A photo op, which can be used to divide & conquer:
- further scare gullible people about evil bigoted racists
- "ZOMG IT'S THE PROUD BOYS OR DIAGALON OR THE ALT-RIGHT—WE MUST PUNCH A NAZI"
- inform suggestible & disillusioned men which group to join and/or support
- "I saw the Second Sons on CBC.ca, and I'm mad at biased coverage—I stand with/want to join them!!!111!"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2Hq0wH7MI38:18
I believe the Nazi and Confederate flags at the Freedom Convoy were legitimate false flags, fed ops or whatever. The Coutts thing definitely was. Both of those were really done in the heat of the moment.
Does our federal government pivot to making a longer term undercover controlled opposition front? Maybe, I don't know. It can seem suspicious Mackenzie has all his charges stayed, almost like he cut a deal to go lead this thing - Otoh it's also just as likely they're all incompetent bullshit charges the police and prosecutors made during damage control mode. There's just too much plausible deniability at this point for me, my gut tells me they are legitimate. Legitimate as in Mackenzie and Vriend are not acting as informants, not legitimate in any other sense.
Whether they are or are not feds though doesn't change the results of their activities, which like you said divides on the right, gives reasons for the left to come after the right. Example, right influencers, picrel, making up gay little soliloquys about being a real man means not being racist in response to Second Sons, that may as well have been written by any leftist. It really makes one think that some questions need to start being asked about what exactly it is the right wants to do. Yes, being openly for some kind of ethnic Canadian identity and remigration is going to get you called racist by liberals and conservatives, but also they are going to call you racist anyways. PP is the pinnacle of what were going to get for conservatism in Canada at this point in time, after him it's Doug Ford who would probably win. The globohomo will continue with either of them really. The optimist part of me thinks that all this is the genesis of a fight that will happen in another one to two decades once all the boomers are gone. Anecdotally, I have noticed a huge increase in anti-immigration sentiment and huge increase in actual racism from everyone under 40 that I talk to these days. It definitely feels to me like things have shifted in just a couple years.
I'm just sort of spit balling here, would love to hear other people's thoughts.
The joke of it all is that China will never make a move on Taiwan. It really is just a scare-tactic used by Western and Japanese politicians and media conglomerates to push local issues into the shadows.
I've noticed that a lot of Westerners don't realize how much propaganda they swallow everyday. It's easy for a person to look at North Korean media, for example, and say: "Ah, how easily the people are fooled! This propaganda is so hammed up, how do the people buy it?" but those same people will turn around and absorb local propaganda without even realizing it.
I agree with you about people uncritically eating shit up, but in this case it's not all just western propaganda. Unification with Taiwan is in the Chinese Constitution, the PLA does do military exercises around the island and the CCP has said unification is mandatory. It's at the very least a scare tactic used by Western, Japanese and
Chinese politicians.
Why do you think China will never try to take Taiwan? I honestly don't that much about the entirety of it, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts.