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Definition of fascism 1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascistic) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control early instances of army fascism and brutality— J. W. Aldridge Above is copied from the first link of the Google search "definition of fascism", now to me that says this; "Fascism quick and dirty definition: my way or your dead" I do not think ANYONE on this sight is a fascist, intolerant of opposing views and opinions maybe, but not a fascist. Has this word become the go to insult when loosing or feeling like you are loosing an argument. We all are so quick to go to this when faced with a someone who feels strongly in their beliefs. I challenge each of to stop this. I do not think I have in post said that you are not entitled to your beliefs or opinions; and if I have I fully and repentantly apologize for that. Now even I have called someone's opinion silly and many have called other opinions stupid, sadly some including me have lost our cool and called the person stupid. Not having a college degree does not equal stupid, it simply means that other people learned from the school of hard knocks while you got to sit in a classroom and be lectured at. That being said if I called you stupid I was upset and did not step away and take a breath before typing. Shame on me. That is a me problem as an adult should be responsible enough to engage intelligent debate with out muck raking. Sorry I am human, still working on that whole let there be light thing. I can flick the light switch but I don't think that counts. lol Anyway, Do you really think people whose views oppose yours are fascist? If so, why? When did not agreeing on something begin to mean one of the other was a fascist?

The EMA can be invoked if a few blocks in Ottawa are congested with a protest? Or if Ottawa residents are inconvenienced in any way? Are you sure about that? Who's the real ? here? I mean besides Trudeau.

It was part of the hearing yesterday. If you didn't watch it, should you really be commenting?

Call that hearsay.. So the government violated a person's right to protest based on hearsay.. I guess now the threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act is not fact but rather something bad that someone thought up

Large mobs of people making a lot of noise, brandishing F*** TRUDEAU slogans are not places most people feel safe. For a day or two, you'd just avoid it. When it lasts for weeks you can't. Most of these folks didn't think the protestors were evil. They thought the protestors were losers - loud, angry and ignorant losers.

indeed, it's all laid out very succinctly in the book by the University of Ghent Professor of Clinical Psychology; Mattias Desmet The Psychology of Totalitarianism https://www.amazon.ca/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet/dp/1645021726

and the poison pill therein is Section One of the Charter because what the Liberals are doing is invoking one exponential crisis after the next whipping the population up into one social panic after the next, by way of their media propaganda arms the world is ending due to climate change : Emergency ! there is an outbreak of a new flu like virus : Emergency ! and the latest one of course; "the American white supremacists are invading" : Emergency ! everything is invoked as an emergency on the scale of a World War with the Nazis at the gates thus Section One is then invoked to negate all your other rights after the country is being kept in a permanent state of emergency which is exactly how the Bolsheviks negated all the supposed rights in the Soviet constitution on paper the USSR had a bill of rights similar to the American one, just like Canada does the Bolsheviks simply declared that the enemies were at the gates, so it was an Emergency ! a never ending emergency that went on for 75 years

Not really. Some truckers are independent, which means that they own their own rigs and contract out to companies. They can give up jobs and money to support a cause. You really don’t account for the large number of protesters who were vaccinated and were not truckers but saw the arbitrariness and overreach. I attended the protests one day and what I saw was a total contradiction of what was presented by CBC and CTV. It was multi-racial, peaceful, festive, and many of the protesters were people I’d consider left-leaning on abortion. “My body, my choice” signs were everywhere. Farmers were there. Civil liberties groups, Eastern Europeans, and intellectuals were there talking feverishly. Many people commented on the atmosphere feeling like communist crackdowns in former Eastern Block countries. Also, people often did have to compromise because they have mouths to feed and can’t afford to lose their jobs. The government put people under immense pressure to comply with unnecessary mandates. Your take on the protests is quite superficial. I also laugh when I hear how Ottawans were inconvenienced when I think about the violence and vandalizing protests we’ve seen among other activist groups in the past. The fact that Trudeau didn’t meet with them and disparaged them, painting them as white supremacists and misogynists with “unacceptable views” was so divisive. I don’t care what you moral cowards think anymore. I see you as the reason why totalitarianism takes hold. It’s the “I was following orders” mentality. Wimpville.

Biden did ask the Saudis to delay the cut until after the election. Now he’s going to stop weapons sales to them in retaliation. Remember when that was impeachable? Now Biden is tapping the strategic petroleum reserve to try to minimize election losses. That should be impeachable. The reserve is at a 40 year low because of Biden actions in trying to shield Americans from his terrible policies.

Watching the FBI director speak is like watching day 1 of course in "Lie Detection 101". Every time she finished speaking she either suppressed or failed to suppress a "duping smile".

Dude, you have no conception of the timeframe involved and the interim damage. Just stop already ffs. Your posts are a horror show.

I was hoping when I joined this forum I wouldn't meet such monumental stupidity, but apparently it is universal. Wind and solar are NOT the only alternative sources BEING currently explored. Let's be clear, oil and gas are finite. As the supply diminishes the cost for oil and gas will increase. A simple search of the internet would inform you what other resources there are. Example: https://justenergy.com/blog/why-alternative-energy-sources-are-future/ https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/alternative-energy-sources Making simplistic statements without actually doing any research is the refuge of a simple mind. Sorry if that sounds like an insult, but you walked right into it.

Ethics are too 'woke' for a Republican.

Oh FFS how thick can one possibly be? The 'mandate' was on the border so it applied to international truckers who crossed the border too. They told them there was no special exemption for them, and that was that. The ones who wanted their job got a jab, the few who's whiney personal 'religion' was more important than their job didn't. And your job isn't a right.

Let’s try this again. The mods don’t like quoting news sources apparently but the headline says it all. John Durham’s multi-year Trump-initiated conspiracy witch hunt is a failure Clinton 2016 campaign lawyer acquitted of lying to the FBI https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-hillary-clinton-john-durham-presidential-elections-59158f83bd6a9159b420f2b04848b77f Vindicated by jury,unlike all those Trump crooks who were actually convicted and sent to prison Another Trumptard conspiracy theory gets debunked! The Trumptard track record of lies and failure continues Say it with me now 3…2…1…CONSPIRACYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

First of all...CO carbon monoxide. 1 part carbon and 1 part oxygen. Sugar can kill. Hell oxygen can kill. But running around yelling "carbon kills" with a mouth that is carbon based...is just fear porn. I often wonder...what must it be like, to be afraid of everything? Carbon The Rona Russians Religion Police Hell half the population. And every button Libbies push...comes with a giant pricetag. Almost as if...Libbies hate our world and the humans on it.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of videos of the protest that were uploaded showing a peaceful protest. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." ~~ George Orwell ~~

Blocking off the downtown core of Ottawa. ?

Erm, well, so far there's not much in the way of backups, evidence or proof. The hotel lied and exaggerated. The rest, on questioning, had no proof of anything - No police reports, nothing. Just going by what they "heard". Like the supposed homeless man that was allegedly beat up. There's no police report, no one even knows his name. This smacks to me as nothing more than "throw enough mud at a wall, and some of it is bound to stick" and the old propaganda trick of repeating a lie over and over until people think it's true.

Agreed. The other day, a lady testified at the hearing (I think she was a community association board member of some sort). She said she "heard" that Canadian Tire sold out of knives and bear spray during the protest so residents were afraid. Asked if she confirmed this with Canadian Tire - answer "No" . Asked if she investigated if it was members of the protest who bought the items - answer "No". Asked if the EMA criteria for invoking it included sales of bear spray - answer "No". Crime actually went DOWN significantly during the protest, so claims of being "afraid" of the truckers are, as you say, from privileged a-holes.

Poor Beave, he never gets to visit reality so he never gets to see what the rest of us see. Tell ya what Beave. Here's another one. Go ahead peek. We won't tell Prog on you. Nobody over on our side is going to call you Q or incel for a little peek at what they don't want you to see.

If it's on fox, I strongly suspect it's just another cheap shot and supported by the obligatory allegeds and someone with a grudge told me.

Yet he won't answer the question on why just churches? Why not Universities? Professors make students purchase a book they wrote as class material.

No, you are off base again. This is an example of another attempt to remove the tax exemption of churches by anti- Christian atheists. This is just another part of the heathen direction Canada has been heading for decades. Haven't they already done something like this in Inuvik? Churches are not a money-making or a for-profit business. They depend on donations by people who have already paid taxes on their donations.

Clearly incorrect as shown.

You're absolutely right. What's happening here is that 'game of words' thing the Progressive and corporate left likes. There's a spreading technique of corrupting the system to take broader control. It's being spread under different terms but it's all under the same umbrella. And when it's all complete yeah, you won't see much difference between it and what we're calling the Chinese Social Credit system. The corporate left is using this thing they call ESG. Have you heard about that one? But that's finance down rather than government down. Actual or what I'll call non-Mikey conservatives are starting to fight back though. Last week 4 Republican states withdrew all government investment from financial brokers using ESG.

1. Your opinion is noted, and then ignored. Your right to cough on your coworkers is not guaranteed. And said government handed out cheques to legal experts like you who would have starved... I don't doubt that those cheques paid for a lot of that gas in those trucks in Ottawa in February. 2. Is it a joke or a problem ? Take a stand, man

1. So the courts, the institutions and all of the Canadian legal system has been compromised... that's some faith in institutions you've got there. I think you should be revolting, if you aren't already. 2. Of course you have the right to disagree. Again - on your nap time read up a little. And speaking of hurt feelings, the fact that that people think you're a d*ck for not liking LGBTQ is your problem not theirs. No constitutional protection will soothe YOUR little hurt feelings.

Incorrect. The mandate was for border crossing, anybody crossing the border. It was also a US mandate to get into the US.

The right to disagree is protected, there is no right to be exempt from taxes.

Lefties are deceitful and have no integrity. Saul Alinskys rules for radicals, which is a foundational book in the religion of woke, says lying and deciet are perfectly good mechanisms to reach the end goal. It's why some in the religion of woke say theyd rather be morally correct (which they define) than factually correct... in other words they make up stuff to look morally superior

Dougie is about 90% correct in my opinion. I have a different take on Hegel because I studied him and know how Marx corrupted his ideas. Otherwise Dougie is describing the totalitarian creep that has taken hold in Canada. I think it’s the result of a mixture of naïveté before international ideologues and the rise of Chinese surveillance totalitarian capitalism, the rise of the influence of A.I. data driven management, identity politics, Trudeau’s narcissistic need to appear virtuous (despite his hypocrisy and removal/denigrating of opposition), and the blunt, slow-moving instruments used to solve perceived “crises”. Our weak constitutional protections simply caved under these forces. A different leader could do things quite differently, but the fact that Trudeau could act so arbitrarily and impose the E.A. so unaccountably tells us how weak our “democracy” really is.

You claim the thread title is misleading and then make a misleading post, troll much? Here’s a quote, lifted from the article: “She called for council to follow “the spirit and intent” of a recently passed bylaw in Iqaluit, which requires institutions to apply for tax breaks, and then prove they operate for the common good in a way that aligns with the city’s long-term plans. Watkinson said she’d like to see a Saskatoon version include language tying tax breaks to support for the rights enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code.” That the city council is even giving time that that extremist is nuts, and these things don’t happen by accident. Try posting with some integrity.

Your deceit isn't fooling anyone. Lefties admire the Chinese style social credit system and have already imposed parts of it through job and opportunity losses for not taking a faulty vaxx. Now their push is to destroy religious institutions, specifically churches, who do not support the woke agenda. This is clear as day and is already happening in Nunavut

all the tenets of Communism are in play first of all, the Utopianism the purpose of Canada is now asserted be saving the world from "racism, misogyny & carbon" then the Collectivism your individual rights & liberties are negated in the name of the rights of the Collective then the Hegelian Dialectic the "intolerable" people with "unacceptable views" must be removed from society then there is Equity you are no longer equal before the law, in the name of making everyone equal in terms of outcomes then the Authoritarianism, anyone who dissents is subjected to Chinese Communist style internal exile the government is no longer fiscally responsible, they simply print money to fund everything the government has crossed the threshold to seizing private property without court order you are no longer permitted to peacefully assemble and protest, that is now deemed to be "illegal" decisions are not taken by Parliament, the PM simply issues edicts from his office like a philosopher king the government has been purging senior officers from the chain of command on trumped up charges the government has been whipping up hatred against Jews & Christians the public school system has been rendered into indoctrination camps there is total surveillance of the population, every single thing you do is tracked & recorded the police no longer require probable cause to investigate you on the streets there is no longer a free press, the entire press is just a propaganda arm for one political party & ideology the government has invoked martial law under false pretenses the government is deliberately whipping up one hysterical social panic after the next in order to run the country in a permanent state of emergency the list goes on and on, and is getting longer all the time and the people genuinely fear the government people are afraid to speak up, the vast majority are simply keeping their heads down in fear of reprisal

How do you post thread titles like that in good conscience? A retired professor spoke at a city government meeting, that's all that happened here. Your grasp of reality is weakened by your hysterical paranoia. You should stop posting and get some rest.

Completely misleading title for this topic.

Read the article. Using some alleged abuse that happened in the 1990s as a guise to attack people's religion and tie your worthiness as a charity to whether or not you bow the knee to the latest woke cause citing "human rights code". Which of course that's going to mean you can only recieve the tax exempt status if you support sexual deviancy.

Well you sure as hell seem to. You are the one who is acting on faith by ignoring the findings of the thousands of scientists who have been studying this for decades. You are the one relying on the religion of denial.

Not really. What recently happened(last week or so) is the Biden admin released more oil from the emergency reserves, which is temporarily manipulating the gas prices downward. Until after the mid terms. Plus, the Covid mid term variant has been released to facilitate mail in voting(stay at home, everyone!). Mail in ballots are easier to commit fraud with.

And that never happened in white schools, regular schools, boarding schools, never happened to kids in the custody of the childrens' aid societies. Never happened in churches or boy scout outings. Never happened in their own homes. And you think that means giving preferential treatment to an immigrant kid because his or her skin is black or brown?

Someone who has made up their mind before it even started can say that.

I am not defending anything. No one is downplaying anything. No, I do not see any infringement. A public health crisis was managed as best as the authority could and , blaming Trudeau, you know that is incorrect. The lock downs and so much more were provincially established. Employers were also culpable in their actions to protect their employees from health issues. Your one sides approch is what is wrong with you and a few others on this forum. The truckers on wellington street shit on their own beds. The real truckers kept on trucking. No rose coloured glasses are needed to know that the huge majority of truckers did just fine and did not make asses of themselves and did not have to be accosted through the EMA. Now, the inquiry is going on and the witnesses, from all sides, including your hero lich and whatshisname get to say their piece. You have been nowhere, except in front of your keyboard and screen and have done nothing except whine on a public forum . Yours, and a few other criticisms are long and tired by now but, the topic is the public inquiry going on right now.

Fascism is it environmental fascism to admit that over the THOUSANDS of years that humans have lived on this planet that they have in fact effected the environment. You original post did not say China. It did not say South America. It did not say Asia or Europe. It SAYS HUMANS. Do not call people that disagree with you fascist unless you are ready to be proven to be an idiot of the highest order. Fascist do not debate about whether they are right or wrong they simply kill anyone that disagrees with them. Much easier to maintain order that way. Fascist do not quote science, articles different speakers to improve their arguments. They argue with firing squads and hangman nooses. You said HUMANS, and THAT is WHY YOU ARE WRONG and will STAY WRONG until you realize your error. Now I am willing to bet NO ONE on this site disagrees with ANYTHING you said about the United States being one of if not the cleanest country in the world. But you said HUMANS not the UNITED STATES. Humans have built Dams, canals cities, roads, farms, and none of these things effected the environment? Dams do not flood areas when they are finished? Canals do not produce new water ways that connect to previously not touching bodies of water? This ALL effects the environment. and changes the climate of the world. You sir are a primidone, who throws insults when proven wrong. YOU SAID HUMANS CANNOT CHANGE THE CLIMATE. We have proven you wrong while you argued about individual countries. If you want to argue about what individual countries are doing do not say HUMANS. HUMANS means we get to include ALL of human history, and the ENTIRE PLANET in our argument against you. Admittedly I started it by calling you a sad insane little clown, and while I do apologize for loosing my cool. If the shoe fits.

You are a sad little insane clown. It is not EnviroKarenism to admit that Human HAVE and CAN changed the environment you mouth breather.

Yes, and I can honestly say that if we give up traditions and reduce society to having numbered holidays and turning our social contract into a collective agreement between those in power and those who are doing the bulk of the work at the bottom, that’s communism. Who will assert the founding cultural traditions of Canada? So far it’s the Québécois, splintered Indigenous groups, and self-segregated newcomers from Muslim or atheist societies. It’s fair to assert Canadian traditions, including English Canadian ones, yet we are constantly being told by our own government to suppress that identity because it’s racist or colonial. Of course we know that other more recent immigrant cultures are asserting themselves with much affirmation. I don’t even oppose that. Celebrate your traditions, but don’t seek to strip away the culture of your new homeland. I’d never expect Egypt to be less Egyptian or France to be less French because I move there.

So far it's a lot of complaints about noise and congestion, some unproven anecdotes (one witness talked about a homeless man getting beat up but could not provide a name, police report or any other information). If you look at the criteria for declaring the Emergency Act, inconvenience and noise are not part of the criteria for declaring a national emergency and imposing martial law across the country.

None of those things will change US gas prices. You know what will reduce US gas prices? Renewable energy and electric cars.