Strypey
@bob
> The anti-vaccine mandate protests seemed to me like a sort of Occupy from the right.
I neglected to mention this in my rant but it reminds me a lot of the Tea Party stuff that preceded Occupy. Anti-mandate protest involves a similar brew of libertarian-ish rhetoric and conservative talking points. While both like to present themselves as organic, bottom-up movements, there was clearly a grand strategy driving the TP from an ideological centre, and I suspect the same now.
Stuart Croall
The Canadian trucker protest/blockade's impact and significance is greatly magnified by the fact that large trucks and farm equipment are involved.
This is obviously a mess in Ottawa, in the area of parliament and surrounding neighborhoods, but the protests have also occupied a number of border crossings across the country
That's had a huge impact, and got lots of political attention, and couldn't have been done without the trucks.
Strypey
@beckett
> The Canadian truck blockade
... is something I know very little about as yet. My comments were specific to events in Aotearoa. See the link to an article from our public broadcaster about the anti-mandate occupation occurring here.
Beckett
@strypey @bob The Tea Party was socially engineered and funded by Republicans.
The Canadian truck blockade doesnβt compare to Occupy. It only takes a few dozen tractor trailers to shut things down. It isnβt a mass movement.
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Strypey
@beckett
> The Tea Party was socially engineered
Yes.
> and funded by Republicans.
Funded by the same interests, yes. I'm skeptical of the idea that a major electoral party is ever a prime mover of anything. What I see when I observe them over time is a dumb mass responding fairly predictably to political gravity.
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