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I don’t think Canada has an opinion. It’s a country, not a person. And the many and varied opinions of the Canadian people don’t seem to matter very much eithe

by db48x 2mo ago

I don’t think Canada has an opinion. It’s a country, not a person. And the many and varied opinions of the Canadian people don’t seem to matter very much either, since the Canadian provincial governments impose tarrifs on imports from the other Canadian provinces all the time. Sauce for the goose and all that.

no-name-here 2mo ago
Re: inter-province tariffs - 1. Are those provinces' trade policies very chaotic? 2. Do those provinces threaten to invade/take-over the other province? 3. Do any of the tariffs reach 50%, the figure the Republican admin mentioned this week? [1] 4. After signing trade agreements and calling them "the most important ever", do they then say they are dropping that "most important ever" agreement? (Such as the USMCA signed by Trump.) 5. Do they denigrate previous trade deals as "perhaps the worst trade deal ever made", then sign something that is ~equivalent calling it "the most important ever"? [2] (As happened with NAFTA/USMCA under Republicans.) If not then it seems like the comparison to the current U.S. Republicans’ actions isn’t very comparable. [1] https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-canada-usmca-trade-aae597c22617bec7a99f670a2c787ef9 https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-canada-usmca-trade-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement#Similarities_to_NAFTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...
f30e3dfed1c9 2mo ago
Good lord. When you see a headline that reads, e.g., "White House Announces New Policy," do you think "Harrumph. The White House can't 'announce' anything. It's a building, not a person"?
- db48x 2mo ago
  Yes. Newspaper writers are frequently stupid.
  - f30e3dfed1c9 2mo ago
    Any other longstanding, well known, and widely used figures of speech that irk you?
    - db48x 1mo ago
      Several. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never really mean what you say.
fatata123 2mo ago
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by db48x 2mo ago

no-name-here 2mo ago

Re: inter-province tariffs - 1. Are those provinces' trade policies very chaotic? 2. Do those provinces threaten to invade/take-over the other province? 3. Do any of the tariffs reach 50%, the figure the Republican admin mentioned this week? [1] 4. After signing trade agreements and calling them "the most important ever", do they then say they are dropping that "most important ever" agreement? (Such as the USMCA signed by Trump.) 5. Do they denigrate previous trade deals as "perhaps the worst trade deal ever made", then sign something that is ~equivalent calling it "the most important ever"? [2] (As happened with NAFTA/USMCA under Republicans.) If not then it seems like the comparison to the current U.S. Republicans’ actions isn’t very comparable. [1] https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-canada-usmca-trade-aae597c22617bec7a99f670a2c787ef9 https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-canada-usmca-trade-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement#Similarities_to_NAFTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E...

f30e3dfed1c9 2mo ago

Good lord. When you see a headline that reads, e.g., "White House Announces New Policy," do you think "Harrumph. The White House can't 'announce' anything. It's a building, not a person"?

db48x 2mo ago
Yes. Newspaper writers are frequently stupid.
- f30e3dfed1c9 2mo ago
  Any other longstanding, well known, and widely used figures of speech that irk you?
  - db48x 1mo ago
    Several. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never really mean what you say.

fatata123 2mo ago

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