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Post by catnut on Feb 23, 2022 9:10:27 GMT -4
Gotta love the Conservative MP's speaking up for the single mothers claiming to have their bank accounts frozen yet are nameless and random twitter accounts. Fake social media content can't be driving conversations on Parliament Hill. There's more than enough real things those idiots are collectively not taking care of to be losing time discussing fake news driven by bots and international influence. Related story. My wife's FB account was cloned by an unknown someone Saturday. They were sending messages to her friends pretending to be her. Those who replied received a message like "Sorry to bother you but my account was frozen by the government because I gave to the truckers convoy (she would never do that) and I need some help." I'm thinking that report is based on such a scam.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Feb 23, 2022 9:23:53 GMT -4
Gotta love the Conservative MP's speaking up for the single mothers claiming to have their bank accounts frozen yet are nameless and random twitter accounts. Fake social media content can't be driving conversations on Parliament Hill. There's more than enough real things those idiots are collectively not taking care of to be losing time discussing fake news driven by bots and international influence. Related story. My wife's FB account was cloned by an unknown someone Saturday. They were sending messages to her friends pretending to be her. Those who replied received a message like "Sorry to bother you but my account was frozen by the government because I gave to the truckers convoy (she would never do that) and I need some help." I'm thinking that report is based on such a scam. Its amazing how easy it is to clone accounts or just create a fake profile and stir up shit. Facebook and twitter take zero effort to verify someone creating an account is real. And we all see how the fringe groups surround themselves with nothing but extremist views and then we wonder why they're so far down that rabbit hole after months of cult like fake information sharing. I heard someone live on CTV News on the weekend from the Ottawa streets say he was protesting that his kid getting vaccinated would have a QR code for proof and THAT is what he's there fighting for. No QR codes. As if that kid getting a covid shot isn't already in a provincial and national databases. But for some reason there's an irrational fear people have over some of this stuff no matter what evidence is presented in advance that really shows how silly the "tracking" argument is from a society where a good 80% of us pay for a government tracking device every month.
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Post by Jacques Strap on Feb 23, 2022 11:03:13 GMT -4
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Post by Captain Obvious on Feb 23, 2022 11:06:24 GMT -4
That was always the plan, the funding from the US was for a dry run and now they do it at home.
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Post by lirette on Feb 23, 2022 11:15:13 GMT -4
Related story. My wife's FB account was cloned by an unknown someone Saturday. They were sending messages to her friends pretending to be her. Those who replied received a message like "Sorry to bother you but my account was frozen by the government because I gave to the truckers convoy (she would never do that) and I need some help." I'm thinking that report is based on such a scam. Its amazing how easy it is to clone accounts or just create a fake profile and stir up shit. Facebook and twitter take zero effort to verify someone creating an account is real. And we all see how the fringe groups surround themselves with nothing but extremist views and then we wonder why they're so far down that rabbit hole after months of cult like fake information sharing. I heard someone live on CTV News on the weekend from the Ottawa streets say he was protesting that his kid getting vaccinated would have a QR code for proof and THAT is what he's there fighting for. No QR codes. As if that kid getting a covid shot isn't already in a provincial and national databases. But for some reason there's an irrational fear people have over some of this stuff no matter what evidence is presented in advance that really shows how silly the "tracking" argument is from a society where a good 80% of us pay for a government tracking device every month. What happens with these groups is once they fall down one conspiracy rabbit hole from FB they end up succumbing to all of them. Thank you unregulated social media algorithms. One of the lesser known conspiracies that spreads on these covid FB groups is that covid 19 was invented by the people who created the QR code technology in order to save it because it was a dying technology. Nevermind that this conspiracy, along with many others that you'd hear at the Ottawa occupation directly contradict one another. Any covid related protest is always littered with signs about the kitchen sink of conspiracies', whether its 5G, human trafficking's, Fauci, bill gates, globalist elites etc. It doesn't matter whether you are in Fredericton, Ottawa, Moncton, Halifax or Charlottetown. Its a depressing irony that this group of individuals who calls people sheep all parrot the exact same talking points, while calling them selves free thinkers and unable to actually string together a sensible point that isn't full of holes. I'm sure we as a society could have had a more productive policy conversation on what we need in the future to deal with covid or other future pandemics that leave life far less disrupted but I think that has gone out the window now. How often for example are our politicians actually discussing things like investing in improved ventilation or paid sick time, or having commercial buildings & restaurants post their air quality scores? Or how we expand our health care system by doing more to encourage Nurses to go to school? Instead we have to waste our time fighting disinformation, while extremist types infiltrate social media groups and help some of these fringe groups become less fringe and more vocal by gaming algorithms. This successful campaign has now changed political polling enough that the conservative party is at a crossroads. I remember in the Trump threads a few years back some users would come in once and awhile and moan asking why does anyone care about Trump? At that time I warned that my fear was Trump style disinformation politics would come to Canada and I was called crazy. Well here we are, it looks like the CONS have chosen to become the party of disinformation. Posting photos of empty grocery stores in other countries, sharing stories from their "constituents" which appear to be fake, local MP"s sharing poorly research health studies. They very likely will be electing a party leader who has given a wink and a nod to "the great reset" conspiracy. Discussing politics in Canada is about to become increasingly futile.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Feb 23, 2022 11:36:31 GMT -4
Its amazing how easy it is to clone accounts or just create a fake profile and stir up shit. Facebook and twitter take zero effort to verify someone creating an account is real. And we all see how the fringe groups surround themselves with nothing but extremist views and then we wonder why they're so far down that rabbit hole after months of cult like fake information sharing. I heard someone live on CTV News on the weekend from the Ottawa streets say he was protesting that his kid getting vaccinated would have a QR code for proof and THAT is what he's there fighting for. No QR codes. As if that kid getting a covid shot isn't already in a provincial and national databases. But for some reason there's an irrational fear people have over some of this stuff no matter what evidence is presented in advance that really shows how silly the "tracking" argument is from a society where a good 80% of us pay for a government tracking device every month. What happens with these groups is once they fall down one conspiracy rabbit hole from FB they end up succumbing to all of them. Thank you unregulated social media algorithms. One of the lesser known conspiracies that spreads on these covid FB groups is that covid 19 was invented by the people who created the QR code technology in order to save it because it was a dying technology. Nevermind that this conspiracy, along with many others that you'd hear at the Ottawa occupation directly contradict one another. Any covid related protest is always littered with signs about the kitchen sink of conspiracies', whether its 5G, human trafficking's, Fauci, bill gates, globalist elites etc. It doesn't matter whether you are in Fredericton, Ottawa, Moncton, Halifax or Charlottetown. Its a depressing irony that this group of individuals who calls people sheep all parrot the exact same talking points, while calling them selves free thinkers and unable to actually string together a sensible point that isn't full of holes. I'm sure we as a society could have had a more productive policy conversation on what we need in the future to deal with covid or other future pandemics that leave life far less disrupted but I think that has gone out the window now. How often for example are our politicians actually discussing things like investing in improved ventilation or paid sick time, or having commercial buildings & restaurants post their air quality scores? Or how we expand our health care system by doing more to encourage Nurses to go to school? Instead we have to waste our time fighting disinformation, while extremist types infiltrate social media groups and help some of these fringe groups become less fringe and more vocal by gaming algorithms. This successful campaign has now changed political polling enough that the conservative party is at a crossroads. I remember in the Trump threads a few years back some users would come in once and awhile and moan asking why does anyone care about Trump? At that time I warned that my fear was Trump style disinformation politics would come to Canada and I was called crazy. Well here we are, it looks like the CONS have chosen to become the party of disinformation. Posting photos of empty grocery stores in other countries, sharing stories from their "constituents" which appear to be fake, local MP"s sharing poorly research health studies. They very likely will be electing a party leader who has given a wink and a nod to "the great reset" conspiracy. Discussing politics in Canada is about to become increasingly futile. Totally. People say the "divide" is happening - but its always been there in the party system...its just widening now as the right wing goes all in on Steve Bannon politics where you throw out so much misinformation that factual information is also up for debate to these people. Thankfully in Canada our 3rd party has enough traction that its not a blue vs red conversation every time but I find it funny watching Cons say they had say close to 35% of the popular vote and lost but Trudeau won yet that stats means almost 60% of Canadians voted "left" when you add the Bloc and PPC to the other side. In a system thats never been built off of the popular vote so that regions like Alberta can't go all "MCGA" and push nothing but right wing fringe theories into our Parliament and dominate the national conversation.
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Post by j3e4 on May 29, 2022 3:52:08 GMT -4
I'm 2 episodes in to Stranger Things Season 4. So far it's way better than season 2 and 3 and has potential to be better than season 1.
They shifted from the humor and 80s nostalgia and are more focused on the suspense, mystery, horror etc.
A lot of new characters. Some interesting, some annoying. But thankfully very little of Lucas' sister.
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Post by Jacques Strap on May 29, 2022 9:47:01 GMT -4
I'm 2 episodes in to Stranger Things Season 4. So far it's way better than season 2 and 3 and has potential to be better than season 1. They shifted from the humor and 80s nostalgia and are more focused on the suspense, mystery, horror etc. A lot of new characters. Some interesting, some annoying. But thankfully very little of Lucas' sister. Were there Freedom Truckers in this Season? lol.
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Post by j3e4 on May 29, 2022 13:11:47 GMT -4
I'm 2 episodes in to Stranger Things Season 4. So far it's way better than season 2 and 3 and has potential to be better than season 1. They shifted from the humor and 80s nostalgia and are more focused on the suspense, mystery, horror etc. A lot of new characters. Some interesting, some annoying. But thankfully very little of Lucas' sister. Were there Freedom Truckers in this Season? lol. Haha looks like I was doing some drunk posting last night. 🤣
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Post by Jacques Strap on May 29, 2022 16:09:33 GMT -4
Were there Freedom Truckers in this Season? lol. Haha looks like I was doing some drunk posting last night. 🤣 hahahaha
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