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A fringe minority wouldn't be greeted by people lining highways and overpasses in freezing cold. [1] It wouldn't raise over nine million dollars in crowd fundin
by gambler 5y ago
A fringe minority wouldn't be greeted by people lining highways and overpasses in freezing cold. [1] It wouldn't raise over nine million dollars in crowd funding, twice. [2] At the very least we're talking about a very large minority. It could even be the (previously silent) majority. And the issue is not just border crossing mandates, but all the rules (often absurd and arbitrary) that piled up over the last two years in Canada. Like curfews and prohibitions on shopping in Quebec. The border requirements were just the last straw that catalyzed a particular group of people to express the growing public discontent.
1 - https://youtu.be/pcGsqLRyKo0?t=67 https://youtu.be/pcGsqLRyKo0?t=67
2 - https://givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022 https://givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
If you can't even describe the situation accurately, why should anyone care about your take on it?
- crtasm 5y agoand it's mostly the same $9m, after Gofundme refunded everyone. Of the ~90k GiveSendGo donors, ~35k were from Canada. Population: 36-38m.
- gambler 5y agoThe cause that raised 9 million dollars in a few days is a "a tiny minority of truckers [...] making a huge fuss over really very little"... because someone somewhere claims that they've seen a data dump of hacked donation data... and their "analysis" demonstrates that the movement has wide international support. Reddit logic at its finest.
- crtasm 5y agoThe leaked data has been seen by many news organisations and individuals. I calculated the figures I gave - not "someone somewhere". Here's one of the top donors confirming their entry was accurate: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-sussex-corner-business-convoy-donation-1.6351642 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-sussex-corne...
- Nursie 5y agoRespectfully, nine million is fuck all. And no, it doesn't have to be any size of minority at all, just a few loud arseholes, some of whom appear to have openly identified as white supremacists, others of whom have urinated on war memorials - https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/31/war-memorial-urinated-on-by-anti-vaxxers-as-canadian-police-launch-investigation-16018874/ https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/31/war-memorial-urinated-on-by-a... This doesn't look like public discontent, it looks like a small group of motivated contrarians and their international backers. You know what looks like public discontent? The public coming together to stop trucks disrupting their lives and their city - https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/battle-of-billings-bridge-attracts-hundreds-of-volunteers-traps-convoy-for-hours https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/battle-of-billings... And none of this answers the question about how this will "not end good for canada".