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GiveSendGo appears to be a Christian crowdfunding platform. Maybe it's nuanced but I am unable to see a Christian connection to the mask mandates or whatever the truckers are protesting.
Might be a good idea to learn what they are protesting, before trying to draw connections between what they are protesting and other things like religion.
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It could be state sponsored hacking, but I think it's more likely to be don't by someone who got annoyed by the protests. If I had trucks honking in front of my window, I'd do whatever I could to get them to fuck off as well. No need for the state to get involved if you just piss off enough random people.
I doubt someone who lived that close to the honking had the ability and chutzpah to do this. After seeing how angry people got over Joe Rogan, I absolutely think there are militantly progressive people who are more concerned with the content of speech than the chilling effect of limiting free speech who would do this. Which isn't to say I agree with the Ottawa protesters or bridge blockaders; I think both went well o…
You have a right to speak your mind, but your ability to exert power is regulated. The same goes for when the government ends a strike
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That is ironic coming from a Canadian. Just recently, a lot of money poured in from Canada to support the farmer protest in India. Here is one example: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donatetofarmers PS: Not that I support the current Canadian protests. Edit: Some other examples: 1. https://globalnews.ca/news/7680005/farmers-india-protest-bil... 2. https://thewire.in/rights/justin-trudeau-farmers-protest-ind... 3. https:/…
As a matter of principle I agree with you, however there is also a large Indian diaspora in Canada and it's quite possible most of that money was donated by Indians; it doesn't make a lot of sense for a Canadian living in the US to donate the money from a US account though.
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Because we evaluate the extremity of events relative to each other.
But we don't allow the extremes of barely related events to calibrate what should or shouldn't be alarming about other events.
Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass.
The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far).
It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples.
It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks.
But I stayed away from the BLM protests, so I only saw them when they came to me.
Like so:
Edit: to be clear I was present when this happened
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You can look at the data - there were around twice as many foreign donations than Canadian ones.
I did look at the data. $4,311,287 listed their country as Canada, and $4,110,520 were from other countries. [1] You're just wrong. Number of individual donors is irrelevant, the majority of cash is from Canada. [1] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODI3Y2UzMWQtMjE4MS00N...
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I'm eager to see passwords leaks as well as all the other personal info leaks for the last decade be exposed then. Remember the Desjardins leak a few years ago? Is that OK? I fail to see why a leak is considered "public information" to you or why specifically it's ok for this case but not equifax, desjardins and all the others.
Understanding american meddling in canadian affairs is handy for canadian sovereignty.
Law enforcement has enough tools to investigate stuff like this. The public doesn't need access to everyone's information just in case it's "helpful."
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How about citizens of Seattle when the CHAZ was operating? Were they majority for that?
I’m a Seattlelite, my perception from amongst friends was that the Capitol Hill experiment was very supportive, at least initially
Most of the people who were in my scout troop participated at one point or another, the Capitol Hill Business Alliance was broadly supportive, albiet they were focused on business centric issues. Many of the businesses in the area operated like normal as well.
Eventually though the park was looking like a Nicklesville (old Seattlites know the etymology of this), and the crowd that had driven back the cops, painted the street with a mural, and acted in solidarity with their neighbors had dwindled, leaving just those that saw free food, free camping and few people left encouraging sociable behavior.
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There's a lot to unpack here, but Ottawa residents are largely against the truckers occupying the roads of their city.
How about citizens of Seattle when the CHAZ was operating? Were they majority for that?
The BLM marches closed freeways once in a while but it’s hard to make I5 noticeably worse. I’ve sat in longer backups more frequently in Seattle due to drunk drivers in Tacoma, for example.
It really wasn’t a big enough deal for there to be a majority opinion either way, I’d imagine. I’d completely forgotten about it until I read your post.
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But we don't allow the extremes of barely related events to calibrate what should or shouldn't be alarming about other events.
Comparing civil disturbances with other civil disturbances is fair. Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass. The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far). It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples. It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks. But I stayed aw…
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Comparing civil disturbances with other civil disturbances is fair. Martin Luther Kings March on Selma can be compared (very favorably) to the Night of Broken Glass. The BLM protests involved a much larger number of people, and last much longer (so far). It makes it easier to cherry lick bad examples. It’s fair to say what we’re seeing in Canada is like the worst of the BLM condensed into a few weeks. But I stayed aw…
You're disregarding my premise, and arguing against something else. The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumatic for the people whose lives have been disrupted. These events stand on their own, and aren't somehow offset by another protest…
But the comparison does inform us on how biased and hypocratical the media and the ruling class are.