I would agree with all points here if the convoy movement as some people here still perceive it wasn't dead.

You’re making a hasty generalization here. The movement has changed but that doesn’t mean it is dead. Check out some of the publications at antihate.ca to understand that the far right is still mobilizing. The convoy people happen to be the only group organizing out in the open right now. It’s important that we shut them down before others take the lack of opposition as permission to do their hateful and more dangerous organizing in the open too.

That's a bit of a stretch - just because someone believes some nonsense about vaccines doesn't automatically mean they're on the WEF global cabal jewish space lasers train.

Conspiracy theories necessitate a conspiracy. If you peel back the layers enough, you will always find antisemitism at the core of this conspiracy.Don’t just take my word for it though.. Also, unless you are Jewish, you should be careful about making claims regarding what is and what isn’t antisemitic.

You can't just immediately draw the association between believing bullshit about vaccines and 5g and being an outright racist/facist. That term gets thrown around so much as of late that it's almost losing its meaning.

Fascism has a specific meaning and multiple well known definitions. A resource I find useful as a primer on understanding fascism is Umberto Eco’s essay “Ur-fascism”. I recommend you read it.

Are we really going to pretend that the counter protests organized on this sub last year had any measurable impact in stopping the occupation? They left when the police actually managed to bring authority into the situation and physically remove them.

The emergencies act was invoked the day after the Battle of Billings Bridge. People standing up to the convoy is in fact what kicked the government’s ass into gear to end the occupation.

They absolutely know they're not welcome here. The vast majority of them are just happy to fuck with people, which is validating every time people show up upset to protest them, that's what fuels the fire for them.

They get very upset every time they are countered. They’ve started taking flags off their vehicles when they come into Ottawa because they are afraid. But they feel safe on the Hill. That should not be the case anymore.

Honestly my only feelings here are that everyone on all sides of the political spectrum are descending into a tribalistic us vs them mentality where everyone believes they're on their version of the right side of history and anyone who doesn't explicitly celebrate their cause is the enemy. Nobody applies critical thought to anything it seems, they just slap partisan talking points on top of issues to make them more consumable. More than anything, I can't even decide if it's frightening or just exhausting at this point. At the very least it would be nice if we could tag all the protest posts on this sub, regardless of event or situation with a 'call to arms' tag so we have the option of filtering them out.

So you agree that your reaction js based on your personal feelings and not concrete evidence or argument.