{COVID-19} Vaccination Injection Interjections VIII - Who cares at this point

[Koyangi]

To Day: this whole convoy thing was an astroturfed event to try to destabilize things to the point it would get Trudaeu out of office similar to this event:

"Declassified records: Nixon Admin promoted & financed a coup d’etat in Chile in 1973:

CIA paid truck drivers in Chile to go on strike, severely disrupting food supply, causing unrest leading to the 1973 coup that overthrew Allende & installed Pinochet.

It was all artificial bullshit.

[Day]

i think I read a eric garland game theory thread about that

[kuronosan]

I don't think you read at all.

[Day]

its true

[Krandor]

this whole convoy thing was an astroturfed event

Is there actual proof of this or was it astroturfing like some of the riots in the US the last few years (ie totally not astroturfing and just people being dumb shits)

[Kaslo]

I don't think you read at all.

I told you, he can't read. Quit picking on his disability.

[Meresgi]

Is there actual proof of this or was it astroturfing like some of the riots in the US the last few years (ie totally not astroturfing and just people being dumb shits)

Yanked this from a quick search:

Don't know the website too well so grain of sand

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...y-astroturfing

More significantly, their leaders are not working-class heroes, but rather, again, a melange of extremists and political grifters who are leveraging the moment after failing to gain traction in the past. Co-founder Tamara Lich is a former member of the right-wing Maverick Party and a “Wexit” movement leader who spreads anti-government conspiracies. Convoy “vice president” B.J. Dichter is a failed political candidate who once publicly claimed that “political Islam is rotting away at our society like syphilis.”

Another convoy organizer, Patrick King, once tried to make a name for himself by fighting Alberta’s COVID restrictions but failed in embarrassing fashion. He has openly spoken about the “depopulation of the Caucasian race” and how white people have “the strongest bloodlines.” The group’s “head of protective intelligence,” Tom Quiggin, is a former intelligence officer for the Canadian government who is notable for spreading misinformation about Muslim terrorism; he is currently shilling conspiracies about the deep state to the “freedom convoy.” Self-proclaimed convoy leader and trucker Dave Steenberg, meanwhile, was caught rallying convoy protesters with a TikTok post that prominently displayed the logo of the Soldiers of Odin, a defunct anti-immigrant hate group.

Sounds like astroturfing just like parts of Jan 6th and a lot of the CRT protests and such.

[Krandor]

I also googled it before I threw up the post and when the top result is a lifestyle magazine owned by Dollar Shave Club instead of an actual reputable news source... yeah

[Penthesilea]

I also googled it before I threw up the post and when the top result is a lifestyle magazine owned by Dollar Shave Club instead of an actual reputable news source... yeah

"According to Grid, two of the biggest Facebook groups related to the protests—“Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Convoy to Ottawa 2022”—were created by a Bangladeshi digital-marketing firm. Ben Collins of NBC News wrote that “many of the groups have changed names multiple times, going from those that tap hot-button political issues such as support for former President Donald Trump or opposition to vaccine mandates, to names with keywords like ‘trucker,’ ‘freedom’ and ‘convoy.’” Much of this inorganic engagement isn’t coming from Canada at all."

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/...reedom-convoy/

[NynJa]

The defence for Pat King, one of the convoy leaders and very vocal proponent of “masks do nothing, covid is fake to control people with fear, drop all mandates, etc etc” just tried to argue that his client should be out on bail as their risk of catching COVID will be lower if they’re not awaiting trial in prison.

https://twitter.com/aballinga/status...864135178?s=21

[Koyangi]

*Castle-loss-of-words.meme*

[Rhyis.]

Castle

mal*

[Krandor]

The loss of words meme is from Castle tho

[Koyangi]

mal*

[Rhyis.]

isn't it from firefly? i'm pretty sure it's from firefly

[Rhyis.]

have i been duped this whole time?

[kisada]

he looks like he's in his super nice apartment in that gif so i think that is a castle gif, yes

[Zealot]

I've never watched Firefly.

[Zealot]

I had a girlfriend who loved Castle once and I watched what I guess was a season finale where the main broad got shot and let me tell you she did not appreciate my insistence that she was dead for good.

[Zealot]

I would say the high point of my relationship with that particular woman was when the Jane Eyre movie came out at the same time as "Tonight I'm Fuckin' You" and I asserted firmly that not only was that from the soundtrack of the movie, but actually sung and performed in-film by Mr. Rochester to Jane. I refused to hear otherwise.