Convoy reaches Ottawa

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[kertejud2]

Seems like they’re running into issues.

[A790]

lol for all the difference this'll make. The only thing this convoy is going to do is make AB look like a bunch of rednecks to the rest of Canada... even moreso than we already do.

[adam c]

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lol for all the difference this'll make. The only thing this convoy is going to do is make AB look like a bunch of rednecks to the rest of Canada... even moreso than we already do.

This

[pheoxs]

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Yeah .... like I'm all for protesting and trying to push for representation. But showing up in your 60k$ truck that you just spend a few thousand dollars in gas driving across the country isn't exactly going to send the message of hard times.

[dj_rice]

Did this convoy do any blockade in Calgary?

Cause when they did in Edmonton on the Henday. 2 hours I was stuck in that stupid shit. I support pipe lines but convoy...is another story

[kertejud2]

To make things worse for the convoy, they decided to let Faith Goldy speak. So people aren’t talking about it as a pro-pipeline protest but instead talking about it’s shift to a white nationalist led one.

[Misterman]

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To make things worse for the convoy, they decided to let Faith Goldy speak. So people aren’t talking about it as a pro-pipeline protest but instead talking about it’s shift to a white nationalist led one.

Yeah, news media gonna news media. Not much you can do about that. The right wing could have a black transgendered illegal alien spokesperson, and the left will still find a way to call them a racist.

[kertejud2]

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Yeah, news media gonna news media. Not much you can do about that. The right wing could have a black transgendered illegal alien spokesperson, and the left will still find a way to call them a racist.

Yeah, somebody who promotes white genocide theory, who recites white nationalist slogans, appears on white nationalist podcasts, who got fired from The Rebel for her coverage of Charlottesville and appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast (not what the media labels them as, BTW, a proudly neo-Nazi podcast) because even Ezra Levant thought that was going too far, is just 'news media finding a way to call somebody a racist.'

They fucked up. By having her speak they've allowed the media to justifiably shift the focus.

[dirtsniffer]

Ya that's definitely not a good look.

[msommers]

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lol for all the difference this'll make. The only thing this convoy is going to do is make AB look like a bunch of rednecks to the rest of Canada... even moreso than we already do.

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Yeah .... like I'm all for protesting and trying to push for representation. But showing up in your 60k$ truck that you just spend a few thousand dollars in gas driving across the country isn't exactly going to send the message of hard times.

Nailed it.

What's kind of ironic about the 'Alberta Image', that is rednecks in pickup trucks...a few Quebecois friends I have say that rural Quebec is basically rural Alberta (ie: hicks), just different language. Montreal vs. the rest of Quebec are two different animals - anecdotally speaking

I remember taking the bus from Montreal to Ottawa and seeing some Quebecois license plate on a beat up sedan, with a bail of hay in the trunk - trunk tied down with string. I gotta find that photo.

[kertejud2]

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a few Quebecois friends I have say that rural Quebec is basically rural Alberta (ie: hicks), just different language. Montreal vs. the rest of Quebec are two different animals - anecdotally speaking

Same with rural Ontario (though they speak the same language I guess). The Letterkenny snowmobile episodes highlight this better than people realize. All just a bunch of hicks who like their trucks and toys.

[Buster]

Did anyone even ask Goldy to speak? I suspect she just grabbed a mic and threw some elbows. What a fucking lunatic.

On the other hand, this while thing won't swing the needle one way or the other. The media won't really care. Nobody's opinion of the West will change. Confederation isn't magically going to change to increase the power of a vote out west.

The whole thing is irrelevant.

[Xtrema]

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lol for all the difference this'll make. The only thing this convoy is going to do is make AB look like a bunch of rednecks to the rest of Canada... even moreso than we already do.

And sneak in a few yellow vests, racists too.

[bourge73]

We are going to have a convoy, convoy. Convoy

[ExtraSlow]

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this while thing won't swing the needle one way or the other. The media won't really care. Nobody's opinion of the West will change. Confederation isn't magically going to change to increase the power of a vote out west.

The whole thing is irrelevant.

People are feeling helpless and hopeless. I agree that this is unlikely to change anything meaningfully, but it gives people a place to focus their energies for a short time, and sometimes that's all a person needs.

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People are feeling helpless and hopeless. I agree that this is unlikely to change anything meaningfully, but it gives people a place to focus their energies for a short time, and sometimes that's all a person needs.

Dont get in the way of my chronic cynicism.

[Misterman]

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People are feeling helpless and hopeless. I agree that this is unlikely to change anything meaningfully, but it gives people a place to focus their energies for a short time, and sometimes that's all a person needs.

The only potential benefit I see possible(pretty unlikely, but I digress), is that this creates awareness in Eastern Canada about what is going on. We get such a watered down slanted news media here in the west, they get it a million times worse since they are already more likely to be Liberal and buy into the BS. So how many of them are actually aware of the issues and what the problems are?

[ExtraSlow]

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Dont get in the way of my chronic cynicism.

I'm pretty damned cynical too.

[phreezee]

Meanwhile Devon says they are pulling out of Canada. Maybe all the hillbillies who work in the downtown office should've sent a message to Ottawa about Bill 69, and Bill 48.
I'm glad some hillbillies got in their trucks and did.