They don't want his money, the want him destroyed. By allowing him to continue with his business, he could continually pay the families. Now, they won't be getting much of anything.
Guy has stashed away so much money it's absurd. He should be taken for every penny he's ever made. Making money trying to convince people that a bunch of dead kindergartners are fake and their parents are just paid actors. What a scumbag. There's very few people who I'd have no problem with them getting chased by a mob, caught, violently dismembered, and beaten to death. He's one of them.
It really depends on the consequences to the point where that statement is essentially meaningless, but I do not see how this is a freedom of speech issue anyway.
His lawsuit claims that he was fired "for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian instagram posts".
This is a great idea. In the US, it pretty much stopped the idea overnight that cops were beating people for no reason. Many activist groups now want to get rid of body cameras.
This is sarcasm right? There are a ton of examples of police beating/murdering people, lying, and even planting evidence caught on their own body cams. I've never seen an activist group that didn't want body cameras. I have seen pushes for disabling the ability for the cameras to be disabled/muted and calls for penalties for "lost" or "missing" footage if not criminal charges (destruction of evidence).
Finding clients is the single hardest thing you will do as a contractor. I've been contracting for 10 years and even now, I deal with clients ghosting me, projects falling through at the last minute, etc.
I just had a client that wanted to talk about a new project today. They never sent me a meeting link and ghosted me.
Applying to 1099 jobs is a good idea. it's a numbers game.
This is great, for the government. The average person that uses this will just let it fill in the boxes, without even trying to look for anything that might save them money.
Can you demonstrate that this system will be implemented in a manner where the taxpayer will receive a less favorable outcome than they would've filling out forms themselves?
The IRS has all of your financial data from various forms, why would they make your outcome less favorable? Their job is to enforce the tax code, not write it, nor collect more taxes than would otherwise be due.
TurboTax doesn’t make you pay until the end when you file. Could you put everything into TurboTax using its wizard/conversational approach to see what your return should be and then file using the free tool? I know the average person will do whatever is low effort but that is what I plan to do.
Whether convoy supporters think I'm right or not doesn't particularly matter to me. You all have an internet connection, look it up. It's not hard to find.
I'll admit that article was quite long so I skimmed it and as such I might have missed something. The only thing I saw that even alluded to racism was saying one of the early people involved with the movement may have been racist.
If that is all you have then that is extremely weak. Plenty of movements don't have the best people in them...
I read through the entire article. Nowhere does it allege that the protestors sought to overthrow the government. If it did, Richard would have actually quoted.
> The article linked was in reference to their weak ass attempt to overthrow the government.
Can you quote directly from the article where it says anything close to that the protestors wanted to "overthrow the government"? I'm hesitant to call you a liar before giving you a chance to explain your point of view, but nothing I read in that link comes close to substantiating your claims.
Sorry, I forgot which thing you were complaining about since your article is terrible at trying to prove their was an attempt to overthrow the government. If anything about this is a "weak ass attempt" it is your article.
The closet thing I could find is:
> Others adopted more extreme positions. Some denounced what they defined as the authoritarian, treasonous, and corrupt governing practices of prime minister Justin Trudeau and requested the dissolution of the government
In parliamentary systems that does not mean abolishing the government or state or something like that. It means they want Trudeau to step down and they want new elections or at least a new coalition which results in a new prime minister.
Using the word dissolve and form and the like when it comes to parliamentary systems has nothing to do with overthrowing the government.
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In terms of the flag, many people on HN supported occupy wall street. There were communist flags there. Does that mean everybody who supported the occupy movement wants to kill gay people like communists did? No, of course not.
Also, the other protestors weren't fans of the flag...
And when that happened, it was immediately taken down by the rest of the protesters. Just admit that you fell for the alarmist propaganda and move on with your life.
I fell for propaganda? Listen to yourself. You're standing by a group of people who associated with Nazis (there were more than one group with flags, and they were not immediately removed as you claim.). A group who made it clear they wanted the conservatives to take over.
Just because they sucked at communication, their demands changed minute by minute, doesn't mean that wasn't their intent. They absolutely tried to do this.
Stop being an apologist to a horrific group of people. They are so far from what represents this country and our democracy.
> (there were more than one group with flags, and they were not immediately removed as you claim.)
Prove it. What groups? Where were they? How many people were in these groups?
> Just because they sucked at communication, their demands changed minute by minute, doesn't mean that wasn't their intent. They absolutely tried to do this.
It sounds like you suck at communication since you cannot substantiate your claims that they wanted to overthrow the government, nor substantiate your claims that they were white nationalists, nor substantiate your claims that they wanted the conservatives to take power.
And even if "they wanted the conservatives to take power", that's ambiguous at best, and does not at all amount to "overthrowing the government". A democratic no-confidence vote could qualify as the conservatives taking over, but that doesn't qualify as overthrowing the democratically elected government. Broad protests that lead to a no-confidence vote is the definition of democracy in action.
So yes, you fell for alarmist propaganda from the media that had clear incentives to sensationalize what was happening. Which isn't to say the protest was legal or without problems, but the things you're saying about it simply aren't true.
Are you suggesting that if somebody flies a flag at a rally that means everybody in the rally supports the ideology of the flag? If I go to some politician that has your same ideology and fly a Nazi flag does that make you a Nazi or would it just be me who is the Nazi?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by, "their goal was to overthrow the democratically elected Government"? This could mean a whole lot of things, like voting out the incumbents in the next election - and sure I'll readily believe that the protestors were calling for that.
But "overthrow" reads to me like the protestors sought to forcefully remove and replace the existing government. In other words, a coup. That is a very different statement, and one I would really like you to substantiate with evidence if that's what you're trying to claim.
The protesters held Ottawa captive while demanding the current democratically elected government be replaced by the government of their liking, without an election.
It was very similar to the first few days of the Easter Uprising in Ireland in 1916, except with trucks. A large group of people held key infrastructure hostage, with unreasonable demands that would not be met.
Those claiming otherwise need everyone to believe their side is the victim.
> while demanding the current democratically elected government be replaced by the government of their liking, without an election
Do you have any evidence for this beyond simply postulating it as fact? I'd be really interested in seeing who in the convoy, and what proportion of people, were making these demands.
And no, it was not like the Easter Uprising. The Easter Uprising saw armed insurrectionists kill over a hundred government personnel and hundreds of civilians. This kind of comparison does not give me confidence in your analysis of the protest.
For the third time the central claim in your comments, that the Ottawa protestors sought to overthrow the government, remains completely unsubstantiated. Who said this, and on what basis is it a fair characterization of the >10,000 people who attended the protest?
One can take power through elections, it's a massive leap to go from "take power" to "overthrow". There are legitimate means of taking power.
And again, this is the fourth time that you've just postulated this as fact rather than linking to the protest leaders' actual statements. I have searched the internet for any such statements calling for a forceful overthrow of the Canadian government, and I have not found any. No, I don't know that was their goal, and nothing in my searches indicate that it was. If you're serious about convincing people that the protestors posed a legitimate threat to democracy, you need to do a lot better than making claims with no evidence and telling people do their own research.
I don't need to do anything. I remember it all vividly, and that's good enough for me. I know better than waste my time trying to change the minds of random strangers on the internet.
> The protesters held Ottawa captive while demanding the current democratically elected government be replaced by the government of their liking, without an election.
I asked for a citation. If this is literally what the protest organizers did, then it should be easy to provide one. Their official Facebook page where they published their official position is still up.
You know as much as I do that finding 2 yr old content is brutal. Especially given the volume of shitty media coverage the convoy received.
If you care enough about challenging your own beliefs, and if it's so easy, you'll do it yourself. I'm not going to waste my time and energy trying to convince random strangers on the internet. I know better.
I personally know two people who travelled from Toronto area to attend. I couldn’t because of a shitty situation but followed along with the live YouTube casts, which (for anyone who cares) will prove you wrong
I Know you are full of shit, therefore I know you know you are full of shit
My hobby is calling bullshit and it is fun. There’s so much of it!
Edit: for extra context, the two people who took major time out of their lives to do this, one was in the Canadian Forces when they were younger (not at the time obv) and the other came to Canada in the early 90s after their government wrecked their country and was watching in horror of it happening to them again
Why would you lie about this? It's literally not true. And no a quote from a random protestor doesn't make it more true. Again, this is basically Ben Shapiro style tactics where you can quote a single random person in a protest to call for violence and repression against an entire group. Super convenient when used against the other side but it doesn't make it less blatantly dishonest. Do you also advocate for full emergency act types of repression in may 1st anti capitalist protests? They explicitly call for destroying the current government system (which is completely their right, imo)
I used to live in Toronto near queen's park. There were very frequent protests down yonge and in queens park. Never once in all the time I lived there was I prevented sleeping by protestors honking outside my building all night.
I was also never once confronted, cornered, harassed, or yelled at by protestors. Not once. These actions are not ok and not typical of any protest. Yes I was frequently inconvenienced with the street blocked, but that's fine, the cost of living in a democracy.
Protesting does not involve attacking fellow citizens.
Disagree with everything you're trying to say. Terrorism has evolved into a doublespeak term used to describe your systems' quasi enemy...This was just civil disobedience and like any form of civil disobedience (that isn't directly sanctioned by government actors) they got slaughtered. The government in Canada pushed through extremely draconian Wuhan-styled lockdown rules and, just like what Camus wax-philosophized over, there's a breaking point with subjugated humans and a price those subjugating put on their own "hurt".
"The six thousand crosses which, after
such a just rebellion, staked out the road from Capua to Rome demonstrated to the servile crowd that
there is no equality in the world of power and that the masters calculate, at a usurious rate, the price of
their own blood."
> The government in Canada pushed through extremely draconian Wuhan-styled lockdown rules
Pretty much none of "lockdown" rules were federal - and at least in my province, I never felt more than mildly inconvenienced. Literally the worst thing I experienced was a shutdown of indoor team sports for a season.
After my first few jobs out of college (15 years ago), I realized I hate working from someone else's office. It feels so constrained and like I'm in school again. Remote work was very rare then with salaried jobs, but not as a contractor.
The company I'm working for now had an office pre-pandemic (I would meet with the director once/month), sold the one here locally during the pandemic, and got acquired by a large, international, company where the majority of the employees work remotely and the HQ is in Europe (I'm in the US).
The last time I had to go to an office was for a local contract a few years ago (80 miles away from me) that required me to drive-in once/week for a few hours. The project ended after a few months and I found something 100% remote.
I used to work from coworking spaces and sometimes the library, but now I have my own home office. Everyone talks about mixing life and work when working from home. It's pretty easy for me to just turn everything off and walk away at 5.
