With how insane Ford's response is being, I thought a little analysis and minor whitepilling may be in order.
A reoccurring theme in culture war flashpoints, and one quite visible in the Honkpocalypse, is that many major battles are won or lost depending on the missteps of the powers that be making exactly the wrong steps at the exact wrong times. It's a historical fact, and one that was continually overlooked. We've seen it time and time again - all it takes is one example of them overreaching at the wrong time, one example of them fucking up at the wrong time, and everything else falls into place, because without exception, whether big media, big government, or big tech, them being at the point they have been for so long has turned them into a cavalcade of fuck-ups. Realistically, all you need to do is wait for one to happen to a natural occurrence and then capitalize on it. Like a friend of mine enjoyed saying during We Love the Stock, "we can remain retarded longer than they can remain solvent."
Biden getting pantsed in front of the world on Afghanistan was all it took to basically begin the ongoing process of cratering his administration.
Trudeau bravely turning his tail and running away the nanosecond the Truckers came to Ottawa was all it took to completely undermine his influence.
In the USA, the Biden administration was facing the prospect of a fucking bloodbath in the 2022 elections long before any of this went down, meaning if he wants to turn that into a complete certainty, and guarantee his administration gets as much done as I did during the brief time I discovered Ragnarok Online, he should by all means push on this issue. Most local governors, however, even in blue states, realize what a terrible fucking idea that is. Even governor Hochul, who heretofore had been on an Any% speedrun to make Andrew Cuomo look subdued by comparison,
began ratcheting back the mandates hard when faced with the prospect of a Honkening cutting off Manhattan (especially because not much of NY would be in any hurry to save it).
So what to make of Ford's response? He's clearly going all in on trying to crush this, but it's too late - he can't end the Honks now, so he's throwing everything at preventing further incidents and criminalizing anyone who tries anything like this to try to give a thorough dicking to anyone who dares stand up to him. In the short term, he's doing this in the hope it breaks their backs, but realistically, it's not going to accomplish anything other than escalating tensions, since it's going to make people who already had nothing to lose even more so. And while the heavy-handed nature of it is chilling, you should also find it immensely reassuring: these are not the actions of someone confident in their power.
It's the actions of someone who is pants-shittingly terrified of what the implications of this protest are, and who realizes that if incidents like it are not stopped, their goals are going up in smoke. But the more observant Kiwis can see the problem with this fear-induced logic already - namely, that we crossed that threshold quite a while ago. We've seen, over the last year and change, that the powers that be are utterly incompetent and their grip is slipping - badly.
Take heart from that.
, who really knows anymore. Wouldn't surprise me if (((Twitter))) decided to SHUT. IT. DOWN.
