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Apr 14, 2022 14 tweets 6 min read Read on X
1. When the convoy organizers were arrested, the participants went home, and the #OttawaOccupation ended, a lot of people decided that the crisis was over and they moved on to other concerns.

In fact the people who were radicalized and motivated by the convoy are still active.
2. In communities across the country and despite mandates ending (we can argue about whether this is justified), the same rage based in large part on misinformation continues to fuel slow rolls, protests, and harassment campaigns.

An example.

dailyhive.com/vancouver/prot…
3. Among the people still agitating are people like Chris Saccoccia (aka Chris Sky) who, having found a credulous audience who doesn't mind his frequent verbal abuse directed at them, continues to gin up fear and anger for his own aggrandizement as well as for fun and profit.
4. Yesterday Saccoccia was at another event that included a speaker named Marcus Ray.

His rhetoric is very concerning as he claims (and I do take it with a grain of salt) that 1000s of former soldiers and RCMP have been in training to take direct action against the government.
5. Having claimed that he is willing to die and that the alphas are taking over, he goes on to suggest that health professionals will be put on trial for "crimes against humanity" for providing vaccines he claims are poison.
6. So who is Marcus Ray?

A Tik Tok influencer with 90,000+ followers, ray has an... uhm... interesting CV.
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9. And at the start of the pandemic he appears to have had a very different attitude towards Covid-19 than he does now.
10. But he does have a different attitude and was in Ottawa participating in the occupation.
11. Though he doesn't have many followers, his rhetoric on Twitter is no less concerning.
12. This tweet offers a clear view of an individual who has gone deeply down into the rabbit hole.
13. So should we take Marcus Ray's claims seriously?

I'm of two minds.

On the one hand, he seems like someone who engages in significant hyperbole and self-promotion.

On the other hand, who thought Ottawa would be what it was? Or the border blockades.
14. All things being equal I think it is important to take this seriously rather than not because as we all know it doesn't matter if his claim that there are 1000s ready to overthrow the government isn't true.

It only really takes one with a gun to cause a tragedy.

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1/ It's been a while since I've done a thread here, but the recent focus on Pat King got me to wondering what was up with his own Salacious Crumb, Tyson "Freedom George" Billings.

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Suffice to say it didn't go anywhere.
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He has made his home here.
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1/ A couple of days ago self-proclaimed leaders of the "freedom movement" held a press conference in Ottawa which was about as unhinged as you might have expected.

2/ Apparently the person who set this up was Derek Noonan who was also one of the speakers.

That would be this guy and I shall get back to him shortly. Image
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1. Misinformation has always been a feature on Twitter but prior to Musk's ownership there appeared to be a minimal effort (very minimal) to counter it. Those days are clearly over.

Case in point, Theo Fleury shared this with his 285.8K followers today: Image
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Pictured here with Chrystia Freeland is her mother and sister. Image
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1. Tyson "Freedom George" Billings did a few live streams today that I think are rather telling.

Also, I realize that some of the clips may not appear, so at the end I'll be sure to link to a way that y'all can see the thread in it's entirety.
2. First, Billings is upset by the grifters using his name and creating fake profiles to sell "merch".

I will remind you that Billings buddy Pat King tried to set up what folks in the know suggest was a crypto scam.
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1. When Mathieu Venne was booted from the camp outside of Ottawa for giving an interview with the media, he did a live stream to air grievances.

While it was a painful hour to listen to, there was a small part that I found especially interesting.

2. I am NOT going to post a clip covering every part of the video, but I do think there are a couple that are important.

First, Venne claims that he wasn't able to be himself and had to be careful how he spoke.
3. It appears that for people who complain about controlled narratives, Norm Blanchfield and Gordon Berry are really determined to control the narrative.

But hypocrisy isn't a surprise.
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