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    1. Harris wants to increase taxes on the rich. They stand to lose the most to that.
    2. Getting guaranteed government contracts is an insanely profitable gravy train to companies; particularly military spending.
    3. More so if you can actually insert your company into government logistics ( say, space flight, internet/communications and mail? )

    Hypothetical crazy talk:

    1. Potentially they want to start being fully dystopian and being their own governments as a way to cement a "legacy".
  • For everyone who thinks their vote won't count.

    The anti-vaxxer BC Conservative Party, of whom more than half are functionally Qanon fuckwits, came within 18 votes of preventing an NDP(left wing) majority government in British Columbia.

    18 votes, in an election of more than 2 million votes. Go and vote.

  • Investors.

    China's entire modern "economic miracle" is founded on housing as an investment vehicle.

    You can in part blame Canadian Conservatives in BC, specifically Bill Vanderzam, Christy Clark, Gordon Campbell and Kevin Falcon; as well as federally, Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper, for importing this behaviour and concept from Asia and its rise here. Initially in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was about attracting the elite of Hong Kong, who were afraid of what the handover of Hong Kong to the CCP would mean. (And rightly so, as it turns out.)

    Vancouver BC is infamously unaffordable, and its entirely because of investors, both national and international using its real estate as a ridiculously effective investment vehicle. If you had purchased a home in the suburbs for 500k in 2006, that home would be worth well over 2 to even 3 million dollars today.

    When Vancouver started capping out and hitting limits investors moved on to apply the same practices all over the continent.

  • I love the way Sir Terry Prachett wrote. In my opinion he is easily among the best authors.

    But I like finding other authors that I don't know about. This is an issue in fantasy and scifi because there are so many bad ones, or weird ones like Michael Crichton, who penned some fantastic novels, but then went off the deep end and wrote an entire novel about how climate change wasn't real.

    As such, a table like this is fantastic.

  • So are the Saudis.

    But to deny that the known efforts of the Russians to fuck with the GOP and at least one known instance of them fucking with BLM is foolish. Go to the Canada subreddit on any news related to India and its full of atrocious asfroturf.

    Russia and Trump proved it effective, now everyone is doing it.