probably because the US government doesn’t own the majority of Twitter, and US corporate and political governance is still far more trustworthy than the Chinese Communist party.

You really don’t see a difference between the US and China?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As far as I'm aware China hasn't been making any noise about annexing my country, so I guess I do see a difference.

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You must be in Canada? I thought Chinese dominance over your real estate market was actually a significant issue, requiring recent legislative action.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You thought wrong.

Foreign home ownership makes up a relatively small part of our housing market. Focus on it is mostly a misdirection from the real causes of our cost-of-living problem which is home grown housing speculation and lack of investment in social housing. And even were foreign home ownership occurring at a problematic rate, that's nothing in comparison to annexation of a country.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Dunno. Vancouver's pretty fucked for housing and that's got 6.2% foreign ownership rate. I wouldn't mind being able to have a shot at affording a home in my city.

It's not the ONLY reason housing is fucked but 6.2% isn't nothing.

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