The Canadian Trucker Convoy and the Problem With Social Movements
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2022
- What happened in Ottawa and what does it say about social movements?
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This video almost killed me, I'll add my sources tomorrow. 
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Hey, that's me at 41:55! Excellent video, thanks for shining a light on what really happened. The convoy was one of the strangest things to ever happen to our city, but I'm glad they're gone and I'm so proud of everyone here in Ottawa who stood up to their frenzied tantrum.
Oh man, good job keeping your cool there!
@@WereInHell You think that was something? I met a guy that day who didn’t believe in gravity!
@@100gnomes3 lmao I follow so many weirdos that that literally doesn’t surprise me at all. That’s a big flat earther thing and flat earthers are all really into Q Anon
@@100gnomes3 Gravity is just a conspiracy by Big Matter to pull us all towards the Earthy, man!
Jeez you were so reasonable confronting these people haha. I moved here from BC (hence the username) and Ottawa has been a great place to live. This period was absolutely crazy. I talked with some cops in Shawarma palace that told me they were shipped in all the way from Fredericton. They bought a bunch of Baklava to take back to Rideau hall where the calvalry was posted up lol
My favorite side dish from this story arc was the Canadian who sincerely thought he was legally exercising his 1st Amendment rights.
Hey I appreciate their concern in excercising their right to recognise the province of Manitoba
There was a by-election in Ireland in July 2021 and one of the candidates was an conspiracy-touting anti-masker (Dolores Cahill). She wasn't allowed into the vote counting venue because she refused to wear a mask. One of the people with her (an American) yelled at the Gardaí (police) guarding the door that they were "violating the constitution"
... I don't think she meant our Constitution, since our Constitution explicitly states you have the right to freedom (etc) except in accordance with the law and mask-wearing was a legal requirement in Ireland at the time.
There is a video of Cahill repeatedly running at a line of Gardaí trying to break through them and yelling while they just stand still and watch her, which went viral here and is pretty funny
That was Wayne Lich, Tamara Lich's husband! He did that in a courtroom during her bail hearing, and the judge act supremely confused and said she didn't know what that meant. She literally said "What do you mean, first amendment? What's that?"
The First Amendment to the Canadian Constitution is either one allowing Parliament to create more provinces or pne making Manitoba a province. There's some debate on that.
@@Xondar11223344 as a US citizen, I respect your 1st Amendment right to make US a province please, I'm in need of medical assistance (in the brain department,don't worry I'm okay physically)
@@Xondar11223344 Well, they were Canadian separatists (wanted Alberta to be part of the US, fucking traitors) so I suppose I can understand how they got the two mixed up.
The thing I hate most about the "freedom convoy" is that all the people whom supported Ron DeSantis saying obstructing traffic should be a felony, suddenly love obstructing traffic.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: that there must be in-groups, whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups, whom the law binds but does not protect.
@@jeffersonclippership2588 such a great way to phrase this. It's so important to remember that none of the things they say/do that feel like hypocrisy to us are actually inconsistent within their worldview of "anything goes when it's done to advance our agenda or to stop anything that goes against our agenda"
@@violet7773 spread it around, it's important people know we're not dealing with hypocrites who can be corrected with a little extra facts
@@jeffersonclippership2588 that's odd, Umberto Eco stated that as part of his definition of fascism..
Ohh wait, conservatism is just fascism with some butter spread on top. Nvm
He didn't seem it was a problem when there was an anti-Cuban protest in 2021.
I love the fact that due to supply chain issues, some people who wanted to show support for the convoy have only just now received the Canadian flags they ordered.
That's so embarassing LOL
*chef's kiss* pure poetry
Oh bless their hearts lol
Oh dang
Now, that’s a real fox paw.
It's hard to capture just how significant the Terry Fox statue was. Terry Fox is one of if not the most respected, uncomplicated, broadly supported figures of Canadian history. A beloved Iconic figure of Canadiana, and they choose to carelessly disrespect the statue of an imuno comprimised person by dressing them up in anti lockdown nonsense. It's hard to comprehend a movement so casually burning any possibility of national goodwill instantly in their cause.
One story that's stuck with me is, years and years ago, Terry Fox would receive mail from all over the world, addressed simply to "Terry Fox, Canada"... and it was still delivered to him, wherever he was.
That's a hero.
I am angy now
Wow, maybe people shouldn't so readily destroy or deface statues in general.
The fervent love for Terry Fox is one of the only things that is 100% apolitical, and remarkably so. I remember reading the Fathers of Confederacy wanted to keep the Royalty around so Canadians can have some apolitical propaganda figure head to keep us together. Fuck the Royals, we have Terry Fox, the poster boy of all people who hate cancer.
@@Makingnewnamesisdumb No. Some of them went up to intimidate people and glorify a false history. _Those_ statues need to be removed from open public spaces.
Can say as an Ottawa resident, I was kind of pissed off by how the truckers were cleared out. Granted, finally getting to the endpoint was somewhat of a relief, and I wasn't demanding they go Portland PD on them. But considering just two months earlier you had RCMP guys chopping down doors to get at Wet'sue'etan land defenders, I couldn't help but see how the police were reacting as using kids' gloves.
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
You can tell they're real rebels because cops were going out of their way to help them
Also I love how the convoy also CAUSED the supply chain issues they were lying about. Also the cops made me furious with the shit they were pulling, considering how many police were caught on video helping the truckers and supporting them along the way.
My service dog and I got an airhorn blasted in our faces. We were leaving the grocery store and some dipshits wrapped in the Canadian flag blasted an airhorn at us because I was wearing a mask.
Just winning the hearts and minds of the locals
I am sorry to learn of this, people in your case need to be respected regardless of whatever political issue in the vicinity of your location
Butni have to commend your service dog for being so well trained to handle these dirtbags, its okay if they get pissed on a bit
I would straight up have smacked them in the head with whichever bag I was carrying that had my canned goods..
i would've whacked them with my cane if they did that to my dog
I lived in the middle of this mess, about a stone's throw from parliament and right next to one of their major camps not directly on Wellington, was recommended this video by someone. When the first clip from the occupation played, with the horns sounding, I had to stop because I felt a panic attack coming. It was absolutely horrible living here during it. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't leave the house safely as a POC without being harassed, it's been more than a month and my hearing is still damaged from the constant noise. They set off fireworks constantly on the street that would explode right next to my window. I hate that it's affected me so much, but it has. Thanks for making this video and making more people aware of what happened
I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
Was your cat stress-shitting as well?
Jesus! I am so sorry, that sounds quite literally unbearable. The whole time listening to this I was thinking "jeez, I didn't think this sounded all that bad on the news, but that sounds like I'd actually lose my mind!". It sucks that you had to go through that; doesn't really seem very fair.
I hope you can find some peace somehow, you tart storyteller :)
I live in downtown ottawa too, by the rideau centre and it was hell for us as well. I get some anxiety whenever I hear horns now because of it. I remember the noise and how terrible it was. I’m terribly sorry you had to go through it as well
So it was an effective protest? Bro I wish Leftist protests were making white suburbanites this freaked out. BLM was a good start, but it got subverted by the liberals.
I will watch this later but having been a traffic reporter for Ottawa while this mess was happening. It was actual hell to report on the same shit and my boss wanting to call it the Freedom Convoy on the air and the radio stations telling us not too because that was making a political statement.
I’m so happy I was laid off because this event showed me that my boss was a right wing reactionary and the amount of wage theft they did was ridiculous.
The many news outlets constantly calling it that, or repeatedly reporting on "bouncy castles" and calling it "non-violent" when so many people in my neighbourhood were being harassed and/or assaulted during it, drove me bananas. "Protestors" came to my building and buzzed random people then screamed at them and called them names because they weren't buzzed in, or forced their way in while residents were entering, or occupied my lobby while drinking booze. This made it feel unsafe for me to leave my home. It enrages me how much of the media were sympathetic and dishonest in their reporting and meanwhile the "protestors" claimed that the media were being "dishonest" about them. More of them will come this summer and it scares the crap out of me.
@@MCRacyT I am so sorry that they did that to you! You deserve to be safe!
@@MCRacyT Really hard to ignore the obvious double standards for this stuff when there is this much civil unrest all at once.
A white person attacking police to murder elected representatives is a protester or a patriot, but if you have a black guy in your protest who is getting a little too emotional, it's a lawless horde of rioters.
@@MCRacyT Jesus, I am so sorry.
I hope you found a new job or are on the track to do so :)
Glad so many people liked the video. This has been a great way to find out I’ve been saying “decal” wrong.
Simply nailogical says it differently too. Stand strong, canadians!
Quebecois here, I consider myself leftist and I was watching the whole operation to clear the protestors unfold on live tv, and its was the tamest most organized police operation I have ever seen in my life! I wish police behaved this was when they wanted to deal with leftist protests! I have friends here in montreal that have permanent disabilities after participating in student protests of 2012. Like, I am not cheering for police violence but they were in no way brutalized. I'd wager to say that they haven't face true police brutality in their lives and that's a just a mark of their privilege. Hey don't know what oppression feels like because they haven't been opressed before so forced inconvenience feels like oppression. I feel sad that a lot of participants also said they have never felt community like they did in the convoy, that's just very sad for them.
Hopefully, the next time the police violently break up a leftist protest, they'll have to answer why they dealt with it differently from this time when the more peaceful version works too.
Granted, there will be those saying the Convoy dispersal was the harshest crackdown ever even when faced with worse examples...
Omg same! It's almost insulting, knowing how my friends (who were very peaceful during protests) were treated in 2012 and even more meanwhile there's a fucking war happening. And the convoy clowns still keep calling it a "dictatorship" and "repression" omfg
@@davidribosome4326 Sure, 2012 was 20 years ago, of course. And nothing before last year is ever relevant in political history at all. You win 🙃 Good night👋
This has nothing to do with your comment, but I spent a week in Montreal and hot damn was the city nice! One of my best international trips. It was so clean; I'm used to NYC and the general grunge of the place. The people of Quebec were so nice and chill, and really made my stay very relaxing and comfortable. It was a lot of, "Why are you rushing around? Slow down my dude. Here, have some wine and a meal and wind down." I didn't get to go outside the city to see the wider scene of Quebec sadly. 10/10 would Quebec again.
But leftists are the authoritarian nightmare lol.
The most memorable thing to come out of the trucker convoy was Jordan Peterson releasing a song that may actually be gayer than Ram Ranch.
Oh shit I forgot about that, god it was terrible haha
7 Lobsters in the shower with hard throbbing claws
Wtf I had no idea that existed and I was happier before lmao
@@jeremysmith4620 wasn't that the B-52's?
wait what lmao
1. Love that you essentially said "hey, the trucker convoy is identity politics!"
2. As a UK permanent resident in BC, thanks for explaining the Emergencies Act. There's been a lot of "discourse", but no actual explanation of what the damn thing is and why it's good/bad/an overreach/appropriate, whatever. The basic fact of what it is and does helps me to comprehend the political impact and make up my own mind about it (yeah, it doesn't seem great!)
3. I'd like to point out that the last sociological theory you mentioned, that explains why the personal has become political, ignores a HUGE thing: that for marginalized people, the personal has ALWAYS been political. When your identity is used to limit your power, that's inevitable. It felt very white and heteronormative to say identity-based politics are a new thing (not a criticism of you, I'm not shooting the messenger - just the theory itself seems to be lacking in perspective).
I imagine it's a bit of a "outside looking in" with regards to the New Social Movement theory; probably a result of it being developed by a bunch of sociologists in academia who are majority white and majority men.
Were the developers really all white men? Sociology is a diverse discipline
@@LukeMcGuireoides I said a majority. On the wikipedia page, there's a listing of important contributors to the NSM theory. All of them are white and all but one of them are men. I'm certain there are more people involved in making the theory but it's important to recognize the shortcomings of a limited set of viewpoints.
Just want the common folk to have basic needs met with any one job. It can be done...but multi-family apartments and such depend on a cycle of barely getting by...
Humans need to stop infighting long enough to topple our oppressors
Mitch McConnell is Emperor Palpatine
Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make! - Lord Trump
@Justin Y. Trump is evil. He ignored this virus until he couldn't ignore it...the steps taken have been deliberately slow to contain this virus, as the government has made huge financial gains in allowing particularly older, retired people to die...no more pay outs each month...voting, if still valid in this country...is our only peaceful, legal recourse...voting 3rd party is the ONLY WAY to get real humans in power, rather than dynasty families and career politicians. When we realize the 2 parties we are divided over LOVE the division among us...then and only then may America be great again...
@Justin Y. Lack of knowledge of the deep state? I just accused our government of mass murder...I understand deep state...fact that you refuse to listen, only attack, says too much about you...clearly you haven't known hardship. Clearly none of this has impacted you negatively...you are part of the problem, offering zero solutions.
@Justin Y. Calling me stupid really helps your case...Trump has very limited brain power, as evidenced by his rambling, generally repetitive, toddler talks...although most of us are sorely undereducated, Trump really amazes me every time i listen to his banter. Trump did not close the borders in time, many flights to the USA brought sick folk here. Action wasn't taken until very late February, and by then 15 confirmed cases were more than enough to basically allow what amounts to airborn, quickly lethal AIDS《why this? (Because this virus mutates too fast to create an effective vaccine, which may never get made), upon the world. This is dangerous because common behaviors of common folk, such as shoulder to shoulder events, shopping and sardine packed working conditions, helped this virus along...even as people died in China daily...America went forward 2 full months wothout any concerns...then...rather than force the hands of state officials, and put the population through a 2 month quarantine, we've been seeing states react, rather than prepare...and all at the natural stages this virus thrives on...complacency among enough of us to allow the spread to continue. You refusing to see this logic isn't a blight on my mental capacity, just proves you are as simple as our Lord Trump...and likely among those very few, who like many elites, don't even understand the plight of the masses, whom I speak for, in this contrived crisis...Trump is calm about the virus because he exists outside the bounds of common folk...Trump and other powerful people would never have to take the risk of infection seriously as they are all well protected by expendable servants or can at the least afford to continue living lavishly and distanced from peons such as myself. 9/11 was an inside job and this proves what I've feared since then...that the government can perform mass murder and the people will always just accept it, hire the next sociopath in line, whichever of the 2 evil divisionary parties they aspire to dwell in...
Our educational system is archaic. We could be educating everyone from home...there are no valid excuses for our current broken schooling, and no teachers need lose jobs...as the internet is an amazing communication device...
Taxes are broken. Your dollar earned gets hit so many times...and we all just accept that blindly.
Medicine is broken. My grandmother died because her selfish daughter needed cable tv more than grandma needed diabetes medicine...and millions suffer from the inability to afford insulin, despite that drug initially starting out as a gift to humanity from a generous genius, privatized by evil and greed, priced beyond reality for most.
Our 2 party system is designed to keep us bickering...division keeps us docile enough to accept our own government conspiring to murder us, with our acceptance. 3rd party candidates are generally real humans...that care about other humans, even, gasp, total strangers and foreigners...
We are all on the same damn spaceship...Earth. I judge character...not race, not whatever religion folks are born into. I am old...I am tired of seeing disaster after disaster get slow attention from government, as poor people die in thousands due to delayed or nonexistent help.
It's about time the many take control, with votes, to dethrone the sociopaths that control us, play games with our very lives...
When there are only voluntary homeless, when the janitor is paid living wage, when a high school graduate can earn enough in food service, or retail, to support a modest home and essentials, while creating a nest egg...when veterans are given the same care as Congress, Senate and other positions of highest power, rather than left to suffer and die, when the lowest paying jobs are enough to survive on, then and only then, can America boast of being great...
As it stands...I feel most of us are born into lies we have no control over...It's well orchestrated, as my points are made clear in every satirical broadcast about the plight of the expendable masses, world wide...
Do I want peace, equity and kumbaya? Yeah...I do...are there sociopaths in power oppressing the common folk...yeah...there are...have good Democrats and Republicans existed? Yes...they get blocked by evil at every turn, often resigning due to unbeatable corruption. Do I pity the very people I label simple? You bet I do...I want this planet to be a better place for most...not some...for all...if ever possible...
This covid virus isn't done. It mutates too fast to pin it down with a vaccine...and we haven't seen the end of it because we, as a planet, would have to agree on a few ground rules to consider being a functional society.
That's my 2 cents...some of it...take it or leave it. Most of us just exist and watch, lazily, rather than get directly involved in change. @soaringvulture We don't seem to take note...we, the expendable masses, are being told to push through life ignoring this virus...it took ONE infection to start a Planet Wide Pandemic...and because we didn't quarantine from January 1st to February, we get to watch innocent and otherwise lives lost, daily...who are "we", in "we're in it together"? Certainly not the elite...they step on us to avoid harm...I'm furious with humanity as a whole...I'm furious we accept all this death and Trump's toddler talks...like a Ted talk without useful insight...
Those of us suffering are many...while the privileged watch the show They created...when...when will the common folk unite against tyranny, through the only peaceful means we have...vote out career politicians and dynasty families in favor of fellow human beings, with consciousness and compassion for the lowest among us.
We won't stop the cycle of abuse by trading Democrats and Republicans, two sides of the same evil, corrupt coin.
Vote 3rd party...vote for real people, with flaws, that understand what struggle is...that have put time behind any of these so called essential, yet minimum wage jobs...
This economy is screwed...always has been. The vast majority of work available is menial labor...food service, retail, janitors, grocers...a great many take their wages in government...which is far too big, complex and unsustainable...
Until any job can offer a modest secure household, until the only homeless are those who volunteer to live "free"...until the pill giants are mandated to make life saving medicine reasonably priced...we are a selfish, horrid nation, divided by the very people that oppress us, yet too busy fighting amongst ourselves to take any useful action towards a better tomorrow for the MANY, not the FEW
Thank you for point #3. The New Social Movement theory seems incredibly reductive and out-of-touch with actual movements going on at that time.
“You’ll be ok, suck it up,” as said by the guy who won’t wear a mask during a pandemic as they occupy a city they don’t live in.
hey hey hey! i’m one of those ottawa residents (actually living in the downtown core that was shut down) who put up with these clowns for weeks. great points in this video, i also had a lot of conflicting feelings watching my diehard liberal parents cheer for the cops clearing them out… glad you decided to deep dive into this!
Idk how you survived that shit. I was filled with an immediate and intense violent rage hearing the clip of the continuous truck horns, I can't imagine a month of that.
One of the most annoying things was how much of the bus system was shut down, I remember going to Rideau station through the train and realizing I was stranded there cause I couldn’t get a connecting bus back home. Had to take the train back to where I started and walk
I really hate the police, but I was also glad they finally cleared out the Convoy. I have such mixed feelings. It's obvious the police aren't our friends, and they very much didn't enforce the law when it came to the Convoy, even when they flagrantly broke the law. It's just weird we have to rely on these same jerks to clear the Convoy out.
In Calgary, the police are letting the Convoy do their thing and threatening counter-protesters. They're accusing counter-protesters of endangering their own neighbourhoods!
@@Xondar11223344 just remember that the people in the Convoy are the ones who agree with the police the most when they do terrible shit
@@baronblackdragon9078 I genuinely think that the police used the Convoy to conduct a sort of "soft coup." That is, assuming the conservative provincial governments didn't stop the police from acting in Coutts and Ottawa (provinces control police forces).
I got death threats from those people and some followed me home (I am visibly trans). Me and my roomate had to flee our appartment for a while. It sucked.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you and your roommate are doing okay.
@@joshuagraham104 We are now. They have come back nearly every weekend since then but it's not as big or dangerous as the main group was.
@@Ophelia381 Nearly every weekend? That's awful.
Fellow Ottawa resident (westboro) and we had to dip Town for two weeks. Can’t believe what it’d be like to experience it as a marginalized person. They draped themselves in hate rhetoric and gaslit an entire city
@@musko_man I just wish it was entirely over but they keep coming back.
As someone who lives in Ottawa, and who only moved to Canada at the start of 2020 after living my entire life in a different country, these past two years have been a fever dream and I'm pretty sure this is the closest to home a video essay I've ever watched has been and I'm prepared to die
Fellow local! Yeah it's been a fever dream alright
Don't die, vote if able.
Humans need to stop infighting long enough to topple our oppressors
Mitch McConnell is Emperor Palpatine
Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make! - Lord Trump
@Justin Y. Trump is evil. He ignored this virus until he couldn't ignore it...the steps taken have been deliberately slow to contain this virus, as the government has made huge financial gains in allowing particularly older, retired people to die...no more pay outs each month...voting, if still valid in this country...is our only peaceful, legal recourse...voting 3rd party is the ONLY WAY to get real humans in power, rather than dynasty families and career politicians. When we realize the 2 parties we are divided over LOVE the division among us...then and only then may America be great again...
@Justin Y. Lack of knowledge of the deep state? I just accused our government of mass murder...I understand deep state...fact that you refuse to listen, only attack, says too much about you...clearly you haven't known hardship. Clearly none of this has impacted you negatively...you are part of the problem, offering zero solutions.
@Justin Y. Calling me stupid really helps your case...Trump has very limited brain power, as evidenced by his rambling, generally repetitive, toddler talks...although most of us are sorely undereducated, Trump really amazes me every time i listen to his banter. Trump did not close the borders in time, many flights to the USA brought sick folk here. Action wasn't taken until very late February, and by then 15 confirmed cases were more than enough to basically allow what amounts to airborn, quickly lethal AIDS《why this? (Because this virus mutates too fast to create an effective vaccine, which may never get made), upon the world. This is dangerous because common behaviors of common folk, such as shoulder to shoulder events, shopping and sardine packed working conditions, helped this virus along...even as people died in China daily...America went forward 2 full months wothout any concerns...then...rather than force the hands of state officials, and put the population through a 2 month quarantine, we've been seeing states react, rather than prepare...and all at the natural stages this virus thrives on...complacency among enough of us to allow the spread to continue. You refusing to see this logic isn't a blight on my mental capacity, just proves you are as simple as our Lord Trump...and likely among those very few, who like many elites, don't even understand the plight of the masses, whom I speak for, in this contrived crisis...Trump is calm about the virus because he exists outside the bounds of common folk...Trump and other powerful people would never have to take the risk of infection seriously as they are all well protected by expendable servants or can at the least afford to continue living lavishly and distanced from peons such as myself. 9/11 was an inside job and this proves what I've feared since then...that the government can perform mass murder and the people will always just accept it, hire the next sociopath in line, whichever of the 2 evil divisionary parties they aspire to dwell in...
Our educational system is archaic. We could be educating everyone from home...there are no valid excuses for our current broken schooling, and no teachers need lose jobs...as the internet is an amazing communication device...
Taxes are broken. Your dollar earned gets hit so many times...and we all just accept that blindly.
Medicine is broken. My grandmother died because her selfish daughter needed cable tv more than grandma needed diabetes medicine...and millions suffer from the inability to afford insulin, despite that drug initially starting out as a gift to humanity from a generous genius, privatized by evil and greed, priced beyond reality for most.
Our 2 party system is designed to keep us bickering...division keeps us docile enough to accept our own government conspiring to murder us, with our acceptance. 3rd party candidates are generally real humans...that care about other humans, even, gasp, total strangers and foreigners...
We are all on the same damn spaceship...Earth. I judge character...not race, not whatever religion folks are born into. I am old...I am tired of seeing disaster after disaster get slow attention from government, as poor people die in thousands due to delayed or nonexistent help.
It's about time the many take control, with votes, to dethrone the sociopaths that control us, play games with our very lives...
When there are only voluntary homeless, when the janitor is paid living wage, when a high school graduate can earn enough in food service, or retail, to support a modest home and essentials, while creating a nest egg...when veterans are given the same care as Congress, Senate and other positions of highest power, rather than left to suffer and die, when the lowest paying jobs are enough to survive on, then and only then, can America boast of being great...
As it stands...I feel most of us are born into lies we have no control over...It's well orchestrated, as my points are made clear in every satirical broadcast about the plight of the expendable masses, world wide...
Do I want peace, equity and kumbaya? Yeah...I do...are there sociopaths in power oppressing the common folk...yeah...there are...have good Democrats and Republicans existed? Yes...they get blocked by evil at every turn, often resigning due to unbeatable corruption. Do I pity the very people I label simple? You bet I do...I want this planet to be a better place for most...not some...for all...if ever possible...
This covid virus isn't done. It mutates too fast to pin it down with a vaccine...and we haven't seen the end of it because we, as a planet, would have to agree on a few ground rules to consider being a functional society.
That's my 2 cents...some of it...take it or leave it. Most of us just exist and watch, lazily, rather than get directly involved in change. @soaringvulture We don't seem to take note...we, the expendable masses, are being told to push through life ignoring this virus...it took ONE infection to start a Planet Wide Pandemic...and because we didn't quarantine from January 1st to February, we get to watch innocent and otherwise lives lost, daily...who are "we", in "we're in it together"? Certainly not the elite...they step on us to avoid harm...I'm furious with humanity as a whole...I'm furious we accept all this death and Trump's toddler talks...like a Ted talk without useful insight...
Those of us suffering are many...while the privileged watch the show They created...when...when will the common folk unite against tyranny, through the only peaceful means we have...vote out career politicians and dynasty families in favor of fellow human beings, with consciousness and compassion for the lowest among us.
We won't stop the cycle of abuse by trading Democrats and Republicans, two sides of the same evil, corrupt coin.
Vote 3rd party...vote for real people, with flaws, that understand what struggle is...that have put time behind any of these so called essential, yet minimum wage jobs...
This economy is screwed...always has been. The vast majority of work available is menial labor...food service, retail, janitors, grocers...a great many take their wages in government...which is far too big, complex and unsustainable...
Until any job can offer a modest secure household, until the only homeless are those who volunteer to live "free"...until the pill giants are mandated to make life saving medicine reasonably priced...we are a selfish, horrid nation, divided by the very people that oppress us, yet too busy fighting amongst ourselves to take any useful action towards a better tomorrow for the MANY, not the FEW
I felt like the Ottawa convoy was doubly depressing as an American. It's depressing to know that our garbage politics is spreading around the world, it's depressing seeing how easily and effectively the right can organize, and it's depressing seeing how they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
That's because fascism grows out of Capitalism. Expect it to get worse as the global neoliberal war machine moves in on Russia and China.
The Capitalist upper class is spending way more money to quash anything critical of them these says than ever before, it has a quick and easy payoff (as Capitalists wish for), but it makes for a very disgusting track record, and the kids are watching
I remember being brainwashed in the early aughts, because of such, I've been inspired to learn more, and as such I am extra pissed at being used like a toy soldier.
Oh, it’s not your politics coming here. It’s that the border closings meant our crazies couldn’t go down to you to start lucrative media careers like they usually do.
@@adorabell4253 yeah, thanks for Ted Cruz
It runs deeper than just our politics. Canadians don't want to admit but American influence is spread throughout every aspect of Canadian life, we're practically a proxy state. We consume and rely on American goods, we consume and produce American media (movies, tv shows, games), and we consume and repeat American politics.
Most Canadians I knew in person know more about American politics than Canadian politics. When I was younger, people I knew didn't even know who Steven Harper was (our last prime minister). Canada lacks a meta-narrative, so we onto America's.
I cannot imagine having the audacity to go to a homeless shelter and take food from people who are legitimately starving just because I don’t want to put on a mask. 🤦♀️
I neither support or oppose..but it was one dude. And after people found out. They opened up and gave out food to those who need. Including homeless etc. As well.
To be perfectly fair, in order for a soup kitchen to function, it must provide food to *anyone*. The second you start playing arbiter of whose conditions are abject enough to merit being fed for free and whose aren’t, you cease to function as a community service and turn into another way to punish working people for being poor, but not poor enough.
But yes, I agree this is a monumentally stupid and childish reason to put a strain on the already artificially limited available resources for hungry people
@@sammosaurusrex I don't think anyone was saying the shelter shouldn't have served them, more just that they shouldn't have been asking the shelter in the first place
You're dumb and obviously weren't there so how do you know what happened there's literally no evidence of anyone taking from the homeless, in fact they donated a shit load to the homeless and the homeless Community said they had never felt safer than when the convoy was there.....
Bruh aren’t most Canadian truckers vaccinated
Tiny corrections: Emmanuel Macron is president de la république, not prime minister, the original french yellow vest (Gilets Jaunes) was very diverse,it originally started about the diesel-tax in november 2018 but quickly pivoted towards asking for a more representative democracy, it had some far-right elements (& far-right parties tried to approppriate the movement but they got swiftly rejected).. At some point it had a 70% rate of support among the population.. An interesting aspect is that it got support from "les banlieues" (suburbs, but they're equivalent to innercities) & there was also an anti-police, anti-racist element.. The main concern was not really "taxes are too high" but "I'm paying taxes, what do I get?" and the dismantling of public service, the retirement age reform (& the financing of pensions).... before that there had been demonstrations by health professionals, railroad workers, the "nuits debout" demonstrations, The movement ended in march of 2020 as covid started & I don't know what happened to many people involved in the movement & I'm afraid some of them at least turned towards right-wing populism..
On est là, nous ont est là, même si Macron ne veux pas nous ont est là.
Yeah, I don't know where the idea that a large number of GJ were right wings comes from. I mean, I protested with them when I could. Our demands were pretty left-wing. Increasing direct democracy and bringing back the wealth tax, those are pretty left-wing demands, and they were among the main demands. The police acted like we were lefties too, given the extreme violence that they showed. I lost track of how many protesters lost a limb.
@@Lily-ni5po it is a great way to discredit any social movement especially one that becomes massive, by labelling it right wing and demonizing it. the pandemic gave en excellent excuse to the government pretty boy Macron to crack down on every form of dissidence and resistance.
in fact, the Left should really reflect on why such a big part of it was so immediately compliant to this radical and authoritarian restriction on basic freedoms and rights, instead of jumping on every chance to demonize every single bottom-up movement..
@@Lily-ni5po As a German I didn't really pay much attention to the yellow west protests, but I think I very vaguely remember that it was strongly related to the increased popularity of Marine Le Penn? Obviously this is from very vague memories only
@@Lily-ni5po (english below) Ah, mais la façon dont ça a été rapporté dans la presse anglo-saxonne a pas toujours été "accurate".. j'ai lu plein d'articles qui avaient comparé le 6 janvier aux manifs des GJ malheureusement (dans certains trucs francophones aussi, d'ailleurs).. On peut pas nier que des partis-mouvements d’extrême-droite ont tenté de s'incruster dans le mouvement..
Ah, I guess the reports in the english-speaking press have been less than accurate.. many of them still portray Macron as center-left after all, when he's so similar to Le Pen on so many points . And after J-6, I've seen some pieces comparing the red-capped MAGAts to the GiletsJaunes.. if you add the fact that the canadian movement that appropriated the symbol is openly far-right, I can maybe understand the mis-perception, unfortunately..
@Laurent Saint-Laurent Anglo-Saxon in your original French sounds rather disparaging, is that intentional? Why didn't you say Anglais? Just curious as an English speaker.
Mans went thru so much to make this video that he got a whole haircut
I didn't even noticed that 🤣
The use of trucks to amplify the protest reminds me a lot of Dutch farmer's protests we've had over the past few years. The government is talking about forcing farmers to reduce their amount of livestock for environmental reasons, which spurred many angry farmers to block highways and distribution centers using their tractors. The fact that they can use heavy machinery to block stuff lead to their protest immediately being treated as much more important than pro-environment protests that generally had many more people show up. And of course there was also a softer treatment by police and some alliances with right-wing groups.
They were probably treated softer, because there is a very big difference between a protest and a riot, and lefties are doing the later.
A lot of the American convoy movements assumed that using heavy machinery to block transit/commerce is effective due to the unease of clearing said machinery, based of mid-20th century movements.
What they don't realize is that the government just respected their property rights as conservative movements as opposed to the property rights of leftist radical movements or even native defensive movements (like Ukrainians blocking tanks with buses)
Quite simply, the cops won't hurt the farmers/truckers property, unless they get paid extra to do so
The Dutch protestors are far more sympathetic than the Canadian Freedom convoy
Sounds like the environmental party needs to study how to militarize themselves properly
@@user-xz2el2gm9y we dont have the resources you dip. and we try and get killed by the cops. Wake up.
As an Ottawa dweller who lives 1k from Parliament Hill - thanks for this. It was so stressful it almost seems surreal to look back on it, though it was so recent. Every time I see someone share realistic, accurate information about this, it helps. Oh, also, I love everything you do.
“The mainstream media won’t talk about it. And also, here’s what these mainstream media outlets said about the thing they wouldn’t talk about.”
^ I’m not sure which is worse, that they thought RB’s audience wouldn’t catch that, or that they were right
I think they assume that "talk about it" means "agree with everything we say"
Or that he doesn’t consider Canadian media to be mainstream when talking about our own politics?
Mainstream viewers want 'feel-good' stories to validate their complacency and sometimes outright violent supplication to the hegomonic unreality that they aspire to.
The media that serves them gives them what they want, with just enough truth to setup the next big thing, another reactionary convulsion will occur, and there is money to be made by 'covering' it
It was all mainstream media was talking about in Canada until the Ukraine/Russia invasion started.
@@SleepyMatt-zzz even Australian media was covering it, on the other side of the world lmao
If you had a second channel or a podcast about Canada, or hell just non-american political happenings I'd listen.
I would too!
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Fourth that. o7
Whatever comes after fourth that
They would have plenty of fellow canadian youtubers to join as guests
Being from the states, this was extremely helpful in increasing my understanding of why all the freaks over here cared so much about the convoy. Thank you for another amazing vid
I'm a Canadian living in NZ and I can't believe that my two countries had seemingly the most ridiculous "freedom convoys." The protestors in NZ were burning tents on the parliament grounds and throwing chairs and stuff at police... It was nuts.
Love me a good We're in Hell video, keep up the great work!
How did the Maori population feel about the 'convoy'?
@@Dong_Harvey it's complicated. The majority of Māori in positions of influence and standing in their communities are supportive of vaccination. Māori already face disproportionate systemic hurdles when it comes to healthcare and access is a barrier in isolated communities. There have been legitimate mistakes made with the vaccine rollout and a lack of resourcing and understanding of the on the ground realities for Māori communities.
It can't be denied though that there is a significant Māori presence within the Freedumb movement. Factors behind this include disenfranchisement, historic and ongoing state oppression, and the strong evangelical Church presence (marches before this have been led by churches with majority Māori congregations).
The presence of openly white supremacist groups and individuals seems of little concern to most. This is largely a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation, although there is actually a lot more interaction between white supremacists and Māori here than a lot of people may be aware of - New Zealand is a small place. Appropriation of Māori symbols and culture is rampant. Also pervasive is tokenisation of Māori by traditionally left wing antivax types who use the presence of Māori as a shield to avoid having to face up to the obvious bigotry in the movement.
Another notable phenomena was how the crowd got significantly browner as the protest wore on. Māori will face disproportionate legal and social consequences for their involvement in this movement. They are a convenient scapegoat for many to blame for the more violent and intimidating aspects of the protest both within the movement and in the wider community.
@@SunnyOnTheInside The masks and vaxx are completely bogus. I did not wear a mask for 2 years and never took the vaxx. Worst sickness I've had? Minor sniffles and a cough.
The Ottawa Police has a HUGE racism issue, our previous Chief was brought in to specifically tackle this issue head on. The result; insubordination from lower officers during the convoy that was only resolved after a white man was appointed chief.
(I don’t think Sloly did a good job, plz don’t crucify me fellow Ottawa rezs)
It was common to see "Down with Sloly" posters plastered on lampposts in previous years, usually with enough vagueness on them that you weren't sure what the chief grievance was.
Kinda of since cops don’t really want to spend the time and energy of having to move large machines
👏MORE👏WHITE👏CHEIFS👏
OK but RE: the point at 35mins about not seeing hate symbols... dude it was unavoidable, I was there I went for a couple short walks around Elgin + Parliament and immediately saw hate symbols... they're either lying or dont know what to look for
Fair, I think that some people probably didn’t know what to look for but I was also probably being a bit too generous there.
@@WereInHell yeah, if we're being EXTREMELY generous but that's only a courtesy I'd be willing to extend to people who were there on the first couple weekends, by week 3&4 the media and online coverage where pretty significant at very least locally.
as some one with PTSD it's with some authority that I can say that those clips with the horns caused a trauma response in me. Living in Ottawa during the occupation was a nightmare and im far enough from parliament that the horns were somewhat muffled. but when I had to go out to get food and medications it was horrifying to see how many protesters were milling around even in my adjacent neighbourhood. I've always held that the Canadian flag is hate symbol for a vicious colonialist project but for that month it really proved true. They dont need Confederate or Nazi flags to represent genocide and oppression. Nationalism is a plague and the convoy was very happy to act as plague rats
You are a lover of mass immigration and globalism then?
Fantastically put. Thank you for sharing that, it really hit me to see our flags as the symbols of hegemony they truly are. It’s important to acknowledge how they can effect people who have been trampled by the ideals and projects they represent.
honestly im glad at least *something* is being talked about my country. i feel like i know more about americas politics than my own country's which concerns me a lot since yknow, this is the country that im living in and its politics directly affect me.
Trust me, it’s no different in many other countries. I’m from the UK but moved to NZ 3 years ago. I know as much, or more, about the US then NZ or UK politics these days. If I didn’t use the internet and just watched TV News it would be very different, but I’ve not watched TV news for over 10 years, so I don’t hear local news as much due to the heavy, heavy influence the US has on the internet. Especially being in NZ though, with just 5 million people here there’s not all that much news half the time anyway.
We're in hell is Canadian and focuses on Canadian politics and media, I really hope that he can take advantage of some grants intended for Canadian media. I know that the CERB enabled this channel to be his focus full time, and Bob's your uncle
I'm probably one of the few people who can confidently claim I know more about Canadian politics than American politics! And I think I know a lot about American politics.
I'm in Brazil and a lot of television news is about the US, then I go to RUclips and watch a lot of Americans, so I end up knowing a bit more of what's going there than my own country, the good thing is that it counters the propaganda, a lot of the people I know think the US (and any developed country) is much better and without many problems.
*stares in african*
Lol but I do relate to how annoying global media's nauseatingly US centric nature can be
Only We're in Hell would release a video so late into the Ontario evening. As an Ottawa local, I feel warm and fuzzy that he's doing a video on my city. Oh, and bring back the curls you cutie
Curls or riot
@@ConductiveFoam Curls or we bossnap :>
The curls were super cute. I gotta say, I actually like the mustache. ("Actually" just cos I'm normally not a fan of em. Looks great!)
Not to be creepy; I'm just jealous cos I can't grow a mustache and my hair has less body than...idk ig my body. (Skinny, all bones.)
Curls get the gurls
Disagree, I think the new cut looks great. With the jacket, it's got a very british working class vibe (or how I imagine british working class to look like)
Fellow Ontarian here. Thanks for talking about this. I couldnt quite word the big tent problem to friends and acquaintances on facebook as well as you did here and the first 4 steps. I did feel like i was screaming into the void regarding convoy supporters.
I kind of feel like it should be emphasized that "identity" is still a matter of materialist conditions. Black people may have dark skin but it's the economic disparity forced on them that singles them out into the shared experience of black people for example. They are just subgroups of their respective classes. That's why when we protest racism we don't ask for people to "treat black people better" we mean we need economic measures to end this disparity. Classes develop throughout history, the whole proletariat and bourgeoisie notion is just the main antagonism we currently have. Much like the petite bourgeois is a sub group belonging to the bourgeoisie, the proletariat is also devided in concepts like the labour aristocracy.
Thanks for making this. Love your videos!
So great to see you here! Love your vids!
Woah you guys both make awesome videos! You showed me the Three Body Problem and I can't stop thinking about it, thanks!
Ahhh i love seeing my favourite creators showing up for each other ☺️
I was watching the Three Body Problem playlist on my morning drive to work just today. Great stuff!
Whoa, Quinn's Ideas is one of us?
Amazing!
Based
“Social unrest is self care”
I’d put that on a shirt
"We're in Hell" merch when
great video! as a student living in ottawa, you hit the nail on the head- especially on the notes about the police. I mean just look at the difference between how they dealt with the fairy creek protesters compared to these guys. During the occupation, the honking was incessant in the city- not to mention that the convoy made it so city bus and train routes were cancelled- many people couldn't get to work or school.
I think all of the children at the protest adds an interesting element too- that was one of the reasons the police "couldn't intervene" (not like that stopped them before). A lot of the kids, quite young too- they would have been pulled out of school for weeks to sleep in the back of trucks, breathing in all that car exhaust - with the camps even having certain "kid friendly areas." It was also extremely cold- not the weather you want your kids exposed to, especially if you're not prepared for ottawa winter.
As protests are still cropping up, there is a notable police presence in the downtown now- you could be going out to a bar one night and see five fully geared officers all together, looking scary on patrol.
As a final note- I visited the protest on the first day (for journalistic purposes of course) and there was so much open drinking- the only store open in the Rideau Centre (downtown ottawa mall where the train also connects), that day was the LCBO, (Ontario liquor store). It was incredibly surreal to see all the trucks and all the people. Lots of "don't tread on me" and anti-trudeau flags.
excited for the next video, they're always good food for thought!
Here in Germany, some parents in the antimask/anitivaxx movement also were known to bring their children to protests and stay with them in the front of the group, where things would become violent. That was just mind-boggling to me, how someone can use their small child basically as a human shield and as a prop to show how bad protesters were supposedly being treated. At no leftist protest with even a slight chance of escalation have I ever seen a baby stroller.
The only store open was the liquor commission?? Lmao postmodern middle-class protests
I remember talking to some coworkers around the time of the election, pointing out how the conservative party's campaign slogan seemed like a dogwhistle to me. the reaction I got was basically: "yeah that seems like a bit of a stretch dude". makes me glad to hear I wasn't the only one that noticed that red flag
This is often I almost never get to see ¨Breadtube¨ call out about themselves so it's refreshing for you to directly state "I am an entertainer with an educational bent" and "Not at all activism" because honestly, I think more people should understand the nature of what you do (Which by the way I always find very entertaining in the case of your channel so kudos on that) while also working to disrupt the parasocial relationship that sometimes emerge among people being eager to do more but instead of turning to local organizing they turn to well, you've been on Twitter you know what it turns into sadly.
I hate the term breadtube and feels like it was def thought up by the right to de-legitamize politically liberal content creators.
@@samaraisnt nah, it was just a bunch of people creating another internet fandom, as happens almost daily. This platforms are made for consuming content (and ads) after all.
Also not every "breadtuber" is a liberal
Breadtube calls out itself ALL THE TIME, it's just always framed as drama, or "the left cannot organize" instead of, "person B has an ill-thought out idea and was challenged on it."
Don't let pathetic worms who don't know what an intellectual challenge looks like set the framing.
@@Bojoschannel most would be left in terms of the european left but socialist and definitly not liberal there are a few socialist or communist that people may associate with them but over all those guys don't ever carry that label which draws a clear line between the 2
It is nice to see. Most of breadtube has a stick up their ass with how righteous they think they are and never seem to really consider much outside of their own lens.
As an Albertan I'm constantly embarrassed for this province. It is absolutely going down the shitter thanks to regressive politics and a parasocial cultural identity with the oil industry.
Fellow 'Bertan, yer not alone!
Move somewhere else then
@@Spencer-ym5lxnot everyone can afford to uproot their entire life and move.
@@rnajdbdheje2641 I guess you keep renting
I live in downtown Winnipeg and was experiencing the convoy outside my window and was deeply amused reading their insane signage pasted all over their trucks as they passed by, but my professor living in Downtown Ottawa discussed the feeling of being actively traumatized. Such a surreal and hellish experience!
This was so interesting to watch. I almost never hear anything about Canada. Some Americans act like Canada has no issues and is the perfect country
Yea white people have this habit of thinking other white majority countries are perfect. Just look at the near-global obsession with the Nordic countries.
@@Jane-oz7pp Exactly! All countries have problems
Everything smells like maple syrup and instead of hail Timbits fall out of the sky
@@phoenixfritzinger9185 lol I cant xD
canada is alternative timeline of the usa if it was more of shithole then it is. bri'ish
great video! Also, absolutely love the shirt
Mother’s Basement!
As a Calgarian Albertan, you are nailing the Alberta explanation. I got in a shouting match in high school with a kid who said that Wexit was the best way to fix our financial problems. I said something about thinking that was a stupid idea because this was also right after Quebec got like ten feet from actually seceding, but I made the fatal mistake of forgetting I was in YYC AB, and our social classes are biased, to say the least, class laughed at me and teach made a long speech about respecting all ideas and everyone's opinions are important only to make us learn about Wexit for the next two days in class and never once talk about the local economic issues or what our provincial administration was doing. First, there was the crash that started with being the capital of oil production for a while, and then instead of adapting or doing anything new we got a shit premier (eat a dick Jason Kenney) and we're trying to go back into an oil and gas economy even though we have many other more sustainable and eco-friendly things we could become known for. So far for those who don't live here, he has tried to add "Christian Values" and bible passages into the public school curriculum cut funding for arts and all public services (my parents are a bus driver and a librarian and they've both taken substantial pay cuts), cut funding to abortion services, same with our entire mental health system being gutted right before the pandemic hit. Speaking of he's been caught breaking quarantine several times during the start of the pandemic having dinners with oil barons and other slimy rich fucks from our city. He has had no plan and there is NO TESTING AT ALL going on in our province as I type this, even though waste treatment centers have been saying there are increases in the new strain of the virus in our waste systems. We repeatedly cut testing and were the latest province in terms of restrictions every single wave. Finally, this guy Jason if you couldn't hate him any fucking more, he had the balls to try and SELL OUR NATIONAL PARKS to fucking OIL AND LOGGING COMPANIES, or as he put it "Privatizing our national parks system to help with our economy," IE anyone who wants to can buy BANFF, JASPER, WATERTON OR LAKE LOUISE plus more, he did not get it passed thank god but this man is a supervillain genuinely. We are what people always say the texas of Canada, beef and oil being our whole thing, but I wish there was a world where AB didn't go down such a shit path, things could have been better. In Calgary, we had one of the first Muslim mayors if I am not mistaken in Canada but at least AB, and just recently we have elected a female east Indian woman Jodi Gondek to be our mayor. We have a really good arts scene, and one of the larger acting communities in Canada though it is dying somewhat. We are the world's second-largest capital of Dinosaur fossils, and in Drumheller, you can see more fossils on display than almost anywhere on earth, it's really cool. Nature is beautiful, the mountains are always on the horizon even in the city and you can drive through the prairies for 5-6 hours and only pass a single town. Being known for dinosaurs, mountains, beautiful national parks, and the art scene would have been so much nicer than continuing our walk as a metaphorical dinosaur trying to reinvest in oil and gas when the rest of the world is moving into the future without us. Sorry for the ramble just some thoughts from a dude in Calgary depressed with his local politician's atm :(
Oh shit also my grandma was born and raised in Innisfail I wonder if she knows that weird leader dude
That's not a wall of text, it's a bloody mountain! Ow.
Well no, any actual Albertan can tell you that our economy is grossly tied to oil and gas and that it would be almost impossible to recover if it was just out out entirely. Canada as a whole would need a new energy source, Alberta itself would have to phase into other economies that we just do not currently have. The province was doomed from the start to die off a slow and painful death.
I really don't know what art scene you are talking about, both Calgary and Edmonton have really bad public art projects that are largely memes and not taken as serious projects. Ontario has a more rich art scene than we do. We should not be known for the big silver balls, please.
@@mynameisambertoo7379 ??? You are insane, and I don’t want to get into a whole thing here but one Albertans experience is not every Albertans experience. I’m sorry the paragraph I wrote a year ago under a YT vid isn’t exactly how you’ve experience this province but we don’t all have identical experiences. All I was trying to say (I think it has been a year since I’ve watched this vid or read my comment) was that we aren’t the worst place on earth. We have some nice things. You clearly seemingly hate this place, I can’t relate to that but it’s your own world, I was just trying to give some of my experiences in AB. Like for the art scene I was really not talking about our public art, which I will admit totally sucks, I meant the art scene in the traditional sense. We have tons of theatres, art museums and music halls etc, that’s what I think of as our good art scene. Either way it’s just one persons opinion, if you don’t agree with it that’s fine just don’t tell me I’m wrong. I know what I’ve lived through in AB, you know what you’ve lived through, that’s all chill just don’t invalidate my lived experiences and we’re chill:
Don't forget about the rat ratfucker scandal.
as another canadian, i am So glad to see you talking about these convoys. thank you for all your effort on this one!
I live a mile outside of Detroit which is the city on the other side of Windsor Ontario and the blockade was huge news. My friend had to wait an extra 2 weeks to buy a car to replace the one that he had that literally broke down because it was being shipped from Canada.
My question at the time was who taught these conservatives how to do an actual disruptive protest since I'm used to conservatives in America just breaking things they already own and then buying more later in secret. But you just gave me the answer which is the French.
The frame extension part reminds me of when I was 20 and invited to the women's reclaim the night march, which is a thing in London and maybe in other cities, and it's just like a "we should be able to walk around after dark safely" kind of march. But behind me was a woman with a sign that said "prostitution is paid r*pe" and I was just like.... Am I missing something??
SWERFs have an unfortunate habit of inserting themselves in any kind of women's rights movement.
@@harpoonlobotomy well turns out the whole thing was run by terfs but we didn't know at the time. But that's just UK feminism for you.
I found it deeply chilling to see protest-minded Quebecers support a convoy, organized by people trying to "keep"Canada "Anglo-Saxon".
It's because the people who were saying "Anglo-Saxon" actually meant "white" but didn't want to get called racist lol
Doesn't even make sense because Englo-Saxon is a VERY specific type of white person. I guess they just mean english speaking British... Which practically no Canadian is at this point.
They must be Sargon of Akkad viewers.
@@Grrranola Which is funny because French Canadians were barely considered white in Canada until the 60s.
The religious symbol ban that's specifically aimed at Muslims, that's when Quebec lost their sheen to me, and of course pork barrel projects.
Canada is being suffocated by mass immigration.
Why does that french firemen on fire thing feels like the most french thing since the invention of pain baguette-
The police working with the convoy is an important note and it blows me away to see the restraint of the cop when he was bumped with the truck. I saw literal skulls being cracked for just looking at a cop the wrong way during BLM protest. Bananas....
We didn’t burn down buildings. We where peaceful
@gilliesiut2332 So true... there arent hundreds of videos showing peaceful protestors being beat, shot, arrested, etc by US cops. Every time a building was being burned...
As a person in the US, I really do have a middling interest in Canadian politics but was heavily intrigued and worried by the truck convoy. So I'm definitely happy to watch a Canadian leftist perspective on it.
Left VS right wings are fake. Just more divide and conquer by the elites.
If you're looking for things to takeaway from the convoy look at how they organize. The right has been extremely effective at activism, organizing, and actually getting people to act in a way the left is very rarely ever able to do.
True, but don't read too much into it. The fact is that a tiny fraction of people are left-wing in Canada, it is a right-wing country filled with right-wing people. By numbers alone it's easier for them to do this.
The right isn't better at organizing, it's just easier for them. The cops treat them with kids gloves. Suddenly you have officers concerned about restraint, and de-escalation, whereas with any left-leaning movement they'd be far more eager to get in there and start beating people.
Imagine if, instead of truckers we had First Nations people laying siege to the capital. The cops would have been going in with riot gear and assault weapons on day three.
Maybe but I'm not sure the left should be engaging in similar recruitment/engagement tactics. I'd rather not be bringing people to the leftist cause by breaking their connection to reality cos that's what the right does. No way that ends well for the left lol.
It also helps when the police doesn't barge in cracking skulls and breaking limbs on peaceful protests. (Student protest of 2012 was NOT treated as gently and courteously as this was, which is damn unfair.)
I’m so glad you’re covering this because it was the worst thing to have a giant swarm of truckers block the highway and bash on your car until you honked if you didn’t...it’s the worst. The only highlight was a twitter user who was spectating in the convoy’s zello channel and showing the trolling people were doing and how awful and ill informed the people involved really were oof.
Thanks for making this! I'm in the US and I'd only seen bits and pieces of this story, so it's great to get the whole thing.
I like that Russel Brand is trauma-informed, but then he got way, way, way too into the New Age part of trauma-healing and very much into the conspiracy theories. I actually have stopped watching another youtuber, Irene Lyon, who is a nervous system specialist and educator, because she's getting too much into the New Age aspects and it's been a big disappointment to me. She's still the best at explaining the nervous system, so those videos are still useful at least.
russell brand is a comedian and viewing him as anything more or less would be a mistake. if the new age thing is helping him i’m really happy for him but he’s certainly not to be taken seriously in his opinion about global events lol
@@mtlewis973 the problem with Russell Brand is his weird relationship with influence. He loves cramming people's heads with whatever half baked misinformed opinion he has but hates being seen as responsible for any consequences. Unfortunately he has the intellectual capacity of a young child sometimes because he has a whole song and dance about if the media and government don't like it it must be good.
Funny thing is, russell is better at whatever you call what he does now than comedy. He was never funny. Try watching his old stuff now. I call it cringe up comedy
what New Age aspects has Irene been getting into? never heard of her, just curious.
@@LukeMcGuireoides i disagree here, but comedy is subjective after all
24:32 “grass roots or astroturf” is a term used in the book “The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Work Their Way in Washington” by Jeffrey Birnbaum. It is a well done book, and you can watch the c-span interview on “book notes” here on RUclips thanks to the invaluable work of the channel “film archives”.
I live in Manitoba and unfortunately we had a lot of these convoy asshats in Winnipeg and the smaller conservative communities in the south east part of the province. The whole thing was unbelievably frustrating, both having to listen to daily barrages of obnoxious honkers and having these adult babies cry about how their rights were being violated. Thank you for making an essay that hits so close to home. Great to see some of the history of other social movements and how these things form over time.
I'm so thankful for this video! Heard a lot of experiences from especially youtubers out there but a wider look on the context and the details was really helpful. Also Will Jarvis killing it once again in the outro!
Australia had a sort of similar copycat convoy converge on Canberra, but with far less effect, since Parliament wasn't sitting for the first week of it, they were protesting about state issues to the federal government (a distinction that continually plagues Australian politics), and they achieved little more than being a nuisance.
Tom Tanuki has been covering that on his channel, in his articles, & on social media.
In Finland too, their demands were: remove covid restrictions, lower gas prices, and government should resign.
The one in Ottawa accomplished nothing, businesses and corporations wanted the restrictions lifted anyway. Really if anything all the occupation managed to do is spread awareness for how big a problem far right media is.
Same thing with the trucker convoy in Canada really
@@professoroat1310 at least (for some definition of) the Canadian convoy shut down the middle of the city, the Australian one couldn't even do that (although that could be due to the inherent design of Canberra)
Albertan now living in Québec, these sorts of guys REALLY give Albertans the worst name honestly. Blessedly I don't know ANYONE who takes Wexit seriously, but it's very unfortunate that Alberta's gotten the reputation it does. Thanks, Jason Kenney
I would love to engage more with my local community but capitalism alienates me too much, it becomes a game of priorities and family comes first and so on, it’s easy to disconnect. I try and voice my thinking to them but I won’t live to see a change
That's exactly the point of Capitalism, a sort of divide and conquer of those who have less capital, not just those with no capital, anything less than the currently colluding upper class
The flipside is that the conspirators tend to murder each other after they are done killing us all off
Hey thats good, dont talk that down.
I've tried, it's not worth it. Most people in my community are selfish morons. Anytime a good proposal gets written by the city it gets shot down by yokels who hate change.
The push toward nuclear family units has been at the expense of community and it sucks to see.
living through the honking one of the things that kept me going was knowing that one day, inevitably, this video would be made. thank u for fulfilling the prophecy.
41:23 they “leaned in to” it because the police made carrying gas cans a criminal offense. They were a diversionary tactic- most people had empty cans and some filled em w water and very few people were carrying cans w actual gas.
This wasn’t weird. It was good demonstration tactics. Shitty movement but good tactic.
Police literally helped them with their tactics. They played on easy mode
@@paulg82 you’re using “literally” in the figurative sense here buddy, there’s a major distinction between helping and playing on easy mode. We all understand that easy mode can be rise to be tantamount to helping but in this case it did not.
I _so_ hope there was at least one of them who filled water into and drank out of a previously used can.
@@rolfs2165 nobody drinks out of gas cans, the water was to give the appearance of buoyancy
You pinecone
@@jackstraw262 They certainly pretended to drink out of them, though.
countries outside of the us using the confederate flag is wild to me. I'm Swedish and (a very small number of) people are using it here. I've seen it in svedala if anyone's wondering
We're in Hells realease shedule decides how often i clean my laptop screen.
Guy goes get food from a shelter when he could pay for it and “just think of the sacrifice you’re making” hello????
This was incredibly strange to watch because half of what was said would perfectly describe the anti-mandate protests here in New Zealand at the capital. From the fact that the trucker protest had barely any trucks or truckers but lots of nazis, to the police doing nothing and then saying 'oops we left it too long and now we can't do anything', to the protestors refusing to stop even after it was announced that mandates were ending. All throughout the video there were similarities, even in tiny details. It's a real testament to the impressive organisation of these groups that this specific flavour of psycho brain rot was so easily exported and emulated in other countries.
I'm stoked that this video exists, dude. It's a brilliant piece as always and I get so damn excited every time a new video is posted on this channel!
Weird seeing my favorite reality show reviewer branch out to political discussion but I'll give it a shot.
The patience of that Ottawa resident with the blue hat is something I truly aspire to have
its interesting how much controversy there was over the police actions when in neighboring (2hr away) montreal, protests are routinely tear gassed the moment they start to be "disruptive". Not that I support the police actions necessarily, but its interesting how much these people felt they were being tread on when they received very light treament from the cops, even relative to other parts of canada
Thanks for articulating the point of the goals(?) and outcomes of the protest of being aligned with the institutions already in place. It's easy to get caught up in the false dichotomy of comparing left protest movements to right protest movements. My dad (Russel Brand fan!) was trying to goad me along these lines and was perplexed when I claimed that the people who could afford to own a rig, travel long distance s and miss work weren't representative of "working class" despite all the pageantry, and your points of the majority of organizers not being involved with trucking, as well as participants not being representative of rank and file/POC truckers are good ones to remember if this comparison comes up again.
We had yellow vests here too (UK). They got upset that 150ish Muslims had a weekend vigil for Christchurch ''too close'' to a ww2 memorial. IWW/ trade unions ended up doing perimeter for the event.
I found this a really interesting video. Appreciate you taking the risk to tell this story even if it doesn’t do as well as your reality TV videos
Another total banger of a vid! So glad you were able to access your files.
Thanks for this. I don't live near the downtown core in Ottawa anymore (I'm still in Ottawa, just a good ways away from the core), but my mom was in a care facility right by the Byward Market (which is right beside Parliament for anyone not aware of Ottawa geography) and my brother had to go downtown several days a week to visit her and do her exercises with her. The staff at the facility were harassed frequently, and often had to stay for extra shifts because staff couldn't make it in to their shifts; the facility itself was vandalized once, and they had to lock the main entrance and post a security guard there to open the door for people after confirming they weren't protestors. The protestors also blocked ambulances from going to the facility (this is the main transportation method for people living in the facility, a longer term recovery/intermediary stop to long term care for people who were unlikely to recover sufficiently to live at home anymore, to get to medical appointments for things like scans and x-rays, or to be transported to hospital if they had an emergency) at times during the almost month they occupied the city. My mother frequently called me and my brother worried about the protests and terrified; this is a woman who survived a brain aneurysm, she didn't deserve anything that happened during the occupation. Obviously, I can't be objective about what happened during the occupation; so yes, I admit I was happy when the police cleared people out and felt a bit of glee about it, even with the methods used.
You're right though, the powers extended, the force used; those are not okay things. So much wasn't happening here, so much wasn't done to help the residents of Ottawa; none of the agencies that had the power to act were acting and it was so frustrating. Ottawa sees many, many protests every year (I worked in the Byward Market for nearly three years and lived on Rideau Street for several years as well, and lived just over the bridge in Vanier for close to a decade as well); many I don't personally agree with, like the anti-abortion protest that happens every year. But I fully believe in and support people's right to protest, whether I agree with their cause or not. This occupation was different. It felt like we were being held hostage for some nebulous end goal and for an unlimited amount of time. It wasn't right, it was horrible.
Being in Paris during the riots of Les Gillet Jaunes was fuckin nuts. I never jumped a turnstile before to ride the subway but the city workers were SO DONE they didn't give a fuck. The busses were SO PACKED I had to sit on the console of the bus with my back to the windshield. Just to get on the bus to get out of Paris, I had to push people aside
I live in downtown Edmonton - there’s still a handful of people every weekend coming through the core with flags, signs, etc.
Same here in Toronto. I went to one of them to get footage and see what was going on and there were straight up Boogaloo Boys there wearing tactical gear.
11:10 Honestly considering French history I feel like the most in French brand thing was less the wine and fine food and more so people ripping the powerful out of their homes and other people going “yeah I see their point”.
Very well done and so articulate, precise and in depth. You kept everything so nicely organized, perfectly timed. Nothing was drawn out long nothing was shortened too soon. Your points were so on point. Thanks so much for this. I'd love a whole day of conversations with you on so many topics. Best always and keep up the incredible contributions to our world. Wow.
I loved at the time that the story I was reading about the convoy was either plain discussion, or complaining from pro-convoy sources about how no-one was discussing the convoy.
7:10 I was so happy to see Paris finally “put on the map” when this non-binding treaty was signed. Truly inspiring 😉
Right as you said "the truckers" in the preamble, it cut to an ad for a Nat Geo special on apes and I couldn't tell right away that wasn't part of the video 😂😂
I'm a trucker how dare you call us apes?? 😂
Great video! I knew the convoy was going on but seeing the extra details was pretty eye opening
This was fascinating. I work in trucking and while I did not know of any truckers who were involved, and while most didnt even mention it, we had some...problem customers, shall we say.
Yay, you’re back in my feed. The algorithm as been obscuring your content for me. Glad to see you back! I really appreciate your humorous and thoughtful takes on, well on just about everything!
I'm only halfway through right now, but your insight around the 30min/40min mark is really good. As much as I enjoy your reality tv dissections, this kind of video is just as excellent.
Man, I'm so lucky I don't live near these protests. I'd be jailed for firebombing it after going without sleep for days. Then warm myself by the flames and finally get a wink of sleep.
Gotta wonder how that hasn't happened might have been an opportunity for local antifa but I guess that might have ended up generating more support for it and stuff, especially if people got hurt
Edit: I also guess the police would have intervened sooner in that case, and in aid of the truckers at that
I'd 100% have been jailed for attacking a protester on day 2 if I had to deal with a street full of trucks honking 24/7
Thanks for the video! I know over the din of American politics it can be easy to feel that "no one cares about Canadian politics" but this was basically not covered in the US.
You did a great job of covering what happened, I love the clip of the very polite man like 40 minutes in. If I had to deal with the horn honking for a month I'd be out there screaming!
Beyond the events, your context for how to read contemporary social movements was really useful. Particularly that these protestors or the same sort over here who did Jan 6th nonsense have nothing to bargain with. The feeling of Jan 6th folks busting into the Capitol and not knowing what to do after has never really left my mind. It was like they completed a video game quest and needed another destination on their HUD lol
I work in supply chain in Detroit and thanks to that convoy, it made it really hard to get literally anything and took a couple weeks after before stuff calmed down
This has quickly become my favorite channel. Another banger video as always!
Thr public health agency of Sweden foresaw the rise of extremist movements and had it as one of the more minor reasons why they were not for prolonged shutdown, prolonged forced masking, etc. They mentioned this is as early as 2020, April, because the head of the public health agency had experience with epidemics across the world from poor to rich countries and their experience that to reach good results, everybody had to be on board.
Here we are. Germany, who was hailed as the golden child in their handling have a death ratio of 1 to 1 with us and a MASSIVE problem with rise in extremism, lack of trust in public agencies etc. I'm certainly very thankful that we let the pros make the decisions during the pandemic and not the politicians trying to score political points. Diseases are not economical questions, a field where politics matter and clearly the left is far superior to *anything* the right has ever vomited up.
Its always fun being Canadian until we make international news
Thank you for covering this. As a Canadian, I tried to disassociate myself from it while it was happening. It was so weird.
Wow, I really wasn't aware how much this whole thing actually escalated. Thank you for the edutainment!
Real We're in Hell experience: video starts and is stopped 10 seconds in for an advert funded by our beloved Dennis Prager.
It's so true about the "right wing culture in canada imitates american culture" thing. I live in a really weird suburb, it's the pacific northwest/BC, which has the reputation of being very liberal, but its also one of the oldest municipalities in my province and theres literally like historical white families here that and never stopped farming and never "forgot" their settler history like its an uninterrupted family history and some of those families proudly hang up confederate flags. One house I remember had a huge printout of donald trump in their front window that i'm sure cost at least 50 dollars right above a confederate flag.
It's a weird tension between being a very liberal and conservative place.
One of the local churches kept trying to hang pride flags and they were burned at least 2 or 3 times.
I didn't experience any extreme racism growing up here but when it did happen, there was a different vibe to it and it's 100% due to the fact that it was from kids who learned their attitudes towards natives from their settler great grandparents/grandparents/parents.
Someone from one of those families once had a pickup that had bulletholes in the tailgate and "FUCK TRUDEAU" carved into the paint and it was like "same buddy, but for very different reasons than you"
Stoked to see you take this on
So I havent watched the whole video as of yet but just a reaction on the slogan at 9:52 (and sorry if some french people already pointed that out^^). The one on the banner "Fin du Monde. Fin du Mois. Même combat" is actually a slogan that emerged from the convergence of struggles between part of the yellow vest movement and part of the ecologist movement and I think would be more accurately translated as "End of the world. End of the month. Same struggle." and has more "ecosocialist" undertones. So it is not really saying that they are not worried about the end of the world but rather that the two problems are worrisome and you cannot solve one without solving the other.
To be more specific (I'm an amateur translator who focuses on localization, which is to translate idioms and turns of phrases to their equivalent context):
"Fin du mois" specifically is referring to personal finances and expenses at the end of the month-- where it's the roughest if your budget is too small for comfort and you have to tighten your belt. If I was to localize it as english, I'd go for "Wait for doomsday. Wait for payday. We should act." It's not as punchy but that's the best and most concise way I can think to translate the message.
("Making ends meet" is the actual equivalent idiom to "la fin du mois" but it doesn't fit with "end of the world", so I had to change the whole thing to get the message through. I'm no slogansmith though, hah.)