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[Kin]

By the way, you're not doing yourself any favours driving around with stickers or flags that say "F Trudeau".....Trudeau himself doesn't care and everyone who's looking at you thinks you're an idiot. I had a guy show up to a job interview last week with that across the tailgate of his truck. Yeah, sorry, no, we are not hiring you.

It's the weirdest thing. There's certainly some politicians out there who I strongly, strongly disagree with, but I would never make that my entire personality.

People in cults don't understand that other people aren't in cults. They think that by saying something negative about Trudeau that his supporters will be deeply affected by it when most people who vote Liberal just choose it as their preferred option of a bunch of politicians.

Even at the height of my political advocacy I've never really cared about any party leader.

 

[bustaheims]

People in cults don't understand that other people aren't in cults. They think that by saying something negative about Trudeau that his supporters will be deeply affected by it when most people who vote Liberal just choose it as their preferred option of a bunch of politicians.

Even at the height of my political advocacy I've never really cared about any party leader.

Yeah. At no point have I ever looked political leader with any kind of reverence. The tribalism displayed by some is quite concerning.

 

[Bender]

People in cults don't understand that other people aren't in cults. They think that by saying something negative about Trudeau that his supporters will be deeply affected by it when most people who vote Liberal just choose it as their preferred option of a bunch of politicians.

Even at the height of my political advocacy I've never really cared about any party leader.

Yeah. At no point have I ever looked political leader with any kind of reverence. The tribalism displayed by some is quite concerning.

I've also never disliked a PM enough to protest for days against them and put my job on hold.

 

[Kin]

So I checked twitter and saw that the Convoy was trending along with Russel Brand.

"Russell Brand? The British Comedian? Why would he care about this nonsense?" I wondered. So I clicked on it. And I saw a video of him cheering on the Convoy and asking why it's not being covered by "the mainstream media".

So then I checked. The Convoy is the lead story on CBC, CTV news, The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, has five stories on the front page of the Post, about as many as the Sun(although their lead story is Mrazek getting 2 starts before the AS break) and is prominently covered over at Global News.

That's really the thing with these people. They just live in this entirely different universe. Actual, hard truths mean almost nothing to them.

 

[Bender]

So I checked twitter and saw that the Convoy was trending along with Russel Brand.

"Russell Brand? The British Comedian? Why would he care about this nonsense?" I wondered. So I clicked on it. And I saw a video of him cheering on the Convoy and asking why it's not being covered by "the mainstream media".

So then I checked. The Convoy is the lead story on CBC, CTV news, The Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, has five stories on the front page of the Post, about as many as the Sun(although their lead story is Mrazek getting 2 starts before the AS break) and is prominently covered over at Global News.

That's really the thing with these people. They just live in this entirely different universe. Actual, hard truths mean almost nothing to them.

And the thing that I don't know how to deal with is the extent of misinformation. It's so easy to say well, it's a marketplace of ideas and the best ideas win out, but with larger and larger voices spreading more and more misinformation and the less we have a shared reality, how are we supposed to move forward? I think countries like Russia and China are hoping this kind of division is long term for us while they continue to solidify their positions against the west using social media that we created against us.

 

[herman]

At least one person at the Ottawa vaccine protest is carrying a Nazi flag, and for some reason no one has said, ?dude, maybe don?t?. Also, there is a supply chain and distribution channels for these flags.

 

[Joe S.]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

 

[rdowdall]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

Me too!!!  Want to start a podcast where it's just the two of us yelling WTF!!! for half an hour?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

This should have been pretty obvious from the start but this has nothing to do with truckers, that was just used as their cover. It's just standard anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-lockdown, anti-Trudeau, anti-"tyranny", pro-"freedom" bullcrap.

 

[Joe S.]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

Me too!!!  Want to start a podcast where it's just the two of us yelling WTF!!! for half an hour?

I?m in? actually you can join my existing one

 

[Joe S.]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

This should have been pretty obvious from the start but this has nothing to do with truckers, that was just used as their cover. It's just standard anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-lockdown, anti-Trudeau, anti-"tyranny", pro-"freedom" bullcrap.

I guess my naivety is shining through here

 

[L K]

Swastika?s flying around the corner from the Cenotaph. 

My blood is boiling

 

[Kin]

Nothing says patriotism like painting swastikas on the Canadian flag and defacing war memorials.

 

[rdowdall]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

This should have been pretty obvious from the start but this has nothing to do with truckers, that was just used as their cover. It's just standard anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-lockdown, anti-Trudeau, anti-"tyranny", pro-"freedom" bullcrap.

I guess my naivety is shining through here

Don't worry, we can still do the podcast.  I figure that the fact that we live in a world predicted by the movie Idiocracy gives us 2, maybe 3 years before people become bored with our show format.

 

[herman]

You guys better do ad reads for Brawndo

 

[Joe S.]

I?m so confused as to what they?re protesting. Even if the government said ?fine don?t worry about it, no vaccine mandate? doesn?t the US government have the same mandate for truckers crossing the border? So what would they have accomplished?

I?m so confused about the world we live in today

This should have been pretty obvious from the start but this has nothing to do with truckers, that was just used as their cover. It's just standard anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-lockdown, anti-Trudeau, anti-"tyranny", pro-"freedom" bullcrap.

I guess my naivety is shining through here

Don't worry, we can still do the podcast.  I figure that the fact that we live in a world predicted by the movie Idiocracy gives us 2, maybe 3 years before people become bored with our show format.

What a time to be alive

 

[rdowdall]

You guys better do ad reads for Brawndo

Of course.  It's got stuff water doesn't have.

 

[herman]

You guys better do ad reads for Brawndo

Of course.  It's got stuff water doesn't have.

It?s got ELECTROLYTES

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/justin_ling/status/1487441727057129472
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[OldTimeHockey]

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That was a great read. It truly does seem like a rally organized by Homer Simpson