Thread by @jacremes

I'm thinking this morning about the similarities between the Ottawa truck convoy and Occupy--not because they are alike in politics, but because in both cases the medium became the message. That is, the form of protest came to stand in for the content of the protest.

Thinking about the medium as the message--here, angry masculinist disruption via giant belching diesel trucks--helps explain why the Ottawa convoy has spread internationally, and how American fascists can glom onto it without caring about the specifics of Canadian politics.

As my friend @Dra_m_a would point out, iconography and form has been an important part of popular uprisings, and a major way that leftist and decolonial politics spread in the '60s. So this isn't anything new.

@Dra_m_a This is really a half-formed thought, but to me it helps explain how the idea of the convoy has spread back and forth across borders. And, of course, how American Trumpist and Confederate iconography has been on display in Ottawa.

@Dra_m_a See also @FinchelsteinF on the fascist spectacle of violence.

https://twitter.com/FinchelsteinF/status/1491044845150142465?s=20&t=2SkgJc2fXN4Ai8PKDw7yZQ