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You're completely missing the point. If you live around a million other people, you're going to have to deal with loud noise in the middle of the night at some

You're completely missing the point. If you live around a million other people, you're going to have to deal with loud noise in the middle of the night at some point. Scale this up or down depending on how many people you're living near. For the entire time that I lived in Manhattan, loud noise at 2am was unavoidable. You get thick windows, leave them closed, buy curtains and run your AC. I'm so sorry that you were inconvenienced.

vlovich123 2y ago
The loud noise is a rare and short event, not a nightly recurring occurrence of a long loud continuous blare. If it was as you say, then the protestors wouldn’t be doing it to gain attention.
- busterarm 2y ago
  Yes, a group of people decided that the only way to get their message across was to be assholes for a while. I would label this as an inconvenience. A bunch of Canadians, including commenters in this thread, believe it to be terrorism. Terrorism to justify removing these peoples rights and not addressing their concerns. I'm so glad for you Canadians that this Trucker Protest was the closest thing that your nation can approximate to Terrorism. I don't consider this a serious perspective though.
  - vlovich123 2y ago
    I don’t think it’s terrorism but that’s not why the back accounts were frozen. The people involved with noise pollution should definitely have been handed significant fines and escalating punishments similar to anyone violating noise ordinances. It gets trickier since these actions are in support of a larger organized effort but that should be the minimum punishment. The terrorism aspect comes from shutting down trade on a hugely important trade route with our largest trading partner, holding the economy hostage to make demands of the government. That by itself isn’t terrorism per se but the legitimate threats to use violence to keep the embargo going fits the textbook definition of terrorism, using violence or threats of violence to achieve political goals.
  - bryanlarsen 2y ago
    Who has called the truck horns terrorism? I see people calling sleep deprivation torture, and I see people calling an armed border occupation terrorism.
    - busterarm 2y ago
      Several other posts all over this thread.
      - vlovich123 2y ago
        At a minimum they were actually taking proactive action to be nuisances in solidarity with terrorists. Whether that makes you a terrorist I don’t know, but historically governments frown on those providing any kind of support to terrorists and tend to use the transitive property when dealing with such actions.
  - marcosdumay 2y ago
    > I would label this as an inconvenience. Yeah, that kind of comment pops up after "non-violent" protest that privates innocent people of fundamental rights. Get someone to put you in sleep-deprivation torture for a few days, and tell us back how minor of an inconvenience it is.

vlovich123 2y ago

The loud noise is a rare and short event, not a nightly recurring occurrence of a long loud continuous blare. If it was as you say, then the protestors wouldn’t be doing it to gain attention.

busterarm 2y ago
Yes, a group of people decided that the only way to get their message across was to be assholes for a while. I would label this as an inconvenience. A bunch of Canadians, including commenters in this thread, believe it to be terrorism. Terrorism to justify removing these peoples rights and not addressing their concerns. I'm so glad for you Canadians that this Trucker Protest was the closest thing that your nation can approximate to Terrorism. I don't consider this a serious perspective though.
- vlovich123 2y ago
  I don’t think it’s terrorism but that’s not why the back accounts were frozen. The people involved with noise pollution should definitely have been handed significant fines and escalating punishments similar to anyone violating noise ordinances. It gets trickier since these actions are in support of a larger organized effort but that should be the minimum punishment. The terrorism aspect comes from shutting down trade on a hugely important trade route with our largest trading partner, holding the economy hostage to make demands of the government. That by itself isn’t terrorism per se but the legitimate threats to use violence to keep the embargo going fits the textbook definition of terrorism, using violence or threats of violence to achieve political goals.
- bryanlarsen 2y ago
  Who has called the truck horns terrorism? I see people calling sleep deprivation torture, and I see people calling an armed border occupation terrorism.
  - busterarm 2y ago
    Several other posts all over this thread.
    - vlovich123 2y ago
      At a minimum they were actually taking proactive action to be nuisances in solidarity with terrorists. Whether that makes you a terrorist I don’t know, but historically governments frown on those providing any kind of support to terrorists and tend to use the transitive property when dealing with such actions.
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  > I would label this as an inconvenience. Yeah, that kind of comment pops up after "non-violent" protest that privates innocent people of fundamental rights. Get someone to put you in sleep-deprivation torture for a few days, and tell us back how minor of an inconvenience it is.