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give us a source on that 80%
truckers are protesting the mandates so people can do what they want
live or die on their own terms
thats what your last sentence is saying then so you agree?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
What law is it typically considered to violate? Does blocking the street for an hour break that law, or does it have to be "many days"?
Do you not think there are laws everywhere about blocking traffic? When you reach a destination in your car, do you just park in the middle of the street?
I don't, but I think of it as normal, because commercial vehicles including delivery trucks do it all day every day in the area that I live in. They do it in the right lane of city streets that have two lanes each way, and they do it on streets where you have to cross over a double yellow to get around.
Aside from that, I have lived in the approximate center of a moderate sized city (metro area of ~1 million) and noticed that there are occasional, authorized events that take over and prevent any and all traffic. Bicycle races for instance.
Assuming one isn't vehemently against a protest in the first place, debating blocking traffic boils down to the technical requirements for permits and coordination with authorities. It's only a shocking breakdown of public order if people strongly oppose the underlying cause.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't know the truth, at least try not to lie. Nothing I've seen in the dozens of downtown live streams jives with the smearing I've witnessed on places like r/pics and the news. It appears from the commentary that there is such vitriol towards the protesters that I wouldn't put it past some opposition group to fly defamatory flags that have no apparent connection to why they are protesting. A prominent truste…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-area-mp-und... I mean I guess you can just pretend the swastikas and rebel flags aren't there. If that makes you feel better.
If your standard is a Nazi flag nearby means everyone is a Nazi then if some random person came to a rally or protest that you support you would consider yourself a Nazi right?
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give us a source on that 80% truckers are protesting the mandates so people can do what they want live or die on their own terms thats what your last sentence is saying then so you agree?
Source:
https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2022-01-14/montreal/le-dele...
And no, I don't agree. I'm for a universal vaccination mandate. The government isn't, however. The spokeswoman talking to CBC actually wouldn't answer any questions about their protest or goals, so all I have is speculation as to what they actually want.
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#96okay so this is an unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business. Can someone explain to me why this is tolerated and why these people are not simply being arrested? What it reminds me of is that 2014 standoff with the Bundy family on federal land in the US or farmers in France. Some groups can just do whatever they want apparently.
> okay so this is an unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business.
The pearl-clutching about this protest has been something else.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean I said I didn't want to get into the weeds here, just wanted to make a meta point. But if we must, then perhaps this is a bad criteria to use: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/la-hospita...
Snopes: > While the sheriff's department said protesters at one point blocked entrances and exits at the hospital, no videos or photos confirmed that was the case. [snip, most of the article about the shooting itself] > Rather, video footage showed a handful of deputies standing in a driveway (apparently an entrance to the hospital’s emergency room), while the small group of protesters paced up and down a sidewalk fe…
Adding onto this to say that the LA Sheriff's Department has less than zero credibility when it comes to any matter concerning either race or protests against police action. They literally have violent and racist gangs operating in that department. There is a reason why "Google LASD Gangs" has become a meme in LA and LA-centric circles of the internet. It is a known problem and almost no one in power is working to fix it.
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#98It surprises me to see GoFundMe bow to political pressure, when the platform is designed to fund people that are standing up against governments.
GoFundMe is a very left leaning organization. They have shut down numerous right leaning GoFundMe pages. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calling people names is a cheap shot at attempting to discredit them.
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The people against this protest are literally for a closely aligned group of state and business interests to override private citizens' bodily and medical autonomy. It's hard to imagine something more fascist than the people against this protest.
I'm not even saying that to express support for the protestors, Fascism is a seductive ideology for a reason and it's currently exactly as popular as everyone thinks, it's just not confined to the 'other side'. It's getting increasingly absurd when someone labels people who, if they're doing anything wrong, are arguing for too many individual rights as fascists. People need to just accept that they're on the fascist side of the argument and proceed from there, acknowledging what their ideology does when it goes too far.
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These truckers (and most antivaxxers) somehow think they're as stigmatized as the Jews were during WWII so they often wear yellow stars, compare themselves to Anne Frank, and have signs with the SS moniker / draw swastikas over the flags to demonstrate how oppressed they are.. a few made it on TV while the MP was talking to the news crews. Whenever there's anything remotely anti-government the Gadsen/Confederate batt…
Small nit-pick, it is disingenuous to write “Gadsen/Confederate” flag when those are two totally separate things. The Gadsen flag for most people is a symbol of independence and freedom. Historically it was not associated with slavery, the confederate secession, or the civil war.
I'd say that's a major distinction, not a minor nitpick at all.