Canadian freedom convoy

I'm sure some people there hold extreme views. I'm also confident some don't. Many different things will have motivated people to join. I hold my hands up I don't know much about Canadian politics.
All I was driving at with my first response was it's wrong to just label everyone nutters and alt right.
Moreover I'm sick of people who are agaisnt mandates and restrictions being labeled as anti vax and willing wanting people to die. It's utter nonsense and is a ridiculous stance to take.

 

I think that works the other way too, particularly in the US. You’ve got pretty much the entire American (Republican) right calling the Democrats ‘Marxist’, Biden a ‘neo-socialist’, and any of his supporters communists. I’m not particularly a cheerleader for Biden but fück me, the level of political tone-deafness needed to think a very centre right politician and party, who’d have much more in common with the Cameron Conservative party than they even would with a broadly centre-left party, never mind a sodding communist, is staggering.

Mind you, they’re all bonkers over that side of the pond (I love the States and my experience of Americans individually is great, I just think as a state they’re even more mental than we are!)

 

To be fair Joe Rogan is an equal opportunities idiot. You could get a guest on saying clouds are made of candy floss and he'd swallow it

 

I'm fully vaccinated and totally in favour of bodily autonomy and against vaccination mandates. It does nobody any favours to suggest that anyone who is against compulsory vaccination is a conspiracy nutter.

 

He's like an idiot's idea of a smart person

 

200 million people listen to his podcasts every month

 

I'm not disputing that, but it's not really a counterargument is it?

How many people watch Love Island compared to Newsnight?

 

He got paid 100 million dollars to move to Spotify ,wish I was as stupid as him

 

I wish I was as rich as him, I don't wish I was as intelligent as him

 

I mean he never challenges his guests. When he had that Mccullough bloke on who was suggesting that VAERS reports were indicative of causation from the vaccine it should have been pointed out that either Mccollough misunderstood what VAERS actually represents (unlikely given his medical background) or that he was acting in bad faith to raise his own profile.

 

I was saying nothing about his work ethic, just that I'd absolutely smoke him in any from of IQ or critical reasoning test and he shouldn't be relied upon as any sort of reliable or critical interviewer. Hed never get a job on Newsnight would he?

Unless of course he's intelligent enough to realise that some of his guests talk absolute ******** and not challenging them and courting the conspiracy fringes is the best way to make money, in which case fair enough but he's a tw*t.

 

Proper hard hitting critical journalism this:

 

Yeah i wasn’t having a go or owt, it was more a comment on the political polarisation in the US and how a significant proportion of the American right have shifted so far to the right it’s unreal. I’m in no way a massive Biden fan, but it’d be really hard to describe him as particularly left wing (socially, maybe you could at a stretch, economically he definitely isn’t, hence the Cameron comparison). It wasn’t that long ago we could watch a Louis Theroux documentary and shake our heads at the level of crazy exhibited by those lovely chaps in the Westboro Baptist church; now you’ve got lunatics like that all over the legislature at state level, it’s frightening (as is the apparent desire of some of our political system to pander to a similar base).

Appreciate I’ve gone a bit off topic but I’ve walked the dogs and the Mrs is in the bath so I’m settling down to my favourite activities of eating and posting on social media.