The other day at Ace of Spades, Buck Throckmorton had what I think is an excellent idea, and I note that John Hinderaker at PowerLine (and others) have picked up on it.
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.
Leftists despise working class “deplorables” and seek to punish them for all their disapproved habits – you know – God, guns, motorized vehicles, and voting MAGA. Well, the tradesmen I know are swamped with business 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.
An excellent idea. Continuing:
Broken down on the side of the road with a Bernie or Biden bumper sticker? Sorry – you’re going to have to find a wrecker that employs all 57 genders and declares all their pronouns. But Earl’s 24-Hour Wrecker won’t be towing your car today. Terms of service, you know.
Broken down furnace during a deep freeze? Too bad you advocated for a fracking ban on Facebook. That’s a violation of Smith HVAC’s terms of service. It looks like you’ll need to find yourself an HVAC company that can fix you up with 100% renewable energy if you want your heat back on.
As John noted, good luck with that last, it ain’t gonna happen this century.
Can this be done? Why not, it’s what they’re doing to us, turnabout is always fair play where I come from.
Can such service be denied? The left is already doing it. My county is relaying updates about Covid vaccinations via Facebook. My town posts winter road updates on Facebook. I can’t express my political views on Facebook or else Mark Zuckerberg might deny me access to life-or-death info regarding roads and vaccines.
As the defenders of Monster Tech like to remind us, if I don’t want Facebook banishing me for having the wrong opinion, then I can just go start my own social media monopoly. Well then, it’s not asking too much for the left to go start their own skilled trade services.
Maybe you’ve noticed as I have after a life in the trades, people who do real things in the real world are conservative. We have to be, we know, as Kipling told you long ago:
To these from birth is Belief forbidden; from these till death is Relief afar.
They are concerned with matters hidden – under the earthline their altars are
The secret fountains to follow up, waters withdrawn to restore to the mouth,
And gather the floods as in a cup, and pour them again at a city’s drouth.They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
They do not teach that His Pity allows them to leave their job when they damn-well choose.
As in the thronged and the lighted ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand,
Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren’s days may be long in the land.
And we know it from hard-won experience. I’m a lineman and an electrician as my father was before me, my grandfather ran the town light plant. When dad started better than one in two linemen would die at work, now it rarely happens, and even then usually through carelessness. I’m not unusual in the trades, many, many of us followed our father and ancestors back out of memory into the same or related trades, learning the basic skills from them and then building on them to advance civilization.
And what are we paid for all that, about the same as our grandfathers now, and with illegal immigration it will go down again. Brock says we’re busy (he’s right) but we better be because they’re going to ruin the value f our money again. John continues”
So I like Throckmorton’s idea. Decades ago, Ayn Rand envisioned the consequences if Atlas were to shrug. Isn’t that what we are talking about here? What if the people who actually know how to make the world run were to go on strike against those who want, not just to ridicule them, but to destroy them, and us?
I’m retired now, and my 40+ years of experience is accomplishing not much of note, other than some fun on my model railroad (more on that perhaps someday) but I know perfectly well, we tradesmen are always busy enough that we can claim that we can’t be with you for a month or half-year whenever we choose. Why wouldn’t we take care of those who think like us first and put off the wreckers and moochers till we run out of proper clients? Make our life much more pleasant, in fact. Isn’t that what it’s all about? A pleasant life. In fact, that is the main reason I retired, I was fed up with dealing with the idiots that screwed up everything they touched, most of whom I was supposed to call ‘sir or ma’am’. Screw that!