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Businesses that are saying F the rules

Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:40 pm
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
37161 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:40 pm
I'm torn here. I think these closures have well outlived their usefulness (if there was any at all) and we need to start opening things back up, quicker and sooner.

But when some businesses have decided the rules don't apply to them, I just can't support that. We should, as a society, encourage people to follow the rules, and if you don't like the rules, then fight like hell to change them.

But when the state says a bar can't have in-bar service, and there are 50 cars in the parking lot, and the door constantly opening and closing and people drinking at the bar, and no one enforces the rules, it's a slap in the face to the bar down the street who is abiding by the rules.

We are going to be seeing a lot more of this in the days ahead. More proof that nice guys finish last.
Posted by burdman
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2007
20689 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:41 pm to
Fortune favors the bold.
Posted by Mud_Till_May
Member since Aug 2014
9685 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:42 pm to
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Fortune favors the bold.


No it doesn’t, they get their head cut off and businesses raided.
Posted by LSUJML
BR
Member since May 2008
46244 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:43 pm to
Posted by Eric Stratton
Faber College
Member since Mar 2015
2049 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:45 pm to
Dont you dare bring logic into this
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:46 pm to
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I'm torn here.
Posted by extremetigerfanatic
Denham Springs
Member since Oct 2003
5373 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:46 pm to
So the asshats that said raise the budget or lose LSU football get to decide that la carretas can have 200 people in the parking lot but the barbershops have stay closed and risk bankruptcy? Screw that

All businesses should have an option to stay open with parameters
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 1:48 pm
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43390 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:46 pm to
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hen fight like hell to change them


Uh, that's kind of the point of protesting unjust rules by not following them.

Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124571 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:47 pm to
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But when the state says a bar can't have in-bar service, and there are 50 cars in the parking lot, and the door constantly opening and closing and people drinking at the bar, and no one enforces the rules, it's a slap in the face to the bar down the street who is abiding by the rules.



Then maybe you shouldn’t abide by stupid rules just because some stuffed shirt petty tyrant says so.
Posted by extremetigerfanatic
Denham Springs
Member since Oct 2003
5373 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:48 pm to
We are led by a moron in a blue shirt with a purple and gold tie.

I mean. Who does that?
Posted by BeerMoney
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2012
8392 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:50 pm to
Well I can’t speak to everyone but we own a non essential business. Stayed closed until it was abundantly clear that this thing was not what they made it out to be. Observed those who got sick and recovered who we knew personally. Observed people living with sock people and not getting sick. So we reopened on May 1. Our clients wanted us back and come in for services on the “low” effectively. The “rules” as you say are not legal in my opinion. They’re constitutionally suspect at best, politically driven at worst.
Posted by Tbonepatron
Member since Aug 2013
8447 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:52 pm to
I’m all out of faith.
This is how I feel.
Posted by Lima Whiskey
Member since Apr 2013
19408 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:52 pm to
I support their right to rebel.

I’ve been trying to figure out why though.

I believe in hierarchy. But at the same time I have a healthy disregard for the rules, and I always have.

It must be cultural.

I intuitively know that there are people who can tell me what to do, and there are people who can’t.

But it has nothing to do with titles, oddly. It’s more about how old you are, and who you are. And there are limits to what I can be commanded to do.
Posted by paperwasp
11x HRV tRant Poster of the Week
Member since Sep 2014
23241 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:56 pm to
The rules at this point are for the most part reasonable, IMO.

When people start abusing them, it only seems to lead to more extreme measures.

I think we should take obvious precautions and follow the rules as they now stand, just so we can get out of this without any more complications/closures down the road.

I'm worried if we don't, we're going to start pushing this into football season.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124571 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:57 pm to
I’m cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Posted by victoire sécurisé
Member since Nov 2012
4965 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:58 pm to
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Then maybe you shouldn’t abide by stupid rules just because some stuffed shirt petty tyrant says so.


Does this logic apply to all laws? Can we use this same logic to support illegal immigrants who are fleeing poverty?

Or does this only apply when I want to drink with my friends at a bar?
Posted by YF12
Ottobaan
Member since Nov 2019
4451 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:59 pm to
Sounds like a bootlicker in here

As long as daddy government makes the rules, whatever they are or as horrible as they are we must obey.

Into the cars! Thanks daddy government!
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43390 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:59 pm to
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When people start abusing them, it only seems to lead to more extreme measures.


You should have a major issue with this, seeing as how the government is supposed to follow the will of the people, not the people the will of the government.

quote:

I'm worried if we don't, we're going to start pushing this into football season.


I think holding our politicians accountable for shitty decisions that do nothing except restrict our ability to go on with our lives is just a teeeeeeeny bit more important than football.



Posted by Ross
Member since Oct 2007
47824 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:59 pm to
quote:

But when some businesses have decided the rules don't apply to them, I just can't support that. We should, as a society, encourage people to follow the rules, and if you don't like the rules, then fight like hell to change them.


yeah frick that

I see where you are coming from in ordinary circumstances, but these circumstances are not ordinary. These "rules" are being made not through the legislature, the instrument of the people, but through executive actions of single people in charge of entire states. On top of it all, these executive actions are textbook government overreach. I have zero issue with people taking a moral and legal stance against them.
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 2:07 pm
Posted by extremetigerfanatic
Denham Springs
Member since Oct 2003
5373 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 1:59 pm to
Lima
Take what you just said and add in your livelihood.

That’s why people are saying f the rules

People bought in because the media told us 2 million people could die.

“Yeah but it’s still dangerous!!” Coming from the same people that tell me a woman can now have a dick and that fetuses aren’t human.

Except the numbers say otherwise.
It’s relatively more severe than the normal flu.

And we shut down the economy and have Great Depression unemployment numbers

That’s why people are saying f the rules.
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 2:03 pm
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