A modern, North American semi-truck is a substantial physical object. On average they stand 13.5 feet tall, 8.5 feet wide. With trailer attached, a truck is 72 feet long and weighs up to 80,000 pounds. It takes 400 to 600 hp to move at speed and 1000-2000 lb-ft of torque to pull it from a standing start. When the airbrakes are locked, it becomes an immense, immovable dead weight.
There's some really dumb stuff in here. Since Adam is anything but stupid, I can only suppose that those parts have been inserted so as to avoid stepping close to any UMC liberal discourse boundaries. Please don't do that. I subscribe because I think of you as someone willing to go where the evidence leads you.
The specific stuff I'm talking about is the repeated contention that the truckers cannot represent a "working class rebellion" because...they aren't endorsed by Canadian unions? No one familiar with how Anglosphere unions have become enfeebled subsidiaries of mainstream liberal parties, with almost no influence from the private sector masses, and how the main labor action has moved to wildcat strikes, could take this contention seriously. Repeated assurances to the reader that, oh no, the trucker actions can't represent mass unrest of any form that anyone could possibly perceive as legitimate, and perish the thought that they have any relationship whatsoever to your hazy positive sentiments about 20th century labor unrest, is the kind of political bias that is endemic in the media and I come here to avoid. Just don't deliver a value judgement if you don't want to actually engage with the issue.
Also, it's truly weird to write a long essay on the physical challenge of dealing with trucks and not even mention the new innovation in state control that is being used here, the cancellation of financial accounts for participants in popular unrest. The ability to entirely remove the ability to financially transact for masses of individuals with the push of a button is entirely new and not analogous to any previous situation of popular unrest.
Given David Frum's egregious interpretation of the truth around Iraq, I'm not sure why he he would be treated as anything within several parsecs of the concept reliable source on the constitution of a glass of water let alone the class makeup of a Canadian protest. Perhaps in some universes there exists the ability to fold spacetime so violently with lies that the mendacities themselves are able distort the fabric of reality into a new truth and where Frum would be a seer, but I suspect that's not the version of causality we live in.
Even though I find contention with some points, ie. they are labour by definition whether they are unionized or not, I enjoyed reading this.
More essays(or a read list) on public goods, difficulty in creating and sustaining it would be greatly appreciated. I think this topic, which is the backbone of the modern society, is suspiciously absent.
90 % of truckers may be vaccinated, but what fraction got the jab under duress? Volunteers may still be a majority, but depth of emotion is with the opposition. Nobody is willing to give up their livelihood in support of vaccine mandates.
Videos of police brutality and the obvious failure of mandated vaccines to stop the virus are a bad look. Canada is 80% vaccinated, but COVID-19 is raging as strongly as ever.
There's some really dumb stuff in here. Since Adam is anything but stupid, I can only suppose that those parts have been inserted so as to avoid stepping close to any UMC liberal discourse boundaries. Please don't do that. I subscribe because I think of you as someone willing to go where the evidence leads you.
The specific stuff I'm talking about is the repeated contention that the truckers cannot represent a "working class rebellion" because...they aren't endorsed by Canadian unions? No one familiar with how Anglosphere unions have become enfeebled subsidiaries of mainstream liberal parties, with almost no influence from the private sector masses, and how the main labor action has moved to wildcat strikes, could take this contention seriously. Repeated assurances to the reader that, oh no, the trucker actions can't represent mass unrest of any form that anyone could possibly perceive as legitimate, and perish the thought that they have any relationship whatsoever to your hazy positive sentiments about 20th century labor unrest, is the kind of political bias that is endemic in the media and I come here to avoid. Just don't deliver a value judgement if you don't want to actually engage with the issue.
Also, it's truly weird to write a long essay on the physical challenge of dealing with trucks and not even mention the new innovation in state control that is being used here, the cancellation of financial accounts for participants in popular unrest. The ability to entirely remove the ability to financially transact for masses of individuals with the push of a button is entirely new and not analogous to any previous situation of popular unrest.
Given David Frum's egregious interpretation of the truth around Iraq, I'm not sure why he he would be treated as anything within several parsecs of the concept reliable source on the constitution of a glass of water let alone the class makeup of a Canadian protest. Perhaps in some universes there exists the ability to fold spacetime so violently with lies that the mendacities themselves are able distort the fabric of reality into a new truth and where Frum would be a seer, but I suspect that's not the version of causality we live in.
In other words a truck can be mord like a weapon than an expression of free speech
Even though I find contention with some points, ie. they are labour by definition whether they are unionized or not, I enjoyed reading this.
More essays(or a read list) on public goods, difficulty in creating and sustaining it would be greatly appreciated. I think this topic, which is the backbone of the modern society, is suspiciously absent.
90 % of truckers may be vaccinated, but what fraction got the jab under duress? Volunteers may still be a majority, but depth of emotion is with the opposition. Nobody is willing to give up their livelihood in support of vaccine mandates.
Videos of police brutality and the obvious failure of mandated vaccines to stop the virus are a bad look. Canada is 80% vaccinated, but COVID-19 is raging as strongly as ever.
Thank you for rolling this out so thoroughly.My knee-jerk reaction to initial media coverage was”Whoa….that’s not supposed to happen in Canada!”