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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by adamiscool8 on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:42PM (#40839682)
>Dennis: Think about it. She’s out in the middle of nowhere with some dude she barely knows. She looks around her, what does she see? Nothing but open ocean. “Oh, there’s nowhere for me to run, what am I gonna do, say no?”

>Mac: Okay…that seems really dark though.

>Dennis: No, no, it’s not dark. You’re misunderstanding me, bro.

>Mac: I think I am.

>Dennis: Yeah, you are. ‘Cause if the girl said no, then the answer obviously is no. The thing is that she’s not gonna say no, she’d never say no…because of the implication.

>Mac: Now, you said that word “implication” a couple of times. What implication?

>Dennis: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to sleep with me. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her, but she’s thinking that they will.

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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by nick_ on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:46PM (#40839724)
So no, they didn't.
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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by adamiscool8 on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:57PM (#40839820)
Sure, and at first the Canadian government didn't force indigenous children into residential schools - it just withheld resources and services and used a monopoly on violence to make resistance untenable. Believing that's acceptable behaviour from your government, is certainly... a position.
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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by nick_ on Sunday June 30, 2024 @04:11PM (#40839962)
Equating cultural genocide to a public health measure is insane.
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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by adamiscool8 on Sunday June 30, 2024 @04:21PM (#40840065)
Respectfully, it is insane to not recognize the discrete similarities listed, and moreover, how many genocides have their roots in purported "public health measures".
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Re:Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer adv... by nick_ on Sunday June 30, 2024 @06:11PM (#40840802)
I feel you are exemplifying the typical conspiratorial thinking patterns. You might as well have asked me to concede based on the fact that there are technically similarities between vaccine mandates and the Yellow Badge. I mean you must be insane not to recognize how they're basically the same thing, right? /s
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