We don't have to ask that at all, it's pretty obvious actually.

People who want to feel like they're special by spreading shit online when they're more of the back-of-the-bus variety special...

Someone needs to bring signs that say GROOMERS AGAINST EDUCATION

Pedocon theory is a theory like the theory of gravity is a theory.

Literally every one of these concern trolling groups hides an actual predator or ten. The rest are all apologists or guilty of other forms of emotional abuse and neglect.

Feels like a lot of culture creep. Some of these wing nuts talk about the first amendment as if we have that here. Some of them also seem to think that our Prime Minister has presidential powers. I think the “fuck Trudeau” flags are a rip off of the “fuck Biden” flags too.

We tend to consume a lot of American media, whether it be music, movies, tv, etc.

With the advent of social media, that got cranked up to 11. So, we have the same impressionable people being targeted by US-style far right propaganda and you can already see its effects.

Someone like Erin O'Toole was exactly what the conservative party needed to bring more people from the center to the Torys, but as soon as he lost one election, they booted him to the curb in favour of Alt-Right Milhouse, who was cozying up to the Convoy protestors and being called "a Superstar for the Far Right" by none other than InfoWars owner and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

I just hope to god our apathy doesnt take over and allow that cretin and his cronies form government and keep carving up our country and environment to the detriment of everyone but the ultra-wealthy.

Don't have any sources but it seems pretty likely that Canadian hate groups have similar sponsors to American ones so it's a little like planting the same seeds in different soil, it's not really a surprise when you get the same tomatoes.

Canada has just as many hills for billies to hide under.

(Anglo) Canada is culture creep: the nation. We never left Britain, but we sound like Americans when we talk. You know why? Every time something bad happens down there a giant wave of immigrants comes up here. Draft dodgers were only the latest wave.

So yeah, they're very clearly ripping off the GOP. You can also tell because they didn't even really change the artwork. The question is what will we do about them? I'm afraid we're going to go the modern German way and let hate movements fester until they're too big to effectively deal with.

That's a great question. I think there's been a lot of influence from the U.S., but the potential for this inane behaviour was always there.

Unfortunately where I live (northern Ontario), the people you see who are all like, Fuck Trudeau, are the ones with the massive Ford F250's with lift kits and regular-sized tires in winter, who decided not to further their education after high-school. These are people who don't listen to reason and believe the ramblings of people who are literally unhinged, because they want to believe someone/thing is responsible for their life choices and problems.

With the convoy that went to Ottawa (a whole other story), my husband would try to reason with these people in FB groups. He got banned a lot. Most of them would quote Joe Rogan and Russel Brand, who are hilariously not Canadian.

Garbage fire burns up.

Sorry about Gavin Innes though, sometimes shit falls down

Honestly, that's distinction without difference.

There are people living here who believe this shit - it doesn't really matter where they got it.

Get a loudspeaker and blast some educational YouTube at their ignorant asses. Probably will just piss them off, but it might actually enlighten a few of them. Win-win.

Please do this. These people might even learn a thing or two!

As a trans woman, that song has been coming to mind an awful lot these last few years.

Will you speak out?
Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright!
Trampled under foot by the rise of the right