Kiwisee
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Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you
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I wouldn't doom out yet. It looks like the lone company willing to cuck out for the government isn't some massive firm. The D&B profile is wrong about the employee count, assuming that the company photo on their homepage is right, but how many trucks do they have that are big enough to haul semis? I doubt it's many. And with all the other truckers waiting outside the city limits to get in, if they pull one out, another will surely try to get in and take their place if they can. Like a hydra growing more heads, except it's trucks and tractors.
In other news, Teamsters are cucklords. (Archive)
And the fuel ban is not very effective.
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Should not the fund that we've been donating to pay any towing fees and charges for that guy saying he was towed?
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Seems like it should, I wonder how they're handling that sort of thing.
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What Government should do in my opinion:
Ensure ethical work, health, legal, and safety practices
Ensure building codes
What the public should do in my opinion:
Boycott your ass if you act like a jerk to your customers
I realize this wasn’t always possible in the old days but this is the age of twitter and internet if a business is being racist fucks then let the free market decide their fate. I mean book publishers have far more rights to refuse to give people service than Starbucks and whil I get the general gist as to why that is I think it is a load of bullcrap.
Ensure ethical work, health, legal, and safety practices
Ensure building codes
What the public should do in my opinion:
Boycott your ass if you act like a jerk to your customers
I realize this wasn’t always possible in the old days but this is the age of twitter and internet if a business is being racist fucks then let the free market decide their fate. I mean book publishers have far more rights to refuse to give people service than Starbucks and whil I get the general gist as to why that is I think it is a load of bullcrap.
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Judging from this they at least have one or two, and the employee thing might be explained with them being contracted on and not staffed there but i'm not as familiar with Canadian business practice.
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That'd be great if you have other options. If my electric company decides to start the 4th riech I have the choice between funding them or freezing. There are some places where Walmart is the only place for 30 miles that sells fresh meat and produce. If you want those kinds of laws the government needs to do some serious Monopoly busting first.
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More info followup -- I tracked down the nonprofit that's going to be handling the cash for the GiveSendGo -- here's a link to their registration with the Canadian government, which includes a list of their directors and snailmail contact info. (Archive) Could be useful if you or anyone else wants to ping them with any questions on whether they'll be assisting with tickets or fees if the truckers get towed. Don't know if they'd be willing to get specific, but could be worth a shot.
Interesting. The reference to farm and construction equipment towing does sound like there's at least one bigass truck. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had the thought about contractors cross their mind as well. If that's how they're doing some of their staffing, that could get fun -- how many guys they contract will be willing to tow the truckers, I wonder?
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It would make sense, that or they filled it out wrong. either or. And they only need a few right?
Marley Rathbone
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I wish they would teach this in school on the first day of Pre-K
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Marx called fellow philosopher LaSalle, who was neither black nor jewish, a "jewish nigger" in correspondence.
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It seems like the rest of Canada views Ottawa the same way St. Petersburg (and the rest of Russia) views Moscow, though at this point such resentment may escalate to the way the Dominican Republic feels about having to share Hispañola with Haiti - a visceral, deep-seated sentiment which has no equal.
Unrelated, but if Anglo-Canadians think sharing a country with the Frenchies sucks, imagine being tiny Sint Maarten and sharing a 37-square mile island with them lol
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Any problem that cannot be identified for one reason or another cannot be solved. People talking past each other solves nothing and works negatively towards identifying problems by muddying the waters surrounding the topic.
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In the book soylent green was not people. It was made of soy and lentils. The more you know.And add some "green lent" with the soy and you got "Soylent Green" made of people.
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Right, and the state also has a role in limiting negative externalities affecting parties who are not involved in the initial contract, for example a factory upriver of a town can be fined or brought to court if their plant insufficiently prevents harmful industrial runoff from seeping into or saturating said town's water supply. Regulations in and of themselves are not bad, as they lay ground rules. However, they are definitely prone to being overused, abused, and corrupted. There are certain cases where regulations are underused but it seems like those are relatively rare.
Personally, I'm more in favor of a system that encourages as many small and medium business as possible, primarily based around the family unit, with strong trust-busting measures/laws in place. Private property (which doesn't simply mean land, but it certainly helps) should be widespread among the populace. Of course, there should be well-defined protected areas set aside for nature conservation and to prevent over-exploitation of the land (this was a common problem in Texas during the turn of the century where ranchers bled the land dry with overgrazing, causing an ecological catastrophe from which parts of the Panhandle never fully recovered).
Eminent domain should be extremely limited in scope and hardly ever used. The construction of the interstate and especially the inner-city highway systems was a massive act of government overreach which destroyed tens of thousands of established communities and small businesses, and led to the decline of the great American cities into what we see today. A lot of the hyper-corporatism, social atomization, hyper-individualism and lack of entrepreneurial spirit seen in much of North America today is a result of that. It created the supermarket and strip mall consoomer class.
Edit: To simplify, I recommend some form of distributism (note this does not mean state-sanctioned redistribution, it refers to private property being widely distributed across the populace. Maybe 'popular capitalism' is a better term.)
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That's the thing - the "greater good" is never used as a justification for a good act. You don't give toys to a child's charity or help an old person across the street for the greater good, even if you're doing it as part of some genuinely greater plan, like an overall dedication to aiding the disadvantaged young/elderly. It's only ever used to justify horrible acts, to ease the cognitive dissonance of "I'm not the bad guy, so why am I doing bad things?"
"This is for the greater good" is just saying "This is the lesser evil." OK, since we all agree that it's evil, let's start talking about degree.
They do, kinda. They all want the safety and lack of hard thinking they imagine as perks of being beneath the heel of a benevolent dictator, because they imagine themselves as, if not the dictator, one of the dictator's right-hand men. One of the guys next to Benevolent Leader Kim with medals down his pant leg.
No one thinks they'll be the worst off. Not only does no one think they're the bad guy, everyone thinks they're the hero. You know how everyone who believes in reincarnation thinks they're Caesar reborn, and how every zombie apocalypse fanboy sees themselves running the wasteland fort? Same idea.
No reincarnation fan sees themselves as the nameless slave of a petty noble that got killed by an unknown centurion when the Roman legions rolled into town.
No zombie apocalypse fan sees themselves as food for the horde, or one of the nameless dead outside the walls.
No authoritarian sees themselves being beaten by the secret police.
No revolutionary sees themselves as the first against the wall.
Welcome to the Platinum Rule, which HR departments are trying to push in sensitivity training as a replacement for the Golden Rule. Because treating you as I would want to be treated is not enough; I need to obey whatever the magic squirrels that live in your hair whisper in your ear, or I'm not being kind enough.
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Damn niggas really trying to argue the government should force you to serve people you don't like and that child drag queen cakes are an entitled right? Lmao.
What I don't get is, why would you want people who DON'T LIKE OR SUPPORT YOU to make the thing for you? Why do you want them FORCED to do it? Ya think that'll make it better?
What I don't get is, why would you want people who DON'T LIKE OR SUPPORT YOU to make the thing for you? Why do you want them FORCED to do it? Ya think that'll make it better?
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You wanna' goe oat fur a rip?
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