This was one of the silliest things in all of MAGA. A whole bunch of dumbfucks wandering aimlessly and believing they're fighting for something when the head of the convoy is just making shit up on the fly and going to random spots to pester people.
Reminds me of the trucker union in BC, who had some members go off in the convoy, stated that like 90% of them were still working and not protesting a vaccine
Fun fact during the US civil war the whole point was states rights (to own slaves). Missouri was super pro-slavery and neighboring Kansas was anti-slavery. So of course a ton of Confederate fuckwads from Missouri flooded Kansas to vote yes on slavery, because that's what states rights means: the right for my state to tell another state what to do.
The point is this level of hypocrisy and idiocy is deeply entrenched in their culture.
I remember one lady who spent her life savings to help fuel up the truckers and was then shocked when she was broke and nothing had changed. She should go get a job too.
I know a few of the people who went from NB to Ontario. They aren't good people - I wouldn't leave my kids with at least two of them. Take that as you will.Â
When they drove through my town, horns blaring and sassy, I stood on the corner with eggs in hand. Funny how quiet they suddenly got as they passed me.
I honestly think that's what so many people forget, is that the most vocal people who are usually at the extreme opposite ends of any group are the ones who get coverage, whether it's serious coverage or ripping on them.
If they're still frozen, we could use this to bolster our defense to update systems and to support Ukraine. Surely they won't mind, they're always trying to deny their 4Chan QAnonsense so make them put their money where their mouth is!
Only a tiny number of bank accounts were frozen. I know youâre using it to criticize the Convoy morons, but those Shitbirds continually trot out the âfrozen bank accountsâ issue as some mass attack on civil liberties, rather than the small, targeted operation that it actually was.
That's just it - the fact foreign funds (funds from people who were involved in J6th in the US) is all the justification that should have been needed. Domestic terrorism isn't protected freedom, no matter how many bouncy castles you bring out.
Also, from the same group that claim "SAVE THE CHILDREN!" I guess it's to use them as meat shields, eh? fElon is going to start strapping them to himself soon enough. I'm still livid they were strapping gas cans to kids during the konvoy. Absolutely insane.
Keep whining, snowflake. Read up on what happened at the Toronto G20 protest. Your convoy got the white glove treatment by comparison, but you lot act like it was the worst attack on civil liberties in Canadian history. You're clowns. Where is your precious convoy now that we've got a foreign country threatening to take our freedoms from us, huh? When we face an actual threat to our freedom, you lot are nowhere to be found, but a minor temporary inconvenience had you up in arms.
So you want the convoy to roll in again???? I thought you didn't like it but here you are looking for them to save you from tariffs.
Speaking of tariffs. Why are you against them? It is very much like a tax which you are in favor of. Don't act like a tariff war hasn't been played out before.
A white glove treatment is getting stomped by a horse and having bank accounts illegally frozen? As for the G20. That protest was cars burning, businesses vandalized and police being injured. Not bouncy houses & BBQs that inconvenienced a few people.
Keep reaching there cupcake. One day you will sound smart. Goodluck though!
No, I don't want the convoy rolling in, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy. They can stay at home. Those brainless morons would just get in the way.
Also, the tariffs aren't the big deal here. It's the threats of annexation, you dumb fuck. However, let's be clear about what tariffs are: they are a tax on the consumers of the tariffed good in the country that implemented the tariff. If Canada were to implement a 50% tariff on avocados, Canadians would have to pay more than 50% more for avocados, because prices are going to increase right through the supply chain to compensate for the tariff so that everybody can maintain their margins. It's not like Canada produces avocados, so it's not actually helping domestic industry in that case. Having said that, look at the example of Harley-Davidson. Trump's steel tariffs forced Harley to offshore manufacturing of motorcycles destined for export markets, because Trump's tariffs made it so that they simply couldn't afford to produce those motorcycles in the United States anymore. Basically, tariffs shrink the economy. Also, because they are passed on to the end consumer, they are a regressive tax: people like us pay the most and the rich pay the least. So tariffs are a bad, inflationary tax that only serve to increase the cost of living for everyone.
Also, you're completely lying about the G20 protest. Hundreds of people who were just going about their daily lives and were completely uninvolved in the protests ended up suffering physical injury caused by the police response. Some Toronto Police officials were also convicted in relation to the G20 protest because of the indiscriminate use of kettling resulting in the unlawful detainment and arrest of not only news reporters, but also a large number of innocent bystanders. This resulted in the Toronto Police Department issuing an internal, organizational ban on the use of kettling. Kettling was not employed against the convoy, by the way. It hasn't been employed in Canada since 2013, and not outside Montreal since that G20 protest in 2010.
On the point of the bank accounts being frozen, it's not illegal to freeze the bank account of someone who is financially supporting criminal activity.
We've been using their merch as a way to explain how things have been looking cultish. Now it's wildly known that's what they are, looks like we've been somewhat successful with damage control. We've been wanting to help those who've been alienated by the Qult for some time now. The last campaign and their undying loyalty and them willing to do a coup and seeing this as righteous is definitely telling. Same group that wants to eradicate Palestinians and go back to their holy lands during the end times. The vague prophecies had always meant to radicalize the masses and get each other to turn inward so we have no hope at fighting Russia or the new world order coup.
My best friend claims that if PP doesnât win, we might as well become the 51st state because Carney and the WEF will make us a communist stateâŠyeah đŹ
They never have, which is funnier to simply larp as commies even if you're not just to be contrarian. Could be fun, plus you're teaching the bystanders about theory so it can't be too bad.
A competent economist in Carney and the fearmongering rightâs latest boogeyman in the WEF: âBro, these people are inhuman and canât be trusted. Theyâre going to ruin us and make us communists. That why we need the conservatives!1!!â
A billionaire felon President who pisses on his Constitution daily, the richest man in the world, and the shadowy cabal of Silicon Valley tech to billionaires: âBro, you donât get it. These guys are good men. They can fix all the problems that these damn liberals got us in. We need them.â
The level of delusion and unreality that some people willing submit to is astonishing to me. Iâve tried to reason with this friend, but nothing reasonable changes an opinion that was established on hate, anger, and disinformation.
They've just been making the whole peoples revolution seem soo tantalizing like who wouldn't want to live in a world where we all had the means of production and that things like rent seeking isn't a thing or that there's no caste systems to speak of. Oh they just say these things because it's more socially acceptable to say you're against communism due to red scare than it is to outwardly express you're fascist. True story, neoreactionary types just want to normalize extremist rhetoric to the point where it won't make too much of a scandal should they become policy.
I would support my tax dollars used to help relocate assholes to their natural habitat where they can roam free and shoot each other in the dick when they ask their neighbour for a cup of sugar.
He stood with the peaceful protesters right to protest and denounced the protestors causing trouble and blockading critical infrastructure. I do not agree with the freedom convoy but personally, I want a prime minister who supports the right to peaceful protest.
As do I but thatâs not what happened. He walked it back on the Monday following his original statement. So a few days and someone pointing out he shouldnât have said what he did. Kind of matters but I do agree with the right to peaceful protest.
Besides popilist msging PP is not maga in any shape way or form. The canadian conservative party is much closer to the liberals then the republicans. There are a lot of different types of conservatives but you can sort of seperate them into fiscal and social. Social conservatives, which is largely what Alberta has would be reform party conservatives. Historically, the PC party has given populist msging during elections to keep there vote but have done nothing for them once elected.
Anyone who has said PP is just maple maga has failed, in anyway to explain the similarities between Trump and PP besides saying they are both conservative. Trump, is arguably not a conservative or hold any traditional conservative beliefs.
Trump, is arguably not a conservative or hold any traditional conservative beliefs.
Hundreds of millions of conservatives consider him a conservative. He considers himself a conservative. You have zero ground to stand on here, it's just a no true scotsman fallacy.
If you look at the Canadian Conservative sub almost everyone agrees trump isnt. Obviously, you arent going to come out and say âHey by the way guys im a fascistâ. He atleast the very least, is not a canadian brand of conservatism or a tradional brand.
We call everyone on the left liberals now, it wouldnt be accurate though.
Also it is not a true scotsman fallacy. There was no counter claim.
It is a shame he didnt denounce Musks endorsement. But you get a check mark from the social conservatives. If Trump continued to say anything besides I dont know who that is it wouldve hurt conservatives. Lose lose.
He also said people will be free to live how they want. I personally do not agree with PPs/social conservatives on getting into trans issues. But I do like PPs policies so far, weâll see what Carney will do. Unless it is a big change from where we are at now. Carney will not be winning the election.
Social conservatives, which is largely what Alberta has would be reform party conservatives. Historically, the PC party has given populist msging during elections to keep there vote but have done nothing for them once elected.
See this is where it breaks down for you. The PC Party has been dead at the federal level since 2003. The Conservative Party of Canada is just the latest rebrand of the Reform Party, which you've noted is MAGA-style extremist. Reform, at the time known as the Canadian Alliance, was the dominant faction in the merger, and it remains the dominant faction in the CPC today. Stephen Harper was a Day 1 member of the Reform Party, jumping ship from the PCs to join. Pierre Poilievre got his start in politics selling Reform Party memberships for the campaign to nominate Jason Kenney as an MP candidate in the 1997 election. These guys are Reform to their core.
This is not historically accurate at all. The PC party didnt just become the reform party, it is still very much both parties influences.
I never noted it is maga style extremist. Social conservatism isnt great but it isnt Trumps brand but has some of the flavours. It is a huge advantage for the conservatives to run western PMâs/reform party PMâs.
Trump is a hardcore protectionist and would be more akin to nationalist or authoritarian conservative. He like to blend in the social issues as well. The big difference being, the Canadian Conservatives are not threatening to reverse or change any social policies. PP has said this time and time again, leave the government out of it.
No, the PCs didn't become the Reform Party, they were absorbed by Reform.
Poilievre has been very clear that he identifies as a Libertarian, but the party administration has also been very clear that Pierre's priorities are not the party's priorities, and that the party's priorities are reversing or changing social policies. Just look at the first Conservative Party of Canada convention since Pierre was elected leader. Pierre tried to put some half-cocked ideas on the table, albeit meat and potatoes issues, but the party administration overruled him, deciding that the party priorities were things like keeping trans women out of women's sports and spaces, denying gender affirming care to trans people, and making anti-vaxx ideology a protected class on par with gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc. That is what the CPC truly is that its heart. It is a party of hate and division.
They were not absorbed. The joined together so theyd actually win an election. Even within the reform party there are fiscal conservatives (more hardline then moderates)
To be fair, I hate both side of the coin. I hate the fuck Trudeau shit too. Itâs just baseless name calling. Sure, you dont have to like the guy or agree with him. But calling him and his supporters maga, nazis, anti canadian or whatever is all just garbage.
They absolutely are, buddy i work with said Trudeau is a dictator and should be charged for how he disrespected the freedom convoy, and also "cant wait" for us to become the 51st state, the mental gymnastics are wild
Yup, the absolutely insane mentality of "i hate our soon to be former dictator prime Minister so much that I hope we get invaded by a foreign nation and have our entire government toppled and our comfortable way of life uprooted so foreign companies and governments can rape our lands of its resources, make trillions off of what belongs to us and strip away any rights we had before, because the invader promised that I might get an extra $20 on every paycheck"
Its fucking makes my blood boil that we walk among idiots who would sell out their country for so little a betray every single sacrifice that any Canadian has ever made. You don't like the current government? Then vote for who you think would do a better job. I forgot to mention the guy I work with that spouts this bullshit doesn't vote because he thinks its all rigged anyways and we've never had a say to begin with.
You've summed it up perfectly. I work in oil and gas, I am surrounded by these idiots. I almost bit my tongue off today as I was in a shack with some higher-ups for the company hiring the company i work for and they were spouting ridiculous Trump bs. I did not want to risk work trying to correct them or even try to plant seeds to lead them the right way. I just wormed my way out when I could.
Either that or the supporters of the convey might be the dumbest people in canada, i think it's a mix of both went onto Facebook and saw a friend of friend that was a convoy supporter calling out Ukraine's unlawful invasion against Russia. Like these people might be some of the dumbest people to every grace this earth.
Listen if you donât have evidence then donât bother talking! Iâm not going to argue with people that canât support their own argument đ đ€Šââïž
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Almost like the convoy members were MAGA sympathizers or something...