Riots! In! Montreal! Cause: Rebel car dealership open on weekends!

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


I was trying to go further the BS people are spouting and offer a reasonable explanation why salespeople would be angry over this.

Either way, - open saturdays or not - I don't give much of a ****. But it's silly to get all passionately indignated over workers flexing a bit of muscle to defend their interests.

It's wrong to condemn violence now?

So if Apple continues to dominate the mp3 player market, it's competitors should have their employees go smash some Apple stores rather than improve their own products? I really have trouble seeing how the workers' actions are anything but morally reprehensible.

[Kuciwalker]

We know why they're angry. We think their reasons are bull**** and they should suck it up.

But it's silly to get all passionately indignated over employers flexing a bit of muscle to defend their interests.

we should arrest strikers

[Fake Boris]

And you know stuff is wrong when people get all hot and heavy about their right to buy stuff. I pay therefore I am!

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
We know why they're angry. We think their reasons are bull**** and they should suck it up.

But it's silly to get all passionately indignated over employers flexing a bit of muscle to defend their interests.

we should arrest strikers

The competing employers probably have something to do with it, duh.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm speaking in general, duh.

[Arrian]

Somebody needs to watch Falling Down.



-Arrian

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
We know why they're angry. We think their reasons are bull**** and they should suck it up.

I'd think the opposite way... you know why they're angry, so suck it up and accept that angry people scratch cars.

[Arrian]

So if I'm an angry consumer because I can only shop for cars after working all day Mon-Fri, I can go punch a member of the "sucky auto dealers of Montreal" or whatever it's called?

-Arrian

[Kuciwalker]

Violence and property damage is okay if you're angry

[Kuciwalker]

They were also trying to prevent customers from even shopping at the dealership. Sounds remarkably like what very angry pro-lifer's do blocking abortion clinics

[Arrian]

Angry Montreal car salesman defense

Somebody call Cockrane.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
They were also trying to prevent customers from even shopping at the dealership. Sounds remarkably like what very angry pro-lifer's do blocking abortion clinics

And those are the not-angry ones. The angry ones use firebombs

-Arrian

[Kuciwalker]

I like this philosophy.

[Fake Boris]

Violence is what the world relies on to function. I'm not particularly moved by it, no, especially when you're talking about a ****ing scratch on a ****ing used car in a ****ing crappy suburb of Montreal.

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Violence is what the world relies on to function. I'm not particularly moved by it, no, especially when you're talking about a ****ing scratch on a ****ing used car in a ****ing crappy suburb of Montreal.

Well it is the proverbial storm in a tea cup, but we are still essentially talking about far more important things:

1) Acceptability of violence in labour disputes.
2) Restrictions on trade.