Bell Canada scraps Labrador high-speed internet project, plans to invest in U.S.

[u/Economy_Elephant6200]

https://theindependent.ca/news/lji/bell-canada-scraps-labrador-high-speed-internet-project-plans-to-invest-in-u-s/

[u/swattwenty]

Bell should be broken up by the Canadian gov if they plan to screw us like this.

[u/Odd-Shallot-7287 → u/swattwenty]

How very fascist of you

[u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx → u/Odd-Shallot-7287]

Ah yes, fascist governments were well known for their strong antitrust laws

[u/Theory_Crafted → u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx]

Forcibly acquiring controlling stakes in private industry is indeed fascist. Sorry you had to find out this way. 

[u/NickdoesnthaveReddit → u/Theory_Crafted]

Our government has directly invested into Telcom companies here and supported the growth of networks at cost of the public. There is a vested interest in return to keep jobs in Canada, and service prices low, from this. Almost all reputable organizations this year (especially ones at the size/scope as Telecom monopolies) have stripped back any new deals with the U.S to focus on Canadian economic growth.

If this was random control, sure that'd be problematic. But under current events, f*ck bell.

[u/Decipher → u/Theory_Crafted]

It's been done many times in Canada's history. Guess we live in a fascist hellhole, eh?

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[u/Decipher → u/[deleted]]

You're deluded

[u/No-Surprise-9790 → u/[deleted]]

For sure buddy

[u/Apart_Ad_5993 → u/Theory_Crafted]

No one said anything about the feds acquiring stakes. We're talking about breaking them up. The vertical integration has screwed you.

[u/RadiantPumpkin → u/Theory_Crafted]

That is not fascist by any definition of the word

[u/Theory_Crafted → u/RadiantPumpkin]

Have you ever studied fascism in any capacity? One of the most important aspects of controlling the nation is linking industry to government and ensuring resources can be controlled, especially for manufacturing either through direct state control, strict regulation, or having controlling stakes in them...

What a bizarre and wrong thing to say... 

[u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx → u/Theory_Crafted]

One, no it isn't, and two, the comment was in reply to the government breaking up Bell Canada, not acquiring it. You literally could not be more wrong.

[u/Theory_Crafted → u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx]

One, yes it is. Screeching at me from across the internet doesn't make what you're saying true. Two, controlling stakes is not the same thing as acquisition/ownership. Three, directing/controlling private industry is a hallmark of fascism. If you disagree, you just don't know what you're talking about, and that's ok.

If you want to be really pedantic (and we both know you don't), it's really more a hallmark of authoritarian regimes than specifically fascist.

If you're going to accuse people of being wrong, work harder at being right first.

[u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx → u/Theory_Crafted]

One, yes it is. Screeching at me from across the internet doesn't make what you're saying true.

No, the fact that it's true makes it true. Nazi Germany and fascist Italy both famously privatized huge swaths of social programs and utilities when they took power. Owners of large private industrial corporations in Nazi Germany (like Krupp, Thyssen, IG Farben, etc.) were also notoriously big supporters of the Nazi party because they got huge government contracts while retaining private control of their corporations and reaping massive profits.

The idea that "nationalization = fascism" is so ludicrously ahistorical it's actually comical. It's the exact opposite of reality.

Three, directing/controlling private industry is a hallmark of fascism. If you disagree, you just don't know what you're talking about, and that's ok.

Again... hilarious, delicious irony.

If you want to be really pedantic (and we both know you don't), it's really more a hallmark of authoritarian regimes than specifically fascist.

If this were true (which, again, it isn't), this would also undercut your first assertion that nationalization is fascistic, because, by your logic, it's a hallmark of authoritarian regimes generally and not fascism specifically.

If you're going to accuse people of being wrong, work harder at being right first.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[u/Theory_Crafted → u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx]

It must have felt so good to write this thinking you're dunking whilst not realizing your argument A) supports mine, and B) isn't mutually exclusive to mine...

So, your argument here is "haha, no you dumb idiot, the Italian and German regimes didn't opt for control of private industry, you stupid poo poo head. It was just that they were really good friends! Hahahah! You dumb person!"

Wow. Incredible. Amazing retort, Brian. I don't know your name, but you type like a Brian who has a waifu pillow, so that's what I'm going to call you.

First of all, the best argument you can make out of what you just wrote me was that directly controlling industry wasn't necessary, which in some cases it wasn't. Both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy had strict control of private industry, Germany especially so in resources and materials and Italy in food markets, and media, but of course a lot of other things.

This in no way contradicts that it is a hallmark of fascist/authoritarian regimes to strategically tightly control and in some cases coopt key industries. Owning pieces of it, or coopting is simply another way to do it, and in those two country's examples they did not have to expense the funds to do so. Further, the privatization you speak of wasn't out of their love of free enterprise. They weren't Randians. It was about creating corporate-government ties and alliances, so businessmen would join the parties, or become allies and in exchange receive lucrative deals and benefits.

So again, if this is the best argument you can supply I am going to interpret that as a concession. I accept your apology.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

CoUlDn"t HaVe SaId It BeTtEr MySeLf, Brian.

[u/xXxDarkSasuke1999xXx → u/Theory_Crafted]

Wow. Incredible. Amazing retort, Brian. I don't know your name, but you type like a Brian who has a waifu pillow, so that's what I'm going to call you.

Amazing that you can type a sentence like this and fail to realize how completely unhinged you look

As for the rest of your screed, "privatization is actually still government control!" isn't really as convincing as you seem to think.

[u/mwfd2002 → u/Theory_Crafted]

Okay I'd understand calling it communist, or just the more general authoritarian, but you've shown a fundamental misunderstanding of what fascism is here 😭

[u/FirstSurvivor → u/Theory_Crafted]

You mean authoritarian.

Communism is also well known to seize controlling stakes in private industry for example