? They don't want to accept our corporations ? We will make them open their market, whether they like or not.

For a long period, the US was actually a protectionist country.

Why did the entire US elite became a cheerleader of globalization after World War 2 ? Extreme confidence. They know that globalization means Coca-Cola, Starbucks Coffee, Amazon, Adobe, Boeing, Microsoft and Apple can be unleashed on the planet.

From Tokyo to Mumbai, from Montreal to Rio de Janeiro, from Mecca to Sydney. They want to see McDonalds and Starbucks everywhere. They want Amazon everywhere. They want Adobe Software and Microsoft Windows everywhere. They want to see Apple phones everywhere.

In recent years, the Chinese started to build sophisticated large corporations capable of threatening US dominance in fields like Pharma, Satellites, Chips, Robotics, Technology, Planes.

That's when the US elite really started to worry. Under the Biden administration, the americans tried to throw money at Intel and Boeing. They created a powerful wall to protect car corporations against BYD. Trump is just a symptom of the american panic, but he is crude and ignorant.

The British are no longer an empire. They are increasingly a small little country like many others. And like all small countries, they are fucked by corporate empires like Starbucks Coffee or Amazon

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-19967397

https://www.channel4.com/news/amazons-tax-bill-and-government-grants-revealed

Make absolutely no mistake. Going to Amazon is worse for the economy than going to a British-owned book store. Going to Starbucks is worse for the economy than going to a British-citizen owned coffee. Anyone telling you otherwise is taking you for a fool. In one case the money is leaving Britain and increasing the foreign deficit. In another case, the money is taxed and stays in Britain.

The London elites, still believe they run the British empire. They openly scream "We LOVE globalization, we LOVE free trade". These fools went as far as selling their critical water infrastructure to foreign investors and bragging about it ("Britain is open for business").

Now, Trump openly declared a trade war on them. The British Chancellor reacts by saying calls for buying British products are bad because it's against free trade.

That's what happens when you completely swallow your own bullshit.

American influence is the worst thing that ever happened to Canada.

Take for instance Opioids.

Canadians are now the second highest per capita users of opioids on the planet, only behind the USA.

Opioid sales in Canada have increased by +3000% since the 1980s.

https://www.mironline.ca/the-opioid-crisis-a-canadian-perspective/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31845436/

According to a recent study, Canadian and American doctors are 7 times more likely than European doctors to prescribe Opioids after a surgery:

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/september/patients-in-the-us-and-canada-are-seven-times-as-likely-as-sweden-to-receive-opioids--surgery

How did it happen? English-Canada doctors go to conferences with their american colleagues. They liked them. They socialized. They trusted them.

• "Wow, we are so similar haha"!
• "It was nice attending this conference with you. See you next year !!"

Health Canada is also responsible for this disaster.

A number of studies have pointed out Health Canada’s failures to control the promotion of opioids in Canada, allowing Purdue to spread misinformation about OxyContin in particular and opioids in general

Based on little evidence, in 1996 Health Canada approved the drug for the management of moderate pain, ignored the risk of addiction, and allowed the statement in the product monograph that the risk of misuse is low. In addition, the product monograph provided no recommended maximum dose, allowing the drug to be marketed and prescribed with no upper dose limit.

It also took Health Canada more than ten years to revise misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310031/

Again. Health Canada largely trusts the US FDA. They attend the same conferences every single year. They socialize. If the americans say something is safe, the Health Canada officials largely trust them.

The Opioid Mess is exactly what happens when you trust the most institutionally corrupt nation in the West because they sound friendly and speak English. Thank god Quebec doctors kept reading french newspapers and listening to french regulators. They largely avoided this Opioid plague.

A vial of insulin costs far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada.

Drug prices are set by Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board which sets price caps by comparing drug prices across a group of 11 countries. The U.S. used to be included in the formula, but was removed from the group in 2022 — because U.S. drug prices are an insane global outlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patented_Medicine_Prices_Review_Board

A group of Pharma companies including Pfizer and Merck have asked the Trump administration to put pressure on Canada. They are accusing the country of unfair trade practices.

In december 2023, Reuters found Tesla systematically lied to customers about the range of their cars

👉 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

In 2023, the New York Times exposed how Tesla lied about the safety of his self-driving mode. Engineers told Musk the system wasn't safe. He told them to shut up. As a result of his lies, several people were killed:

👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html

Guess how Elon Musk reacted ? Did he resign? Nope. He went on the offensive.

He tells people to avoid "legacy media" (news organizations doing real journalism) and trust shady podcasters. He also ensured links to Reuters and the New York Times articles can't go viral on X

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/x-formerly-twitter-slows-down-access-to-threads-the-new-york-times-bluesky-and-more/

Elon Musk's greatest skill is his ability to lie without absolutely any shame.

Tesla was created by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. Elon Musk joined the company, took over. Then he sued them both. He bought the title "cofounder" with a secret legal settlement. Now, he calls himself the cofounder.

https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

He's also "Chief Engineer" at Space X. That's another title he bought too, as he owns the company. He's actually not a real engineer. He has a degree in finance.

Just like he is the co-founder of PayPal by most publications. When in reality his company merged with the company that created PayPal. He only worked for the company for a few months after they merged before being fired.

He has a habit of smearing innocent people. He once called an innocent man a pedophile and hired investigators to dig dirt on him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ignores-tesla-board-and-keeps-tweeting

He did the same thing when taking over Twitter. He called twitter executives “scum”, “dishonest” and “thieves”.

He described USAID as a criminal organization. Yet, not a single USAID worker will be prosecuted. Because there is absolutely no evidence that USAID workers misappropriated any money. This is just how Elon Musk operates. Lying. Smearing innocent people. Because, unfortunately, some gullible fools believe him.

This dude just lies shamelessly. Even his video game performance is based on cheating.

Justin Trudeau is a decent man. In a world where many leaders are thugs. He has done a lot of good things such as assisted dying, legal marijuana, strengthening competition law or that bill against greenwashing.

However, the single biggest failure of Trudeau was immigration.

Justin Trudeau's immigration policies were absolutely extreme. Under his leadership, the Canadian population increased by 3% a year. This is far more than France, Britain, the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil or Saudi Arabia. In fact, the only region of the world where you see a 3% annual population growth is Africa.

This extreme population growth triggered an unprecedented housing crisis. Visible homelessness is rising in every single canadian city, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People are scared to end up homeless. New migrants are viciously exploited by unethical landlords.

You can't tell people from around the world "Come to Canada" and think it will have no consequences on housing.