Poll of the Day > Canadian truckers fight against vaccine mandates

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papercup posted...

They tried to burn down an apartment building because the residents asked them to please stop blaring their horns 24/7.

That's terrorism.

From the articles I read, it was mainly anti-protesters getting arrested for throwing rocks/eggs at trucks and putting nails in the road. Liberals protesting with violence like weve seen so many times in the past.

lmao

They are fighting for the right to not take responsibility for their actions and help get people sick and take a hospital bed from someone who deserves it if they get sick.

i have no issue if someone doesnt want to get vaccinated and accepts the consequences of those actions, which would include wearing a mask at all times for the foreseeable future and not seeking hospitalization for covid 19 related illness if they got sick and needed it.

these idiots want to avoid responsibility for their choices

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Every trucker deserves to be ran out of Ottawa with turds and eggs following them on the way out.

MartianManchild posted...

From the articles I read, it was mainly anti-protesters getting arrested for throwing rocks/eggs at trucks and putting nails in the road. Liberals protesting with violence like weve seen so many times in the past.

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papercup posted...

They tried to burn down an apartment building because the residents asked them to please stop blaring their horns 24/7.

That's terrorism.

You neglected the part where they cable locked the doors from the outside so the people inside would get to burn alive.

Notschmendrake posted...

You neglected the part where they cable locked the doors from the outside so the people inside would get to burn alive.

Ive seen no reports of this so going to have to say, Fake News. Anti-mandate protesters are trying to get diesel fuel to the trucks, not burn buildings down with it.

MartianManchild posted...

Ive seen no reports of this so going to have to say, Fake News. Anti-mandate protesters are trying to get diesel fuel to the trucks, not burn buildings down with it.

It happened douchebag.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trucker-protesters-burn-down-apartment-building-footage/

MartianManchild posted...

Ive seen no reports of this so going to have to say, Fake News. Anti-mandate protesters are trying to get diesel fuel to the trucks, not burn buildings down with it.

You've "seen no reports", whatever the fuck that means, has no baring on whether or not it actually happened, which it did since it all over the news. Stop getting told what to think from Facebook.

MartianManchild posted...

Ive seen no reports of this so going to have to say, Fake News. Anti-mandate protesters are trying to get diesel fuel to the trucks, not burn buildings down with it.

Yeah, I doubt fox news or joe Rogan has said anything about it yet, so it's not surprising you havent seen anything.

Notschmendrake posted...

Yeah, I doubt fox news or joe Rogan has said anything about it yet, so it's not surprising you havent seen anything.

Well I read the article that the one heavily misinformed poster posted, and Im not convinced at all that they were with the trucker protest, and quite frankly, I think they were trying to frame the truckers. The one guy whos pictured they showed looked barely 18, dont know how many 18 year olds are driving trucks. Also if they were with the protest, they wouldnt have admitted to it, so it sounds like a setup especially with the other reports of violence coming from liberal anti-protesters. Hopefully they catch those kids who did that so they can be held accountable and so that the real truth comes out.

MartianManchild posted...

Well I read the article that the one heavily misinformed poster posted, and Im not convinced at all that they were with the trucker protest, and quite frankly, I think they were trying to frame the truckers. The one guy whos pictured they showed looked barely 18, dont know how many 18 year olds are driving trucks. Also if they were with the protest, they wouldnt have admitted to it, so it sounds like a setup especially with the other reports of violence coming from liberal anti-protesters. Hopefully they catch those kids who did that so they can be held accountable and so that the real truth comes out.

"Well, I dont know what happened, but whatever happened, in sure it was those damn liberal antiprotestors, and I say this with exactly 0 evidence to support my claims, and when it comes out that in wrong I will, not surprisingly, be completely silent"

Notschmendrake posted...

"Well, I dont know what happened, but whatever happened, in sure it was those damn liberal antiprotestors, and I say this with exactly 0 evidence to support my claims, and when it comes out that in wrong I will, not surprisingly, be completely silent"

Theres no definitive proof that they were even part of the trucker protest. Thats probably why only some fringe news site is reporting it and none of the major networks. Also they are clearly teenagers and not truckers. Really hope they are caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their attempted arson.

MartianManchild posted...

The one guy whos pictured they showed looked barely 18,

And? When I was in my mid 20s, I still looked under 18. To the point where I got asked about it a lot. He could be older. Not only that, but you only need to be 18 to get a CDL, anyway

MartianManchild posted...

The one guy whos pictured they showed looked barely 18, dont know how many 18 year olds are driving trucks.

I value my intelligence too much to go dredging through the rest of your posts a second time, but I'm 99% sure you've boasted about how non-truckers are joining in on this protest because it's such a righteous cause that anyone that loves freedom is obligated to get in on it. Now, suddenly, anyone that "doesn't look like a trucker" is automatically not involved?

This, ladies and gentlemen, is called "confirmation bias."

Remember the BLM protests and you guys saying how the people doing the rioting and looting were just a fringe minority or alt righters trying to undermine the meaning behind the protests? Now youre saying everyone at these protests is a nazi or someone trying to burn down a building? The hypocrisy from you people is hilarious lmao

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MartianManchild posted...

Remember the BLM protests and you guys saying how the people doing the rioting and looting were just a fringe minority or alt righters trying to undermine the meaning behind the protests? Now youre saying everyone at these protests is a nazi or someone trying to burn down a building? The hypocrisy from you people is hilarious lmao

Were people targeted for mask-wearing? Did people target living spaces with arson? Did people smash the windows of businesses displaying pride flags?

Oh, and let's compare what the protests are over:

1) 10% of truckers refusing vaccination for an industry mandate and reacting by trying to protest against ALL mandates

2) hundreds of thousands of people protesting nationwide over the police murdering citizens

I've been in the middle of a riot over nothing...it was called the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot....

MartianManchild posted...

Liberals protesting with violence like weve seen so many times in the past.

Couldn't possibly be the side waving nazi flags and blocking ambulances.

No. those are the good guys.

MartianManchild posted...

Remember the BLM protests and you guys saying how the people doing the rioting and looting were just a fringe minority or alt righters trying to undermine the meaning behind the protests? Now youre saying everyone at these protests is a nazi or someone trying to burn down a building? The hypocrisy from you people is hilarious lmao

Remember how you guys were refusing to accept there was a meaning behind the protests and thought it was just a bunch of arsonists? What was the meaning behind this set of protests again? "Give us food or else" it was something like that right?

MartianManchild posted...

Remember the BLM protests and you guys saying how the people doing the rioting and looting were just a fringe minority or alt righters trying to undermine the meaning behind the protests? Now youre saying everyone at these protests is a nazi or someone trying to burn down a building? The hypocrisy from you people is hilarious lmao

adjl posted...

I will say, I am trying to keep an open mind and believe that the psychotic Nazis are probably a non-representative minority of an otherwise peaceful protest. That is, after all, what happened with the BLM protests, with a whole bunch of people generalizing the violent minority to discredit the movement as a whole and avoid confronting the central message. The central message of this protest is still wrong, of course, and I will continue to disagree with it and argue against it wherever possible, but I want to try to avoid dismissing it all as just being the insane ramblings of racist vandals.

That said, they're making it really hard, especially where even the well-intentioned ones are still engaging in blatant terrorism (that is, "we're engineering a supply crisis unless we get the political change we want").

I don't know how many times I'm going to need to repeat this for you to understand, but copy+pasting is pretty easy, so I'm willing to keep it up.

papercup posted...

So all the truck drivers die when they get covid, or they get shot trying to storm the capital, and you think they WON'T get replaced? Weird take!

They wont all die, but they will flood the hospitals because the they think medical industry are all evil vaccine pushing liars, until theyre sick and need the medical industry, at which point their views will very conveniently, and very temporarily, change.

Dont worry though, after they enjoy all that nice socialized medicine that they hate so much they'll be back out there shilling bullshit just like before

Important periodic reminder that the "mandate" they're protesting against isn't even mandatory. Those that don't want to be vaccinated still retain the option of being tested upon arrival and isolating for 1-3 days while they wait for results. This is also not a new requirement: Everyone else entering Canada has had to follow the same guidelines for as long as the border has been open, commercial drivers were just granted the special privilege of ignoring that. They aren't having rights taken away, they're having special privileges taken away (mostly because unvaccinated truckers are now such a small minority that it's no longer especially disruptive for them to have to follow those guidelines).

Yes I don't recall BLM protestors blocking medical facilities. Or going into schools.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Yes I don't recall BLM protestors blocking medical facilities. Or going into schools.

I also don't recall BLM protestors attempting to lock people in their apartment building and light it on fire.

A cyclist in Ontario who works for a food delivery company my friend works for assaulted by convoy supporters.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Yes I don't recall BLM protestors blocking medical facilities. Or going into schools.

burning and looting

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Yes I don't recall BLM protestors blocking medical facilities. Or going into schools.

There were more than a few complaints about traffic-blocking BLM protests interfering with ambulances, but those were more incidental issues than the fundamental goal of the protests.

MartianManchild posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/2/AAb2N0AAC5tq.jpg

That sounds like an excellent way to lose a job as a tow truck driver, given how lucrative police tow contracts are.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

burning and looting

Maybe I'm weird, but I tend to rank vandalism and theft quite a bit lower on the "heinous crimes" list than deliberately disrupting the medical system or attempting mass murder. Those were also isolated violent incidents that weren't part of the core protest, rather than a fundamental goal of the protest (as blockading hospitals is in this case).

adjl posted...

tow truck

Canadian tow trucks look weird.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/1/AAQwHjAAC5uH.jpg
Agricultural Tractor

The JCB 8330 is the world's fastest production tractor with a top speed of 43 mph. Most tractors top out at about 30 mph. You wouldn't want to tow anything very far with a tractor.

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Tow truck

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adjl posted...

That sounds like an excellent way to lose a job as a tow truck driver, given how lucrative police tow contracts are.

Morals over money, adjl. I guess thats just something some liberals dont understand.

MartianManchild posted...

Morals over money, adjl. I guess thats just something some liberals dont understand.

There are few things more immoral than letting your family starve because you felt the need to throw a temper tantrum.

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So even if Canada lifted the requirement, those truckers still wouldnt be allowed to drive into the US because of our policy. Is that where its at right now?

Yep. It's a thoroughly useless protest at every level, even without considering how fundamentally stupid the cause is.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Canadian tow trucks look weird.

Canadian tow trucks look like pretty much any other tow truck. There's a very good chance somebody just took a picture of some tractors that participated in the protest and added that caption in the hopes that nobody would notice the difference and figure out that they were lying.

Is Martianmanchild an icoyar alt

Cacciato posted...

So even if Canada lifted the requirement, those truckers still wouldnt be allowed to drive into the US because of our policy. Is that where its at right now?

No, truckers entering into the US are exempt from any type of vaccine mandate. Adjl is just extremely bias and doesnt know what hes talking about.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/labor-secretary-says-most-truck-drivers-are-exempt-from-covid-mandate-handing-industry-a-win-.html

MartianManchild posted...

Adjl is just extremely good looking and knows what hes talking about.

FTFY

Listen Guy, your information is out of date and completely wrong (as ever) Buddy.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/foreign-truckers-must-be-vaccinated-enter-us-starting-jan-22

Yeah, maybe don't rely on articles from November to inform you about issues that arose in January. It's not the best look.

Cacciato posted...

So even if Canada lifted the requirement, those truckers still wouldnt be allowed to drive into the US because of our policy. Is that where its at right now?

Correct.

And the people organizing this thing are telling truckers not to check social media because people are pointing this out there.

I don't get why they say 'mainstream media isn't covering this' when not only is it the biggest news right now... but it's also a very tiny percentage of truckers who are ruining things for everyone.

When you argument rests on memes, you've spent too much time online.

MartianManchild posted...

No, truckers entering into the US are exempt from any type of vaccine mandate. Adjl is just extremely bias and doesnt know what hes talking about.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/labor-secretary-says-most-truck-drivers-are-exempt-from-covid-mandate-handing-industry-a-win-.html

So whats your response to everyone telling you that youre wrong and posting articles to support that?

Cacciato posted...

So whats your response to everyone telling you that youre wrong and posting articles to support that?

Probably just plugging his ears and ignoring what people have been saying all along.

MartianManchild posted...

No, truckers entering into the US are exempt from any type of vaccine mandate. Adjl is just extremely bias and doesnt know what hes talking about.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/labor-secretary-says-most-truck-drivers-are-exempt-from-covid-mandate-handing-industry-a-win-.html

Your article is from November.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/foreign-truckers-must-be-vaccinated-enter-us-starting-jan-22

Cacciato posted...

So whats your response to everyone telling you that youre wrong and posting articles to support that?

Bad memes and stupidity.