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.
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.
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.