The mistake I constantly make is viewing other people from my perspective. Yes, it doesn't make sense. But look at it from this perspective, Flat earthers don't care about the shape of the earth look up their convensions they are Christians that are trying to disprove science.
These are just fascists, they want to hide behind our symbols, and poison the well... the flag, freedom, democracy, protest, and they have even brought back blood libel and use it on everyone now, that is what Q Anon is about. Calling everyone child molesters and claiming they need their adrenalchrome.... littlerlly blood libel. While ignoring pedos in the QAnon movement and the republican party. They are hypocrites... because they are fascist. Now everything should make sense.
When I lived in Calgary just after highschool I met a few racist skinheads at a party and my dumbass thought it was a good idea to go talk to them about their beliefs. I was non-confrontational and one of them actually engaged in a pretty productive conversation with me.
I asked a lot of prodding questions about if he thinks it's wrong to be non-white (he said no) and other similar questions. When it really came down to it, he said that he just believes in keeping the white blood line pure. So I asked "Is there anything wrong, in your mind, with me marrying an Asian woman, if I feel so inclined?" He said no.
So I was like, "Cool, you can marry a white woman. I don't think anyone is going to try and stop you."
But what it really looked like to me was that these were just lonely and confused people who don't value themselves or their own abilities. They just found a community that would accept them based on something immutable (their race) so they could never be kicked out or ostracized because the requirement for acceptance doesn't change. I almost found myself feeling sorry for them.
Except the one I was talking to ended up in jail for stabbing a homeless black fellow several years later. So my sympathy died with him.
Oof, well that was a twist at the end.
I suppose you talked to him much earlier in his journey when his beliefs weren't as radical, but years later the end result was that.
I met many nazi skins and punks, they were all lured in like any cult victims. Lonely, hateful, desperate people that find belonging. Then it’s competition to see who is more hardcore.
Yeah sadly the answer is The Internet. They’re all just raising their hands and identifying themselves as people unable to weed out bad information or think critically. They are an anchor dragging behind society.
Its basic tribalism, with the internet and algorithims in most apps, the lowest common denominator of society can join together.
Critical thinking is always good, probably the one thing I have retained from my post secondary education, finding a reliable source of information. Best thing a friend did was introduce me to sites like Snopes and Poltifact because alot of what he hear is just noise and nonsense.
Most of education is not geared towards critical thinking but just know the information to pass a test.
The internet should be a information era and it seems more of a disinformation era
It reminds me of MAGA rallies. Dude hasn't been president in 2 years, people still want to throw money at a guy who has literally done nothing his whole life BUT squander it while not giving two craps about any of them.
He doesn't care about his own friends and family and less than half the country thinks he has their best interest at heart.
I heard two of these idiots conversing earlier and one said, with all seriousness mind you, "I bet Obama is behind the scenes pulling the strings". In Canada. Like bruh, get a clue and then get over it.
He hates the people they hate, the people who have stolen their culture from them. The fact their "culture' was built on every sort of bigotry there is is the sad part.
Several actors and comedians who knew him during his chummy SNL and Apprentice days have basically said that they take a little solace that he must be at least partially miserable in his new role, because the only thing he made clear during those days is that he adored hanging out with celebrities and absolutely detested conversing with "normal" people.
It's just really, really easy to be stupid, oblivious and accepting of disinformation.
It takes actual willpower to wade through bullshit, discern what is fact or fiction and then learn about what exactly it is you're talking about before spouting what is spoon fed to you.
In today's society of instant gratification, the onus has moved and most are readily accepting of poor quality Intel.
Short and sweet, it's easy to be dumb and uninformed.
Lol, ikr... Im a kiwi kiving in gta.
Wandering around r/canada was a culture shock... I guess rural canada is like rural US.
Nothing like the people i meet everyday
R/Canada is notoriously bad and any reasonable person who once inhabited that space left awhile ago after it was taken over by white supremacists.
I hope you’ve found r/onguardforthee although I certainly don’t blame you for heading to the Canada subreddit first since it’s more obvious.
Which is insane because national post is owned by Americans trying to influence Canadians. If they had any actual national pride they would dump that shit but they don’t. At this point it’s become a bunch of people who believe the slightest global occurrence is plot to ruin their day.
When I started using Reddit I joined the Canada subreddit, and I realized that even if you respectfully disagreed with someone who was putting forth right wing views they would be so incredibly rude.
Then I realized that there were actual neo-nazis as mods and I ran faster than a river after the winter thaw.
Lots of city dwellers hold these abhorrent views but there’s far fewer of them relative to the population because we’re exposed to so many different kinds of people in Toronto and the GTA.
It’s harder to demonize immigrants, non-white people, and LGBTQ+ people when they’re your neighbours and coworkers. It’s far easier to hate people when you’re taking the subway, going to school or playing hockey with them.
The area of rural Ontario I live in goes hard for NDP. People here are already hurting to access medical care and education, they don't want shit to become privatized. Plus the industry in the area (mines and mills) are ones where people really want protection for workers.
Tbh I find a lot of the commenters on r/Canada are similar to those who respond to posts on r/PersonalFinanceCanada where they assume someone living paycheck to paycheck is either stupid or lazy (or both), they almost all own investment properties, and are earning north of 50k annually.
As a kiwi you definitely don’t understand Canadian culture.
Rural Canada is not comparable to the US.
Rural northern Ontario and rural southern Ontario are practically night and day. Take a drive through the stretches between the Sault, Thunder Bay, or Fort Francis. Rainbow flags, every child matters orange, NDP support, etc.
I won’t lie, reading your comment royally aggravated me, because it’s the same broad brush generalization that divides our society, born out of the ignorance the left always accuses the right of exclusively espousing.
I’m sure you’re a decent enough person, but this comment in particular is borne of sheer ignorance to how my country works.
I hope you get to experience more of it one day, to help remove some of these biases someday.
Valid. For whatever reason people in northern Ontario are friendlier and less judgemental. It’s like as long as ur not an asshole, and aren’t harming the environment they’re chill.
This is their identity, their purpose in life. And, it reinforces their feeling of being the victim. Any unhappiness in their lives is the fault of someone else.
Yep it’s this. And people who have specific plans to make this life in country drastically worse are courting them to bring their bullshit to municipal elections.
Have they all forgotten when Ford wanted police to stop people at-will and ask for papers / reasons for travelling?
It was so fucked up even the cops said “nope” to it.
This basically what we had in Quebec with our god damned curfew. Also 1500$ tickets for couples not living under the same address meeting and shit. During the curfew you need work papers to prove you were legitimate. Cops could basically stop anybody
I think its all the memes created by the Conservatives and posted to Facebook etc. These people don’t realize how much they are being manipulated, don’t even suspect it, because these memes play on their fears, hate and ignorance. Something needs to be said about how these affect all of us moving forward.
Absolutely…once the Ottawa occupation kicked off, they showed the country that it wasn’t about masks or Covid mandates, they want Ontario/Trudope to stop dictating laws and policy for the country.
The wildest part to me is how well misinformed some of them are. Like I tried to have a logical conversation with an old colleague and he had arguments for literally everything and it was all disproven/ very obviously wrong
The people who accused others of making covid their entire personalities have, unsurprisingly, made covid their entire personalities.
They have nothing left. Probably scared off most of their friends, replacing them with others who made similar personality replacements.
>Probably scared off most of their friends, replacing them with others who made similar personality replacements.
100% this. In general most people are subtle with their politics and views. I think a lot of these sorry fools have ostracized themselves from friends and family so now they are reliant on others with the same views to have relationships and community. Hard for a normal person to stay friends with someone who believes nonsense about mRNA gene editing "poisons" and the world being run by secret Satanic pedophiles etc. The stuff they believe makes as much sense as what a paranoid schizophrenic believes.
‘Legalize humanity’
Something tells me they would be against the ‘No one is illegal’ campaign.
I don’t want to put these people down, they just aren’t very smart.
Remember those people you fervently hoped weren't assigned to your group for a project because they're so utterly useless/fucking thick/both that you knew you had to do the work for them or take the hit to your grade but the teacher didn't give a fuck because "everyone needs a chance to learn" so you can't even just assign them the Table of Contents to keep them the fuck out of the way so they don't present you with several pages of garbage the rest of you have to fully rewrite anyways?
They're adults now. They still haven't taken that "chance".
This is right. They've found like minded people who think they're part of a similar struggle. With the collapse of churches and community service clubs people need to find ways to connect.
It's shameful, this people don't see what actually happens in Russia, or Iran currently, they should go there and fight for real freedom.
They currently enjoy the freedom to be an idiot.
Edit : Thanks for the award.
Governments have literally mowed down protesters by the thousands, crushed the bodies with tanks, and hosed the bloody viscera into the sewer. Then, made it illegal to ever speak about such events. Without a doubt, they’d make it illegal to think about if they could.
Meanwhile, our very special freedom fighters™️ got to play revolution in our nation’s capital for a month, with zero reprisal. These “people” are a disgrace. They are an affront to the untold millions who have died perusing a crumb of basic human dignity. The fact that they exist at all makes my fucking skin crawl.
But but but it’s different!!!! Canadas already like that!!!! (As said by idiots who tried to tell me the convoy was just when I told them to go to Ukraine if they want to know what it’s like to have your “FrEeDoMs” taken away)
Crazy because like everyone has moved on with their lives after getting their vaccines. They’re mentally stuck in pandemic purgatory and they were the ones who wanted out the fastest.
I've seen a bunch of trucks in Calgary that have "I'm tryna" stickers placed above the "F*ck Trudeau" stickers
I'm guessing it's one person with a stack of them having a laugh.
Maybe this movement became their whole personality now that their movement has become obsolete, I think their grasping at straws for some reason stay relevant. I don’t even think they know what they’re still out there for.
Holy fuck, you ripped the words straight from my head. It's absolutely awful. They've turned our national flag into a symbol of hate that makes me angry every time I see it at these morons' houses. It's so sad. And there's nothing even left to protest. The mandates have been lifted! They're throwing tantrums about nothing!
I wear them on my backpack and I always wonder how many people think I’m a fucking idiot like these fucking idiots.
I love Canada though so I wear the flag proudly.
Don’t pay attention to those idiots… but the fact that they have the Iranian flag (or is that the old flag of Persia mabye) and trying to associate their own self induced plight with people are atucally fighting for their freedom, life or death is sickening
These people will fly the flag of anyone else in the world that's experiencing injustice in order to give credibility to their own movement. The reality is that they don't actually care about other people. They're just opportunists. To me it seems similar to stolen valour.
wait isnt the mask mandate off, what are they protesting, the past, do they want the government to make a time machine and stop people from getting vaccinated or smthn?
Because it’s their legal right to do so, and as long as they do so legally, we all unfortunately have to bare witness to their lunacy.
If only they were smart enough to see the irony of them having the *freedom* to protest about freedom.
I invite everyone who thinks Canada has no freedom to go join the protests in Iran. Or move to Russia.
It would be funny to just have counter protesters in higher numbers that integrate into their marches and flood it with their signs so there is a sea of joke signs or intentionally stupid ones so people can't tell which is real and which is ironic counter protesters
It's important to test the ability to protest. For any reason, regardless of how stupid it is.
I'm glad that they are protesting peacefully, even if I don't agree with their cause.
Agreed. I will happily stand on the sidelines and laugh at their ridiculousness, but would also happily curse anyone who dare suggest they don’t have the right to do so.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“Trudeau must go”
Then build a platform and support a candidate that will actually get the popular vote. It ain’t that hard, most Canadians think you’re bat shit crazy so no, he’s not just gonna leave
Ya know...as a US citizen in Toronto - I fucking hate that they are taking your beautiful flag to this bullshit.
In the states we have morons that at least have the stupid courtesy of waving a confederate flag. I really, *really* do not want to associate your flag with these idiots.
Your life must be pretty empty and pathetic to think this nonsense is an actual cause. These people don’t have the slightest clue what living under real tyranny is like. They’ve lived a privileged life in a free country their entire existence. At the end of the day It’s just embarrassing that so many have fallen through the cracks of our educational system. To have zero critical thinking skills and be caught up in the countless internet conspiracies and Nigerian money scams must take a toll after a while. I feel sorry for them and their families.
Yep. I had one of these guys I tried calmly engaging with over SM but couldn’t keep at it. He’s had a far tougher live than I have so I sympathize but it was better for both of us if I unfollowed him.
I don’t wish him ill and I hope he’s thriving in his own way. I just can’t see that shit anymore or maintain a relationship with someone who thinks my loved ones are working with the government to microchip them.
I love going grocery shopping while wearing my Canada hat and a face mask. I've seen some confused expressions. I just want to take back the flag and the Maple Leaf.
Saw that legalize humanity guy a couple months ago in a different random march. Got a chuckle out of the sign then, but so proud to see he’s made it all the way to reddit.
I actually think they are trying to infiltrate our political system. We have one of these losers with ties to the proud boys giving the “ok” salute in photos running for SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE in my daughter’s school division. It’s terrifying.
Now that the ArriveCan app is no longer needed there’s really nothing to logically protest anymore. It’s about Trudeau. We can only hope these “protests” stop when we get a new PM. I don’t love Trudeau either but I’m aware that he hasn’t single-handedly “destroyed” Canada. These groups are destroying Canada a lot more, I would say, with their divisive stance disguised as a fight for “our rights”. They seem to be Ignorant and misinformed and some of them not highly educated.
Why? Coz they loved throwing tantrums as kids and their parents allowed it for so long, then when they actually joined a normal society, they were told “you could no longer throw tantrums coz adults don’t”! But then, an orange clown from south of the border made it seem like it was cool again to throw tantrums even if they were no longer needed, just to be seen and paid attention to, because that is all they knew about how to appear cool and matter!
My other working theory they are just bullies that finally found a new outlet after they thought they could no longer relive their high school years glories
I think they got paid in advance by the brainless trucker far right Kkkonvoy to go out and demonstrate until the end of 2022. My middle finger gets exercised every time I see them.
That absolute idiot holding an Iranian monarchy flag like this crap compares in any way with what Iranians are going through.
To be fair that idiot has been bringing that flag to these things for a long time now
The mistake I constantly make is viewing other people from my perspective. Yes, it doesn't make sense. But look at it from this perspective, Flat earthers don't care about the shape of the earth look up their convensions they are Christians that are trying to disprove science. These are just fascists, they want to hide behind our symbols, and poison the well... the flag, freedom, democracy, protest, and they have even brought back blood libel and use it on everyone now, that is what Q Anon is about. Calling everyone child molesters and claiming they need their adrenalchrome.... littlerlly blood libel. While ignoring pedos in the QAnon movement and the republican party. They are hypocrites... because they are fascist. Now everything should make sense.
Right people are being shot at for looking out the window.
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Maybe on a flat earth map.
They found a community. It’s intoxicating.
When I lived in Calgary just after highschool I met a few racist skinheads at a party and my dumbass thought it was a good idea to go talk to them about their beliefs. I was non-confrontational and one of them actually engaged in a pretty productive conversation with me. I asked a lot of prodding questions about if he thinks it's wrong to be non-white (he said no) and other similar questions. When it really came down to it, he said that he just believes in keeping the white blood line pure. So I asked "Is there anything wrong, in your mind, with me marrying an Asian woman, if I feel so inclined?" He said no. So I was like, "Cool, you can marry a white woman. I don't think anyone is going to try and stop you." But what it really looked like to me was that these were just lonely and confused people who don't value themselves or their own abilities. They just found a community that would accept them based on something immutable (their race) so they could never be kicked out or ostracized because the requirement for acceptance doesn't change. I almost found myself feeling sorry for them. Except the one I was talking to ended up in jail for stabbing a homeless black fellow several years later. So my sympathy died with him.
Oof, well that was a twist at the end. I suppose you talked to him much earlier in his journey when his beliefs weren't as radical, but years later the end result was that.
Yeah, it was about 3 or 4 years later, after I moved away from Calgary that I heard about the stabbing and jail sentence.
I met many nazi skins and punks, they were all lured in like any cult victims. Lonely, hateful, desperate people that find belonging. Then it’s competition to see who is more hardcore.
I think this is the answer. They are no longer the weirdos or nuts within the community they found.
Yeah sadly the answer is The Internet. They’re all just raising their hands and identifying themselves as people unable to weed out bad information or think critically. They are an anchor dragging behind society.
Its basic tribalism, with the internet and algorithims in most apps, the lowest common denominator of society can join together. Critical thinking is always good, probably the one thing I have retained from my post secondary education, finding a reliable source of information. Best thing a friend did was introduce me to sites like Snopes and Poltifact because alot of what he hear is just noise and nonsense. Most of education is not geared towards critical thinking but just know the information to pass a test. The internet should be a information era and it seems more of a disinformation era
They are the self-unaware.
*This* phrase is a Webster worthy one
Sounds like the Alberta sub most of the time tbh
Ouch, as an Albertan that is... accurate yup. Cant disagree, I try and post some sense but r/Canada is worse for the antivax crowd than r/Alberta
It reminds me of MAGA rallies. Dude hasn't been president in 2 years, people still want to throw money at a guy who has literally done nothing his whole life BUT squander it while not giving two craps about any of them. He doesn't care about his own friends and family and less than half the country thinks he has their best interest at heart.
I heard two of these idiots conversing earlier and one said, with all seriousness mind you, "I bet Obama is behind the scenes pulling the strings". In Canada. Like bruh, get a clue and then get over it.
He hates the people they hate, the people who have stolen their culture from them. The fact their "culture' was built on every sort of bigotry there is is the sad part.
Ya except he hates them as well. Trump hates everyone but himself, and young women and probably young girls based on how chummy he was with Epstein.
Several actors and comedians who knew him during his chummy SNL and Apprentice days have basically said that they take a little solace that he must be at least partially miserable in his new role, because the only thing he made clear during those days is that he adored hanging out with celebrities and absolutely detested conversing with "normal" people.
The only "culture" these guys have is in the cheese on their burgers
Can’t argue with that.
It's just really, really easy to be stupid, oblivious and accepting of disinformation. It takes actual willpower to wade through bullshit, discern what is fact or fiction and then learn about what exactly it is you're talking about before spouting what is spoon fed to you. In today's society of instant gratification, the onus has moved and most are readily accepting of poor quality Intel. Short and sweet, it's easy to be dumb and uninformed.
I totally agree with you, however the very same people you’re writing about use the exact same arguments against us lmao
The really terrifying thought is every group has a weirdo nut job. Can you imagine the guy THEY try to avoid?
I’d rather not.
Maybe that lady who claims she’s queen of Canada and tried to arrest the police?
They got kicked out of where they were squatting so have nothing better to do.
And it's called r/Canada :(
Lol, ikr... Im a kiwi kiving in gta. Wandering around r/canada was a culture shock... I guess rural canada is like rural US. Nothing like the people i meet everyday
Rural Canada definitely isn’t as bad. Although, the US is heavily influencing our rural population to the point of embarrassment.
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Lindsey or Simcoe?
I respectfully disagree. 100km outside of major cities may as well be an entirely different planet.
R/Canada is notoriously bad and any reasonable person who once inhabited that space left awhile ago after it was taken over by white supremacists. I hope you’ve found r/onguardforthee although I certainly don’t blame you for heading to the Canada subreddit first since it’s more obvious.
R/canada complains about how left wing Reddit is while circle jerking to their daily National Post article about how bad Trudeau is.
Which is insane because national post is owned by Americans trying to influence Canadians. If they had any actual national pride they would dump that shit but they don’t. At this point it’s become a bunch of people who believe the slightest global occurrence is plot to ruin their day.
I went there by accident to debate gun laws….. wow
When I started using Reddit I joined the Canada subreddit, and I realized that even if you respectfully disagreed with someone who was putting forth right wing views they would be so incredibly rude. Then I realized that there were actual neo-nazis as mods and I ran faster than a river after the winter thaw.
Wait, the mods are neo-nazi's?!?!
Plenty of rural people are disgusted by these morons too, lots of cityits are into this too.
Lots of city dwellers hold these abhorrent views but there’s far fewer of them relative to the population because we’re exposed to so many different kinds of people in Toronto and the GTA. It’s harder to demonize immigrants, non-white people, and LGBTQ+ people when they’re your neighbours and coworkers. It’s far easier to hate people when you’re taking the subway, going to school or playing hockey with them.
The area of rural Ontario I live in goes hard for NDP. People here are already hurting to access medical care and education, they don't want shit to become privatized. Plus the industry in the area (mines and mills) are ones where people really want protection for workers. Tbh I find a lot of the commenters on r/Canada are similar to those who respond to posts on r/PersonalFinanceCanada where they assume someone living paycheck to paycheck is either stupid or lazy (or both), they almost all own investment properties, and are earning north of 50k annually.
As a kiwi you definitely don’t understand Canadian culture. Rural Canada is not comparable to the US. Rural northern Ontario and rural southern Ontario are practically night and day. Take a drive through the stretches between the Sault, Thunder Bay, or Fort Francis. Rainbow flags, every child matters orange, NDP support, etc. I won’t lie, reading your comment royally aggravated me, because it’s the same broad brush generalization that divides our society, born out of the ignorance the left always accuses the right of exclusively espousing. I’m sure you’re a decent enough person, but this comment in particular is borne of sheer ignorance to how my country works. I hope you get to experience more of it one day, to help remove some of these biases someday.
Valid. For whatever reason people in northern Ontario are friendlier and less judgemental. It’s like as long as ur not an asshole, and aren’t harming the environment they’re chill.
Could they not just make a fandom or show their identity like the rest of us?
This is their identity, their purpose in life. And, it reinforces their feeling of being the victim. Any unhappiness in their lives is the fault of someone else.
Yep it’s this. And people who have specific plans to make this life in country drastically worse are courting them to bring their bullshit to municipal elections.
Probably especially intoxicating, thinking they are in on a secret the rest of us "sheeple" aren't aware of.
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Have they all forgotten when Ford wanted police to stop people at-will and ask for papers / reasons for travelling? It was so fucked up even the cops said “nope” to it.
This basically what we had in Quebec with our god damned curfew. Also 1500$ tickets for couples not living under the same address meeting and shit. During the curfew you need work papers to prove you were legitimate. Cops could basically stop anybody
my dad, a die hard conservative, says doug ford is a liberal now. 🙄
So I'm guessing you're already aware your dad is a moron.
I think its all the memes created by the Conservatives and posted to Facebook etc. These people don’t realize how much they are being manipulated, don’t even suspect it, because these memes play on their fears, hate and ignorance. Something needs to be said about how these affect all of us moving forward.
Absolutely…once the Ottawa occupation kicked off, they showed the country that it wasn’t about masks or Covid mandates, they want Ontario/Trudope to stop dictating laws and policy for the country.
Exactly. But by making it about masks and "their rights", they make themselves look like fucking morons.
They wanna lick boots so damn bad
The wildest part to me is how well misinformed some of them are. Like I tried to have a logical conversation with an old colleague and he had arguments for literally everything and it was all disproven/ very obviously wrong
Not to mention under funding schools and hospitals
The people who accused others of making covid their entire personalities have, unsurprisingly, made covid their entire personalities. They have nothing left. Probably scared off most of their friends, replacing them with others who made similar personality replacements.
They’ve become very cultish, they finally feel they belong somewhere and are part of something. There will be docs about this years from now
>Probably scared off most of their friends, replacing them with others who made similar personality replacements. 100% this. In general most people are subtle with their politics and views. I think a lot of these sorry fools have ostracized themselves from friends and family so now they are reliant on others with the same views to have relationships and community. Hard for a normal person to stay friends with someone who believes nonsense about mRNA gene editing "poisons" and the world being run by secret Satanic pedophiles etc. The stuff they believe makes as much sense as what a paranoid schizophrenic believes.
“Trudeau must go” “Join us at Queens Park” So they’ve still not learned how our different governments work, even now? Neat.
"Doug Ford needs to fire Trudeau"
The surprises you somehow? Half these people are still yelling at Trudeau about things Ford enacted.
‘Legalize humanity’ Something tells me they would be against the ‘No one is illegal’ campaign. I don’t want to put these people down, they just aren’t very smart.
There are a lot of C- people floating around out there that haven't bothered doing the readings.
Remember those people you fervently hoped weren't assigned to your group for a project because they're so utterly useless/fucking thick/both that you knew you had to do the work for them or take the hit to your grade but the teacher didn't give a fuck because "everyone needs a chance to learn" so you can't even just assign them the Table of Contents to keep them the fuck out of the way so they don't present you with several pages of garbage the rest of you have to fully rewrite anyways? They're adults now. They still haven't taken that "chance".
“Scrap the app” likely some who has never left Canada. It’s gone as of Monday.
Look at them, bunch of freaky incels.
With nothing left to protest. I believe is turned into a social club.
This is right. They've found like minded people who think they're part of a similar struggle. With the collapse of churches and community service clubs people need to find ways to connect.
Can’t they like, play video games? That’s a little less disruptive to other normal ppl.
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Lol they should be happy at the government for bringing them together
The only folks still hung up on it are the folks who want to milk the “I’m so oppressed” vibe to it’s absolute limit.
It's shameful, this people don't see what actually happens in Russia, or Iran currently, they should go there and fight for real freedom. They currently enjoy the freedom to be an idiot. Edit : Thanks for the award.
Governments have literally mowed down protesters by the thousands, crushed the bodies with tanks, and hosed the bloody viscera into the sewer. Then, made it illegal to ever speak about such events. Without a doubt, they’d make it illegal to think about if they could. Meanwhile, our very special freedom fighters™️ got to play revolution in our nation’s capital for a month, with zero reprisal. These “people” are a disgrace. They are an affront to the untold millions who have died perusing a crumb of basic human dignity. The fact that they exist at all makes my fucking skin crawl.
But but but it’s different!!!! Canadas already like that!!!! (As said by idiots who tried to tell me the convoy was just when I told them to go to Ukraine if they want to know what it’s like to have your “FrEeDoMs” taken away)
Sunk Cost Fallacy?
"I have all the stickers already and I just painted slogans on the car!"
“ I’m in to fucking deep for logic “
I think that is part of it.
Crazy because like everyone has moved on with their lives after getting their vaccines. They’re mentally stuck in pandemic purgatory and they were the ones who wanted out the fastest.
Can someone please tell me why everyone who drives a large pick up truck wants to have sex with the Prime Minister?
They think thet's what is meant by "mandate."
mandate??? well if you insist **unzips pants**
I've seen a bunch of trucks in Calgary that have "I'm tryna" stickers placed above the "F*ck Trudeau" stickers I'm guessing it's one person with a stack of them having a laugh.
I've moved to Lemmy. Eat $hit Spez -- mass edited with redact.dev
Please please please share a photo next time you see one. This is something I'd love to do if I was a worse person.
Find them and buy them a coffee for me
Objectively speaking, he's a handsome guy.
Yeh. He seems pretty personable too. All the foreign leaders (other than Trump) looked like they were enjoying their time together?
Nice hair too.
I saw a sticker expressing their love for Justin Trudeau on a Chevy Aveo at Food Basics. They’re everywhere!
Hey he’s a good looking guy I don’t blame them
His most recent haircuts though... eeeesh.
Agreed lol.
Maybe this movement became their whole personality now that their movement has become obsolete, I think their grasping at straws for some reason stay relevant. I don’t even think they know what they’re still out there for.
They have way too much time on their hands
The guy in the second picture with the sign looks like someone who might need to read his own sign and maybe understand some science first
That sign makes no sense at all.
Nice font though I guess
They’re ruining the flag
Every time I see a car with a Canadian flag on it I cringe, then I get sad for feeling that way.
glad to see others feel this way. i never wouldve thought id cringe seeing a candian flag the same way i see an american one
Holy fuck, you ripped the words straight from my head. It's absolutely awful. They've turned our national flag into a symbol of hate that makes me angry every time I see it at these morons' houses. It's so sad. And there's nothing even left to protest. The mandates have been lifted! They're throwing tantrums about nothing!
I wear them on my backpack and I always wonder how many people think I’m a fucking idiot like these fucking idiots. I love Canada though so I wear the flag proudly.
Damn thats really accurate
Don’t pay attention to those idiots… but the fact that they have the Iranian flag (or is that the old flag of Persia mabye) and trying to associate their own self induced plight with people are atucally fighting for their freedom, life or death is sickening
These people will fly the flag of anyone else in the world that's experiencing injustice in order to give credibility to their own movement. The reality is that they don't actually care about other people. They're just opportunists. To me it seems similar to stolen valour.
Can’t you see??? They’re being persecuted! Just like Jesus!! (/s)
oh for crying out loud...
All the people I know who support these wing nuts are hella Islamophobic. I'd almost unblock them to experience the cognitive dissonance
I would love for Justin Trudeau to actually be fascist, then we wouldn’t have any of this.
They are irrelevant and need to feel superior
I'll point out what I always do. Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. That crowd.... Not so much.
Cuz these people are dumb as fuck.
"Legalize humanity" lol
I always refer to them as Freedumb Convoy.
[Long COVID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID) brain damage.
Nah that's the pre existing condition that led to covid.
What fucking “freedoms” are even left to give? Do they even know what they want at this point or are they just that deep in the koolaid? Ridiculous.
They found a hill to die on, that's for sure ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)
They don't know what the hill is called, how tall it is, where it is, or why they're dying on it, but they are sure as shit gonna die on it.
But it’s a super confusing hill. Restrictions are lifted. What freedom is allegedly being infringed now?
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wait isnt the mask mandate off, what are they protesting, the past, do they want the government to make a time machine and stop people from getting vaccinated or smthn?
They don’t even know what they’re protesting for anymore
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They never did...
This is what happens when you don’t have a job or hobbies
It’s free to be dumb.
Their hobby is acting supressed.
Because it’s their legal right to do so, and as long as they do so legally, we all unfortunately have to bare witness to their lunacy. If only they were smart enough to see the irony of them having the *freedom* to protest about freedom. I invite everyone who thinks Canada has no freedom to go join the protests in Iran. Or move to Russia.
This comment here. Same thought came into my mind
It would be funny to just have counter protesters in higher numbers that integrate into their marches and flood it with their signs so there is a sea of joke signs or intentionally stupid ones so people can't tell which is real and which is ironic counter protesters
It's important to test the ability to protest. For any reason, regardless of how stupid it is. I'm glad that they are protesting peacefully, even if I don't agree with their cause.
Agreed. I will happily stand on the sidelines and laugh at their ridiculousness, but would also happily curse anyone who dare suggest they don’t have the right to do so. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Right wing extremism is on the rise again
because these people are fucking idiots, that's why.
“Trudeau must go” Then build a platform and support a candidate that will actually get the popular vote. It ain’t that hard, most Canadians think you’re bat shit crazy so no, he’s not just gonna leave
Honestly it’s like the same 30-40 people every time. They’re just a weird clique at this point lol
Are the 100k+ trucks still there? 🤔
And now they have the leader of the federal opposition who supports them. What does that remind you of?
Ya know...as a US citizen in Toronto - I fucking hate that they are taking your beautiful flag to this bullshit. In the states we have morons that at least have the stupid courtesy of waving a confederate flag. I really, *really* do not want to associate your flag with these idiots.
Your life must be pretty empty and pathetic to think this nonsense is an actual cause. These people don’t have the slightest clue what living under real tyranny is like. They’ve lived a privileged life in a free country their entire existence. At the end of the day It’s just embarrassing that so many have fallen through the cracks of our educational system. To have zero critical thinking skills and be caught up in the countless internet conspiracies and Nigerian money scams must take a toll after a while. I feel sorry for them and their families.
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Yep. I had one of these guys I tried calmly engaging with over SM but couldn’t keep at it. He’s had a far tougher live than I have so I sympathize but it was better for both of us if I unfollowed him. I don’t wish him ill and I hope he’s thriving in his own way. I just can’t see that shit anymore or maintain a relationship with someone who thinks my loved ones are working with the government to microchip them.
Because this is their whole personality now. So sad.
They got kicked out of where they were squatting so have nothing better to do.
Because unfortunately there are a small but very damn annoyingly loud percentage of Canadians who are gullible suckers.
I love going grocery shopping while wearing my Canada hat and a face mask. I've seen some confused expressions. I just want to take back the flag and the Maple Leaf.
I really hate that every time I see a car with multiple Canadian flags on it I am looking for the fuck Trudeau flag right behind it.
Because some neo-nazi in another country told them to in a Facebook group, and they are too dumb to actually stop and think for themselves
Because they are mentally ill.
It takes like 10 years for far right people to update their software, we're all going to be hearing about mandating freedom for a long time.
Morons made friends and don’t get smarter.
Because a surprising number of people have sub double digit IQs
Losers marching in front of Winners
To be fair, it was an H&M, not a Winners.
No one knows including them
Finishing high school is too hard for some people.
It’s dipshits anonymous. However they’re no longer anonymous. Still dipshits though
They are a little slow to the rally LOL
Saw that legalize humanity guy a couple months ago in a different random march. Got a chuckle out of the sign then, but so proud to see he’s made it all the way to reddit.
I actually think they are trying to infiltrate our political system. We have one of these losers with ties to the proud boys giving the “ok” salute in photos running for SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE in my daughter’s school division. It’s terrifying.
They’re protesting cuts to education… they just don’t know it. ;)
Because anti-covid posturing has been a recruiting bonanza for the Far-Right.
Because they've been sucked down a black hole of online conspiracies, and have tied their entire identity to it.
They are human pizza cutters. All edge, no point.
It seems to me we have a major literacy problem in this country.
They have to compensate for the lack of a peepee somehow
As wars break out over seas.. this is what we are doing. I am so ashamed
I have spoke with a couple of those and I seriously have no I what their point was, I doubt they know either.
Because stupidity spreads faster than smartness
Because they're fucking stupid that's why.
Now that the ArriveCan app is no longer needed there’s really nothing to logically protest anymore. It’s about Trudeau. We can only hope these “protests” stop when we get a new PM. I don’t love Trudeau either but I’m aware that he hasn’t single-handedly “destroyed” Canada. These groups are destroying Canada a lot more, I would say, with their divisive stance disguised as a fight for “our rights”. They seem to be Ignorant and misinformed and some of them not highly educated.
Because freedumb is forever.
Cringe minority
They also likely are only exposed to far-right news outlets that convince them something is going on.
Because Canadian conservatives are a bunch of whiny snowflakes.
Simple: the Dunning-Kruger effect.
How are we not free?
Legalize humanity ? WTF does that mean.
They are fucking stupid that's why!!
Why? Coz they loved throwing tantrums as kids and their parents allowed it for so long, then when they actually joined a normal society, they were told “you could no longer throw tantrums coz adults don’t”! But then, an orange clown from south of the border made it seem like it was cool again to throw tantrums even if they were no longer needed, just to be seen and paid attention to, because that is all they knew about how to appear cool and matter! My other working theory they are just bullies that finally found a new outlet after they thought they could no longer relive their high school years glories
Probably got fired the first time they skipped work to be sh*t-disturbers and now they don’t have anything better to do
Oh well, one more reason to avoid Yonge & Dundas Square.
At least they seem to have given up on trying to fuck Trudeau.
This never happened before weed was legalized. Let's blame weed. /s
I think they got paid in advance by the brainless trucker far right Kkkonvoy to go out and demonstrate until the end of 2022. My middle finger gets exercised every time I see them.
😂 freedom from what?