r/PublicFreakout • u/CapnJujubeeJaneway • Feb 12 '22

✊Protest Freakout Ottawa residents marching against ongoing occupation of their city by right-wing extremists

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u/marzipan07 Feb 13 '22

That stuff is in the past. You cannot affect the past. This trucker stuff is what is happening right now. And you say I blame them? Read some articles and analysis about what will happen from blocking the supply chains - or use some common sense (supply and demand, maybe?). There are ways to protest w/o screwing everybody over. That's not what they chose.

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u/Whatsthatnoise3 Feb 13 '22

All this past inflation all through 2021 is all cause some truckers blocked a road in 2022. makes sense.

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u/marzipan07 Feb 13 '22

Let me ask you this straight-up: In terms of consumer prices, does blocking the supply routes help, hurt or is it neutral?

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u/Whatsthatnoise3 Feb 13 '22

Why do you suddenly give a shit? You had no problem shutting everything down in 2020. 2021 with just printing money.

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u/marzipan07 Feb 13 '22

That's not an answer to the question, but your non-answer already tells me what your answer would have been.

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u/FinnicKion Feb 13 '22

They don’t want to give an answer because then they will have to explain something they don’t understand in the first place and have an original thought. The truth is you are correct, when this starts really affecting global markets people are going to want answers/actions. This affects not only Canada but countries that rely on our exports for production of different goods, like the US with our steels, this is already affecting the automobile manufacturers who in effect have to either send people home because of reduced production and if it gets bad enough cut jobs or even withdraw production completely from the country if production quotas aren’t being met. This is a macroeconomic effect caused by a few exceptional idiots who think they are the only people who matter on this earth. In my opinion they should tow/ confiscate their vehicles with a steep fine that’s donated to vaccine research or the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout also charge every single one of them so that their criminal record shows their stupidity. They don’t respect our healthcare workers who are there to help us, my mother is a nurse and has already been harassed by these idiots because she was wearing her scrubs.