I’ve noticed a ton of non-Canadians like to reference this event as if it’s some incredible example of government tyranny gone too far. Nearly anyone who lived in Ottawa during this time (like me) would say the police completely failed the city, and the “protests” went on for literal weeks too long due to inaction and incompetence by all levels of government.

I live and work with mostly conservatives and none of them supported the truckers nor do they even mention it. Their grievances are more typical - inflation, taxes, and immigration.

I think we need to be careful when reading these opinions to not mix up Americans’ views, Russian trolls with legitimate Canadian discourse.

Hacker News is pretty much far right when it comes to politics. Heck the moderators refused to allow any criticism of the monarchy when the queen died but allowed it when Jimmy Carter died.

> Hacker News is pretty much far right when it comes to politics.

Not necessarily always far-right, but almost obsessively anti-establishment.

Criticizing someone during their funeral is in pretty poor taste regardless of your political leanings.

They refused any criticism of the institution itself in addition to the person. But for carter criticism of him and his politics were fair game.

See, you were not supposed to say the quiet part out loud