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   David (defractal@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 23:38:23 JST David

   • Senator Paula Simons

   @Paulatics That's a start for day 1, and let's not act alone: Let's partner with other countries to respond with coordinated reprisals, such that a trade attack on one is a trade attack on all, for which all will answer in unison. The US, and especially Trump and his oligarchs personally and their companies, must be assured to always lose more for every trade attack, so long as it persists, than anyone they attack. The way to do this is in close and *rapid* cooperation with all other trade partners.
   #cdnpoli

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     David (defractal@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 23:38:22 JST David

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Senator Paula Simons

     @Paulatics Day 2 is coming and going with too little additional action against the US oligarchs backing the US tariffs. On day 3, Justin and Pierre and Jagmeet and Paul should agree to have the GG reconvene Parliament explicitly to drop the DRM laws Canada enacted in exchange for the free trade treaty the US is now violating. This would harm the financial interests of US oligarchs like Musk and Bezos (as by letting Canadians legally jailbreak Teslas and Audible books), and it would create a lot of much-needed high-value work for Canadians, and a new set of products and services to distribute globally (except to the US, where those would remain illegal).

     Even if we're not going to heed @pluralistic regarding tariffs, we should enact his recommended anti-DRM reprisal, and we should do it tomorrow if not today. Don't give them time to hedge against it. Every day US oligarch's net wealth is not declining, so long as tariffs or other US trade aggression against Canada is in effect, is a day the Government of Canada is derelicting their duty to Canadians.
     #cdnpoli

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 23:41:10 JST Rich Felker

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Senator Paula Simons

     @deFractal @Paulatics @pluralistic If they need to escalate later, they can declare it an illegal coup and seize all the broligarchs' assets in Canada. 🙃 😈