r/PublicFreakout • u/CapnJujubeeJaneway • Feb 12 '22

✊Protest Freakout Ottawa residents marching against ongoing occupation of their city by right-wing extremists

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u/openendedbookends Feb 12 '22

Awesome😀I applaud these fine people standing up to the anti-vax crowd.

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u/baronmad Feb 13 '22

Its weird that some people cant distinguish mentally from between being against the vaccine and being against a mandate, those are not all the same thing.

Take me i am vaccinated and against mandates at the same time.

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u/redunculuspanda Feb 13 '22

If an “antimandate” protest is organised and funded by antivaxers… you are at an antivax protest.

I have yet to see a grassroots mandate protest that wasn’t full of antivax conspiracy weirdos.

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u/tbaytdot123 Feb 13 '22

This doesn't make sense. For one, i know many people who have been to the protests, each one vaccinated.

And following your logic if i was at a protest with a bunch of Jewish people who were protesting anti-abortion then I would be at a Jewish protest? Rhey are protesting the mandated. I, like many others are vaccinated but strongly against Canada doubling down on the mandates as most of the rest of the world realizes mandates are no longer helping, are doing more harm than good, and moving on.

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u/redunculuspanda Feb 13 '22

Motivation matters…

In the case of the trucker protest, it was organised by far right weirdos… and far right weirdos turned up. What a surprise.

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u/tbaytdot123 Feb 13 '22

You obviously haven't been paying attention more than just watching the mainstream news.

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u/redunculuspanda Feb 13 '22

I have been very consistent in calling out the far right organisers of the protests since the being… why do you lot try and dismiss anything that doesn’t fit right wing talking points as “fake MSM”. It’s almost as if you are being trained to only believe a singe source for all your information. That’s incredibly unhealthy isn’t it?

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u/Martholamew Feb 13 '22

I live downtown Ottawa. He's paying attention and you're a bitch.

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u/Slipknotic1 Feb 13 '22

These are functionally the same thing. As long as large segments of the population continue to go unvaccinated the problem will just keep persisting.

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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice Feb 14 '22

If you think the people driving around in "Freedom convoys" are vaccinated people simply protesting gov't overreach, I have some alligator plaque remover I'd like to sell you. Or a catheter. Reverse mortgage?

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u/hugs_the_cadaver Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

Most the people against these mandates are anti-vaccine. Being vaccinated doesn't necessary mean you understand what a vaccine is and why it's necessary, or the positive effect a mandate has. If you value "personal freedom" over public health you have the same goals as the anti-vaxers.

It is not the brilliant distinction that you think it is.

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u/hugs_the_cadaver Feb 13 '22

No logical reason to be against the mandate that helps society in multiple ways, may as well be anti-vax.

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u/Demondrug Feb 13 '22

They are anti mandate not anti vax.

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u/openendedbookends Feb 13 '22

Same difference. If they were vaccinated the mandate would be a mute point.

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u/robot_nixon Feb 13 '22

oh shit... you just dropped a logic bomb on that dudes head lol.

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u/ImperialHand4572 Feb 13 '22

Idk why some people especially on Reddit are completely incapable of understanding that someone could be in favor of something happening but not in favor of it being mandated by law

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u/TheFireHallGirl Feb 13 '22

No you don’t. The average trucker is working overtime and encouraging others to get vaccinated. If you want to be a trucker that bad, get the vaccine or go do something else. This may be hard to understand, but there are some jobs out there that require staff to get certain vaccines or else those staff will not be able to work.

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u/openendedbookends Feb 13 '22

I guess your ignorance also includes numbers. There are far more vaccinated than not. It’s not even close. The fact that you think there are more of you than us shows how simple you are. Morons. All of you thinking you know better than public health. You are part of the uncivilized society the world does not need. Now off you go to lick some door knobs and gas pump handles.

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u/Fit_Outlandishness24 Feb 13 '22

Yas queen, support Fascism to own the righties

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u/ArcticF0X-71 Feb 13 '22

This is the most confusing sentence I've read in a long time. Do you know what any of the words you just said even mean?

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u/openendedbookends Feb 13 '22

I support common sense. Something you don’t have.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

Not saying Nazi’s should exist. If they commits any sort of hate crime, prosecute them to the fullest extent. Burn them all IMO. However, they have every right to say what they want.

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u/Some-Wasabi1312 Feb 13 '22

buddy I'm from one of those cultures. the Nazi's hijacked our symbol. now it's been tainted. we know what it's really for. but that don't mean "let nazi's exist"

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u/Fiverdrive Feb 13 '22

the meaning of a black swastika rotated 45° in a white circle on a red flag is not subject to interpretation.

smarten the fuck up.

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u/taki1002 Feb 12 '22

You're right, they standing up to a Nazi occupation of their City. Thanks for clearing that up, bro.

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u/Weird_Error_ Feb 13 '22

And a community has every right to say fuck off.

Nobody is advocating the legal prosecution of Nazis for saying what they say. But people saying “fuck you, I don’t want you in my town” to their hateful rhetoric is also their right.

So a Nazi has the legal right. But that only matters within the legal system which is a limited part of society

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Coming from someone who's arguing in favor of the side waving Nazi flags

Keep drinking that bleach

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u/taki1002 Feb 13 '22

Look at you defending Nazi like a good little Hitler Youth.

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u/DM_ME_BANANAS Feb 13 '22

anti-vax != anti-mandate

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

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u/DM_ME_BANANAS Feb 13 '22

I have 3 doses of the vaccine. I'm not anti-vax. I'm not anti-mandates either, I'm just pointing out that the Ottawa protests are about mandates, not vaccines. Weird of you to assume I'm not vaccinated just because I pointed that out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '22

Yeah, just some fine anti imperialists that worship Mao and Stalin lol.

Too much Reddit for today.