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by defaultname 5y ago
> Like forcing people out of their job for refusing a vaccine? Before vaccination was politicized in the US ( bizarrely , I must say, through mechanisms that I find absolutely baffling), many jobs had mandatory vaccinations. Most healthc
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by defaultname 5y ago
There are a couple of rather large exaggerations in your post. It wasn't the "entire CN rail network" (instead it was the Eastern Canada segment, comprising maybe 15% of CN's network). They don't claim that rail car
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by defaultname 5y ago
You claimed that the survey showed that they "support" the protests. The question asked only if people "sympathize" with the "frustration" of the convoy. That is a very low barrier, easy yes, given that a stron
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by defaultname 5y ago
"Using government power intended for things like war" This isn't the war measures act. It is a response specifically targeted to situations like this. "I hope the response is a protest escalation" That's neat.
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by defaultname 5y ago
"Last poll I saw (Ipsos) said 1 out of 3 Canadians support the protest" That grossly misrepresented poll asked only if respondents sympathize with their cause . If you agree that mandates need to go. Note that when asked directly
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by defaultname 5y ago
It arises when supporting a group is all that matters, and one's "values" morph and twist into whatever is optimal to support the tribe at any given moment. It yields a lot of meaningless words. This happens all over the poli
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by defaultname 5y ago
"Far left"? I'm a conservative. Most normal conservatives are vigorously against these protests, for exactly the same reason that we were against railway blockades, and against violence and mayhem that occurred under the um
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by defaultname 5y ago
I don't think whataboutism is productive. Nor did I "cheer on" anything: It sucks when people are exploited by incompetent actors. We've repeatedly watched as "the mainstream restricts us so we'll do our own th
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by defaultname 5y ago
Alternately, yet another right wing "alternative" site had poor security practices and got exploited. They had S3 buckets full of customer data sitting open for some time, and they stayed accessible days after it was widely known.
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by defaultname 5y ago
I didn't say these people don't have trucks or employment driving trucks. Clearly they do. But that the misrepresentation that they represent truckers , instead of just being some small subsection that have trucks, is misleading.
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by defaultname 5y ago
"Any chance your friends are just conforming" In another post you claimed "seems to be siding with the government because the intent of the protest has been declared wrong-think by the PM" Do you really think this? Do yo
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by defaultname 5y ago
Everyone referred to the Seattle occupation as an occupation . They literally called it the "Capital Hill Occupied Protest". A simple Google search finds endless pages of media reports calling it an occupation.
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by defaultname 5y ago
"So wait... Just to be clear" The intro to an always disingenuous comment. "If so, wow." Yet more. Protests throughout time have been at hardship and discomfort of the participants. When your "protest" are slee
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by defaultname 5y ago
Every truck union and federation has denounced the protests. Despite the protests, everything is operating logistically completely normally. It isn't "truckers". Some participants brought trucks because they a) have sleeping
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by defaultname 5y ago
Do you think if the relatively tiny sponsorship didn't happen, the civil rights movement wouldn't have happened? I specifically talked to protests needing sponsorship, and in the case of the current occupation the bloated GFM
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by defaultname 5y ago
"And as the other response mentioned, demonstrations were in fact funded in the past" You think this is a retort. Amazing. "Getting all defensive and outraged is one way to avoid an answer" Demanding an answer out of som
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by defaultname 5y ago
Is this what your rhetoric is reduced to? Demanding that people answer for invented, imaginary hypocrisy? I didn't "dodge" a completely stupid, manufactured question because I have literally no onus to answer it. GFM shouldn&
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by defaultname 5y ago
It's hypocritical because of something you imagined? Why would a sit-in, or any similar event, EVER need sponsorship? When has it ever needed sponsorship?
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by defaultname 5y ago
The things the PM says "in person" are widely reported on. You alluded to them multiple times in hopes of portraying your claim correct, but the single bit of proof you've provided shows absolutely nothing of the sort.
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by defaultname 5y ago
So we agree, GFM should have nothing to do with any occupation, right? You agree with this, correct? You think that I'm some sort of partisan in this -- perhaps a projection -- and you caught me in hypocrisy. But you didn't. Finan
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by defaultname 5y ago
It is literally, by every definition, an occupation. People came in and brought homes with them (sleeper cabs, RVs, etc). Now they have set up permanent structures such as kitchens and other facilities (today they brought in a sauna), and
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by defaultname 5y ago
No, he didn't. A unanimous declaration by members of parliament (incredibly rare) denounced events happening in the shroud of the protests. And they are really happening! If someone denounces looting at a BLM protest -- also somethin
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by defaultname 5y ago
This sort of discussion never goes well, but using GoFundMe to finance occupations, especially across national borders , is an incredibly dangerous game. If a GoFundMe to harrass and harangue Ron DeSantis -- to effectively sponsor people t
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by defaultname 5y ago
For most users it isn't a bad deal at all. It's a 33% price savings over straight monthly, and I suspect many/most users have subscriptions much longer than a year. This all seems a bit overwrought. Like the root post, I cann
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by defaultname 5y ago
The trials would have had to have tested every participant daily to qualify protection against infection. However it was most certainly presumed , and the entire narrative around the vaccine push was achieving herd immunity: when enough pe
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by defaultname 5y ago
> Rather than competing by improving their existing puzzles and/or creating new ones, they're just buying out the competition. The purchase of the game, for apparently "low seven digits", is going to spur tens of thou
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by defaultname 5y ago
Free. No ads. Accessible to everyone. Convenient build-in share functionality and a common experience (as you mentioned the common daily word). And of course a clean, technically excellent implementation. If it had a single barrier (install
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by defaultname 5y ago
Wordle is basically the 2022 Flappy Bird. It isn't particularly fun or challenging, but there's a weird social experience behind it. That fades fast, and I would say is already fading rapidly. If he got a lucrative exit strategy,
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by defaultname 5y ago
It's an exaggeration. But among people who actually drink wine -- the subject of this discussion -- I suspect the overwhelming majority understand the varieties, and maybe even have a presumptive preference. People who don't dri
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by defaultname 5y ago
I agree with you to a point. Infrequent wine drinkers who want a casual option generally prefer a lighter, sweeter or more fruity wine. These people truly didn't like cabernet (too bitter for many), but they wanted to be "with it&

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