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

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


How is this different from any other strike?

Strikers strike against their own employers.

I thought the whole purpose of a strike and the picket line was to prevent people from accessing the business while the workers are on strike.

No, the point is to deny the capitalist his labour.

It's some people's defence of consumerism as some sort of postmodern neoliberal Gospel that I find - profoundly - pathetic.

We are defending the right to sell unimpeded, not the right to buy.

Many posters behaved in a kantian manner, i.e. they began to 'universalize' some of my expressed (or implied) statements to demonstrate how absurd they were (with varying degrees of wit).

So then your principles of right and wrong can be summed up with: it's kinda wrong, but it's trivial so it must be ok?

I HEREBY SUBMIT THIS THREAD AND ALL OF ONCLE BORIS' POSTS TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW USELESS STUDYING FILOSOFY IS AT A POST-SECONDARY LEVEL.

I would offer a game theoretical explanation of why studying philosophy is not useless, but that's not for this thread.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Not this time, I'm pretty certain.

The only thing a philosopher can be certain of is his mortality.

[Fake Boris]

Oerdin.

Welcome to this thread. I suspect your indignation will grow as you read it.

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[Dinner]

Originally posted by Oncle 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!

Or rather, it's my money and I want the freedom to spend it how and where I choose. If I want to spend it on a sunday then there shouldn't be a law telling me I can't especially since you know it's only there to defacto support a religion.

[Dinner]

Strikers can't block access to private property. That's a criminal offense.

Strikers can picket and attempt to persuade costumers to go some where else but if they use violence or block access to private property then they are causing harm and thus can be/should be arrested. I recall the grocery workers strike here a few years back where a bunch of the grocery strikers got tossed in jail for attempting to intimidate shoppers into not shopping at the store.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Asher

The only thing a philosopher can be certain of is his mortality.

This is the Heideggerian approach. I'm Spinozist.

[Dinner]

Re: Oerdin.

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Welcome to this thread. I suspect your indignation will grow as you read it.

edit:

I like how you edited it to make this logical. Before the edit your post made no sense.

[Fake Boris]

It made sense from the beginning...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
This is the Heideggerian approach. I'm Spinozist.

You model yourself after other people, I forge my own way. That's the difference between a philosopher and a man.

[Dis]

you can only drink on the streets on the Las Vegas strip and downtown. and in New Orleans you can drink on bourbon street.

Only recently had the dealerships in Vegas wanted to open on Sundays. I'm not sure what became of that. I don't pay attention to dealerships that much.

[Fake Boris]

forge=tool

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


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

I like the American way better. Arrest the ****ers for destroying private property then let them sit in jail until they learn the difference between free speech and attacking other people. Then as a parting screw off you slap them with a nice fat fine.

Typically in this state it is something like restitution to the victim, a fine (up to several thousand) paid to the state, then being forced to pay into the crime victims' restitution fund (helps pay victims of crime whose attackers never get caught), plus probation.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
forge=tool

It's actually a verb in that sentence, my filosofer friend.

[Fake Boris]

So was it in mine.

[Dinner]

Forge= to forge. I'm afraid the gay Albertan is right. It's a verb.