What If Deplorables Start “De-Platforming” Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?

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  1. Zorro

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    What If Deplorables Start “De-Platforming” Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?

    If Monster Tech can aggressively de-platform businesses and individuals for expressing forbidden opinions, then maybe it’s time for skilled tradesmen to respond in kind against the woke left.
    Skilled tradesmen are swamped with demand right now, so it might be a good time for them to establish their own “terms of service” enabling them to deny services to advocates of cancel culture. Need your heat fixed? Your plumbing? Your electricity, and you support criminalizing the views of the Right and barring them from Social Media? Mmmmmm..
    Especially since it does.
    First push "Punch a Nazi"
    Then declare folks who disagree with you to be "Nazi's"
    And you have arrived at "Punch those who disagree with you."

    Well, can we in good conscience service folks who advocate political violence?
    Plumbing leak? Sad that your hate-filled “Hate Has No Home Here” sign is a violation of Jones Plumbing’s terms of service. But, open a door and use rolled up towels to steer the flooding water toward an open door, and if it's cold, turn the heat on so you don't get cold!
    Cities and Counties are posting Covid vaccinations via Facebook. And that's not all, winter road hazard updates are posted on Facebook, and if you post political views that Mark Zuckerberg or any of his employees disagree with, they may ban them, denying them access to life-or-death info regarding roads and vaccines.

    But, hey I guess if we don't like it, we can start our on Social Media, so, if you don't like it, you can open your own gas station and learn your own trade skills.

    Some banks are refusing service to gun shop owners.
    Retailers are banishing products from My Pillow, etc.
     
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    Tradesmen already have the right to refuse service to people they don't want to work for.
    All you're doing is propping up the argument that people, and companies, should have the right
    to choose who they are going to associate with.
     
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    So, you are good with "Last Chance Gas" refusing to allow cars with Biden stickers to fuel up their cars? Good to know!
     
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    Great idea. Can you give us some examples on how this would work? So would a plumber say stop carrying parts, products and tools from companies like Kohl, American Standard, Armstrong etc because they supported cancel culture? For their customers will the plumber ask a series of question not related to the plumbing project regarding say social or political issues before deciding whether to come out to the client site? Hopefully these condition will be displayed prominently on their webpage or ads. To be honest I think progressives would love this.
     
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    Not sure if I’d be calling such petty-minded people as ‘Deplorables’...

    ‘Pathetics’ seems equally appropriate.
     
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    1) No.

    2) A much better approach would be for plumbers/mechanics in small Conservative counties to have a short list of Woke businesses/individuals whose calls should not be returned. In small Conservative counties, boycotts could be very effective.

    3) Businesses owned by Woke individuals should be boycotted. Businesses employing Woke individuals should be boycotted only as long as these individuals remain hired.
     
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    No conditions displayed. Just one file with individuals/businesses whose calls should not be returned. Simple as that.
     
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    They have a right. They need much more extensive organization and infrastructure.
     
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    I do not think you know that the word means, deplorables are the white nationalists, not normal republicans

    those that stormed the Capital on Jan 6th waving the Confederate flag... were deplorables
     
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    are you against sites that have a TOS, like this one, like many Christian sites, ect.... should Christian sites be forced to allow disruptive Muslims and Atheists on their site

    that said, I do remember parking lots denying people with Obama stickers
     
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    Let's see: Trumper tow truck driver drives 10 miles to tow stranded motorist's vehicle, only to see that they have a Biden bumper sticker. What to do, suck up the gas money for 20 miles driving and the time cost to make his petty political point, or disregard the politics and just tow the guy to the garage and charge? My guess, since money comes ALWAYS first for Trumpers, they'll do the latter.
     
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    Yeah... why do I get the feeling the OP is thinking a little too highly of the trades industry? Being a plumber is great, but if the "far left liberal communist extremists" in the banking system don't want to give you a loan to start up your business, you're going to be in a sorry place. A banker has money for food, a plumber won't. This is like saying "what if all the farmers just stopped sending food to the cities" and not realizing that's how countries imperialized other lands.
     
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    No, remember...you are not better than them but you ARE better than that.
    Leave the "I'm better and morally superior to you" delusions to the delusional. Wrestling pigs and such.
     
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    No one is being de-platformed for expressing opinions.
     
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    A plumber can also farm. Wait till the bankers water wont flow.
     
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    And wait until the plumber can't afford to get new parts they need so they need to take out a loan. A banker can buy water. Can a plumber afford to pawn off their tools to get a job done?
     
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    Organization and logistics of boycotts should be designed by economic experts -- who understand every detail.

    An important point is that boycotting Woke businesses and individuals can be very effective -- especially in Conservative counties. I hope Conservatives will take this opportunity.
     
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    I dont know of any poor plumbers. They are pretty afluent.
     
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    An opportunity for what? To demonstrate to the world that they are willing to cut off their noses to spite their face?
     
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    To impose economic consequences on Totalitarian Leftist individuals/businesses located in Conservative counties.
     
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    Sure.....


    Deplatforming People and Censoring Social Media Content ...
    https://www.johnlocke.org › update › deplatforming-pe...



    An Oxford Ph.D. candidate named Nathan Cofnas makes that claim in an article recently published by Quillette. I think he’s right, and I think what he has to say is very important. Here’s an excerpt:

    In the last few weeks, the leading social media companies have doubled down on their strategy of deplatforming people and censoring content. Alt-right accounts are disappearing from Twitter, videos on controversial topics are being deleted from YouTube, and even some politically moderate YouTube streamers/content creators who didn’t violate the terms of service are being demonetized in an effort to drive them away. But deplatforming won’t … accomplish the noble goals that these companies say is motiving them: to prevent violence and the spread of socially destructive misinformation. If these are their goals then deplatforming will backfire—and already has backfired. …
     
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    If a business owner is willing to put his business in the precarious role of being a tool for ideological nonsense, then they deserve to go out of business.
     
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    If anything, skilled trade people would be "de-funding" plutocratic socialists like Deadbeat Donnie.
    Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills
    Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

    What would fat, lazy, good-for-nothing corporate welfare queens and grifters like Plutocratic Socialist Donnie do without working people?

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    A totalitarian to the freedom-hating right is anyone who opposes the freedom-hating right's ability to be totalitarian.
    Such as this freedom-hating plutocratic socialist:
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    In other words, his OPINION.
     
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