Canadian Truckers Convoy 2022 - The Leaf calls you a Nazi as he gasses you

[Random Internet Person]

Kenney is their boy. His whole anti-ottawa kabuki dance has been nothing but a joke this whole time. He is an Ontario federalist that was parachuted into this province to try and make a run for the PM position, until Covid derailed his political career.

So why would they say Kenney looks broken?

 

[Osmosis Jones]

I agree white collars will play hot potato with problems they don’t know how to fix, but they generally don’t throw money at the problem. That’s what the C-suite and VPs do. The white collars are generally trying to get money to solve actual problems and get cucked for ‘diversity training’ and ‘negotiation workshops’. Another big source of problems is the outsourcing of IT in general, hamstringing everyone’s ability to fix anything technical. You can’t even run to Staples to get a cheap laser printer for an emergency because ‘hurr-durr we can’t have unauthorized devices on our network’.

Blue collars are no better at problem solving than white collars. The most crafty ones are the business owners. The grunts and union guys generally aren’t able to figure anything out outside their domain.

Most of these convoy guys look like independent contractors and may even have employees, etc. I.e. they’re a lot smarter and wealthier than they look.

Good call. I was wrong about the money part for sure. However, I'd argue that blue-collar types are more interested in taking initiative and solving things on their own to avoid the bureaucracy of the management. Alternatively, I've seen it go the other way, where they pass things up the ladder so it's no longer their problem to solve. I definitely need to check my perspective.

In the white collar world, it’s generally pretty hard to get fired for general low-level incompetence - you’d have to fuck something up REAL bad for the company to actively fire you. What’s more likely to happen is that you’ll just be the first in line when the next round of layoffs come.

Something else you have to realize is that many, if not most, workplaces run on 50% productivity max. You may think you’re being unproductive but it’s very possible you’re actually above average.

Never considered it this way. I push myself to my maximum every day and one little slip makes me feel like I've done my job poorly. I hold myself to a much higher standard - evidently this is my problem with why I can't stand working with people who aren't driven. It's so much easier to standby and watch when you're in a white collar environment.

I don’t give a shit what others think about me but I do want to be able to move forward with my career.

Corpo life is not for me, I’m happier with midsize or small sized businesses (except for start ups). They tend to appreciate initiative. It’s not that start ups are bad but I prefer companies that don’t rely on angel investors. For every start up that succeeds there are dozens that go under.

Yes, and it’s not helped by endless bureaucracy that is constantly trying to shove the problem on someone else.

I agree that markets and government needs to be separated, just like government and church are separate. We need to have as open of a market as possible. Imo some regulations have to exist especially in regards to food for safety concerns but even so most of the regulations needs to be done away. It should be relatively cheap and easy to set up a restaurant, barbershop, etc.

A part of the solution imo would be to keep companies out of government, so restricting lobbyists, which is currently impossible since “corporations are people.” This won’t ever happen, especially by the left, since they won’t let go of megacorps’ teats.

I let friends and family convince me that labour is no way to live and work. I have been doing the seat-warming sort of job for the entirety of the pandemic now and I can't wrap my head around it. I'm so bored and it feels like my job assignment is to generate excuses for why things aren't up to snuff instead of collaborating to solve an issue. It's always "let me call someone to do that".

I concede that I have a lot to learn about business and entrepreneurship and how things are run "properly" with the bureaucratic structure and flying by the seat of your pants. Cheers for providing some much needed perspective.

Honk

 

[Rebel Wilson]

So why would they say Kenney looks broken?

I'm misunderstanding who you mean by 'they'. Do you mean the CBC?

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Completely and utterly unrelated I am sure, but the UK is removing all and any remaining retardation of COVID restrictions (some minor ones remain for very large events)

https://order-order.com/2022/02/09/boris-final-covid-restrictions-likely-to-be-lifted-a-month-early/

A whole month earlier than planned.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

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.

General boycotts happened in oldne tymes too. People always know if you're scummy. The soviets called it the peasant telegram. Jake Alley would call it a whisper campaign.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Cracks are really starting to show now, one person is an outlier that can be ignored by a party, two people is when a crack actually starts to form.

https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/02/09/quebec-liberal-mp-robillard-also-breaks-ranks-questions-trudeau-governments-handling-of-pandemic-sides-with-lightbound/343476

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Yeah, but doesn't Quebec hate anyone that isn't french?

 

[Gar For Archer]

Hey, whatever floats your boat.

Personally, I didn't get a degree in a highly-technical field and go into a highly-technical job so that I could work my way up to managing people all day.

Granted, at most companies, engineers do have a choice to advance either through technical or through management. If you level up all the way to E5/E6 you’ll basically be a “subject matter expert”, e.g. an on-demand internal consultant who gets pulled into relevant projects to provide help/guidance as needed but is (probably) not personally responsible for anything getting done.

Cracks are really starting to show now, one person is an outlier that can be ignored by a party, two people is when a crack actually starts to form.

https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/02/09/quebec-liberal-mp-robillard-also-breaks-ranks-questions-trudeau-governments-handling-of-pandemic-sides-with-lightbound/343476

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And remember, these are just the niggas who are speaking up so everyone else doesn’t have to.

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

Journoscum comes down to poke the truckers and infer they're bad parents for bringing their kids down to the protest.

TruckerDad has none of that shit and demands actual answers.

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Hey the lady who lost her kids to the Plandemics bullshit makes a cameo at the end. I wonder if they asked her if the mandates were keeping her kids safe.

 

[Emperor Pupienus]

This only happens in the absence of spirituality, good parenting, and an informed public. Two key things happened in the 60s in the US that paved the way for thr nightmare of now. The elimination of history and civics in schools, and the end of Congress providing each new member with a copy of the Jefferson Bible upon their swearing in with the expectation that they read it and follow it's guidance.

>Jefferson Bible
Reminder that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian. He was a weird non-trinitarian Unitarian heretic who denied the divinity of Christ.
Unitarian Universalists are some of the worst "churches" extant today.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Yeah, but doesn't Quebec hate anyone that isn't french?

Apparently their mutual hatred of the capital has united the English and French proles.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

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.)

That's just capitalism.

 

[Meat Target]

Markets regulate themselves. To open a business, most people need a bank loan. That loan will require insurance. The insurance industry can implement and enforce building codes via the denial of service.

Government is not needed for this. Insurance companies will maintain high standards to reduce their own financial liability.

The Finance industry needs government jannies. Otherwise, you get even more Charles Ponzis, Jordan Belforts, and Enrons.

You need to be able to deny terrorists, mobsters, and hostile foreign countries access to the banking system. There needs to be safeguards against predatory lending and defrauding customers with financial jargon. You want to minimize conflicts of interest, kickbacks, etc., and to make sure people aren't denied credit for reasons unrelated to their creditworthiness.

If you think our financial system is a scam as it is, imagine what it'd be without someone breathing down their necks.

 

[An Avenging Bird]

 

[BrokLesnerd]

>Jefferson Bible
Reminder that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian. He was a weird non-trinitarian Unitarian heretic who denied the divinity of Christ.
Unitarian Universalists are some of the worst "churches" extant today.

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And this has what to do with the value of a guiding document that serves as the basis of a shared philosopical framework?

Jefferson intended his version of the bible to serve as a distilled centralization of Christian morality. It is not and never was intended to serve a religious or spiritual function or to replace the traditional Holy Bible.

 

[Just_Somebody]

Cracks are really starting to show now, one person is an outlier that can be ignored by a party, two people is when a crack actually starts to form.

https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/02/09/quebec-liberal-mp-robillard-also-breaks-ranks-questions-trudeau-governments-handling-of-pandemic-sides-with-lightbound/343476

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Good. Quebec citizens have had the biggest heapings of bullshit over the last two years. We spent 7 out of the last 13 months in curfew. The Vaxx Pass stuff is now in Liquor stores, Weed Dispensaries, and big box stores (like Walmart). They only just reopened indoor dining. Gyms won't be open again for another week I believe.

And keep in mind, shit is cold so just having a picnic in a park is a pain.

The tide is turning. The Honkening must not stop!

 

[Emperor Pupienus]

The Finance industry needs government jannies. Otherwise, you get even more Charles Ponzis, Jordan Belforts, and Enrons.

You need to be able to deny terrorists, mobsters, and hostile foreign countries access to the banking system. There needs to be safeguards against predatory lending and defrauding customers with financial jargon. You want to minimize conflicts of interest, kickbacks, etc., and to make sure people aren't denied credit for reasons unrelated to their creditworthiness.

If you think our financial system is a scam as it is, imagine what it'd be without someone breathing down their necks.

At least in theory, the market is more than capable of self-regulating against scammy firms via short selling. Short sellers have a financial incentive to discover firms that have a lower value than their price, and inform the rest of the market about it.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Cracks are really starting to show now, one person is an outlier that can be ignored by a party, two people is when a crack actually starts to form.

https://www.hilltimes.com/2022/02/09/quebec-liberal-mp-robillard-also-breaks-ranks-questions-trudeau-governments-handling-of-pandemic-sides-with-lightbound/343476

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Alright now the Libs are definitely infighting. The lack of censure of Lightbound (and minimal criticism of him) suggested it was a feeler, but this shows more that they're terrified of doing something which would show them in a bad light media-wise. Trudeau is going to be forced into making decisions he doesn't want to make shortly because his caucus is growing nervous; I imagine the internal polling isn't looking too hot.

Yeah, but doesn't Quebec hate anyone that isn't french?

In general, but the federal Libs are effectively kept in power by their stranglehold over Montreal where Trudeau hails from; he's Quebecois enough that the locals accept him as one of their own. If Quebec Lib MPs are openly questioning things it means the Lib voting base is starting to trend against them - and in a minority government situation where an election can be called anytime that's not something a politician wants.

 

[BrokLesnerd]

This is true and I am fine with good ol Monopoly busting but problem is humans like consolidating power and I’m no philosopher or economics pro so I wouldn’t know how to go about codifying laws against manipulation and corruption. So it’s all theoretical.

The pre Pierre Trudeau government handled this in a reasonable way: Crown Corporations that compete in the market and are sold off when enoigh competition exists to challenge the monopoly.

US anti-trust laws work well when properly enforced. The problem is when parts of a business are allowed to be sold to relative and operate as a defacto monopoly that is impervious to further regulation. But monopolies have a difficult time emerging in a truly free market.

 

[Velvet Glove Iron Fist]

Pack it up leafbros, the cops are getting serious