1\ Canada's experience of American #imperialism, in a nutshell: The personal agendas of opinionated Americans who don't stop to gather local context or feedback, before opining on how totalitarian our society is. Vaush is unambiguously wrong in his interpretation.
https://twitter.com/RDMacQ/status/1493985635618668549
2\ I didn't see any of the people crying about the Emergency Measures Act in the streets protesting Bill C-51 with us in 2015. When your first ditch is to cry about 'state totalitarianism' on behalf of literal fascists, after decades of left-wing repression it gives up your game.
3\ I say this as someone who spent years researching and helping out with various obstructive economic actions and then spent years protesting nat sec policy in the streets and public hearings on national security. Then I spent years fighting fascists in the streets.
4\ Entryists, frig right off, these aren't "powers that will be used against the left" The state ALWAYS repressed us. We ALWAYS took risks. If the state is bullying fascists, for fucking once, keep your big mouth shut before a 5th column marches through it. #CanadaFreedomConvoy
5\ Meanwhile @VaushV is mixing talking points with @Chenweihua and the fascists are celebrating in their twitter groups. Behold, the aforementioned 5th column. A certain Russia-adjacent former Green Party candidate is also taking this tone, unsurprisingly. 
6\ This isn't a 'stand back and stand by'. We're watching fascists run up, hard, against the power of the state. Unless you're a fascist sympathizer, you don't need to opine about how bad this precedent is or decry state authoritarianism. You need to kick 'em while they're down.
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