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Related: About this forumI wonder what goods this guy transports across the border to the US?
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Maybe it is as simple as the right wing, or the libertarian Koch family, in the USA wants the word "freedom" to have a specific emotional value in the hearts and minds of Canadians. If so, I don't think it is working as intended.
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I wonder what goods this guy transports across the border to the US? (Original Post)
applegrove
Feb 2022
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This has the smell of some of the nationalist demonstrations in Kiev the GRU engineered.
Ford_Prefect
Feb 2022
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Ford_Prefect
(8,219 posts)1. Vlad Putin has a hand in this stuff too, no doubt.
applegrove
(123,634 posts)2. Yes. They are all working together the authoritarians.
Ford_Prefect
(8,219 posts)3. This has the smell of some of the nationalist demonstrations in Kiev the GRU engineered.
applegrove
(123,634 posts)5. Yes it smells of a few things. And I don't just mean it is
the Canadian Goose Convoy: much honking and s****ing. (Not my joke) But we need more details. I read yesterday the Russians promoted the anti vax movement around the world online in 2018. I think it was only natural to expand that promotion when Covid came along. The goal may have always been to attack science and educated elites and divide.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,275 posts)6. This
Find a wedge issue to weaken us from within. Nothing new but they have been doing it since before trump. We are at war with the Soviets and it time we acknowledge it and fight it directly.
Geechie
(961 posts)4. They put the dumb in freedumb
IronLionZion
(47,136 posts)7. Maybe they have to keep buying American tires?
so burning them out is creating jobs for hard working tire makers.