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Yeah. For a government organization, turning a profit is stolen wages. Though a mandate to run zero profit can create a perverse incentive to ‘spend money on lose it next year’. I’m not sure how to deal with that on a policy level but I’d like to see ideas on it.
I think we’re on the same page. The idea that Crown corporations need to turn a profit is pretty ridiculous. It’s a management framework. They should at least operate on a cost recovery basis within reason though. But the emphasis is to provide the service.
Yeah. It’s a natural monopoly and should be nationalized into Crown corporations. This would allow the natural monopoly to be kept as minimal as possible and prevent it being used to leverage into other markets.
If BC Tel owned all the cellphone towers and fibre lines, we wouldn’t have all these bullshit shenanigans with locking 3rd-party providers out of the market - they’d ALL be third-party providers.
It’s been a while since a new Geneva Checklist item was added because of Canadian soldiers. I’m sure we could come up with some new ones if pressed.
We are of one mind on this. The USA got their balls chopped off in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, slinking off in ignominy after Raytheon made their billions. We’d kick them out of Canada, too.
It would suck, and we’d probably end up being run by dictators for a generation or two, but that’s a problem we could face.
A few thousand soldiers isn’t going to be spit in the wind against the US military. Might as well get some good training for them with Ukrainian drone operators against a larger foe.
I mean, yeah. We buy our eggs from a local farm. It’s pretty great, they deliver it straight to my partner’s workplace every week or two. Most eggs are torture-eggs, and we won’t buy the Costco egg whites on that basis. However, my point is that “eggs by the gallon” is not farfetched!
I’ve seen Costco selling egg whites by the litre carton. Gallons wouldn’t be farfetched for restaurant supply.
Analysts have predicted 100 of the last 5 crashes, remember. Call heads long enough and it’ll be true eventually.
That sounds like something a bat would say.
Maybe that’s the motivation for invading Canada. Trump the First, by the grace of God, of Canada King, Defender of the Faith.
Oh, sweety. If you think there are no abortions in Texas now, I have a great deal on seafront property in Florida for you.
Who’s “we”, motherfucker?
Any non Hulu source?
Yeah, I don’t think anyone is arguing that the Canadian military wouldn’t get roflstomped in hours. It’s more about the insurgency afterwards, I’d say.
Not all the American occupiers can be armed and wearing body armour 100% of the time. They have to sleep and piss occasionally.
Who’s radicalizing? There’s no US invaders on Canadian soil, what are we radicalizing against?
A fascist takeover of Canada would inevitably result in a guerilla war. This is just a fact.
You’re just as dead if you’re shot by a Ross rifle or Lee-Enfield as by a whizbang gizmo-addled wank-rifle with 10 attachments and a CDROM drive.
Canada is five large cities, which are easy to capture, and an entire USSR-size back-country of rough terrain, which would be nearly impossible to patrol and hold in the face of even a mildly resentful populace. You don’t have to have the entire population actively fighting - passive resistance would make it difficult to do anything in the face of shrugs and "I dunno"s.
Resistance fighting can be picked up pretty fast, and in the face of brutal American reprisals and repression, I think it would be. Their history in Afghanistan and Vietnam shows that they’d create an entire generation of people out for revenge VERY quickly.
We would hide our insurgents, and they would fade into the mountains and forests. You don’t need a lot of active insurgents to cause a huge problem.
We have cheap drones and abundant weapons. We’re one of the more gun-infested countries per capita, and have a porous border with the USA.
It’d be a hell on Earth. They’d never hold the Rockies.
Resource extraction operations. Forestry and mining are easy to disrupt, especially if the local labour doesn’t like the occupiers. There are a thousand ways to gum up the works, and a thousand more to attack them and fade away into the surrounding forest.
Megagermans vs milligermans
There are other options than tariffs! Export taxes. Changes in regulation. Contract cancelations.
Canada has many options. We could, for instance, withdraw from bilateral copyright agreements. Or limit the amount of electricity that’s permitted to be exported.
Cory Doctorow suggests that we could establish Canadian app stores with a 5% cut and mandate that all phones sold in Canada be configured to use them. Lots of ideas, on a scale from good to bad, but there’s options.