I legitimately wonder if the left needs to simply reverse psychology the entire conservative movement.
“Businesses thrive when they’re not held accountable for their financial crimes!”
“Equality in punishments! A flat rate for all fines!”
“Big government should be in charge of determining a person’s gender!”
Wow, I didn’t know 16% of Canadians are in the government. That’s wild.
Oh, he 100% is. Not what he says with his words, but what he says with his dead eyes and propped up smile. He’s not chasing a dream, he’s running away from a nightmare of fame that has left him a hollow yet addicted for the high of fame that is no longer achievable. He is a man who shot for the moon and, instead of landing among the stars, found himself stranded on the cold, lifeless rock, drifting along forever, alone, exactly where he said he wanted to be.
There would be plenty of other options if they stopped falling out of buildings or suffering sudden terminal illness!
Therefore it must be okay when Republicans do it!
No, having a system where “I’d pay you less if I legally could, but you have to work or die” is something I should be grateful for is incredibly fucked up.
Yes, capitalism wants to pay 2 cents or less for your labour. But it can only do this with the threat of starvation and villified, illegal homelessness.
When you remove that threat, capitalism loses its power over the population.
Oh, I have pipier!
Exactly, that’s when the free market dictates what a job really is worth
I’m not! Scrap minimum wage! Enact a livable UBI (also established by hard research and science and not politicians or lobbyists) and let the Free Market decide what a job is worth!
Ah, to be 6 years old again.
Like the corrupt monopolies pillaging our country?
No? Just more punishment for the poor, homeless, and mentally-ill, huh? So the usual, but worse.
I cannot express this enough. Do NOT start the WAAAGH.
But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?
glances briefly to American history
Oh right, shit.
That’s the goal. Burn down the forest and scoop all the assets of the businesses that died.
Republican America is not a loaded gun. It’s a deranged rabid coyote. It seems so obvious: don’t fight the rabid coyote. No one will win. But we’re trapped here with it. Its taking its bites out of everyone close to it, and everyone else. What the fuck else are we supposed to do? Lie down and take it? Stand on the table and try to keep away? No one is coming to save us. This will not go away. They will not surrender.
The only way out is through; for Americans to start their civil war to disrupt their regime or, if they can manage it, figure some other way to oust their fascist government and their cult. To all the Americans fighting the good fight, keep it up, the world literally needs you.
The Republicans have already proven the laws mean nothing. They’re already boasting plans to stay for a 3rd term. There’s no waiting this out.
So, bring it on, you fascist fucks, let’s fucking go.
It’s the Conservative way to prioritize material gains over human and environmental consideration.
Isn’t their mascot prospector stepping over their own grandmother?
The Northern Pikes are a Canadian rock band whose biggest hit was She Ain’t Pretty (She Just Looks That Way) about a woman who, despite being physically attractive, has a subpar personality.
This meme is unrelated to that fact. Or maybe it’s not. Up to you, really.
The cynical perspective is that it’s an attempt to consolidate wealth for the wealthy.
Basically, you drive the price up on everything and force the least able to bear the loss in revenue to give up and sell.
Elon Musk can afford to lose $11 billion, because he still has $200 billion left over and that is obviously more than anyone needs to keep afloat for a few bad years. The same goes for every billionaire and every multibillion dollar company.
When you import something from another country, it needs to go through things like customs, etc. You have to fill out all the paperwork about what it is and where it’s going (if you’re using/selling it in the US or just middlemanning it somewhere else).
Part of that paperwork includes tariffs, a tax on the good you are importing. So, the importer has to pay the government that money in order for the product to legally come in to the country. The importer pays that cost, so the local purchaser pays that cost, so the consumer pays that cost. And each one of those (and likely many other) steps probably will add on a little extra for the trouble.
The hope is that encourages local production; even if it costs more to produce locally, when you factor in the cost of the tariffs to import, it might make sense to invest the cost to avoid the tariffs.
The troubles are:
Free speech in no way makes a conversation intelligent or sane.
Free speech is necessary to prevent the government from censoring dissent.
The consequence is that there’s little to no legal repercussions to spreading lies and hate. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be repercussions.