Burning shit seems to work well when done in large enough quantities, see France.

The swastika is a fairly obvious symbol of hate, same with a white pointed hood.

They aren’t normally used in a generic fashion though.

Maybe a red lightsaber?

What do you think buying $200 worth of honey will save you?

You’re likely better off investing the same amount of money.

Buying it all now is betting that inflation will be higher than your investment return over the next 40 years. That’s not a good bet unless the world literally collapses.

I don’t live in the US and I don’t drive an American made car, I’m not worried about the South Korean government forcing Kia to brick my vehicle.

I said “western car companies” not US car companies specifically.

It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.

“I mean, that’s worse than a tariff, because it’s literally taking your sales away, (and) completely removing our products from the shelves,” Whiting said on a post-earnings call.

The point of our retaliation is to hurt the US with as little impact to Canadian consumers and our economy as possible, and specific targeted actions like these work really well.

We don’t NEED US booze, there are plenty of Canadian and non-US options to replace it, and it’s a luxury item to start with. So it doesn’t really hurt consumers in Canada that much, but it directly harms American companies and jobs.

Why do you think there wouldn’t be an outright war with China?

They plan on invading Taiwan at some point, and we’ll probably be funding the defence there.

They’ve already got paid at that point, and with the sanctions we’re likely to slap on them we wouldn’t be buying more anyways, so why wouldn’t they just brick all the existing cars in retaliation? or use it as a threat to try to keep us from retaliating?

I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)

My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.

You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.

You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.

Western car companies are not beholden to western governments in the same way that companies in China are. We have laws against government intervention like that here, while China explicitly mandates the opposite.

Sure laws can change, but right now the situation is extremely clear in terms of who we should trust.

While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.

and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker

That may actually be against the rules for Conveyancers depending on where you live, find out if your conveyancer is part of a legal body (registered in some way as a conveyancer) and make an inquiry/complaint there.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Chinese devices are frequently banned in Canada, especially for government use.

Chinese gear in telecom networks is either not allowed or being phased out. Chinese cellphones are not allowed for government use. Chinese apps are not allowed on government machines.

I do believe cars are a meaningful attack vector, with enough market penetration the ability to just “turn them off” could cripple the country, and there’s not much point in letting them in if we limit the percentage down to something that would lessen the impact.

Welcome

It’s not about being competitive against Chinese EVs, it’s about preventing China from attacking us economically, politically, and potentially even digitally.

These aren’t just dumb vehicles, they’re running Chinese made software, for a Chinese company, and reporting data back to China.

They’re not just manufactured in China like you may have with other digital devices, with the software control and data residing in more friendly nations.

That matters.

The US government, that’s how import tariffs work.

Compromise on what? You haven’t even told us what they’re really for you dumb shit.

It’s clearly not a compromise on the fentanyl situation, and you haven’t talked about anything else that we’ve changed.

Are you just compromising on your own?

Do they not teach you in school that Canada was the reason for the Geneva convention?

And not in the “we thought it was a good set of rules” kinda way.

Why you gotta be pissing off your friends America?

What the fuck did we do to you?

Now we have to be mean back, and that’s not good for either of us.