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He’s so slimy that everything he says will hurt him.

Conversely, I don't imagine nihilistic choices ever feel particularly good or right.

Exactly correct. I was spiraling in depression about the hopelessness of it all until I decided to actually do something myself.

And then I realized that feeling of trying was at least part of what I was missing all along.

So I boycott, I protest, I volunteer, and dare to be vulnerable and admit I care — not in an ironic or smug way but actually care. And it feels great, especially these days when it feels like many others are beginning to as well.

I believe you. Perhaps I’m underestimating the effects of the positive energy coming from how many have joined us across the country and the world.

But my life experience is the opposite of what you describe. I let the devils of nihilism and cynicism cloud me, to rationalize and justify taking the easy route of inaction.

So my message here is not to you and folks like you who were ahead of me in this. You’re better than me. I looked down on people like you because your actions didn’t make a difference. Why should I, a rationalist, take irrational actions that don’t make a difference.

So my message here is to people like me, who have talked themselves out of doing something. To them I say: it feels good to act. And no one can take that away from me.

I’m not knowledgeable enough on this topic to prove you wrong or even argue — but Bombardier have an opportunity to try do so.

If they can’t, we must act urgently because if they won’t use their factories and their workers, someone else can. Because we have a lot to do.

They aren’t wrong to be concerned, this absolutely will wreak havoc on their business.

But also we cannot expect that their business in the US was poised to survive regardless. Theirs is the business the Americans are most specifically looking to move to their domestic manufacturing. Bombardier is fucked but they were fucked on November of last year.

So the question is not if we can keep their US contracts up, but what else they can be making with their facilities and workers. Crisis and change can be hard but it can be opportunity too.

Seize the reigns, Bombardier. You’ve got a good seat at the table and can contribute positively towards how we reshape our country’s industry and defence.

Our aggregate response may weaken them, and that is a great thing to see start to happen and I hope we see more of it.

But the point I’m trying to make is that you don’t matter to them. I don’t matter to them. If all Canadians and Europeans and Chinese stood together they’d feel it — but you and I cannot control what all of these people do.

But we can control what we do. And it feels good to do what’s right. Even if I was the only one boycotting to American travel and products, it would still feel good. Because it’s easy to forget the humanity— you’re a person not just a consumer. As a person it feels good to act, to be active, to not just go gentle into the night.

This work can and should and will continue, but it doesn’t need to be a cabinet level position right now.

We have our backs against the wall, and in my opinion we need to laser-focus on our absolute priorities right now.

Should we retreat from the progress made? Fuck no. Should we stop working on this? Also no.

But there is so much urgent work that needs to be done to completely retool and rework our economy and industry and national defence. We need our leaders to have focus to ensure that the steps we are taking are done with urgency and that the changes we implement are having the effects we want, and that side effects are mitigated.

So for today, for right now, I support this move. 100%

Well said!

If he's such an embarrassment, why'd they elect him twice? I'd say he represents them.

I followed your lead on this and re-submitted it without the pathetic commentary

https://lemmy.ca/post/40863201

Re-submitted without the related post’s asinine CPC shilling.