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I think you missed the part where people were being sleep deprived. It's not just a bit of honk honk lulz.

• loudtieblahblah 5y ago
  You missed the part where businesses were burnt to the ground and in some cases people were burnt alive inside those business So spare me your pity on their sleeplessness. Its hardly comparable. And it's amazing what gets the sympathy based on nothing more than what political wing finds that pity advantageous as opposed to inconvenient
  • 9935c101ab17a66 5y ago
    > Its hardly comparable. And yet, you're the one making the comparison? These protests can be incredibly intrusive and damaging to real people in real Canadian cities. That has nothing to do with the (largely) US BLM protests.
  • spiritbone 5y ago
    It's rather straightforward though for any further away observer; if you're referring to the BLM protests they were clearly embodying a concrete universal in the historical moment, whereas here it is much harder to argue that having been the case. Moreover, American political movements against vaccination have to my mind without much doubt led to many, many avoidable deaths in the past few years, even if direct causality is harder to establish. So it is not so puzzling or amazing to observe where people's sympathies align at this point of the pandemic.