Austin Lawrence

My child-in-law is a Canadian combat #vet going to join the #Ukrainian foreign fighters. If you would like to contribute, my daughter ‘Kadri Lawrence’ can be found on Facebook, where donations are being coordinated. 🌻 💙 💛

Iceland is now added to the countries with nativist extremists planning terror attacks. I will have to look into if there was a Heathen religious element to the attacks.

Dark Foreigner, the main propagandists for Atomwaffen and likewise neo-Nazi groups (as well as being immensely influential on the whole aesthetics of the movement) is quietly running a graphic design company in Ottawa. @BMakuch and I tracked him down. vice.com/en/article/93y…

This means that what is currently ‘extremist’ or ‘radical’ may become normative. The main issue isn’t just rhetorical but that their worldviews and policy priorities are aligned. This is what makes dealing with either right- or left-wing terrorism difficult to address.

@MrMubinShaikh @csiscanada This means that what is currently ‘extremist’ or ‘radical’ may become normative. The main issue isn’t just rhetorical but that their worldviews and policy priorities are aligned. This is what makes dealing with either right- or left-wing terrorism difficult to address.

@AmarAmarasingam Time to start calling it the etic term of “Hindu fascism”, I guess. This clarifies that it isn’t core to Hinduism, but a politicized off-shoot.

As I've said before, ain't no troll army like a Hindutva troll army. It's great that this is getting more widespread attention now.

This account is Big Data democracy at work. It tracks Russian oligarch jet planes.

@MrMubinShaikh Like most populism and much right-wing extremism it is about the loss of a relationally higher status, and so self-respect, amongst less educated, male, white, working class men (mainly). So, any white person they could benefit from socialism, but is ideologically individualist.

If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges. #ottawa #ottnews

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1. Thread on populism and the trucker convoy incoming! My conversations over the last two weeks have gone something like this: “Amar, what's this thing? “A populist movement” “But what do they believe?” “It’s a populist movement” “What do they want?” “It’s a populist movement"

Mounties have arrested 11 people at the #Coutts border blockade: "The Alberta RCMP recently became aware of a small organized group within the larger Coutts protest. Information was received that this group had access to a cache of firearms with a large quantity of ammunition."

Video posted on Telegram by protestor at Coventry road in Ottawa takes us inside the tents, and the set up they got going is pretty insane. BBQs, stacks of groceries and supplies. We are kidding ourselves if we think this ends soon.

How do any Canadians want American flags flying over our nation’s capital? I find this symbolism to be very strange. Do they equate ‘freedom’ with the US? Do they not want to be Canadian?! Protests usually promote more intense Canadian nationalism, not less.

@Violinzilla @kinsellawarren The Occupy movement had a smaller footprint in Ottawa and they tended to use parks and public building yards, not public roadways or Parliamentary property.

@kinsellawarren Most Canadians are emphatic to a reasonable protest. You wave your signs and march down the street shouting and then... You go home. But protests are getting more extreme now.

Holy shit have the truckers ever re-elected Trudeau.

@carcassofalion Same with some of our Pagan friends who love downtown. 😞

Counter protest talk & organizing looks like it is heating up in my city. This isn’t good.

“You want a job? Get vaccinated.” #cdnpoli

A symbol of American ‘manifest destiny’! The foreign money & American imperial nationalism displayed at the #FreedomConvoy2022 / #FluTruxKlan isn’t going to play well with most Canadians, who define their nationalism (in part) as being ‘not-American’.