sugarfoot00

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[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What's to be aggrieved about? I've never once heard the auto industry being a factor in western alienation. And I've written papers on the subject.

The auto industry is Canada's largest manufacturing industry, contributing more than $15B to GDP and 500,000 good paying jobs. There's good reason to protect it.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The company needs to buy out any landowner within earshot for 3x the value that their house was worth before the mine moved in.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I agree. But to manage the payment cycle, fraud, and chargeback processes, they'd need to partner with the big banks who already partner with the legacy CC companies. I would expect that those companies would push back hard.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Simple. Part of the merchant agreement with someone like MC or Visa is that you'll pay them 3%, but not tack it on as a visible fee for the purchaser, or offer discounts for non CC transactions. So a merchant could do so, but they run the risk of the CC company terminating their agreement and perhaps suing them.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

communists and anarchists have very, very little in common.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

He only controlled his response to it (which wasn’t great, as that money was used to allow banks to pay bonuses and buy up foreclosed properties while people laid off for no fault of their own lost their homes).

That 'not great' response prevented the complete and imminent collapse of the entire global economy. I'm not sure what the phenomenon of discounting the much worse outcome is once it is avoided, but I'm pretty sure it has a name.

It's the same phenomenon that has people say that the covid crisis was overblown and vaccination was unnecessary because it subsided on its own, ignoring the impact that billions of people getting vaccinated had.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Crazy talk. A&W in the US is ass. I don't know what's going on with your local A&W franchise, but I've never had anything but a great burger. Outside of local places, It's my go-to.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

You have to specify A&W Canada. The US doesn't have Teen burgers and they're generally inferior.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

For that to be true, there would have to be statistics to bear that out. And yet somehow, white men are still employed disproportionately and earning disproportionately, even when controlling for education (which women far exceed men at).

The whole 'anti-dei' thing is entirely driven by perception, not facts. But since there is a whole industry built around keeping young white men angry and telling them that having their privilege stripped is actually disenfranchisement, the trend will continue.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Oh I'm sorry, did you get arrested for saying retard? Or did somebody just call you an asshole for doing so? Those are what we call consequences. You make a choice, and get upset when the people around you also do? Everybody is expressing their rights.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Men are joining “fascist fight clubs” because gyms(“fight clubs”) are one of the few places in society that are truly accepting of men while encouraging aspects of masculinity that society still accepts and women desire.

Women don't desire misogynistic fascists.

They are being pushed more right due to the idea that everything men do is wrong and bad that the left has been talking about for 10-15 years. “Men are causing all the problems in society.” “I’d choose the bear.”

Grow the fuck up. Nobody is saying that. If that's what you're hearing, then you're mistaking having your entitlement questioned for persecution.

Alienating anybody pushes them towards anyone that accepts them. Why would you try to gain the acceptance of people who say you, everyone like you, everything you like is the problem, and we need less of you in the workplace?

So retreat to your "safe space" where you can spend your days virtue signalling to one another? Awesome.

How do you keep men from drifting right? Stop pushing them there by alienating them and gyms will be less right.

Men need to take responsibility for their lot in life. Quit blaming everyone else. Get educated. Push yourself forward. Maybe take a bit of a lead from the women who are leaving you in the dust. As a middle aged white male, I have no time for these shitheels. I'd trade them all in for hardworking humble immigrants in a heartbeat.

[–] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

They might not even know that it wasn't funny tasting yoghurt.

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