Kichae

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I'm not reinforcing anything. I'm saying bypass that part entirely, and use the conservative talking points against taxes to discuss this. That the end consumer is ultimately the one that pays, no matter what.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In fact, over the long term, they probably will. That's one of the reasons we'll see an election called early.

With any luck, Pierre Poutine won't survive the leadership review after losing the election.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Of course the employee is wrong, but the OOP isn't tackling the argument in a really productive way. There's an opportunity to meet the employee where they are.

People caught in the right wing noise machine always seem to understand that businesses pass on business taxes to the consumer. So, if other countries were paying the tariffs, why wouldn't they pass those costs on?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I always like forum setups where you had limited posting privileges until you'd had a couple of posts. Usually, they'd have an introduction category where you could post, and then comment on some other users' posts, to get your post or reputation count high enough to unlock the rest of the board.

Most Lemmy sites are small enough to have a local introduction community or other 'free' communities for newbies to dip their toes and acclimate. They'd be good places to centralize posts on how all of this works, too.

Wouldn't scale to large servers, though.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The oldest Gen Zer is what? 27? What milestones are they late to? Especially if they're early to home ownership.

Because they seem to be earlier to kids than millennials were, based on what I've heard, and marriage just seems to be a fundamentally different thing to many people born after GenX.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Which ones? Is it the "can't not pay for social services" restriction? The "can't secretly own a firearm" resteiction? Or the "can't overrule other countries' entry requirements" restriction?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Went to the gym. I've decided to work my way up to running a 5k in preparation for softball season. And to just generally improve my cardio. I've been a lot more active this year -- I'm doing two karate classes per week -- and cardio is starting to become a limiting factor. Which is all to say, my legs are tired.

I finished taking apart my rabbit cage today. It's been about 9 months since my last li'l bun passed away, and the cage was never totally cleaned after she died. The fur, the old hay dust, and the various other detritus had started to make the space... itchy. So, it was time. In the process, I decided to clear out half of the room and make the space a little more functional. My fiancee suggested moving my office down there, and I was really surprised to find that I didn't have any negative feelings about that.

It would be a cozier space to work in. And warmer. And I've started to set up a new stereo/AV system down there.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Yeah. If BYD wants to take over a car plant or something, I'm sure something could be worked out.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It'll be all "North! To Alaska! We're headin' north, the rush is on!"

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

And fuck power levels!

But yeah, if the big bidness boys pwaying big bidness games are going to take their ball and go home, we should start taking things back in return. IP rights. Trademarks.

Tax breaks.

If they want to be 'Murican, let them go be 'Murican. We don't need 'em 'round these parts.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's incredibly difficult in a media landscape controlled by capitalists, unfortunately. And there's been very little effective action in creating mainstream alternatives to capitalist news media.

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