Canada got serious about pursuing the money behind the freedom convoy and designated a bunch of those groups as domestic terrorists. By law Canada can go after everyone who funded them which, unsurprisingly, is largely Russia via right wing organizations in the US.
+1, I absolutely loathe the twitter model of discussion because it's a huge mess of out of order replies and random spam. Individual discussion posts with tree threaded comments are way, way, way more effective at keeping discussion relevant and directed. Also +1 re: moderation, social media functions best with effective, vigorous, moderation and the twitter model just sucks there.
When you're coming from a position of extreme privilege and you're either a bit stupid or lack empathy or general social awareness being treated equally with "lesser people" (like women, brown people or people from particular religious backgrounds) can seem an awful lot like you're being discriminated against.
The entire goal is to smash as much of the federal government as possible before anyone stops them. If you break everything govt does then sell off those duties to an unregulated 3rd party there's a metric shit ton of money that can be extracted from public assets and formerly public services that are now a revenue stream for whichever billionaire buddy you feel like handing those contracts to.
I'm at the point where I don't know WHAT to believe now. Is this story bullshit? Maybe. Maybe not. Seems about as legit as anything else in this timeline. We've already gone through global pandemics, murder hornets, toilet paper shortages, Los Angeles best being described as "on fire", and during the presidential debate, they asked trump if he has a concentrated well thought out plan. His response? "I have concepts of a plan". THAT GUY then proceeded to win the election.
This was exactly the goal the entire time. The flood of conspiracy nonsense broke the public's trust in almost every single reliable institution or source of news. Once that's done people will believe whatever they agree with and if you flood them with enough narrative supporting your cause they'll choose to believe you. Welcome to the Russian, Fox News and Republican propaganda strategy, this is how they converted half of voting age Americans into voters for a bankrupt "businessman" who'll tear apart our entire govt, society and public for a profit.
Edit: this is why "fake news" was so alarming back in 2016, you've got journalists and competent trustworthy people presenting facts then political authorities pop off with "oh that's fake news, just trust me" and all of a sudden truth no longer matters when it's inconvenient for your party. Not that truth has mattered much in US politics for the last 75 years, govt and capitalist propaganda has clashed with the reality of life for so long that something like this was inevitable.
I've known a couple of people who had really bad reactions to Wellbutrin after brand switches. Both of them found it necessary to get a medical necessity exemption so they could get branded prescriptions. There's more variability in a lot of these drugs across mfgr's than people are aware of and you should talk to your Dr about switching to another brand or manufacturer if you're having an adverse reaction.
They're just pulling the ladder up behind themselves. Flagrantly breaking the law and then insisting it be enforced to prevent competition is like American business 101
In the US a sizable chunk of the population watched those anti littering campaigns and said "you're not the boss of me!" then made it a point to litter more. You tell an American what to do and you've got a 50/50 chance that they'll do the opposite purely out of spite, even if they otherwise agree with you.
Canada got serious about pursuing the money behind the freedom convoy and designated a bunch of those groups as domestic terrorists. By law Canada can go after everyone who funded them which, unsurprisingly, is largely Russia via right wing organizations in the US.