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Gaugamela

(2,496 posts)
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:52 AM Feb 2022

US anti-vaccine mandate campaigners aim to mimic Canadian convoy tactic

A group of American truckers are seeking to import a Canadian movement to protest against vaccine mandates, with thousands of members on social media pledging to bring the demonstration to Washington DC next month.

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US organizers operating a Facebook group called Convoy to DC 2022 quickly gained more than 100,000 members and announced a convoy next month. But the Facebook group was recently removed by Meta.

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Since being banned on Facebook the organizers of the convoy have moved to Telegram, where more than 28,000 have joined. The Guardian has reported on the rightwing exodus to alt-tech platforms like Telegram.


I wouldn’t be surprised if we see actions like this in D.C. when the 1/6 Commission starts holding public hearings.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/04/us-anti-vaccine-mandate-convoy-canada
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lapfog_1

(29,215 posts)
1. when these guys finish with the stupid Russians
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:56 AM
Feb 2022

maybe they can come here and take out the Russian funded fuck-nuts

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
4. Then expect shortages.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 11:58 AM
Feb 2022

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Those unvaccinated do not realize they are the ones PROLONGING the pandemic.

Their right to infect others shall not be infringed.

ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
12. Tighty whities as my former preschool-aged child called them...
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 01:10 PM
Feb 2022

when referring to undies. They could double as masks in a pinch for RWNJs.

jmbar2

(4,902 posts)
6. I sort of like the idea of all the infectious truckers being locked up together in a knot of trucks.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:06 PM
Feb 2022

keeps them from spreading their cooties. But further snarls the supply chain. UNLESS, those trucks are empty, and being hired by Russians with all that money they've raised.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
7. Greet rhem with Abrahams tank division
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:14 PM
Feb 2022

Enough weak bullshit responses....put down the insurrection already and do so with extreme prejudice.

FalloutShelter

(11,875 posts)
8. I agree... block off access to the city.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:19 PM
Feb 2022

Turn it around and leave of arrest and impound their trucks.
Sick of seeing these a-holes dominate the field.

Wingus Dingus

(8,058 posts)
9. Meh. The MAGAnuts have done nothing but screech and throw tantrums for two years.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:23 PM
Feb 2022

It's been nonstop acting out and hissy fits--remember the zombies storming capitol buildings because they wanted haircuts? The airplane anti-mask nutbutts? It won't have the impact that the Canadian tantrums are having.

PortTack

(32,785 posts)
11. JMHO..any of the major American cities are prepared and will respond swiftly
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 01:04 PM
Feb 2022

We got caught on 1/6 ham-stringed and unprepared just as Ottowa did. It won’t happen again. Canadian cities looked at what happened in Ottowa and went...not in my city and have been preparing..just as we did.

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