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HOW FACEBOOK TWISTED CANADA’S TRUCKER CONVOY INTO AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT
The Verge ^ | February 19, 2022 | Ryan Broderick

Posted on 02/19/2022 3:47:31 PM PST by Kriggerel

...To understand how this echo chamber works, we have to start with the Ottawa protest itself. The “Freedom Convoy’’ started as a loosely affiliated group of Canadian truck drivers led by a group called Canada Unity, founded by far-right activist and QAnon conspiracy theorist James Bauder. But over the last 30 days, Bauder has managed to build a coalition of fed-up truck drivers, fringe Canadian political party members, neo-Nazis, anti-vaxxers, and an international coterie of scammers, grifters, and low-level online creators that has been able to generate major headlines around the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broderickisafascist; convoy; fascistryanbroderick; freedomconvoy2022; ottawa; ryanbroderick; ryanisafascist; trudeau
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The writer of this particular piece of propaganda seems to be celebrating a victory. I daresay they might find such celebration a tad premature...
1 posted on 02/19/2022 3:47:31 PM PST by Kriggerel
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To: Kriggerel; upchuck

Back to work ping.


2 posted on 02/19/2022 3:49:01 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Kriggerel

The Left won’t learn.


3 posted on 02/19/2022 3:53:56 PM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: Kriggerel

I have followed the trucker protest closely and his description of the participants is 100% wrong. These were good, solid, hard working Canadians who love their country, most of whom believed in being vaccinated, who believed the mandates were wrong and the product of an overbearing government. They truly sought freedom for all Canadians.


4 posted on 02/19/2022 3:54:03 PM PST by elpadre (And here in NCini)
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“fed-up truck drivers, fringe Canadian political party members, neo-Nazis, anti-vaxxers, and an international coterie of scammers, grifters, and low-level online creators”

The bigoted left. There is no other kind. Let loose your hate, the emotion was given for a reason. All evil, all of it, is rooted in leftist dogma.

5 posted on 02/19/2022 3:54:24 PM PST by Born in 1950 (Say hello to never.)
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To: Kriggerel

So now they’re blaming FB, which did nothing to support the truckers and actually even shut down coverage here and there? Just proves that you can never satisfy the left.

I never read FB for things such as coverage of events, etc., but just to keep up with my family and see cat pix. If somebody gets political I dump them.


6 posted on 02/19/2022 3:59:59 PM PST by livius
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To: Kriggerel

The description of the freedom convoy members is so dripping with malice and contempt that I find the article unreadable.


7 posted on 02/19/2022 4:03:02 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Kriggerel

I watched the Viva Frei Livestream today, then the Disney/CCP World News report on it, blaming the protestors for the police flashbacks, while showing police hitting people standing peacefully with sticks.

Their official words didn’t even match their own video.

Trudeau has no idea about the crapstirm that is coming.


8 posted on 02/19/2022 4:03:18 PM PST by UNGN
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To: Kriggerel

Crawl back into your burrow, you larva.


9 posted on 02/19/2022 4:03:19 PM PST by NeverTyranny
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“.....QAnon, and other fringe communities.”

Well, there you have it in a NUTshell how FBook helped.


10 posted on 02/19/2022 4:07:02 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kriggerel

11 posted on 02/19/2022 4:07:30 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: elpadre

Exactly!


12 posted on 02/19/2022 4:09:44 PM PST by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: Kriggerel

When Ottawa runs out of necessities very soon, let the liberals figure out why.

The strike will be targeted, not general.


13 posted on 02/19/2022 4:10:08 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: Kriggerel

Carlson isn’t right-wing. He is a traditional guy with common sense. I don’t think the movement has died. It seems to be expanding worldwide by the day.


14 posted on 02/19/2022 4:10:25 PM PST by stevem
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To: Kriggerel; gundog; JustTheTruth; elpadre; Born in 1950; livius; AndyTheBear; NeverTyranny; UNGN; ...
The writer of this particular piece of propaganda seems to be celebrating a victory. I daresay they might find such celebration a tad premature...

Lots of Canadian Fascists are celebrating a victory.

Justine Turdeau brought back Blood Attainder, and the dumb-as-rocks Canadian Fascists are cheering:

I suggest we boycott Canada, and put any Canadians we meet here in the US to the test - are you for the "insurrectionist truckers" or against?

If you're against, GTF out of my country, you effing Canadian Fascist.

15 posted on 02/19/2022 4:14:20 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

No. Not good to punish innocent people. We will not hurt Castro’s kid with a boycott.


16 posted on 02/19/2022 4:23:13 PM PST by madison10
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To: livius
So now they’re blaming FB
By all means, please encourage this. The quicker FB turns into an insular echo-chamber the better.

And the same for Twitter. I wish conservative outlets would just ignore Twitter. The Twit is NOT news!
17 posted on 02/19/2022 4:29:15 PM PST by nicollo
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To: madison10
You won't.

I will.

"We can't punish innocent German civilians..."

18 posted on 02/19/2022 4:36:19 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: madison10
Here is the mean-mouthed police Gauleiter of Ottawa threatening the innocent people at the protest:

https://twitter.com/paranoidbull/status/1495185807250006017?s=20&t=yQ3hI2oM2crWBES3Fh7HJA

He's gonna get you, and your little dog too.

19 posted on 02/19/2022 4:39:37 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Kriggerel

What the heck is the Verge? I have never read such biased drivel in my life. Wow!


20 posted on 02/19/2022 4:47:49 PM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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