Canada's Truck Convoy to Protest Mandate

[KB5252]

Are you talking about how republicans and rightwing media covered the two?
Whose double standard is larger?

The media on left was very supportive of BLM the media on the right is very supportive of the truckers. They've switched. Though there are just fewer right lemming media sources.

The overarching point though is the government's double standard in reaction/support and the media's, particularly the left media's, failure to point out that double standard...... That's part of the media's job after all.

Not to mention there have been no buildings burned and very little violence, I've heard of no serious injuries or property being destroyed, except a that of a few truckers.

 

[KB5252]

Read the freaking thread.

I don't have time, admittedly I may be behind.

 

[VolinWayne]

Secret Recording: Canada is About to Give Freedom Convoy a Huge Victory Against Vaccine Mandates

 

[hog88]

I can do what I want in my private business. That doesn't mean I can go out and block a freaking highway I don't own.

You're a taxpayer, so you do own it in a sense.

 

[KB5252]

Are you talking about how republicans and rightwing media covered the two?
Whose double standard is larger?

Another reply to add that with only a few exceptions what I saw here, and in most media examples from the right the protests weren't condemned, the violence was, the lawlessness was. Purposefully putting people in fear of bodily harm. Burning buildings.

You can attempt to parse it any way you want, the levels of violence and destruction as a result of these protests aren't in the same hemisphere when compared.

 

[KB5252]

Are you in a blue state or red state?

Purple

 

[luthervol]

Yup. With or without the vaccine one can still die of Covid. Glad we had this talk.

Me too, otherwise you may have wrongfully and needlessly continued to fixate on the unknown long-term side effects of the vaccine.

 

[VolinWayne]

 

[hog88]

They don't own the highways they are parked on or the businesses to which they have blocked or cut off supplies.

I understand you dont feel people cN gave nuanced takes, but I never said anything about Trudeau or the Canadian vax policy. If making up a position for me makes you feel like you're "winning," that's fine.

The truth is that it doesn't matter where they park, parked trucks will shut down business even if simply parked in their driveway.

 

[luthervol]

The media on left was very supportive of BLM the media on the right is very supportive of the truckers. They've switched. Though there are just fewer right lemming media sources.

The overarching point though is the government's double standard in reaction/support and the media's, particularly the left media's, failure to point out that double standard...... That's part of the media's job after all.

Not to mention there have been no buildings burned and very little violence, I've heard of no serious injuries or property being destroyed, except a that of a few truckers.

What government double standard? Repubs hated BLM and love the truckers.
Have they had LEOs go in using tear gas and trying to remove the truckers? I haven't really paid any attention to it.

 

[hog88]

Or you could ignore my question and move on. I can tell you have some kind of dumb "gotcha" that you think is going to come across as really clever. It's just eating you up that I'm not taking the bait.

You're being DonJo'ed.

 

[LouderVol]

Me too, otherwise you may have wrongfully and needlessly continued fixate on the unknown long-term side effects of the vaccine.

Except I am not in the least concerned with the long term side effects of the vaccine, even after Pfizer started hedging their language and has tried to bury the data.

 

[luthervol]

I can do what I want in my private business. That doesn't mean I can go out and block a freaking highway I don't own.

I seem to remember a lot of the rightwing nuts on here saying people should run down any protestor blocking their way. Of course that was a different protest.

That may be the most glaring double standard I've seen in all of this.

 

[hog88]

What I still find so crazy is that someone would choose to quit their job instead of giving their boss a BJ. It's lunacy.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

With your reasoning this fits too doesn't it?

 

[ButchPlz]

It's a funny joke that he's actually in office.

But it does become less funny when I realize a literally senile old man that craps himself on TV is president here.

 

[C-south]

What government double standard? Repubs hated BLM and love the truckers.
Have they had LEOs go in using tear gas and trying to remove the truckers? I haven't really paid any attention to it.

Are the truckers looting, rioting, and vandalizing? And they’re even protesting a real issue.

 

[clarksvol00]

Clearly you havent spent time in Atlanta.

And my entire point you have continued to avoid is that these guys are being non violent, so imo they are free to protest as long as they arent on private property.

They start parking in your businesses private parking lot or drive and I wont mind if you get them forcibly removed, or have to take matters into your own hand.

Just as much as the drivers dont own the highway, neither do the other private businesses.

I'm not avoiding your point. I just don't agree with it. Not sure I can make that more clear. Creating a false equivalency between traffic and intentional blockades isn't going to change my mind.

 

[clarksvol00]

I don't have time, admittedly I may be behind.

I went on a tirade yesterday about my position on the 2020 riots.

 

[LouderVol]

Are the truckers looting, rioting, and vandalizing? And they’re even protesting a real issue.

I would say the cops shooting unarmed individuals are worth protesting. Not all of the AA shot or killed were Michael Browns.

 

[clarksvol00]

The truth is that it doesn't matter where they park, parked trucks will shut down business even if simply parked in their driveway.

That's true, but the blockade prevents others who are willing to do the job from doing it

 

[hog88]

That's true, but the blockade prevents others who are willing to do the job from doing it

True and a good point. They should leave a lane open for those not participating.

 

[Orangeburst]

I don’t get this debate
Do we even know if the protestors were standing in the street when they were intentionally plowed?

 

[luthervol]

Except I am not in the least concerned with the long term side effects of the vaccine, even after Pfizer started hedging their language and has tried to bury the data.

Sure you are, you used it as rationale for the truckers quitting their jobs rather than getting the vaccine.
If you were not concerned, you wouldn't provide it as justification for the truckers' decisions.

 

[ButchPlz]

Is there not a fundamental difference between people just standing in the street and the swarming (with violence) around cars that was happening nearly everywhere with these BLM "protests" (violent insurrections)?

 

[allvol123]

The truth is that it doesn't matter where they park, parked trucks will shut down business even if simply parked in their driveway.

Yep. They would almost be better served at this point to just go home and not work. It will deliver the same result.