Pedophile conspiracy convoy says it is planning daily marches to 'shut down Ottawa'

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Elliot McDavid, another convoy organizer who made headlines harassing Chrystia Freeland last year, believes the Government of Alberta is colluding with insurance companies to produce child pornography and has claimed children are being “hunted down like animals” and “thrown in a rail car” by “degenerates on horseback.”

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To paraphrase a wise counter-protester in my town a couple of weeks ago :

“No one is trying to turn your kids gay or trans, we just want your gay and trans kids to feel safe and comfortable being who they are.”

pp’s base up to no good again???

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Maybe, I think I moved away before they existed.

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Depending how long ago this was, maybe you mean you moved away before they became so vocal? They only started to be noticed (in the mainstream press) during Harper’s time but they were around even before that (particularly supporters of the Reform Party).

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No way, guess we never heard too much out in the boonies of Nova Scotia. I took off during the Harper years.

I’m getting a headache reading this article and just trying to understand what they’re protesting

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After reading this :

Elliot McDavid, another convoy organizer who made headlines harassing Chrystia Freeland last year, believes the Government of Alberta is colluding with insurance companies to produce child pornography and has claimed children are being “hunted down like animals” and “thrown in a rail car” by “degenerates on horseback.”

It seems to be a march for better mental health services in rural Canada.

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[Lemmy Gold]

Excellent!

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I know we talk about the lack of mental health care being a huge factor in things like this, gun violence, etc, but what does that even look like? Are these people actively trying to find help and there’s a lack of resources?

If we had more resources, do you think people like this would even try to use them?

Honestly it just seems like a bunch of gullible people easily manipulated by what they read online, and I don’t know if medical health services will help them one bit. The other thing that get’s tossed around is lack of education, but as someone who technically didn’t finish high school and only spent a year in college, I feel like I have a much firmer grasp on reality than these clowns that make the news time and time again.

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You’re onto something. There is a video tracing the origins of the freedom convoy back to a fellow who believed he was on a holy mission… can’t find the link, but mental health services or just finding an outlet for frustration through dialogue is a start.

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Their hallucinations, as far as I can tell. It isn’t even worth trying to understand. Whoever started this round is probably laughing their ass off at how gullible these people are.

tHiNk oF Th3 cHildReN!1eleven!!

I feel like we all agree that “think of the children” is so commonly a plea for pitty or appeal to emotion that’s it has become a fallacy.
It’s often used for manipulation, to support censorship, stripping of rights, or reducing security.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

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