Granted, it didn't last as long as the trucker protest, but I feel like it's at least in the same ballpark.
> It’s fucking disturbing to see people equate BLM protests with what’s happening here. It’s not the same.
Other protests met with stronger state resistance also also involved more aggressive protest behavior. Rights to free speech and assembly have very specific legal boundaries, but that boundary isn't defined by the level of inconvenience felt by the locals.
Yes parking trucks and gathering thousands of protestors in one city has both economic and social impacts, but I have yet to see any legitimate reports of a pattern of violence, destruction, or intimidation.
The city recommended that restaurants in the area close, and on at least one occasion the government was also attempting to have all hotel reservations in the city cancelled. If economic impact on Ottawa was the primary concern, why was no one calling for the government to stop interfering with local businesses that could have provided their services to the protestors?
Is this a bit? Really? People can’t leave their houses in masks lest they be followed and harassed by the occupiers. The Happy Goat coffee shop had a brick thrown in its front window (where a pride flag hangs) 400 meters from the main Ottawa Police station. Emergency vehicles are being blocked. A woman walking to work at Mu Shu was sexually assaulted. That’s just off the top of my head.
Kindly shove it.
Honking 120 decibel horns through the night for weeks is not inconvenience. It’s clear you don’t live here.
Also, it's not in your interests to post this way, because it discredits the position you're arguing for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: also, we've had to ask you not to do this in the past, long before the current topic became a thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319713).
Democracy isn’t dictatorship of the majority. It’s supposed to be about compromise and respecting individuals while the majority makes decisions.
The losers of every “election” or people who aren’t represented by the governing party have a right to protest to make their voices heard.
Perhaps undermining democracy is an overstatement, I meant undermining those in power for the minority.
What I’ve just written I think applies both to the goals and vision of BLM and anti vaccine mandate protestors, interestingly.
Multiple people were killed at CHAZ in Seattle and the organizer of that insurrection (which was as close to the dictionary definition of an insurrection as they come) suffered no legal consequences and is now selling T-shirts.
You call that "state resistance"?
Oh, unless the violence you are referring to was the tear gassing from cops. There was a shit ton of that.