We need to call out those who enable him.
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Yeah we really do. I'm still very annoyed at Carney for his recent submission with the digital tax.
While I am not happy about the dropping of the DST I can also see why. I don't see it as appeasing him, I see it as buying time while we hammer out the other things being worked on. We are unfortunately not in the best position to play hardball, and the money the DST was going to bring in would be immediately offset by the tariffs that were being planned for all Canadian goods in retaliation.
While I agree that the tariffs would hurt us more than any DST would help us we still need to make a stand and create a bigger, more noticeable, digital economy here in Canada. Sure I personally have moved nearly everything into Canadian services and have started to sail the high C’s, but I know many have not. The 5% would be a rounding error for whatever I pay for the US services I have yet to fully migrate to Canadian ones.
The trick to creating a bigger more noticeable digital economy in Canada is not taxing the digital services of other countries but funding education programs in Tech. Considering the absurd amount of free resources, compiling them all and having a few experts teach the material in online courses would be cost effective and work to promote more Canadians learning the required skills to build our own digital economy instead of relying on the tools and taxation of others.
It's like giving the bully your lunch money. Now that he knows you'll give him free shit he'll just ask for more. It's literally rewarding him for bullying you.
Have you considered that the people "appeasing" Trump are actually on his side pretending not to be? Not that "both sides same" bullshit, but that conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.
conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.
I don't think they've been good at that at all, nationally. Most of their federal reps have been pretty clear from trending and statements how they think Canada should go with a Trump presidency, for instance. Our regional cons are doing a better job at only reluctantly rolling over at every turn; but they show that convincing reluctance and fist-shaking first to disguise it.
What are conservatives pretending?
To be Democrats.
Never appease, never negotiate with bullys, nor terrorists.
Every Canadian should know: Carney has financial ties with Jared Kushner, Trump's inlaw.
We're not led by an adversarial PM, that guy is just a banker that got coronated by the liberal party.
Everyone in a liberal riding should add their representant's phone number to their quick dial and get on their ass the second news like the digital tax drop. They will not fight for you, they might actually be captured altogether, you can't just sit by and expect Carney to be your white knight.
We are all Neville Chamberlain on this glorious day.
(War is) Peace in Our Time!
I mean, duh?
If only there was some historical precedent, you know, in recent history, that could have given us an indication about the probable outcome of appeasing a fascist leader.
I really did Nazi it coming. I read over a few books, but I haven't Hitler on anything that sounds quite like this...
Mark Carney ought to know this, and was elected based on his promises not to appease Trump. But a few weeks in he has already caved. It's pretty infuriating.
No way.
No shit Sherlock.
Just to be clear, all of this is well known and has nothing to do with Canada.
It absolutely does have something to do with Canada, we do trade with them...
Well, yeah - he's a stereotypical bully (just notice how he uses the threat of lawsuits to bully small contractors supplying his companies which he doesn't want to pay) and those invariably see appeasement as proof of the weakness of the other side and will double down on the bullying if they get concessions to extract even more.
Bully, get concessions, bully some more, get more concessions, bully some more, get more concessions and so on is a pretty standard process for bullies.
The way to deal with bullies is to do the exact opposite of giving concessions: go in the very opposite direction and fuck them up, don't just respond in kind, respond with a more hurtful response than their original action. If they react to this by pushing harder, push them back even harder and they always end up backing down, especially if they can come up with some bullshit to save face: China has perfectly demonstrated this process with Trump's tariffs.
to no one's surprise...