Been watching livestreams from the events. So far the most aggressive interviews have been people saying anti-mandate people are idiots and racists
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There have been a lot of very outspoken pro-peace guys, a lot of salt of the earth folks who are risking everything to be there, immigrants who witnessed things like the Berlin Wall and Gestapo, who have recognized the warning signs of the direction the country is heading.
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A woman who went blind giving birth to a baby that was a consequence of being raped and she refused to abort, which isn't hyper-relevant to the issue - just another one of the misogynists the PM keeps telling us so much about.
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They're taking fuel away to try and freeze and starve the protesters out but they're not leaving
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One of them said "I warn people when they try to give me food or aid that they could be arrested. They do not care. They know that without them being here now, there is no future."
An old polish woman who fed the truckers says she witnessed the rise of communism back in her homeland and it was terrifying so she brought food to the truckers in thanks for them standing up
Common theme I'm hearing.
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When they interview born Canadian citizens a lot of the time they talk about how wrong all this is, how they just want the right to live and work, how they want peace and an end, how they're fighting for their children. They're angry and determined and sad and proud.
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When they talk to the immigrants (or children of immigrants) so many of them came to Canada to escape authoritarian governments and the horrors they bring.
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And they're angry etc, yes. But they're also afraid. Because they've seen it before and they know what's happening isn't survivable.
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One man whose father was a Jewish man who came from the USSR. The father told his son that he had been in the process of sending a meme making fun of Trudeau when he hesitated. Because he felt some kind of primal fear - the kind he used to feel living in the USSR.
A preacher from Alberta has been harassed fairly regularly for refusing to deny people access to their religion during all of this. He was made famous for his outbursts, but he is polish originally iirc. And he compares the tactics of the RCMP during all of this to the Gestapo.
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These people or their families grew up in regimes. They know what it looks like. They know how awful it is. So if they're all saying they're afraid, that this is wrong, that there's no way back if we let things continue down this road... honestly, perhaps we should be willing to listen
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There have been a lot of very outspoken pro-peace guys, a lot of salt of the earth folks who are risking everything to be there, immigrants who witnessed things like the Berlin Wall and Gestapo, who have recognized the warning signs of the direction the country is heading.
.
A woman who went blind giving birth to a baby that was a consequence of being raped and she refused to abort, which isn't hyper-relevant to the issue - just another one of the misogynists the PM keeps telling us so much about.
.
They're taking fuel away to try and freeze and starve the protesters out but they're not leaving
.
One of them said "I warn people when they try to give me food or aid that they could be arrested. They do not care. They know that without them being here now, there is no future."
.
When they interview born Canadian citizens a lot of the time they talk about how wrong all this is, how they just want the right to live and work, how they want peace and an end, how they're fighting for their children. They're angry and determined and sad and proud.
.
When they talk to the immigrants (or children of immigrants) so many of them came to Canada to escape authoritarian governments and the horrors they bring.
.
And they're angry etc, yes. But they're also afraid. Because they've seen it before and they know what's happening isn't survivable.
.
One man whose father was a Jewish man who came from the USSR. The father told his son that he had been in the process of sending a meme making fun of Trudeau when he hesitated. Because he felt some kind of primal fear - the kind he used to feel living in the USSR.
.
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These people or their families grew up in regimes. They know what it looks like. They know how awful it is. So if they're all saying they're afraid, that this is wrong, that there's no way back if we let things continue down this road... honestly, perhaps we should be willing to listen