Sorry to have infected your country with our shit.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
they were honking up and down burrard street all afternoon. carhorn protests are really the most annoying form of protest
― symsymsym, Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
Hanging an upside-down flag on the Terry Fox monument really seems to crystallize everything these people stand for.https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/01/29/terry-fox-statue-defaced-in-ottawa-sparking-condemnation.html
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
this shit is so enraging too: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-trucker-protest-forces-vigil-for-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-victims-to-move-online-1.5759847
― symsymsym, Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
This statistic is striking considering how white the protest is:https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-almost-one-in-five-canadian-truckers-is-south-asian-but-many-dont-see/xp
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
Ooh, that is enraging.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
I passed the Vancouver protest earlier on when it was out in East Van - 1st and Grandview Hwy roughly. Surprisingly there were a lot of vehicles. Hundreds. Then the people on the street corners cheering them going past and waving PPC signs were mostly Asian. When I got home my next door neighbor was setting off to join them lol. Makes no sense.
― everything, Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
o_O.
I have seen exactly one visible minority openly participating or supporting this here so far. But good to hear other perspectives - never good to stereotype.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
Lot of Asian people in the neighbourhood, but still...
― everything, Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:55 (two years ago) link
This video, shared by a supporter, looks, uh, consistent in demographics with what I've been observing around here:
Are you serious man pic.twitter.com/4m9qC7spBM— David Laflamme (@davidlaflammme) January 29, 2022
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
also in beards
Sorry, don't want to misrepresent what was going on...the protest did look to be all white guys tbh but on the two or three main intersections along the way there was little crowds of people with canada flags and ppc signs and there were lots of non white people there. Probably faith groups from the suburbs?
― everything, Sunday, 30 January 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
Nice and quiet this morning
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Today will almost certainly be the last 'big' day. An employee at the hotel I'm at say more or less *everybody* who checked in Friday and Saturday are checking out today.Obviously, the long-haulers are going to stay nestled in their trucks when Parliament resumes Monday.— Justin Ling (@Justin_Ling) January 30, 2022
― jmm, Sunday, 30 January 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
Spoke too soon. Horns just started up again.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
edmonton:
From CBC: Edmonton MP on Parliament Hill handing out coffee to protestors, with upside-down Canadian flag with swastika in background. Disgraceful. #FluTruxKlan #FluTrucksKlan #KarenKonvoy pic.twitter.com/RoU2tmh2Kl— Barre Campbell (@bgrantcampbell) January 29, 2022
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
i'm just catching up with all of this and apparently there were more nazi and confederate flags being flown at these protests in various cities.
these people are so utterly confused. you can't even have a rational discussion with them
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/sfql2g/nazi_flag_during_freedom_convoy_protest_at/
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Yep, both pictures are from Parliament Hill here. The MP is Michael Cooper:
Conservative Member of Parliament Michael Cooper, supporting the anti-vaxx convoy being interviewed in front of a swastika. Just a normal, peaceful protest. pic.twitter.com/Xou4sb9beu— Chris Bittle (@Chris_Bittle) January 29, 2022
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
I can't make out what was written on the QC flag behind him. Can anyone read it?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
I really wish the CBC would stop calling this a protest against Covid restrictions
Nothing says "grassroots campaign to end vaccine mandates" like professionally-made transphobia placards. Via @TheCanuckMD pic.twitter.com/G4DvflHSOI— Michelle Cohen, MD (@DocMCohen) January 30, 2022
If there are any journalist lurkers here please read this thread
🧵Want to know how protests like today's #FluTrucksKlan benefit alt-right extremists? Here's some 101 on how hat operates.First, they pick an issue that has reached a boiling point. In this case, it's the pandemic and health mandates. They know a lot of people are exhausted.1/— Mx. Amanda Jetté Knox (@MavenOfMayhem) January 30, 2022
At least they are reporting this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/convoy-protest-border-lethbridge-alberta-1.6332936
― rob, Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
Ugh. Hopefully it’s broken up a bit out there sund4r? I just drove a couple hours eastbound on the 401, and passed at least 100 westbound convoy vehicles (flag draped) that had to be headed home. Not nearly as many trucks as smaller vans and pickups though. Still seemed like a lot.
― Kim, Sunday, 30 January 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
We got the thumbnail version in St. Marys: one guy standing at the town's main intersection, Unknown Comic paper bag over his head, anti-vaxx signage (and a People's Party sign hanging from a drainage pipe inside his car parked nearby). Thankfully, he wasn't looking to engage as I walked by; not something I'm particularly up for at the moment.
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 January 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
Took some pictures en route to the drug store: https://photos.app.goo.gl/v5VnPUWy2nkYoMyQ9
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
I wandered up Bank St. for a bit until the honking got to be too much.
Definitely a surreal weekend.
― jmm, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
I love the "WE ARE THE FRINGE" signs. Like... okay, I believe you.
― jmm, Monday, 31 January 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
Friends, it's been a difficult 24 hours. Staff harassed for meals. A service user and security guard assaulted. Through it all, you have donated and filled our hearts with gratitude. Every cent will support people experiencing homelessness. Thank you. See our statement ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/TYHD8r8aLo— Shepherds of Good Hope (@sghottawa) January 30, 2022
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Monday, 31 January 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
I've tbh been a little confused about how this is even legal for them to shut down the core of the city for days on end; this seems to suggest that it's not but police are scared of "confrontations" with the 'peaceful' demonstrators??
The latest Ottawa Police news release on the ongoing protest near Parliament Hill: pic.twitter.com/0WVS3oChuo— Katie Simpson (@CBCKatie) January 31, 2022
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
The elementary school next door is closed because of this. Why is this being tolerated?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
It's infuriating; it's also impossible to not be cynical about "why"
― rob, Monday, 31 January 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
It's jaw-dropping, thinking about how many people were arrested during the G20 protests in Toronto or how aggressive the police response was to the Printemps érable in Montreal. They can't even give these people parking tickets?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Monday, 31 January 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
OTM
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 31 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
Is a positive test even news anymore?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-protest-ottawa-1.6333316
― clemenza, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
Good piece about the explicit connections between this shit far right white supremacism: https://www.antihate.ca/the_freedom_convoy_is_nothing_but_a_vehicle_for_the_far_right
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Monday, 31 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
At what age does conspiratorial thinking set in? I mentioned to a grade 6 class today about Trudeau testing positive; "He's not really positive, he's just hiding from the truckers."
― clemenza, Monday, 31 January 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
Not sure that's a conspiracy per se, although it may be an implicit admission that the protest is not so peaceful.
I destroyed one sign today and flipped people off while walking on the sidewalk. Starting to lose it. The city has basically isolated Centretown and handed us over to these nutters: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/troster-trucker-convoy-ottawas-centretown-has-been-abandoned-to-the-mob
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 01:59 (two years ago) link
From a viewer just now: “I am disabled and live within blocks of parliament. I’ve been trying to get groceries for days now and because of the mess down here I am unable to have them delivered…I haven’t had food for days now” #ottnews— Graham Richardson (@grahamctv) January 31, 2022
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
The idea that the PM would release false test results to dodge a difficult situation--not least coming from an 11-year-old--strikes me as very conspiratorial. I'm guessing the idea didn't formulate in his own mind.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
Oh, tbc, it's bullshit and makes no sense anyway. Trudeau was hiding just fine before he got sick.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
Funny...On a related note, a different kid in the same class, when I brought up Hiroshima on Friday (in connection to Jackson Pollock), said the Japanese deserved the atomic bomb. Flabbergasted, to say the least.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
Uh, are your students' parents parked around here rn, by any chance?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link
The minute they get their licenses...
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
O'Toole may be getting ousted?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/erin-otoole-leadership-review-caucus-1.6334491
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
(xpost) I misread your post--parents, yeah...I don't want to characterize the whole school, I've been there a lot this year and most of the kids are just fine, but obviously a few of them are getting very creative history lessons around the dinner table.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
No paramedics were hurt following an incident on Parliament Hill where rocks were thrown at an Ottawa ambulance vehicle during the third day of the “Freedom Convoy” protest.Darryl Wilton, president of the Ottawa Paramedic Association, confirmed the news to CityNews on Monday, January 31, adding that one of their paramedics had also been subjected to anti-Asian racial slurs during the same incident as he checked on the status of the vehicle.
Darryl Wilton, president of the Ottawa Paramedic Association, confirmed the news to CityNews on Monday, January 31, adding that one of their paramedics had also been subjected to anti-Asian racial slurs during the same incident as he checked on the status of the vehicle.
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/rocks-hurled-at-ottawa-ambulance-at-downtown-truck-convoy-5011107
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
clem how did you respond to the 11yo?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
Pretty sharply both times (again, two different kids). I let the kid on Friday know how cruel he was being, even if that wasn't his intention, and with the kid today, I basically said "That's absurd." It's a bit of a balancing act to the degree that any kind of engagement with these topics is, in the abstract, better than no engagement, so I tried to stop short of "You have no idea what you're talking about so just shut up." They were all respectful when I talked about Jackie Robinson today (birthday), so I'm sure it's just random nonsense they're picking up from home.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
i have to say i do view clemenza's student's viewpoint as conspiratorial. an increasing amount of people on the right are taking advantage of trudeau's low approval rating by blatantly making up lies about him and the people around him.
have a look at this CBC piece from today:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/adam-scotti-accusations-protest-1.6334213
this is a CPC MP posting on facebook. sure, she removed her post but this just flames so much conspiratorial thinking. while there's no direct link between what that news piece says and trudeau avoiding the protests, it's very obvious we're seeing a nascent US-style conspiratorial and hate culture in canada, which is so extremely demoralizing. i'm starting to believe we truly are the US on a delay
once this "seed" is planted in chamber, we will see all kinds of people fill in the blanks with wild ideas when posts are removed or conservative MPs are viewed as being "silenced"
in terms of when would conspiratorial thinking set in, i'm still a relatively young person with no children, but i believe this kind of thinking is embedded in subtle ways as an infant, to the point where it is difficult for a child to even identify her or his own thoughts as conspiratorial unless exposed to a variety of ideas and challenged intellectually. once rationality is thrown out the window, they're pretty much a lost cause, but i tend to give educational institutions a lot of credit. also, unfortunately, and i think this overlaps with some conservative viewpoints sadly (especially from the US, where a lot of this is coming from), i do believe that lack of government transparency also gives way to this kind of thinking and i believe most governments we've had have failed us in this regard. i wouldn't be surprised if our government is one of the least transparent, as are the corporations that have established themselves here
there is a reddit post that describes all the horrible things that have happened at these protests:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/sh62nr/convoy_megathread_27/hv0k0xk/
― Punster McPunisher, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 07:18 (two years ago) link
I thought conspiracy theories usually involve multiple powerful parties colluding in secret to enact a hidden agenda? Not sure who the conspirators are in a 'theory' about a politician telling a lie (something that politicians do); it just seems baseless and unlikely in this case. Or is the idea that the health care system and media are also in on the conspiracy?
Anyway lol Saskatchewan
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
"I asked … why you can't start ticketing [ on Queen Elizabeth Driveway ], it's far enough away. And they said they'd get on their CB [ radio ] and there would be another 20 truckers there smashing down the barricade."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-protest-convoy-length-ticket-tow-mayor-1.6333497
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Are these people under the impression no one remembers stuff like this? https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/12/20/RCMP-Planned-Snipers-Wetsuweten-Pipeline-Protest/
(tbc I'm not advocating the Ottawa police start sniping people)
― rob, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
why is it so slow
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 04:41 (nine months ago) link
I think Elections Alberta is using new tabulating technology and at some point, only 72 or something out of 250 machines were working
Or so I heard
Anyway lol lmao
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 04:58 (nine months ago) link
As someone who moved out of AB years ago
As someone also in this position - 15+ years gone and no plans to move back - I'm surprised how annoyed I am at the result. Like, it shouldn't be much of my business by now, but I still care, I guess on behalf of friends and family who are still there.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link
TO by-election lawn sign report: Biked from the Beaches to Port Credit and back this evening. Mostly Chow signs along with a hilarious amount of Gongs. Not too surprised to see Bradford signs south of Queen here as it’s his ward and all but also saw a goodly amount of Chow and a few Matlows (huzzah!). No Saunders anywhere, guessing he is focused elsewhere.
― KPH, Sunday, 11 June 2023 03:41 (nine months ago) link
I was in North York a lot this past week cause my parents were in town and they decided to stay in that area (I was born and raised there), sorry for sounding like the typical downtown Torontonian but shit, that area might as well be a different city/country
barely any frontrunner signs except a few Bailao signs, mostly Gong and Heather He (who? and who????) signs
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 11 June 2023 03:44 (nine months ago) link
Not our dude but I’m relieved when Bailao had the early lead, etc.
― KPH, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 01:27 (nine months ago) link
Was closer than I expected.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 04:53 (nine months ago) link
I'm gone, but glad to hear it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 10:36 (nine months ago) link
Gong's 11th place finish (he must have had more signs on the streets than votes) leads me to wonder if he was running to increase general name recognition, perhaps business related.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 14:37 (nine months ago) link
I have nothing to say about this but: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-gregoire-separation-1.6925254
― rob, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:42 (seven months ago) link
absolutely HUGE news. Every single political party in Canada admits that Indian state was involved in POLITICAL ASSASSINATION of Canadian-Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar this summer. Let that sink in, comrades. https://t.co/brMdtpBJj0— Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia) September 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 08:49 (six months ago) link
reminding myself who Anthony Rota is: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-jagmeet-singh-rota-racist-therrien-1.5616661
― rob, Monday, 25 September 2023 13:47 (six months ago) link
Canada right now: pic.twitter.com/HP10CKST7k— The Leninist Lawyer ☭📕 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 (@MarxistLaw) September 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:04 (six months ago) link
what's up Manitoba
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 02:49 (five months ago) link
Wab Kinew will become the first First Nations premier to lead a Canadian province!A historic win for the Manitoba New Democratic Party! pic.twitter.com/TxIwTZODVe— Khelsilem (@Khelsilem) October 4, 2023
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 04:22 (five months ago) link
Ontario lefties: I think I'm just done with electoral politics period after the ONDP kicked Sarah Jama out of caucus, absolutely livid at these spineless fucks
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:51 (five months ago) link
I thought I maybe posted about this on this thread, but I guess not. Not sure where to put it--not politics, but a huge national story. They got a verdict today in the London hate-killing case.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-attack-guilty-verdict-1.7029754
― clemenza, Friday, 17 November 2023 02:50 (four months ago) link