Unacceptable views is what he said.
They mean the same thing here. Regardless, it's irrelevant since once you have closed yourself off and seek to remove them for protesting peacefully (more on this in a moment), you are morphing yourself into a dictator.
That's false. An strong majority has supported Trudeau's vaccine mandates for truckers since October.
Did I say majority? No. I said people. That can mean any number of them, but it's clear that despite being in the minority opinion, they make up a sizeable chunk still. 20-30% isn't to be looked over.
Canadian truckers hate these fascists pretending to be offended on their behalf.
None of your surveys mention how many Canadian truckers disapprove of these protests, nor does it matter regardless because if you are going to argue against the Freedom Convoy because most are against it you fall victim to Appeal to the Majority Fallacy.
As even Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union state plainly, holding the economy hostage with barricades is an act of violence, not free speech.
The ALCU and co. can cry foul all they want. Music to my ears. A barricade is not a physical attack; it's just dumb to equate it to violence.
These fascists have attacked Christian charities, set fire to large residential buildings, threatened and intimidated Muslims, Asians, first peoples, etc.
I would argue this is the fringe of the truckers. Some viral videos of a small amount of individuals does not condemn the whole group, this is Guilt by Association Fallacy.
Also, I can specify that at the very least the
claims of arson are exaggerated. Two men (of unknown affiliation up to this point, I might add) were shown
attempting arson in
one building, and somehow according to you they have "set fire to large residential buildings".
Unlike Freedom Convoy, BLM's George Floyd protests in Canada were entirely peaceful. Every act of violence done during Canadian George Floyd protests was perpetrated by right wing. Wikipedia reports of George Floyd protests, "Some businesses and banks downtown {Ottowa} boarded up windows in advance of the march, although there were no reports of damage"
This is a fair point and I will drop it.
By contrast with the Floyd protests, Ottawa residents have already filed suit against the Freedom Convoy documenting $4.8m in property damage.
This is completely false. The
lawsuit is a $9.8M one, with the $4.8M you mention being for "private nuisance" (lmao), and another $5M for "punitive damage", which by definition is meant to exceed any "wrongdoing" to enact punishment. I'm not sure where you are getting "property damage" from, which is also why I still say these protests are peaceful despite some idiots not being peaceful.
Beliefs seems like a lofty word for Christian 5G conspiracy theories, QAnon, and the Nordic Resistance movement. Trudeau called them fringe views, which seems fair considering that what they really are lies that mentally ill people holler to get attention.
"Beliefs" can also mean "anti-mandate", which is the common denominator of the protest. Any other views some (a minority, I would argue) of the protesters may have is irrelevant, and pointing them out is an Ad Hominem meant to be a deflection. Having frustrations with a vaccine mandate is hardly "hollering to get attention" and the whole "mentally ill people" part doesn't help any thought provoking discussion either.
so abortion, drugs, suicide, smallpox, polio- totally unregulated by the govt. Let
Abortion takes a human life. Drugs cause people to lose control of themselves and harm others. Suicide is self-harm and a result of mental health issues. As for smallpox and polio, neither vaccines are currently mandated by the US in an individual's private life and opposing the current laws regarding those vaccines is not the same as opposing a mandate of a vaccine of a weak disease in a individual's private life.
So let's say every other army in the world immunizes its forces against measles, smallpox, polio, COVID, etc while the US Army follows your extremism and does not enforce or regulate immunization. Countless battles tell us that as soon as our forces start encountering a large immunized force, our army is going to be swept by a disarming disabling wave of illness.
The government may do as they please when it is the military, which they own. Not to mention most soldiers (and people in general) are going to have smallpox and measles vaccines because those diseases are significantly more dangerous than the coronavirus.
I understand why Putin wants this and so he pumps tens of millions into COVID disinformation. I don't know why we would want this outcome.
LMAO at the the idea of my opinions on COVID being "PuTIN'S mISiNfORMaTioN MeaNT tO deSTRoY tHe US!" instead of a legitimate argument that should be discussed without being overconfidently written off. This is just a deflection.