The ā€˜Save the Children Convoyā€™ is struggling as organizers accuse one another of being ā€˜undercover copsā€™ or planning ā€˜violenceā€™ and ā€˜terrorismā€™

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    Berry says the convoy wants to save children from the ā€œhuman trafficking industry,ā€

    Sounds like pizzagate

    but also from ā€œmandating the shots to kids and kids getting sick

    Anti-vaxx disinformation

    and frigging education and all the stuff theyā€™re teaching them in schools

    Anti-education disinformation

    and the trans agenda [and], gender dysphoria ā€“ all of these things.ā€

    Anti-trans moral panic fueled by disinformation

    he and others have shared graphics claiming ā€œthe World Health Organization and the United Nations are instructing elementary schools around the world to have pedophilia normalized.ā€

    Anti-LGBTQ moral panic fueled by disinformation

    and the math agenda

    Ah yes the tyranny of math

    You know what really helps solve these imaginary issues? Blocking traffic in Canadian cities, inconveniencing random people, and committing acts of terrorism. Brilliant plan, fuckwits. If only they cared about real issues as much as their imaginary ones.


    Oh and then thereā€™s this gem:

    The ā€œSave the Children Convoy,ā€ a spin-off of recent anti-2SLGBTQ+ protests targeting schools and drag storytime events as well as loosely inspired by the controversial film ā€œSound of Freedom,ā€ is being planned for Toronto in late summer or early fall. ā€¦
    This week, reports surfaced that one of the Sound of Freedomā€™s original funders had been arrested on child kidnapping charges in Missouri.

    ā€œWe have met the enemy and they are us.ā€

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      You beat me to it on that last line, but Iā€™ll highlight some others [emphasis mine]:

      Berry is even more pointed about his concerns in the convoyā€™s private Facebook group where he and others have shared graphics claiming ā€œthe World Health Organization and the United Nations are instructing elementary schools around the world to have pedophilia normalized.ā€

      [ā€¦]

      Phillips says Sagerā€™s comments point to the influence of ā€œsovereign citizen ideology.ā€

      As soon as I saw the headline, I wondered if Romana Didulo would be mentioned. Sheā€™s a conspiracy nutbag who declared herself the Queen of Canada and started her cult of followers caravanning back and forth throughout Canada. Sheā€™s been active since 2020. Thereā€™s a fascinating look at her org at Vice. She wasnā€™t mentioned in the original article, however.

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        Well, if Her Majesty Roman Dildo Romana Didulo I, Queen of Canada, isnā€™t endorsing it, must be fake gnus.

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      I can ā€œunderstandā€ what they dislike about everything here except for ā€¦ math? Like, what? What could anyone possibly have against math?

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        My wife just got back from a literal math conference with fellow math researchers. I asked her what the math agenda is and she said snacks & coffee at 10am because everyone was tired from being up early to make it to the conference.

        Iā€™ll let you know if any other nefarious math-based plots are exposed.

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          Lol my daughter teaches math, Iā€™ll find out what she knows and we can compare notes

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          It is so dumb that I would not even consider this line to be good satire. Yet, here we are, they literally hate math because it leads to logic.

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      The theories and basis are always the same for centuries. They only wrapped them with a new tinfoil.

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      ā€œWe have has met the enemy 'n 'm 'ee and they are is us.ā€

      FTFY

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    Berry says the convoy wants to save children from [ā€¦] and the math agenda

    uuhmā€¦whatā€¦?

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          Well it is a gateway to calculus, soon youā€™ll be able to be closer to understanding problems that include changing values like acceleration. Okay I may be misremembering calculus but there was way more Pythagoras theorum involved than youā€™d guess at first look.

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            Well it is a gateway to calculus, soon youā€™ll be able to be closer to understanding problems that include changing values like acceleration.

            And ā€œchanging valuesā€ is progressive brainwashing. The Truth isnā€™t variable; itā€™s constant: 3 = 1. Epsilon-Delta = Epstein-Data! Trigonometry is all about the SIN OF XY ā€” thatā€™s gay pornography and Greek pederasty being taught to your children as ā€œmathā€. SIN WAVES are Liberal Lewdness in Our Schools! Donā€™t let your children be tangent to these dangerous curves!

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        Big Dick Pythagoras is what they used to call him actually. That hypotenuse shit just really isnā€™t safe for the children.

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        haha, wasnā€™t there a video where they asked people about teaching arabic numbers in school and they got really mad. what a great way to reveal your ignorance and xenophobia in one reaction.

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      Itā€™s about time someone stood up to math.

      If god wanted us to count past ten weā€™d have more fingers.

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        Nah, theyā€™re fine with meth. Math scares them because they canā€™t twist it to fit their bigoted beliefs, theyā€™ve tried their little hearts out tho.

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        Save the children from meth! Save it all for the kill-billies who organized this protest!

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      It is of acute importance to stay vigilant of mathematicians; we cannot go on tangents and let their plots divide us. Iā€™m sure theyā€™re integrating themselves into positions of power, and knowing even a fraction of their schemes could be of prime significance to factoring out their plans to subtract our freedoms.

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      Iā€™ve got a math degree, can definitely say I felt like a victim at times

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      Could be this? https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/us/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory

      ā€œ DeSantis said state officials ā€œgot ridā€ of Common Core, a standardized teaching method rolled out in 2010. The method requires children to group numbers to solve arithmetic problems, rather than the vertical ā€œcarry the oneā€ method familiar to most adults. The approach goes beyond simple computation to emphasize deeper mathematical concepts. The department said some of the rejected textbooks incorporated Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and references to critical race theory ā€“ two frameworks or philosophies that some conservative groups claim are being used to indoctrinate students. Some schools around the country have recently used SEL strategies to help students cope with stress and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning defines SEL as a teaching framework aimed at helping ā€œyoung people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.ā€ More than a dozen states have set standards for teaching SEL in grade schools, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But as more states consider SEL strategies, conservative groups have claimed critical race theory is embedded into the framework.ā€

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    A lot of comments are rightfully laughing at these morons for their infighting and incompetence, but we need to stay vigilant as this is a rising fascist movement. Sure right now itā€™s not well organized and has loonies running the show, but eventually they may attract a very smart evil person into the ranks who could actually grow the movement to critical mass.

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    Anyone thinking Canada doesnā€™t have a mental health crisis, well hereā€™s the proof.

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    So the message is entirely generic. I guess anyone with that message can join. Should we all just join the convoy in a bid to ā€œsave the childrenā€ from these people?

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      Sometimes it is so dumb it works. The previous convoy was also a ā€œpick your own causeā€ mess, and I think this helped the movement gather support because a large group of people thought it was for a bunch of good causes like worker rights. In reality it was a loon anti-vax, anti-liberal movement and the organizers wanted the government to resign and give them political positions. not kidding.

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      If you consider ā€˜Mathā€™ as a stand-in for ā€˜Scienceā€™ and ā€˜empirical evidenceā€™ their fear of it becomes a little more cogent.

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    I have the opinion that these people are wired to be always thinking of kids, and they recognize that itā€™s dangerous, but they fail to see that this isnā€™t normal behaviour. They think everyone else is just as much capable of being a danger to kids as they are a danger to kids themselves, and it terrifies them.

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      yep, people fighting inner demons tend to project their own deviations onto everyone else, and be loud about it. e.g. "I had to force myself not to be gay, hence it is a choice and everyone has those urges. ". Hence also why they think children can be so easily ā€œcorruptedā€.

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    Of course they fear ā€˜mathā€™ as itā€™s the basis for things like ā€˜statisticsā€™ and ā€˜empirical evidenceā€™ that would clearly demonstrate that all their beliefs are factually incorrect or completely without warrant.

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    It must be nice to be an boomer/gen X who has the money to just randomly drive across the damn country. Get a fuckin job you losers.

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    "A lot of people are really starting to stand up

    The circlejerk, fanboy, etc. issueā€¦ These people are megalomaniac.