School walkouts won't have near as much an effect as the truckers.
Truth. They've got
years to punish rebellious students and grind their spirits down to the nub. A few days' truancy won't bother the school-to-prison pipeline one bit.
We really should have a community watch thread for HN, just like we have for Reddit.
I was
so bummed out when
n-gate stopped updating last august. It was such a fantastic piss-take of Hackernews' fart-huffing nonsense. They're nearly as bad as the Resetera crowd in terms of their politics; the only difference is some of HN is actually employed in big tech, which makes them much more dangerous.
Woah, careful there lad, you could lose your blue checkmark for them there fightin' words.
Maybe 5% would break rank but the vast majority are brainless diversity hires just itching to wipe out "settlers" like the truckers.
That's more than enough. It doesn't take a whole lot to seriously screw up an operation. Even when everybody's on the same page, things can go south really fast. Now imagine at least a handful of the troops you're commanding have decided you're issuing unlawful orders and are refusing to obey them, or worse -- they're acting to stop their comrades from obeying them and possibly even coming after you.
Just one soldier can completely disrupt a unit's efforts. If someone on your squad starts shouting that it's illegal/wrong, or starts physically fighting with you, you'll be far too busy dealing with that to be bothered with shooting unarmed civilians. Even if no one else agrees and you successfully subdue him, it's still a distraction from your actual mission that gives your "enemy" plenty of time to GTFO.
Now imagine that one soldier actually manages to convince enough of his fellow soldiers that they're on the wrong side, and the whole squad refuses to obey and starts disrupting the proceedings. At best, you'll have one confused-as-fuck military operation where nobody knows who the hell the enemy is (even people wearing uniforms are now potential threats). At worst, you've now got an armed, well-trained military squad actively disrupting their own side's actions.
It shouldn't be hard to see how fast that could destroy an entire operation. "Traitors among the ranks" are such a morale killer that you'd have total chaos and no chance of success for the military.
Worse, if footage of
any of that -- soldiers fighting each other or even just trying to stop others from shooting civilians -- managed to leak out to the world, holy fucking shit dude. That's all it would take for the truckers to be able to claim the Canadian military doesn't genuinely support Trudeau's government (and they won't be wrong, since the military just descended into chaos trying to follow an unlawful order to murder civilians) and any chance he and his government had of retaining any legitimacy through this mess would vaporize instantly. That kind of shit would see other nations openly discussing military intervention.
-Protestor pays the $100k fee using the money that was smuggled in.
I see your point. So, what's the penalty in Canada for ignoring a fine anyway? Do they do the whole "debtor's prison" thing there?
Admittedly though I do wonder if they've really got the stones (and manpower) to railroad potentially thousands (or tens of thousands) of people like this. Yes, the American feds nailed the occasional gangster on tax fraud, but that shit took years of effort and it's painfully obvious they don't have nearly the manpower to do that en masse. I feel like if enough people are willing to say "eh, fuck it, this is important enough to sacrifice for" the government just won't have the resources to go after all of them. And if they only go after a few, welp, time for another convoy to put a stop to that too.
Give me virtual rainbows, but I think this government is getting dangerously close to setting off a much bigger crisis the more it tries to strangle this protest. It involves thousands of people right now, organized by means these internet-addicted faggots don't understand (I bet maybe one in five of these bugmen even knows what a CB radio is, much less how it's used by truckers), and for some reason they believe if they can just punish/silence this "small" group of "dissidents," this will all go away.
But
every person who donated to this convoy, offered it any kind of material support, witnessed it in action and approved of it, reported on it favorably to the internet (i.e. non-MSM sources) or is involved in any of the industries related to it (logistics and transport, agriculture, construction, mining, etc.) are paying very close attention to it. And they're all quietly keeping in touch and staying connected.
Trudeau may (and that's a big "may") be able to eventually shut down this protest, but if it ends in violence or with widespread government-sanctioned wholesale destruction of citizens' livelihoods, lives and families, this will be a fart in the wind compared to the protests that follow. This small handful of truckers has already demonstrated how to shut down major land-based shipping lanes with minimal equipment and personnel, and demonstrated how much damage that can do. Imagine most truckers across Canada declaring they're not going to haul freight in protest, and how much damage
that will do.
