the ironic this is that I don't even *agree* with the protestors. Vaccines are awesome! The only thing that makes me sympathetic to the protests is the other side's *insane* hyperbole, pretending like it's Poland, 1939, & that lone nutbags with flags represent the whole movement
Not to mention the hypocrisy. Remember how we were all gaslit into thinking that burning churches, destroying statues, holding mass social justice rallies at height of the pandemic, looting Portland, Chaz/chop in Seattle...all cool. But a bunch of trucks? It's a Canuck blitzkrieg
It's a microcosm of everything wrong with the left.. I'm yr standard urban centre leftist on pretty much every substantial issue you can name (except the existence of sexual biology). What they usually lose me on isn't the substance, but the smug hectoring tone of their lectures
I'm not smart enough to explain all this, so I'm going to end this with a guy who *is*. Pretty much everything here applies to canada in spades
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This is fantastic. Protesters on video are mocking media for their lazy smears. This includes a bit (in the video) in which a non-white dude claims he's a white supremacist. People laugh. But a few pearl-clutchers now circulating it as gotcha evidence of...yup...white supremacy!
"Ghoulish"? Last year, Canadians were told that these areas contained evidence of mass murder—of children, no less. Some killers could still be alive, and even putting others at risk. The remains could help identify & prosecute these killers. How is it "ghoulish" to seek justice?
Assuming that hundreds of children were slaughtered in cold blood and disposed of in secret midnight burials (which is part of the narrative), we are dealing with the greatest crime in the history of our country. Every day that passes means the evidence will degrade further…
Is there any other case where a nation is instructed that (a) an incomprehensibly horrific crime was committed—children thrown into furnaces and pits, etc., (b) that the evidence for such lies 2 feet below the surface, but (c) that it would be "ghoulish" to investigate further...
I just reported my electrician. We don't talk politics, but he drives a pickup truck. And that's good enough for me.
Why is the media not reporting the truth that all of these people are Confederate style racists who want to racism everybody? I have provided Toronto Star with incontrovertible proof that one trucker has the Dukes of Hazard theme on his spotify playlist. Do we need more evidence?
a few years back, there was a movement among some conservatives to ditch twitter en masse. But these things move in cycles, and I'm sensing it may actually be *progressives* who end up driving any big exodus that takes place (if one does take place at all, which seems unsure)...
Late 2020 seems to have been the high water mark for performative social justice posturing on twitter. Since then, this stuff has started to wear very thin. You can no longer lazily tweet "Dear Purple People, YOU ARE LOVED" & get 1000 likes & RTs... low hanging fruit is gone...
I don't think this is bcuz conservatives are more powerful. The progressives have still won the culture war. Rather, I think it's bcuz the vast bulk of centrists & liberals, who once went in dutifully for some of these hashtags & social panics, are disillusioned & backing away...
I've heard from some interesting tradespeople since I posted this. One thing I should add is that a major (& unfortunately unavoidable) frustration for homeowners (which contributed to my DIY approach) is when a specialist comes & tells u that u need another kind of specialist...
In my exp, this can be a partic issue with HVAC, since the field covers wide array of tasks, including plumbing, electrical, carpentry (ducts & pipes) etc. In my case, the water heater guy identified the thermostatic valve failure, but said I needed a plumber to replace it...
Plus, a lot of HVAC stuff is seasonal, with air conditioners and furnace crises tending to follow the weather. People have contracts with companies, and guys rush from house to house trying to complete jobs. If it's something requiring another specialist, they move on quickly...
a good ex. of what happened last year, on a larger scale
In this case, the First Nation was careful to say that it had discovered 93 "potential burial sites"
But that doesn't sound clickbaity enough
So CTV's Tweet has it as "unmarked graves"
Which is what everyone will run with
I don't know any other area of Cdn media coverage where this sort of practice occurs. Stories about manslaughter (which is the underlying suspicion here), especially involving children, usually get the maximum level of editorial scrutiny in terms of word choice ...
But as soon as this story broke in May 2020, the media simply ignored their usual best practices (even when Indigenous groups themselves corrected journalists, reminding them they hadn't dug anything up) & our entire media became like a giant Anglo version of "Allo Police!"