Comment Re:A French subpoena! That will teach them! (Score 0) 90
Nobody stops GAFA, before you know it your downstairs neighbour Democrat president will start ripping up all your trade agreements.
We already had that happen right after the last election in 2016. Groogle, Froogle, Smoogle, Facebook, Faceplant who gives a shit if we somehow manage to screw them out of some of their cash with a thinly disguised tax? It is all the same crap.
Americans don't by and large know that the original CCR was not a southern blues rock band, it was a way to put more dollars into the hands of Burton Cummings and the Guess Who and even small players like Neil Young and Susan and Terry Jacks, hell even Edward Bear made a few bucks because of the taxes we slapped on American garbage content. So if Facebook and Google want to use our news as a revenue source they should pay the pipers, should they not?
As an official Old and Flatulent but still proud Canadian, keeping the border closed until some sanity can return after the final demise of the current asshole in power south of the 49th is the best option. That is unless some how suddenly the ghost of the rat fuckers come to life and make magic words come out of Joe Biden in a letter that slurs the Canucks.
Given that the Canucks just bowed out to the team of mostly Canadians from Las Vegas the entertainment tonight value of just sitting back, drinking a beer, farting pissing and moaning is all most of us Canucks can do about the current seemingly intractable problems plaguing our once great neighbours to the south.
Our industries like those of the US have all been taken over offshore and we too are about to go down the toilet because of our economic greed and sloth in allowing a few people to control far too much of our economies. This does not mean that we support the "Lefties" or are all "Libtards" or some other ridiculous new trendy Facebook style epithet, it simply means that here in Canada we fully understand the divide and conquer bullshit tactics of Donald Trump and don't fall for that kind of bullshit quite as quickly as the disaffected population that accidentally elected a moron for president. HOLY CRAP BATMANSlashdot is turning me into a hairy old troll! Unleash the MAGA POSTS PLEASE this is a good discussion time to make it into a shit show with Anti antifa rhetoric bullshit... where the hell is OrangeMANBAD and he should be in this thread like a dirty shirt. PASS the POPCORN I think I am about to fart again!