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> Bill maher, musk, russel brand have called Trudeau hitler. These aren't unreasonable positions.

What?

> They dont have a history of calling people names like this.

Also what?

I think they mean that Canadians are usually more demure and polite than to stoop to the level of trivializing one of recent-history's worst atrocities to express political/ideological discontent.

tbh, I can't stand callout culture, but I wish this would get called out more often. What type of psychological damage is being done to jews by turning their painful history into a talking point, or conversational force multiplier? You don't see people do that about African slavery or other atrocities, so why compare everything to Hitler? It's ugly.

“Modern Jim Crow” is an unfortunately regular occurrence in American political dialog.

> You don't see people do that about African slavery or other atrocities

Sort of simultaneously trivialises all those too though, by implication - 'I mean sure they're bad, but no Hitler'.

I don’t understand how comparing Trudeau to Hitler is a reasonable position.

It’s simply not even remotely close to true.

Especially considering Trudeau hasnt lead a massive genocide or tried to take over the continent.

Many people I know are looking to escape the US before it turns into Gilead.

The effort being made is the opposite.

Anti-abortion, republicans winning midterms, etc. Those Americans will go to Canada.

The free speech, no mandates, etc. Those Canadians will move to the USA.

Right now, those 2 groups are actively being restricted from moving.

And where would one go... to one of the EU countries?

Perhaps they mean Canada. Canada’s Prime Minister said recently, “ We’ll always defend a woman’s right to choose, and we’ll continue to expand access to reproductive health services – including abortion. Today, our government announced funding for projects that will help remove barriers to abortion service.”

The small amount of Trudeau I get from the media portrays him as a harmless guy with a smile , whats he been doing?

From what I can tell, not pandering to extremists on either side.

This is the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUq76TaWzuU

Joe Rogan: "Handsome fellow, kind sensitive guy" is pretty accurate. Something happened in 2019 where he went off the rails and is now being called a dictator and it is reasonable. Maybe hitler is too far, but it's Trudeau's own words that he was planning to not allow antivaxxers to be part of society. Hence Bill Maher's video.

Here's is 1 of Russel Brand's videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GnClytz34

Bill Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i72czkSUsM

The gist of what happened. In the USA all but 7 states lifted all mandates. UK and much of europe had dates set to end the mandates or ended them already.

Trudeau on the otherhand in January 2022 increased restrictions putting thousands of people out of a job. Mostly bipoc because race plays a significant role in the remaining antivaxxer communities.

Trudeau knew race played a significant role and before the convoy showed up in ottawa, he started calling them white supremacists and racists. Meanwhile the mostly punjabi truckers thought it was pretty hilarious to be called white supremacists with unacceptable views.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod.static-content.quillette.com/2...

Trudeau wouldn't even send a staffer to speak with this legitimate protest. Not once would he meet with them. Instead he initiated a never before used national emergency, whose requirements is that ANY other law must be used before this one. That declaring national emergency cannot be used to crush a protest. That's exactly what they did.

Obviously gone much further than when the canadian police arrested indigeonous over protesting pipelines. Or even more recently ottawa police arrested some children who were protesting dress codes. Protesting in Canada has been made illegal.

Which means democracy doesn't exist anymore. The unrestricted right to protest is a fundamental requirement of democracy. If we aren't a democracy anymore, what are we?

Then again, I got tremendously downvoted and flagged.

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