Comments by "" (@Green__one) on "TLDR News Global" channel.

Support is a lot higher than that, it's the question that was slanted. The truckers themselves have been demonized in the media so the fact that you ask people if they support them and still get a third of the population saying yes is very telling. A more interesting poll was when Canadians were asked about the specific points the truckers are protesting about, without asking about support for the truckers. That poll showed 54% of the population shared the same views as the truckers. Considering 54% is a significantly higher portion of the population then any political party in recent memory has garnered in an election, it seems pretty dangerous to describe the majority of the population as a radical Fringe.
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The bigger point they missed is that polls show that 54% of the population have exactly the same views as the truckers towards the mandates, it's all about how you phrase the question. The truckers have been falsely accused of being extremist nuts instead of the peaceful protesters they actually are, so the fact that 32% of the population still claim that they support them despite those false accusations is really telling. So by asking people if they support the truckers you get a very different answer than if you ask if they support all the same things that the truckers stand for. I must say that this reporting from tldr was much better than I expected given their usual very left-wing stances, but it still followed much closer to the left-wing talking points, and the reality on the ground. The reality is that there has been no violence at all, not mostly peaceful, completely peaceful. There were two examples of people carrying racist flags, in the first example the protesters themselves immediately escorted the person out, and in the second example they set up a reward to try to identify who the person was. It was also interesting to note that in both cases those particular people were masked, and those were the only masks that we've seen so far. It would be easy to suspect that those people were planted. And while there was an incident of some minor graffiti on a memorial, what is being reported is that the protest organizers have since cleaned and polished the memorials in the area, and established 24-hour security around them. They've also been picking up garbage in the area, and overall the crime rate in the city has gone down, not up during the protest.
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Polls show that 54% of the population want an end to all mandates at this point. So to claim that only 32% support the truckers shows that more than 20% of the population has bought into the lies being spread by the media about the protest.
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Thing is there are no Nazis in their protest, two people showed up with flags out of thousands of people, the first one was immediately escorted out by the protesters themselves, and the second one the protesters have a financial reward being offered for identifying them. In both cases they're the only masked people in the protest, and would be easy to believe that those people were there specifically to discredit the protest. Keep in mind that truckers are a very diverse group in Canada, there is no one ethnicity. One of the main protest organizers is a métis woman, she didn't sound too pleased to be described by Trudeau as a misogynistic racist.
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@r31n0ut so in what way do you propose preventing those people from showing up in the first place, because apparently denouncing them after the fact doesn't help in your mind neither does escorting them out of the area. Going by your standards all it would take is one person to walk near your house with a flag and suddenly I would have to call you a Nazi. That's hardly fair!
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It's far worse than that 32% quoted here, 54% of the population wants an end to all mandates. The fact that only 32% claim to support the protest just shows how successful the lies in the media have been a demonizing the peaceful protesters.
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Why would you compare this protest which has had a grand total of zero violence, to the BLM protests which involved cities on fire and massive looting of businesses?
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I think you missed the fact that the noise does not go well into the night. The horns always stopped at 8:00 p.m. and now there are no horns at all.
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You missed the other more obvious answer on how to solve these problems. Don't print trillions of dollars of money and then you won't need to raise rates sharply in the first place!
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The disrespect shown by cleaning those and providing 24-hour security? There has never been a more peaceful protest than this one anywhere in the world as far as I can tell. The media are trying to paint it as a violent insurrection, and yet no one's been hurt. Property has not been damaged, it's been protected, the protesters have been cleaning up garbage, calling the police anytime they see an illegal act, feeding the homeless. The protesters raised three quarters of a million dollars to fund clean water on first Nations reserves. To try to equate this with the violence and destruction of protests like BLM is extremely disingenuous.
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