Four in five Canadians believe boycotting U.S.-made goods or avoiding travel to the United States could help strengthen Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour.
Like I’m sorry to be terse, but you are presumably adults if you are taking interest in this, and you view the economy like a literal baby looking at a Richard Scarry Busytown book. There is a lot more going on than the consumption of first world citizens. It’s not your consumption that needs to be cut off - and you can’t, only minimize to essentials or seek alternatives that may very well be shipped by companies owned by US financiers (you won’t even check as long as it doesn’t say “made in USA”, which NOTHING is. America CONSUMES, like you!) - it’s your willing participation in reproducing the bourgeois democracy that enables people like Trump and Obama to ruin or end the lives of millions.
This is harder than anything you have ever even considered doing in your entire lives, so no wonder you can’t even figure out what I mean.
I’m not the one trying to take the ball and go home. I much prefer talking to the Chinese over this app at this point. You guys should really restore proper trade relations with them. They actually know how the economy works. Didn’t I already mention that you need to affect political institutions, finance, Canada’s collaboration with the US on foreign policy and institutions like the World Bank etc that enable Canada to extract from poor nations? It may have been in some other thread I don’t really care who any of you are sorry, boilerplate liberalism following the typical nonviolent capitalist activism framework. The US doesn’t manufacture much important stuff, neither does Canada. That’s why it’s much more important to prepare to deal with the collapse of the imperialist financial system, which is clearly coming within years. Think 2008 without any cushioning. I’m serious. Hopefully people wake up under Trump lol but we could always get another Obama type after this and sleepwalk into it if he doesn’t instigate a huge® economic crisis.
There is an organizing stage before effective political pressure can be applied. This is not “nothing”, it is the most important part, very hard, which is why the message of “we don’t need to educate, organize, and strike, we can just go to a different store/nude bike ride” is actively counterrevolutionary. Whole playbook of mass nonviolent activism was literally invented by Gene Sharpe a guy who was handpicked by Henry Kissinger. It’s basically designed to make people engage in symbolic actions that may or may not be met by movements from the real power structures. In foreign countries attempting this protest playbook, you need a hard fist of CIA mercenaries and whatnot to shove through the real political transition, then the protests are used to grant it legitimacy. Here in the US you get minor concessions from elected officials and corporations, often made to nonprofit organizations, all of which reinforces their authority.
Like I’m sorry to be terse, but you are presumably adults if you are taking interest in this, and you view the economy like a literal baby looking at a Richard Scarry Busytown book. There is a lot more going on than the consumption of first world citizens. It’s not your consumption that needs to be cut off - and you can’t, only minimize to essentials or seek alternatives that may very well be shipped by companies owned by US financiers (you won’t even check as long as it doesn’t say “made in USA”, which NOTHING is. America CONSUMES, like you!) - it’s your willing participation in reproducing the bourgeois democracy that enables people like Trump and Obama to ruin or end the lives of millions.
This is harder than anything you have ever even considered doing in your entire lives, so no wonder you can’t even figure out what I mean.
So, if I personally can’t change global trade, I should just do nothing. Got it. Thank you.
I’m not the one trying to take the ball and go home. I much prefer talking to the Chinese over this app at this point. You guys should really restore proper trade relations with them. They actually know how the economy works. Didn’t I already mention that you need to affect political institutions, finance, Canada’s collaboration with the US on foreign policy and institutions like the World Bank etc that enable Canada to extract from poor nations? It may have been in some other thread I don’t really care who any of you are sorry, boilerplate liberalism following the typical nonviolent capitalist activism framework. The US doesn’t manufacture much important stuff, neither does Canada. That’s why it’s much more important to prepare to deal with the collapse of the imperialist financial system, which is clearly coming within years. Think 2008 without any cushioning. I’m serious. Hopefully people wake up under Trump lol but we could always get another Obama type after this and sleepwalk into it if he doesn’t instigate a huge® economic crisis.
There is an organizing stage before effective political pressure can be applied. This is not “nothing”, it is the most important part, very hard, which is why the message of “we don’t need to educate, organize, and strike, we can just go to a different store/nude bike ride” is actively counterrevolutionary. Whole playbook of mass nonviolent activism was literally invented by Gene Sharpe a guy who was handpicked by Henry Kissinger. It’s basically designed to make people engage in symbolic actions that may or may not be met by movements from the real power structures. In foreign countries attempting this protest playbook, you need a hard fist of CIA mercenaries and whatnot to shove through the real political transition, then the protests are used to grant it legitimacy. Here in the US you get minor concessions from elected officials and corporations, often made to nonprofit organizations, all of which reinforces their authority.