#right wing freedom convoy

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 995: A Sense of False Balance

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is there in the sense of false balance in the United States? Rosner: We just had a discussion where you said I went on a rant, which I believe to be accurate, about it being a Republican strategy to appeal to less informed voters because they are a capturable demographic. The GOP has been trying to capture them and has been largely successful since the 1970s. Where we…

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Zack Beauchamp at Vox:

“Are we a country that looks out for each other ... or do you go down a path of amplifying anger, division and fear?”

That’s how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the stakes in his country’s upcoming election in an interview with Vox’s Today, Explained this week — outlining the 2025 contest as no ordinary election but a referendum on the very soul of Canada. This existential framing is an unsubtle shot at Trudeau’s rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, a populist firebrand who is currently outpolling the prime minister by a wide margin. Poilievre rose to party leadership as a champion of the extremist trucker convoy that occupied Ottawa in January 2022, and since then has regularly pandered to far-right voters. He has proposed defunding the CBC (Canada’s widely respected public broadcaster) and repeatedly promoted a conspiracy theory in which Trudeau is in league with the World Economic Forum. There’s a reason that Trudeau and many others have directly linked Poilievre to Trump: His political style practically invites it. But how accurate is the comparison? Is Canada really poised to be the next Western country to fall to the far-right populist global wave? The answer, as best as I can tell, is mixed.

It’s true that, by Canadian standards, Poilievre is an especially hard-nosed figure, one far more willing to use extreme rhetoric and attack political opponents in harsh terms. But on policy substance, he’s actually considerably more moderate than Trump or European radicals. Mostly eschewing the demagogic focus on culture and immigration that defines the new global far right, Poilievre is primarily concerned with classic conservative themes of limited government. His biggest campaign promises at present aren’t slashing immigration rates or cracking down on crime, but building more housing and repealing Canada’s carbon tax. Poilievre is basically just a conventional Canadian conservative who wraps up his elite-friendly agenda in anti-elite language aimed at working-class voters. He’s the kind of politician that some Republicans wish Donald Trump was: a tame populist. Understanding Poilievre isn’t just of interest to Canadians. There are reasons that his brand of populism is less virulent than what’s cropped up in many other Atlantic democracies — ones that hold important lessons for safeguarding democracy around the world.

Why Pierre Poilievre doesn’t fit the far-right script

The University of Georgia’s Cas Mudde, one of the leading scholars of the European right, has developed what is (to my mind) the most useful definition of radical right politics today. In his account, this party family — factions like Hungary’s Fidesz, France’s National Rally, and the US GOP — share three essential qualities. First, they are nativist; they strongly oppose immigration and multiculturalism. Second, they are willing to use aggressive, even authoritarian measures to deal with social disorder like undocumented migration and crime. Finally, they are populist, meaning that they define politics as a struggle between a virtuous people and a corrupt elite. Poilievre is certainly a populist. A right-wing operative and politician since he was a teenager, he rocketed to the top of the Conservative Party hierarchy after emerging as the most vocal champion of the 2022 Ottawa occupation. The uprising, which began against pandemic restrictions but swiftly became a broader far-right movement, was quite unpopular nationally. But inside the Conservative Party, there was enough support for its “pro-freedom” message that Poilievre rode his pro-convoy stance to victory in the party’s subsequent leadership election.

Since then, his populism has focused relentlessly on attacking the media, “globalists,” and (above all) Trudeau. Casting the fight between his Conservatives and Trudeau’s Liberals as the “have-nots” versus the “have-yachts,” he has argued that the prime minister embodies a debased Ottawa establishment out of touch with the needs and values of ordinary Canadians. In a recent speech, Poilievre cast Trudeau as an “elitist” leader gunning for Canada’s freedoms. “If he had read Nineteen Eighty-Four, he would have thought it was an instruction manual,” Poilievre argued. Somewhat ironically, Poilievre also believes Canada’s criminal justice system should be harsher. Blaming Trudeau for a recent rise in car thefts, Poilievre has argued for a reimposition of mandatory minimum sentences and other tough-on-crime policies. This means there’s at least a case that he also fits the second prong of Mudde’s definition of radical right politics. But on the first prong, nativism, Poilievre clearly diverges from Trump and the European far right. He has publicly insisted that “the Conservative party is pro-immigration,” and he has made appealing directly to immigrants a central part of his campaign strategy.

[...] Arising primarily in Western provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Poilievre’s native Alberta), Canadian “prairie populism” historically draws strength from the notion that the federal government cares more about the population centers in Quebec and Ontario than the rest of the country. Prairie populism, which comes in left- and right-wing varieties, focuses far more on regional and economic issues than the cultural obsessions of the modern far right. “We have had a long history of populism — particularly in the prairie provinces, the Western provinces — going back to the 1920s and 30s,” says Keith Banting, a professor at Queen’s University in Ontario. “Populism draws less extensively on anti-immigrant sentiment in Canada than it does almost anywhere else.” Indeed, Poilievre’s biggest focus is cost-of-living issues — blaming ordinary people’s economic pain on high taxes and big government. His signature proposals are repealing Trudeau’s carbon tax, cutting spending to fight inflation, and removing restrictions on housing construction.

[...]

Poilievre’s “plutocratic populism”

While Poilievre is a very Canadian figure, fitting solidly into the right-wing prairie populist tradition, his politics also have a lot in common with a concept developed for the United States: political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s “plutocratic populism.” In their book Let Them Eat Tweets, Hacker and Pierson argue that the Republican Party uses culture war as a vehicle to attract popular support for a party that primarily caters to the interests of the rich. This strategy of “exploiting white identity to defend wealth inequality” allowed Trump’s GOP to attract downscale, non-college-educated voters without abandoning its core commitment to tax cuts and deregulation.

But in the United States, the populists ate the plutocrats. Trump’s anti-democratic instability and economic heterodoxy on issues like trade led some GOP billionaires, like the Koch family, to try and unseat him in the 2024 primary. They failed miserably and now are slinking back. In the Republican Party, MAGA is calling the shots. Poilievre, by contrast, keeps his populism within plutocrat-acceptable bounds. His rhetorical gestures toward the working class are paired with solidly pro-rich policy views and a distinct absence of attacks on the democratic system itself. In 2013, he claimed to be “the first federal politician to make a dedicated push” toward imposing US-style right-to-work laws in Canada. He has endorsed tax cuts for the rich and cuts to social spending. His trade policy is far more free-market than Trump’s. There are no signs that he would challenge the legitimacy of Canadian elections, let alone stage a January 6-style insurrection.

Vox reports on Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre's brand of right-wing populism is tamer than Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, or Marine Le Pen's.

[papirouge]

Twitter rightoid poltard better keep my country out of their fricking misinforming mouth

"they voted for this" what is this idiot talking about? People are looting because a guy DIED. The police lied on the report, and since everything got filmed, truth eventually came out (the kid was not armed, and the policeman shot at close range). It's getting so bad than even Emmanuel Macron (France president) who usually ALWAYS sides with the police when this type of incident happens, said what happened what "unexcusable". That policeman is currently in 'preventive prison' (sorry idk the term in English lol) so he definitely fucked up big time.

This shit isn't some little LeFtiSt tantrum. Those rightoid online journalists are LYING.

What's happening is more of a social justice phenomenon that's pretty irrelevant to left vs right politics. And social justice isn't the monopoly of left aligned politics (see the Freedom Convoy movement)

"police are unable to control the migrant and left wing riots" those riots are perpetuated by french CITIZENS. They are young people from very low social classes parked in secluded suburbs. Statistics show that this social class is one of the LESS politically involved (they don't vote) so lumping them into "left wing" is a flat out lie. If they don't vote and aren't involved into politics how can they be remotely be affiliated to left or right? Stop being stupid, Amy.

"the french media have surrendered" what the heck is she talking about?? French medias are covering this 24/7. They are literally pulling out NUMBERS of burned car/train/ buildings, AND how many looters have been arrested (who are by THOUSANDS)

Why is she literally making shit up to sound dramatic? Is she stupid???

Oh and look at the Islam shoe horning here when this incident has NOTHING to do with Islam. We don't even know whether the kid was Muslim... Those looting are more of a social justice movement, not religious. No islamist movement ever looted cities.

and theeeeere go Elon Musk attention seeking ass sliding into the convo. First of all, non Europeans need to stop lumping"Europe" like it was a monolith. European countries still have very different policies when it comes to gun carrying, so brushing the whole continent à la whether "Europeans need better gun access" is stupid.

And yeah, Elon : unlike what stupid USAmericans gun sexuals say, gun ownership is legal in France. It's just that culturally we aren't fond of gun ownership. Even if there was a policy to ease up gun access, those who are already owning those (illegal) guns -and are french, not immigrants- would be the first to jump on the opportunity to level up their artillery legally, so the poltards foreigners who know NOTHING about France social climate acting like gun carrying like the crux of social peace are stupid. If anything, ut's just going to accelerate the process of civil war that those demons are lowkey summoning.

[terriwriting]

The right-wing grift continues

The event got off on the wrong foot after Community Solidarity Ottawa issued a community alert about the event promoting panels featuring several far-right speakers linked to the 2022 Freedom Convoy, including Randy Hillier, Tom Quiggin, Maxime Bernier and True North’s Andrew Lawton.

Things went from bad to worse after PressProgress reported some organizations listed as event sponsors denied being sponsors, some people listed as festival employees didn’t exist, plus the man behind the whole event, Ray Samuels, was a far-right People’s Party activist and a prolific UFO conspiracy theorist.

Before the end of the first day, Tourism Ottawa, the Embassy of Mexico, an upstate New York PBS affiliate and former Much Music VJ Bill Welychka – who was the emcee of the event – had all publicly cut ties with the festival.

[collapsedsquid]

Trump supporters dream of bringing America back to a vague fictitious past, some combination of the Reaganite 80s and a 1950s America that only existed in magazine ads. Bolsominions are much more specific. They want to bring back a military dictatorship and they’re not afraid to say it.

There are strains of America’s right wing that fantasize about a military takeover expunging their various political enemies. This is a huge thing, especially, for QAnon supporters, who spend all day posting online about putting random celebrities in military tribunals. But it’s far less vague of a goal for Bolsominions, many of whom remember Brazil’s last dictatorship, which began with a coup d’état in 1964 and ended two decades later in 1985. And like all effective populists, Bolsonaro knew how to tap into the nostalgia the bored middle class had for that era and repeatedly praised Brazil’s dictatorship days during his campaign in 2018.

It seems like the plan on Sunday was for his supporters to create so much anarchy and chaos that the military would have to step in and take control of the country, just as they did in the 60s. This led to a particularly embarrassing moment in Brasilia yesterday when Bolsominions cheered for the military when they showed up, only to be immediately arrested by them.

The Oath Keepers seemed to have the explicit goal of having Trump invoking the insurrection act and declaring martial law, it’s difficult to say how many of the actual protestors believed this but it was circulating among many of the people I saw before the date wanting to Stop the Steal

Also, while the most shocking images came out of Brasilia yesterday, this was not a one-location event the way January 6th was. Bolsominions have been shutting down highways, amassing weapons, and experimenting with low-level attacks on the country’s infrastructure since Bolsonaro lost the election on October 30th. Most of these Freedom Convoy-esque incursions have resulted in little more than public humiliation and a few Bolsonaro supporters getting their asses kicked for causing a traffic jam before an important soccer game. (There was also the one guy who got stuck on the windshield of a semi.) But yesterday, the stakes were raised considerably.

January 6th was also not a one-location event, there were little uprisings at state and local governments all over the country, it’s just that nobody cared once the capitol was stormed.

[overfedvenison]

I think I’ve said this before but it feels like Canadian and American culture are... Sorta fissioning and is becoming further apart from one another Like, when I was a kid, the big issues people talked about were pretty universal between the two, and some people were of the opinion that Canada was basically just an extension of the US. So big topics were things like the Iraq War, Deforestation and pollution, the role of US businesses, etc. These had a Canadian angle to it, of course - but the issues were the same Nowadays, I hear Americans talk and it’s like... Reform to the very specifically US system of for-profit slave prisons, the inherent issues of a failing rail network, worsening education quality, the very factional approach to politics they have, etc And Canada is like... The ongoing redefinition of the right-wing through highly visible protests, the role of the monarchy, an ongoing and concentrated push for native rights, the morality of euthanasia, etc. A rather completely different set of issues. There’s spillover between the two, of course, and there will always be the very US-focused people about. Recently, the US seem to have become far more factional... But that has emerged less here So like, even the people ardently preoccupied with American politics who I know around here are totally willing to hang around with people radically different from themselves - by contrast, it seems very much like the default among Americans is that insufficient adherence to a cause means that you should cut others out. I’ve had a number of spats with US friends because I am not an adherent of this. Canadians in general seem more okay with sexuality, at a time when a younger generation mostly of Americans are focused a lot more on ‘freaks’ and have begun policing fiction more. I hope we can maintain that into the future. I’ve also noticed a rise in the prominence of the NDP (the socialist party) among people, especially the younger generation; perhaps in attention if not numbers. They actually took Alberta a for a single term recently. The fact that there even is a socialist party, I think, has helped immensely with the radicalization among socialist youth which you have seen in the US. It’s interesting. There is an anxiety about becoming too much an extension of the US, I think. Some of these - such as the freedom convoy - are, you know, not good. But our internal discussions should ideally be our own, I suppose, and not an extension of a superpower; even the topics I disagree with help that in some manner I think (ie, the opposition to it is also uniquely Canadian - we are thinking of ourselves as that.)

[canadianabroadvery]

"Freedom Convoy" my ass.

[narrativerehearsal]

I like the fact that Neil Oliver and JKR have been put in the same post here, because they’re very different examples of how you can slide down that rabbit hole.

JKR has had a truly extreme life and was really quite viciously harassed by the press and wound up really pretty bloody paranoid as a result. If you’re already paranoid then it’s really quite easy for someone to play on your fears and lead you merrily down the bigotry rabbit hole under the guise of justified self protection.

Neil Oliver seems to have slid down that rabbit hole via Covid and delving into all kinds of conspiracy theories and the same thing happened with Russell Brand. Both of these people were previously viewed as kind of weird and maybe attention seeking, but otherwise left wing and interested in solid facts and provable statistics. Now Neil Oliver is on GB News (basically the UKs attempt at Fox News) interviewing antisemitic ‘shadowy elite’ conspiracy people while Russel Brand has been posting about ivermectin for covid and championing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Ottawa, and about Trump’s ‘virility’ in comparison to Biden’s ‘senility’ and has also fallen right down the antisemitic ‘shadowy elite’ rabbit hole.

If you’d asked me 10-15 years ago if any of these people would ever slide towards agreeing with conservatives let alone be spouting bigotry and conspiracies I’d have said ‘no way!’ and the idea of ‘good people are always good’ plays into that. Black and white thinking makes you vulnerable to diving merrily off the bigotry cliff without even realising and also makes you believe that it’s impossible for people to climb back up that cliff and learn and change. Both of those ideas are deeply dangerous.

If you think good people only have good thoughts and bad people can never have good thoughts then you are unable to examine your own bias and the potential end point of avenues you’re choosing, while at the same time taking a big stick to hit people trying to climb out of the conspiracy and bigotry rabbit hole and learn and be better.

Lost followers after reblogging that whole thing about JKR being radicalized over the years, and that disturbs me.

Like if you think saying that people can be radicalized and manipulated into hate is somehow justifying it, yikes. And if you think that people are somehow just good or evil and that you are not at risk of buying into propaganda, have I got some very red flag news about that!

Idk if its because I am an older Millennial maybe (most who unfollowed were younger) but I watched a ton of that generation slide from one of the most progressive to the far right before my every eyes. Hell, my dad fought alongside his black friends in the Detroit race riots and now he watches Fox News 24/7 and talks about the border wall. Yet still claims he could never be racist because of how he used to be. He doesn’t even realize what he has become.

JKR isn’t a deluded old woman or innately evil, but in fact THE prime example of how well-meaning ignorance and privilege can be weaponized and encouraged down a pipeline, until it turns into a force of hate, and should be a cautionary tale about why educating and being open about these issues are necessary. Because there are those out there who will use those divisions and ignorance to their own ends. And just digging in our heels and saying “that could never be me!” is the very thing that puts you more at risk. I’ve lost so many loved ones down that pipeline and it is more slippery than most realize.

Stay alert, stay compassionate, stay humble, and make sure you move through life guided by reason rather than reaction. I love y’all and don’t want to see your passion twisted to get used against the world.

[sleepybatfriend]

bus passed a bunch of right wing people protesting something (presumably freedom convoy adjacent bs) and i do hope they decide to stare at the sun if they're still out in an hour

[brookston]

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National Grant Day

National Insurance Awareness Day

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International Rottweiler Day

National Unity Day (Tajikistan)

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Perfect Number Day

Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)

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Sickle Day (French Republic)

Soviet Occupation Day (Moldova)

Stonewall Rebellion Day

St. Vitus Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Tau Day

Vidovdan (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia)

World Day of the Tree

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cassava Day

National Ceviche Day (Peru)

National Tapioca Day

4th & Last Wednesday in June

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National Parchment Cooking Day [Last Wednesday]

Feast Days

Basilides and Potamiana (Christian; Martyrs)

Benignus (Christian; Saint)

Carlos Casteneda Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Eid al-Adha, Day 2 [Muslim Feast of Sacrifice] (a.k.a. ... 

Aïd el Adha (Morocco)

Bakri Id (India)

Corban Bairam (Sudan)

Eid al Adha (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, UAE, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

Eid-Ul-Adha (Sierra Leone)

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Hari Raya Haji (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands)

Hari Raya Qurban (Malaysia)

Idd-ul-Azha (Kenya)

Id el Kabir (Nigeria)

Idi Qurbon (Tajikistan)

Kurban Ait (Kyrgyzstan)

Kurban-Bairam (Kosovo)

Kurban Bayram (North Cyprus)

Kurban Bayramy (Turkey)

Lendemain de l'Aïd el-Kebir (Mauritania)

Tabaski (Guinea, Senegal)

Tobaski (Gambia)

Irenaeus of Lyons (Western Christianity)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan; Buddhism)

Heimerad (Christian; Saint)

Jeffrey (Muppetism)

Joan of Arc (Positivist; Saint)

Marcella (Christian; Saint)

Maria Pia Mastena (Christian; Blessed)

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Peter Paul Rubens (Artology)

Plutarch, Serenus, Hero, and others (Christian; Martyrs)

Ptah’s Day (Pagan)

Thangka Unveiling at Tashihungpo (Buddhist Exhibition Festival; Tibet)

Tickle Day (Pastafarian)

Vincenza Gerosa (Christian; Saint)

Vidovdan (Serbia)

Zamling Chisang (Universal Prayer Day; Tibet)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Bad Day (Archduke Ferdinand assassinated, ground troops sent to Vietnam & 8 other tragedies) [4 of 11]

Prime Number Day: 179 [41 of 72]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 30 of 60)

Premieres

Amos ’n’ Andy (TV Series; 1951)

Baby Driver (Film; 2017)

Belle de Jour (Film; 1995)

Bone Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1940)

Burn Notice (TV Series; 2007)

The Candid Microphone (Radio Series; 1947)

Convoy (Film; 1978)

DOnald’s Double Trouble (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Fame, by David Bowie with John Lennon (Song; 1975)

Good Night, recorded by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

The Harrow & The Harvest, by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (Album; 2011)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (UK Film; 2007) [#5]

The Heat (Film; 2013)

Heaven Can Wait (Film; 1978)

The Lavender Hill Mob (Film; 1951)

Mr. Deeds (Film; 2002)

The Naked Gun 2-1/2: The Smell of Fear (Film; 1991)

Pale Rider (Film; 1985)

The Plowboy (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Pumpkin (Film; 2002)

A Saucerful of Secrets, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1968)

St. Elmo’s Fire (Film; 1985)

Shamrock and Roll (WB MM Cartoon; 1969)

Striptease (Film; 1996)

Superman Returns (Film; 2006)

To Itch His Own (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

The Turn-Tale Wolf (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Up On the Roof, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1962)

West End Blues, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1928)

White House Down (Film; 2013)

Yesterday (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Ekkehard, Harald, Irenäus (Austria)

Irenej, Mirko, Ratko, Smiljan, Vincenta, Vinka (Croatia)

Lubomír (Czech Republic)

Eleonora (Denmark)

Leo, Leopold (Estonia)

Leo (Finland)

Irénée (France)

Ekkehard, Harald, Irenäus, Senta (Germany)

Anagyros, Germanos (Greece)

Irén, Levente (Hungary)

Attilio, Ireneo (Italy)

Kitija, Vidars, Viestarts, Viesturs (Latvia)

Gaudrė, Irenėjus, Tulgedas (Lithuania)

Lea, Leo, Leon (Norway)

Amos, Ireneusz, Józef, Leon, Paweł, Raissa, Zbrosław (Poland)

Chir, Ioan (România)

Beáta (Slovakia)

Ireneo (Spain)

Leo (Sweden)

Dara, Darla, Darleen, Darlene, Darrell, Darren, Darrin, Darryl, Daryl, Jarell, Jerrell (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 179 of 2024; 186 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 26 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 11 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 29 Sol; Eighthday [29 of 30]

Julian: 15 June 2023

Moon: 73%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 11 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Joan of Arc]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 8 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 8 of 31)

[thquill]

Left Wing Anger versus Right Wing Anger. A reply to the Ottawa imbeciles.

Anger is the most useless of human emotions, yet the Ottawa elites, those who were angered by the Freedom Convoy, endorsed police brutality and the disproportionate level of militarism shown in response to the protest. Freedom has to be freedom from something,  those protesting (or occupying) Ottawa for weeks on end, wanted freedom from the Coronavirus public health policies that brought about…

[kayla360]

Today in Ottawa for winter pride. A right wing extremist group better know for the population as the freedom Convoy. Came and protested the drag queen story time event. 3 people got arrested as last time I know 1 for throwing things at the counter protest. 1 for trespassing as he was « wondering » in the building it was hosted and the 3rd one I’m still not sure. The queer community gathered and made sure everyone was safe to participate in the event as walls were created to let in and out the kids and there parents.

[deblala]

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/consultant-to-ottawa-police-claimed-freedom-convoy-was-a-movement-by-right-wing-christians-to-spread-their-faith/

[a-wonderful-use-of-server-space]

tumblr told me a pro-Freedom Convoy post was "based on my likes" so just to make things loud & clear

The Freedom Convoy people are absolute morons who wouldn't know genuine oppression if it locked them in the gulag. Every single one of them is, at the very least, a gullible shitheel willing to do the dirty work of white nationalists and, at most, the type of neckless wonder that can't make achievements of their own so they try to cling to "racial accomplishments". If you support them, just fuckin' block me now. They are the loudest voice in the room and they have not said a single thing worth the effort.