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They swapped out a lockdown friendly premiere for one of their own and took over the second largest political party installing their earliest biggest supporter as its head...
Future victories are vastly easier now than they were in Dec 2021. Hell they;re one of the major factions of Canadian life.
Moldbug has this psychological block that many right wing comsmopolitans have where because his tribe of people his family, the people he grew up around, will always be ravenous leftists, he doesn't think kulak redneck victories are meaningful, it just makes everyone he knows hate them more...
Ya Moldbug didn't make any progress within his tribe and they'll only double down on their hatred of people that think like him... but that doesn't matter to the wider right! Their goal isn't to persuade or influence the cosmopolitan tribe its to cripple it and slowly destroy it.
Moldbug should feel the walls closing in... that's what happens when a tribe you can't defect from starts losing.
This is a correct analysis, but Canada is far from that yet. The protests have not crippled Trudeauism, they have upped the ante. Trudeau abused his power at the time, and has now abused it again by standing up phonies to whitewash it. This game might end in failure if the next election replaces the regime with an angry and effective alternative. Or else it might just confirm that the regime's right to power is above Canadian democracy.
It could go either way, but I suspect the median Canadian voter prefers to sleepwalk into dictatorship. The denial tastes so good. That's on them, the truckers have done as well as anyone could.
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No. Not only are future victories not easier, future battles likely won't even be attempted because those who would fight them remember what happened the last time.
What happened last time is the Canadian economy lost millions, with billions in trade being stalled out due to cross border blockades. This hit the government where it hurts, and showed that it doesn’t take much, just a few trucks to do major damage. That means something.
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Seriously? Do you think that next time the Canadian government tries this, it will be ruled unconstitutional and lead to no serious penalties for the protestors?
Who gives a fuck what the courts rule? Who gives a fuck about these slap on the wrist penalties?
Dozens of people were arrested, the penalties were basically non-existent, and it just emboldened them.
I know dozens who were arrested and radicalized.
There have been dozens of convoy protests since! There was no chilling effect because the regime's impotence has been demonstrated.
You’re wasting your time, people on the motte are very blackpilled and demoralized to the point they can’t see a win as a win.
Because motteizeans are not, on average, any more red tribe than the people imposing Covid restrictions even if they agree ideologically.
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They are a helpless bunch, looking for any excuse to do nothing. When you tell them they may have to sacrifice something to express themselves against the government, out come the stalin analogies. They want the government to read their minds and execute perfectly at zero cost to themselves. They’re the traumatized girl who just couldn’t find the courage to say no.
The original policy papers on pandemics said ‘The people will never accept lockdowns’. Those who opposed them but didn’t protest in some way have massively empowered the government they seemingly despise. Then they complain that they get ignored. The government is right to ignore opinions that aren’t backed by anything. You get the government you deserve.
Those who protested got shut down, harshly and often violently; they were then hounded later even after being beaten in the moment. Complaining that people didn't protest and that's why the government can ignore them is blatantly ignoring what actually happened.
So those fines are the extent of the stalinist repression you can’t take? All the fines over all the protestors, that must be like 2 dollars. You can’t spare 2 dollars to express your anti-lockdown views?
The fines aren't the only thing they did. They also took his business and threw him in jail. The hounding later just shows that they hold a grudge, and once you start with the government, the government will never be done with you. And of course he's not the only one NJ punished for protesting; the state regularly broke up protests and arrested protestors. Pretending the state was "empowered" by lack of protest is just rubbing salt in the wound; the state has real power, the kind that flows from the barrel of a gun.
Dissidents have historically faced far worse outcomes than this. Even this way of putting it considerably understates the discrepancy. This is lower than suffragette level of protest repression.
You’re encouraging political disengagement by pretending the state is an undefeatable force. That’s a message dictators put out because they are empowered by that belief, and our government is too. Of course, the dictators are lying and never as secure as they claim.
As long as the government thought the people would protest lockdowns, they wouldn’t implement them. Only when most people turned pro-lockdown, and the opposition to it was muted, did they do so. So this force, as powerful as it might be, is to a large degree controlled by the people, their opinions and actions.
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