I believe you are missing the forest for the trees. First, I acknowledge your examples are separate ideologies.

That concept also applies to the right… social conservatives, right-libertarians, and neoliberal ideologies are equally separate. However, those practitioners have no qualms about banding together to suppress dissent (or until such time they are the only voices).

Where the left leaning practitioners are unable to do so, they will be forever tyrannized by the banded majority.

To put it more succinctly, the enemy of my enemy is my friend (when freedom is on the line).

If so, then my reaction was ignorant and I retract it :)

Why don’t you stop and smell the roses?

Jumping to such a conclusion, then blaming the hypothetical reaction, displays ignorance or malice.

Fuck off with this misinformation.

If the EU was as conformist / homo-cultural as you suggest, the cultural identity of constituent states would have long since disappeared.

Go tell someone in Florence or Sicily that, because they have been in EU since 1950, they are no longer Italian (or that they are somehow now culturally equivalent to a Dubliner). See how that works out for you.

As an ‘alum’ of this intake process I feel pretty qualified to opine on it.

What’s your opinion founded on?

From the opposing position, my last three companies have placed me in the position of automating necessary tasks just to keep up with the task list, with absolutely zero support from the applicable Dev team. What’s worse, I’ve had tickets in for ~19 months requesting minimum necessary business and functional requirements, and I get passed around like a bloody hot potato.

My choice becomes, fail in my role, or try to spin up some automation myself. The second choice is the less-worse outcome.

That your company has an in-house software dev team is impressive. Does the revenue-generating business have access to that team?

What? No. That’s a gross oversimplification. You’re welcome to learn more :

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada.html

I’m a little surprised that they would share a cabin with a tourist.