To be honest I am. I don’t care what cause you’re rallying for, if you get behind a 2 ton killing machine and operate it like absolute morons - you deserve the tickets.
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“Vehicles driving down the wrong side of the road, running red lights, blocking intersections for significant periods of time, drivers on their cellphones while passengers (including young children) hung from windows and sunroofs. Stunting, firing of flares and fireworks from within vehicles or in crowds, and significant noise levels late into the evening led to several complaints from residents in the area. Calgary 9-1-1 received more than 50 complaints from citizens concerned about safety and upset by the significant disruption to their community.”
I assume it was a pro-Palestine rally and not actually a pro-Hamas rally? One is a supportable cause (Palestinian people suffering) and the other is a designated terrorist organization (And has the destruction of Israel and killing of Jews in its charter) so I can't imagine people would overtly support a literal terrorist organization in Canada.
I assume it was a pro-Palestine rally and not actually a pro-Hamas rally? One is a supportable cause (Palestinian people suffering) and the other is a designated terrorist organization (And has the destruction of Israel and killing of Jews in its charter) so I can't imagine people would overtly support a literal terrorist organization in Canada.
Yes, it was a pro-Palastine rally. Although some in this thread probably see them as one in the same based on some posts.
To be honest I am. I don’t care what cause you’re rallying for, if you get behind a 2 ton killing machine and operate it like absolute morons - you deserve the tickets.
this is just the lighter side of all the crap that was pulled
(3 car convoy goes through a red light)
2. Comparing the destruction and chaos in Gaza to traffic violations in Calgary is legitimately insane
1) So why did you bring it up? There's ways to peacefully protest what's going on in the otherside of the world. Despite what's going on over there, there's absolutely no need to risk lives of other motorists and pedestrians in Calgary
2) indeed, so why did YOU compare it?
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Pretty tame stuff compared to the riots in Germany.
Germany struggles to contain anti-Semitism slurs at Israel protests
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Jewish organisations say they are facing a wave of hate speech and physical attacks
German police in all major cities are on high alert as each evening brings renewed anti-Israel demonstrations that, over the weekend, tipped over into riots peppered with anti-Semitic slogans.
There have been scenes of protest in other European cities, but the stand-offs in Germany carry extra weight given the country’s Holocaust legacy and post-war priority to defend Israel and counter anti-Jewish sentiment.
German Jews and a leading Jewish organisation have sounded the alarm, warning that they are facing an unprecedented wave of hate speech and physical attacks.
The high point of the radicalised anti-Israel sentiment came on Saturday in Berlin when a demonstration that began with 1,200 marchers tripled in size and descended into a full-scale street battle.
Police say 93 officers were injured and 59 marchers arrested after bottles, bangers and stones flew. Police used pepper spray and then broke up the march – not because of audible anti-Jewish chants but because demonstrators flouted pandemic restrictions on public gatherings.
On Monday the Central Council of Jews in Germany took the unusual step of publishing a selection of the hate speech it has received, in many cases likening Israel to Nazi Germany.
“You whinge about what Germany did to you then but you’re not a bit better,” wrote one named Instagram user. “The devil will dance when you land with him, be ashamed you honourless, landless filthy Judas.” Another wrote: “Go to the gas chamber now.”
Just because they’re protesting against the deaths of innocent civilians doesn’t mean they can’t be hate-filled bigots too. No need to paint either side as the good guys here.
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1) So why did you bring it up? There's ways to peacefully protest what's going on in the otherside of the world. Despite what's going on over there, there's absolutely no need to risk lives of other motorists and pedestrians in Calgary
2) indeed, so why did YOU compare it?
Bring what up? Is anyone arguing that the people at the protest who were driving like idiots were not idiots? Anyone? Bueller?
And I compared it to show that it’s legitimately insane, as I literally just said. You don’t think it’s weird that someone jumps in into a thread where the main topic has to do with innocent people dying and the only concern they seem to have is traffic violations at home? You don’t think it’s weird that one of these people then describes those traffic violations as “producing the destruction and chaos in Gaza locally”? That’s a profoundly stupid thing to say.
The point being, have some perspective. If you can’t be bothered to comment on the conflict, and you’re just going to show up to bitch about traffic violations during a protest of the conflict, you should probably ask yourself if maybe you’re missing something.
Even giving a small effort to talk about a peripheral issue that matters, like the issue in Germany that Cliff mentioned, that makes sense. But whining about traffic violations when you can’t be bothered to give a single word to anything more important surrounding the issue... which is literally anything else? Eh, looks pretty silly.
To be completely fair, when an anti-Israel rally gets conflated with anti-Jew, and then escalates into "lets go hunt down all of the Jews", you know you have a problem.
I think the issue that is being highlighted here is that historically Jews have never wanted to wipe out the Arabs. It has always been the other way around when it comes to Israel. And that is problematic for establishing peace in the region.
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