Carlton Supporters Club

Be careful of trusting those polls, often the sponsors pre-determine the result by careful choice of both question and participant.

Interesting.  Without context, the line between being a nazi and actively fighting what one perceives as one seems to be a very, very fine line. 

Some of the comments about government authoritarianism is quite shocking.

People have the right to protest against what they're witnessing is a government disservice.

Here we see people advocating for frozen bank accounts, loss of livelihoods and potentially lives.

When I watch a movie like the pianist, which action resembles a Jewish person being ostracised?  Is it right to do that, and if you're advocating for government action resembling this, then careful you aren't standing on the wrong side of history later.  Most government actions are not fully understood whilst injustice is being done until much later and I see people almost advocating for gulags to become the way to deal with recalcitrant citizens.

Very interesting to see the psychology at work.

Maybe I'm sheltered, but it appears to me you have to be within certain circles to even see or stumble across these sorts of reports, that may well be a tell that they are a tad partisan.

There seems to be a lot of self-fertilization going around!

When Black Lives Matter or other liberal protest groups block a road for an evening, there is no shortage of calls for violence. Right-wing legislators hastily pass laws that would make it legal to run over protesters, and conservative pundits flood the airwaves and social media to decry the unspeakable horror of holding up traffic for a few hours.

But now that a very loud but ultimately small group of white people in Canada have disrupted the flow of goods and people for weeks, their tone is, predictably, different. Black people and their allies protesting police brutality is an affront to the American project. But fighting for the liberty to contract an infectious disease and give it to your neighbor? That’s called freedom, baby.

It’s no coincidence that the BLM protests — large and diverse in nature — are treated differently than a small minority of white people protesting public health measures. The protests, which have altered significant parts of daily Canadian life, are providing American conservatives a taste of what they’ve been dreaming of for so long: white minority rule.

Conservative news media and other supporters of the Canadian truckers have made it a point to prioritize the feelings and wants of a perpetually aggrieved white minority who believe their so-called freedoms are more important than the health and livelihood of the majority of Canadians.

I quoted it ... I didn't participate LP.  Look at the US VP.  Another dead duck.

With these future elections...surely it will boil down to who Putin wants to win.

I've contacts in Canada, they tell me the effect of the transport blockade was particularly bad in regional areas, there they basically found empty shelves in supermarkets, no fuel for heating, a shortage of critical medicines.

The media focussed on the impact the blockade had on the commercial world, a shortage of supplies for car makers, etc., and completely ignored the human cost. Just another sign of how sick the media has become.

What alarms me is how quickly things deteriorated, not unlike our great bog roll shortage of 2020, imagine that applying to pretty much everything!

The other thing that is alarming is how little disruption is required to send things into a spin, I heard one estimate the road blockade reduce supply by less than 20%, yet still having 80% of what is normally available had a massive impact. But I suppose the tell is in the impact of regional areas. It's not that they all get 20% less universally, the problem is that 80% of people are basically not affected, and 20% might get nothing at all, it is not linear. If you are at the end of the supply chain, bad luck for you!