GoFundMe seizes funds of Canadian trucker convoy

[Santander]

Being patriotic is not allowed anymore. If they shut down the fundraiser, they should be returning every cent back to the donors, not funneling it into left-wing charities.

We need to show the truckers even more support now.

[Santander]

GoFundMe pulled the dollars just in time:

https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1490547103596269570

Justin probably thought they were just white guys in blackface brownface.

[Santander]

Why would the American right organize a protest in Canada... They could just direct those efforts to organizing one in the US. Just because some patriots were inspired by the truckers and sent them donations doesn't make it a false flag operation, lol.

[Santander]

If you don't like the sound of the truckers, you don't like the sound of freedom.

[Santander]

If there were 220 violent right-wing protests over that period of time, Democrats would be calling for the Republican Party to be labeled a terrorist organization.

[Santander]

The "convoy movement" today tried to halt international commerce that contributes to the livelihoods of millions. Search "Ambassador Bridge" in Google News.

Didn't they already do this a couple weeks ago in the land of the mostly free? (Alberta)

Rich people not getting their Canada Goose jackets on time is a small price to pay for defending freedom in two countries. To paraphrase a wise philosopher, "the tragedy of the Canada Goose that's been delayed."

[Santander]

It's okay to protest if you do it my way and my way only.  Yes, Herr Justin!

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1490885400214511620

Say what you will about the truckers, but I've never understood why Canadians continue to reelect Trudeau and his party.

Probably because Canadians generally are smarter than Americans.

You're not a great example, then... You're not even nice.

[Santander]

12 arrests out of 18,000 protestors is 0.07%. That's using a high estimate for the total truckers, and not counting anyone yet to be arrested.

Compare to 14,000 arrests out of 26,000,000 protesters, or 0.05%, in George Floyd protests.

lol 26 million. Do you know a single George Floyd protester? Also, those arrests are mostly just protesters. They don't include most of the looters and other anarchists who caused >$1B worth of damage nationwide and created police no-go zones where, obviously, people were not getting arrested for terrorizing residents and business owners.

[Santander]

lol 26 million. Do you know a single George Floyd protester?

Um, yes? They had protests in Jackson and Starkville. Did you actually think I would say no?

I lived in Mississippi and I don't know a single protester. I only knew decent black people with jobs and families.

[Santander]

lol 26 million. Do you know a single George Floyd protester?

Um, yes? They had protests in Jackson and Starkville. Did you actually think I would say no?

I lived in Mississippi and I don't know a single protester. I only knew decent black people with jobs and families.

The people I know who protested (both white and black) took their families, and the protests were on Saturday.

Nice, just in time to watch NFL players kneel for the anthem on their new TV on Sunday.

[Santander]

Gonna copy-paste my post from the Canada thread in International Discussion:

Cenk and John on the The Young Turks made a great point today talking about this stuff. Regardless of if a protest is left wing or right wing or libertarian or whatever it is, the point of the protest is to get national attention and get everybody focused on the injustice and then hopefully that can change minds which can lead to pressure for political action. The example given was MLK's walk to Selma and the police riding on horses and sending dogs to attack them. The problem is, sometimes you successfully protest and successfully get everybody paying attention and talking about the injustice, and it turns out, 50% (or more / a lot more ) of the country just doesn't agree with what you're fighting for and isn't interested in changing anything the protestors want changed. Which is what's happened in Canada after maybe 1.5 weeks, maybe 2 weeks.

So then you have to ask... how long is it appropriate for the occupation to continue? You made your point, everybody had their had your chance at change, so when should they go home? Most reasonable people would say "keep going forever" isn't appropriate, but it's hard to say exactly how long is too long. A lot of Canadians think it's been too long in this specific case. Cenk said he's interested in having an open good-faith dialogue with right wingers about how long they would say is appropriate for some protest to go on, but then points out that it's very hard to have good-faith discussions with Republicans about these kinds of things. Which is generally true.

Imagine unironically watching Cenk Uygur in 2022.