The protests were linked to concerns over personal freedoms and government overreach. Mainly related to COVID-19 mandates and stay at home recommendations.

Supporters saw the movement as a grassroots stand for liberty against government overreach.

*edit the freedom convoy organised 3 years ago in 2022 as pointed out by commenter’s.

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    The US citizens being detained and deported by secret police.

    The protesting students with green cards being deported for protesting.

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        Everyone who can get pregnant has lost the ability to have safe care if they’re in a state with an abortion ban. Someone close to me was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for the crime of having an ectopic pregnancy and only survived because she saved herself when doctors wouldn’t out of fear of being retaliated against.

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          Utter nonsense. There isn’t a single doctor anywhere who wouldn’t treat a completely nonviable and dangerous ectopic pregnancy.

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        How many people’s unalienable rights are acceptable to revoke?

        Or do violations of human rights only matter when it inevitably effects you and the people you care about?

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          Do you care about people who lost their job because they didn’t want to get the jab? Even if they had verifiable natural immunity from infection? Or what if they followed all the rules and mandates, but their livelihood was ruined anyway because they weren’t connected to the right people or because they were considered non essential by some ambiguous criteria? Walmart was able to stay open, but small local stores and restaurants were forced to close, forever eliminating Walmart’s competition in small towns across the country. And what about the generation of kids whose education suffered, who sacrificed against their futures to possibly slightly reduce the risk of the privileged and fearful elderly ruling class? Years of critical developmental time lost forever, and for reasons that were increasingly disconnected from real science. Where is your empathy for the kids? They had no say in it or ability to advocate for themselves but were forced to bear the largest burden despite being the lowest risk. These injustices were behind the American support for the Canadian convoy. Where were you during that time? Don’t lecture me about hypocrisy. No, I’m not as concerned about people who decided to come here illegally or if they made some bad decisions while here on a temporary basis. Most of those situations will resolve in time, but late cancer diagnoses, accidental overdoses, suicides, and the previous examples I mentioned are long term, lasting impacts. Yes, I have much more empathy for them.

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            Detaining someone against their will for speaking out against a genocide is not comparable to choosing not to hire someone because they don’t care about getting their coworkers sick.

            You are desperate to compare the inconveniences in your life to actual injustice, it speaks to your position of privlage and the entitlement you feel for existing.

            Grow up idiot