I've sort of been out of the news loop for the last two weeks, and to be frank, I have no idea what this Canadian truck driver story is all about. Can one of you kind souls please explain?
Canadian anti-vax chuds organized a truck convoy to drive across the country and protest in the capital. A surprising minority of them are actual "truckers," and it's not hard to find connections between the organizers and white nationalist groups. The truckers are currently just sitting around Ottawa, making noise and being a nuisance, generally going unmolested by police.
They've been going for a few weeks in a row now, and demonstrations in other cities are cropping up each weekend. It's genuinely hard to see how this ends as none of the levels of government are willing to use force*, the police are going all "well you should have given us more money 🤡 ", and there hasn't been time to mount a safe, organized resistance, despite the fact that most of the public is against it and the 2019 and 2020 climate and BLM marches far surpassed these idiots in numbers.
They are now blockading some of the highways in and out of Canada near Ottawa and between Detroit and Windsor, using children in some cases, and some have started protesting outside of elementary schools and threatening students (one in Winnipeg had to go into lockdown or something similar).
In some ways it feels a bit more real than Jan 6 because it's been way more permanent. I have friends in Ottawa that are hiding in their homes because they're being yelled at and sexually harassed when they go out with a mask. The Toronto police told hospital workers last weekend to not wear any identifying clothing in public, and attempted to move a bunch of them into hotels closer to the hospital.
It's bad folks. If it just peters out at this point the fallout will be pretty bad for all the chuds involved - we're talking jobs lost, arrests, even kids being taken away - but I'm worried it won't.
(*This may change with the Ontario government announcing a state of emergency today, which allows them to slap protesters with heavy fines and maybe jail time.)
I know you want details but :frothingfash: is probably the most accurate takeaway.
Petty bourgeois chud truckers and their hangers-on are protesting "the government", which just so happens to look like a series of far-right thinly-veiled white nationalist talking points. They're getting attention because (1) corporate media loves to give attention to petty bourgeois shit and fash shit and (2) they're legitimately fucking up infrastructure because they're blocking roads wherever they go and they didn't plan for any of this.
Their primary concrete demand is an end to vax mandates.
And to nobody's surprise, cops are pretending they can do nothing about this despite their eagerness to beat the shit out of any protesters that are vaguely leftish.
To add: police are getting some excellent funding during this ordeal... And by covering this extensively, corporate media can continue appearing like the adult in the room all while giving favourable press to provincial governments that are rapidly stripping down covid restrictions (despite covid, in some cases, being as widespread as it's ever been).
No doubt the normalization of police overreach during these protests will be utilized for any future left protests also.
