GoFundMe seizes funds of Canadian trucker convoy

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https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1490193738626383877

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https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1490858747358494720?cxt=HHwWgICy6beIzLApA...

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Fuzzy, 93% of BLM protests were peaceful, and the violent ones were not as big as you seem to think.
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

The vast majority of demonstration events associated with the BLM movement are non-violent (see map below). In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations,5 meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations — under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests. In many urban areas like Portland, Oregon, for example, which has seen sustained unrest since Floyd’s killing, violent demonstrations are largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city (CNN, 1 September 2020).

And those 7% were far worse than whatever the Truckers are doing

Arson suspected in Ottawa protest zone apartment fire near Parliament Hill

Police are investigating what appears to be an attempt to start a fire in the lobby of a downtown Ottawa apartment building, where tenants say they have been besieged by anti-vaccine mandate protesters raging in the national capital for more than a week.

Matias Munoz said that when he came downstairs Sunday morning, he saw the carpet and floor were charred, and that there were blackened fire-starter bricks strewn across the lobby.

The building manager showed him surveillance video, which he said appears to show two men light a package of the bricks in the lobby and secure the front door handles together before leaving through the side door around 5 a.m. Sunday.

(Not that your claim would be anywhere close to true even if the above event had nothing to do with the protesters, but this in particular is completely beyond the pale.)

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Your side did 220 violent riots which is much worse than anything the truckers are doing

It's not about 'sides' doing things. There are more than two sides and lots of bozos all over the place with wackadoodle ideas. Both of your created 'sides' commit more than enough violence to go around. Posters on this forum are not collectively responsible for things that their side has done, nor should they feel foolish because theoretical ideological sympathizers did something bad. That's going to be true for everyone at some point.

The shameful thing is the politicians that failed to denounce or encouraged last summer's violence directed at private citizens and institutions. Given how in lockstep people are with defending whatever their politicians say or do, it would have been solid mitigation against declining standards of acceptable actions. Instead, we got widespread endorsement, which everybody was listening to, not just their base.

This is the part that I most strongly agree with. You routinely see "red avatars" use the "your party" or "your side" attack against "blue avatars". It would not do for "blue avatars" to utilize the same kind of arguments in reverse.

Everyone claims that their opponents ideology is evil because it causes people to commit crimes.

The modern GOP is evil because it revolves around enabling abuse, championing ignorance and encouraging hate - all of which can exist in forms that are not crimes (as has been amply demonstrated by the GOP over the last decade).

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Since BLM seems to keep coming up...
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1492552144339226625

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https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1493056860638773248

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Like the movable type press, the internet has created a phase transition in how information is spread and consumed. The press was a major (although not singular) contributor to societal chaos, and eventually a new modus vivendi. Right now, we are still learning how to live with the internet. I hope that eventually it can lead to a better world, but we've got a long way to go.

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https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1493704292317999106

Fox News - So Stupid It Hurts.