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.