>Any time I hear complaints about "the other side" being bad without recognition of failures of "their side" I can't help but dismiss that as petulance. My sid

>Any time I hear complaints about "the other side" being bad without recognition of failures of "their side" I can't help but dismiss that as petulance. My side has never been in power. Cant really have failures if you've never gotten into power. Suppose we could discuss failing to win an election but alas. >The "freedom" protest was an anti-vax protest, no? No. It was simply anti-mandates. It was highly successful in eliminating most mandates. > I get the problem with being subjected to a mandated medical treatment but that's also balanced by a less than respected take on the anti-vax movement in general (IMHO being anti-science and anti-reason). That wouldn't be a fair characterization. For 2 years there wasn't a freedom protest. When much of europe and the USA had dropped mandates, Canada had actually gone the other direction and increased restrictions. The key catalyst being a new mandate that put significant number of antivaxxers out of a job. >And as to censorship, there's some speech which is not healthy for society and should not be promoted. How that is done is a delicate and dangerous dance but to engage on that subject without acknowledging that issue is disingenuous at best. If twitter quietly banned every tweet that just says racial slurs for example. Nobody would ever hear about it, if someone shows me they got banned because they said nothing but a racial slur. I would ignore them. In fact all the twitter alternatives do filter racial slurs and such. There is no 'not healthy for society' That's not what I showed is happening. I never said racial slurs. In fact I never said anything wrong at all. It is by mere association that I am punished. This is intentionally done.