Low Blow to Trucker Caravan

[TemplarKormac]

I did not demean the truckers. I said that it was rather funny what the counter protesters did and I have no problems whatsoever with them doing it. I do not like protesters blocking roads in a general sense but these guys have done so with bouncy castles, cookouts and no violence. More power to them, if you can protest without those I really have no problem with your actions. They are effectively using the assets they have.

Okay. So there is no issue. Yet there seems to be.

Now I am confused.

 

[TemplarKormac]

They are effectively using the assets they have.

And so are the counter protesters. If they had slashed a tire I would have a problem (after I was done laughing my ass off over how that would have turned out). If they had thrown a brick or punched someone, they would be wrong.

Hm.

But when you are engaging in tactics to sabotage the ability of others to protest, is that free speech? In my book, it is not. It is not free speech to organize methods to undermine or disrupt others' ability to organize their own forms of free expression. Not by a long shot. It stopped being speech the moment the action was carried out.

And yes, you could argue, *could*, that what these truckers are doing is not free speech. But the standard picket line in front of parliament wasn't cutting it anymore. When the government refuses to hear your words, only actions are left.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Can't fight the actual message, you have to fight the ability of people to get the message out.

Cucks.

What if the message just sucks out loud, eh?

 

[Synthaholic]

Chrystia Freeland bringing down the hammer. I've been a fan of hers since she was a financial reporter. Now she's Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

 

[westwall]

The source is Raw Story, so it's probably complete bullshit. If there's any truth at all that forms the basis of the story, then what probably really happened is that three or four faggots posted some of their own content, and boasted of disrupting the truckers' communication, and that the truckers, in fact, probably didn't even notice.

Raw Sewage is NEVER credible.

 

[westwall]

Chrystia Freeland bringing down the hammer. I've been a fan of hers since she was a financial reporter. Now she's Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

Fascist bitches be fascist.

 

[toobfreak]

The protesters were forced to abandon their first method of communication, the app Zello, after counterprotesters flooded their channels "with the gay cowboy anthem Ram Ranch," a song with incredibly explicit homoerotic lyrics.

Typical move by the left to act like maslignant parasites.

 

[dudmuck]

Fascist bitches be fascist.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Fascist bitches be fascist.

And Synth is celebrating it.

Synth is a fascist.

 

[FA_Q2]

They cleared the Ambassador Bridge. The Coutts blockade is leaving tomorrow.

They tried to work with the RCMP, with Trudeau, but the RCMP sabotaged their equipment and Trudeau fled to his bunker and set outrageous conditions for meeting them. They were left with no other recourse. It took the invocation of the Emergencies Act to get them moved. And when they do move, the movement is over and their concerns will go largely ignored until Trudeau is kicked out of his office.

That has nothing to do with the communication disruption and everything to do with enacting emergency powers and the jackboots showing up.

That is immaterial to my point.

 

[Lastamender]

Chrystia Freeland bringing down the hammer. I've been a fan of hers since she was a financial reporter. Now she's Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

Why didn't the truckers burn and loot the cities they passed? That is how you get things accomplished.

 

[FA_Q2]

Hm.

But when you are engaging in tactics to sabotage the ability of others to protest, is that free speech? In my book, it is not. It is not free speech to organize methods to undermine or disrupt others' ability to organize their own forms of free expression. Not by a long shot. It stopped being speech the moment the action was carried out.

Then engaging in tactics that prevent people from traveling down a road is not free speech then.

You get what I am getting at right? They are both engaged in a disruptive activity. Either disruptive activities can be construed as an act of free speech or they cannot but if you allow one I do not see a consistent manner in which you can not allow the other.

And yes, you could argue, *could*, that what these truckers are doing is not free speech. But the standard picket line in front of parliament wasn't cutting it anymore. When the government refuses to hear your words, only actions are left.

And that is why I don't construe the truckers actions as anything other than an act of speech. I just cannot justify the counter action as not the same thing if I apply the same logic.

 

[TemplarKormac]

And that is why I don't construe the truckers actions as anything other than an act of speech. I just cannot justify the counter action as not the same thing if I apply the same logic.

Fair enough.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Either disruptive activities can be construed as an act of free speech or they cannot but if you allow one I do not see a consistent manner in which you can not allow the other.

Hmm... I can't argue with that.

 

[TemplarKormac]

That has nothing to do with the communication disruption and everything to do with enacting emergency powers and the jackboots showing up.

That is immaterial to my point.

I was responding to your observation that the truckers were being disruptive. That reply was to that point only.

 

[martybegan]

It seems you didn't really understand my comment. Because you're apparently a fucking hayseed. It's cool bro. You do you.

Apparently, jeezus loves you. You got that going!

I understood your snarky asshattery.

 

[martybegan]

You are the one that claimed the left would be complaining, just like you, about something like this. That was your claim.

And I then asked when recently has the right tried to prevent any lefty group from organizing a protest, much less try to stop it.

Protest, not violence.

 

[martybegan]

So you guys suck at politics. That's what you seem to be saying here, no?

Stopping the other side from presenting their viewpoint is now "politics"?

 

[martybegan]

What if the message just sucks out loud, eh?

The message is clear in this case, The mandates need to stop and the cuck class needs to get over "working" from home.

 

[krichton]

Can't fight the actual message, you have to fight the ability of people to get the message out.

Cucks.

What message is that exactly? We won't vaccinate so we'll destroy the canadian economy instead? lol