New Canadian Politics Thread

[leafman101]

Abandon Ottawa to the truckers. We’d be better off probably, but you gotta clear the border. It’s insane they haven’t done anything yet.

 

[lecoqsportif]

someone is fanning the flames of this, and based on what we know about Russia and Chinas goals of sowing discord in western society its probably one or both of them. China hates us.

even once this mess ends there is just going to be something else. I read that something like 70% of the christian/Trump Facebook pages are run by troll farms. Social Media is the perfect tool for our enemies to exploit to turn us against each other and paralyze our
Democracies. The anger the algorithm thrives on to attract out attention is too easy to take advantage of.

this is a big problem. “Grass roots” movements are having much of their “information” created by overseas troll farms and bankrolled by large anonymous donors. The whole intent is to create this mess.

The troll farms are often in 3rd countries. It’s been said on the sources for this disturbance is in Viet Nam.

 

[mbow30]

someone is fanning the flames of this, and based on what we know about Russia and Chinas goals of sowing discord in western society its probably one or both of them. China hates us.

even once this mess ends there is just going to be something else. I read that something like 70% of the christian/Trump Facebook pages are run by troll farms. Social Media is the perfect tool for our enemies to exploit to turn us against each other and paralyze our
Democracies. The anger the algorithm thrives on to attract out attention is too easy to take advantage of.

this is a big problem. “Grass roots” movements are having much of their “information” created by overseas troll farms and bankrolled by large anonymous donors. The whole intent is to create this mess.

No question.
But the way out is a hard road.

 

[mbow30]

The troll farms are often in 3rd countries. It’s been said on the sources for this disturbance is in Viet Nam.

The question is who is funding the troll farms?

 

[leafman101]

The troll farms are often in 3rd countries. It’s been said on the sources for this disturbance is in Viet Nam.

yeah but they just do the work. Someone is paying them to.

 

[lecoqsportif]

It’ll be doubly embarrassing when we see the police response in other countries. You wanna do this in London or Paris? Good luck…

7000 cops. Water canons. Tear gas.

Protests against Covid restrictions held in France and Netherlands

French police fire teargas in Paris, while convoy of vehicles brings The Hague’s city centre to standstill

www.theguardian.com

 

[lecoqsportif]

yeah but they just do the work. Someone is paying them to.

Yeah some of Russian stuff was from the Balkans, likely paid for by kleptocrats. Plausible deniability for the Kremlin.

 

[MindzEye]

Its mental how limp dicked our response has been

 

[hockeylover]

There's only about 100 people there, no? I don't get it.

 

[lecoqsportif]

The question is who is funding the troll farms?

We can see terrorist money move around. In fact, that’s also how the FBI saw the FIFA kickbacks that led to those arrests a few years ago.

 

[zeke]

someone is fanning the flames of this, and based on what we know about Russia and Chinas goals of sowing discord in western society its probably one or both of them. China hates us.

even once this mess ends there is just going to be something else. I read that something like 70% of the christian/Trump Facebook pages are run by troll farms. Social Media is the perfect tool for our enemies to exploit to turn us against each other and paralyze our
Democracies. The anger the algorithm thrives on to attract out attention is too easy to take advantage of.

this is a big problem. “Grass roots” movements are having much of their “information” created by overseas troll farms and bankrolled by large anonymous donors. The whole intent is to create this mess.

This has been the whole game for a while now. This is the actual issue. And all of right wing media is in on it.

 

[lecoqsportif]

The question is who is funding the troll farms?

Bannon’s network, I’d wager. They can deploy anywhere at a moments notice.

 

[lecoqsportif]

There's only about 100 people there, no? I don't get it.

Some of them must be armed, and the cops know it. It’s the only thing I can think of.

 

[leafman101]

I think they are just trying to avoid using force and hoping it plays out on its own. Which is the right impulse. But you can’t shut down the border for weeks. It’s way too damaging. There has to be a line.

 

[lecoqsportif]

I think they are just trying to avoid using force and hoping it plays out on its own. Which is the right impulse. But you can’t shut down the border for weeks. It’s way too damaging. There has to be a line.

It’s no bueno. Very bad for our reputation.

I wonder what the truckers that make the auto sector just in time function think of all this.

 

[zeke]

 

[hockeylover]

Toronto seems to be taking the "massive show of force as a deterrence" route this weekend so we'll see if that plan works better. Seems to have so far.

 

[lecoqsportif]

OK, that kinda makes sense. Whittle them down to a core of loony true believers. I like that a lot more than the presence of guns.

 

[zeke]

 

[leafman101]

If they were for hot tub parties I think they’d have a lot more support.