Paranoid extremists get together and become paranoid that everyone else in the group are feds trying to trap them. Trip starts with group praying for guidance and immediately get lost.
This could have been an article in The Onion.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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I wish this were an Onion headline. :-(
It's funny how everything that happens to them is "god testing them," and "he works in mysterious ways," but when something bad happens to literally anyone else (or even everyone else if we want to talk about disease and natural disasters), it's God punishing them/us for not wanting to kill trans people or something.
How come they never run into a situation like this (pray for guidance and immediately getting lost), and view it as God telling them they're doing something wrong? How come that's never the conclusion they come to when it involves them?
You phrase that like a question but literally everyone, including them, knows they're just using religion as a tool for hatred. There's no deeper meaning, it's not that they're misguided. They're literally just malicious.
It was rhetorical.
When the convoy did finally come together in a hotel parking lot in Norfolk, Virginia, there were a few dozen people and around 20 vehicles, based on video footage reviewed by WIRED and comments made by the livestreamers responding to questions from supporters.
The day began with a speech from Craig Hudgins, one of the organizers, who stressed that the event was a "peaceful, peaceable demonstration.” Hudgins also claimed—without evidence—that he had heard that up to “40,000 truckers from all over the country and Canada” would be joining the convoy—although not a single one of those trucks managed to join the group during the first day.
"Up to 40,000" doesn't give a lower bound, 0 is within that range. I have up to $1,000,000 in my bank account but won't be going yacht shopping any time soon.
If you want to make it sound really impressive, you should and "or more" to it. That way it covers every dollar amount ever!
I have up to $1,000,000 or more in my bank account
I like the way you people think.
Will that work when I try to get a loan for a yacht?
It may.
(that also works for pretty much anything)
Whenever they start talking about a Civil War remember that most of them can barely find the local IHOP.
And yet the lack of trigger discipline scares me most. Saved to my meme folder. Thanks.
ROTF LOL
This is hilarious!
There’s only a handful of them anyway. They just get press because they get clicks.
And that's the fucking problem. They're just a few assholes, dangerous assholes, but only a few. It's much more dangerous to make the seem important.
There’s 1,841 of them.
All packed into 2-30 vehicles? That sounds... cozy. At gas stops do they all pile out of the vehicles like clowns?
That was an interesting year.
TIL Hong Kong only had a population of 7,500 when it was first occupied by Britain.
Punch was first published.
Key points that should not be overlooked:
- They had their tires slashed
- They were told by the original gathering spot that they were not welcome
- They had to scrub their chats to not piss off the media
The "turning a blind eye" toward this behavior is starting to fade.
The dude who slashed the tires deserves some good cider.
It was anteefa!
I wish I was brave enough to slash the tires of trump supporters.
Though they claimed that up to 40,000 trucks would be joining, only 20 vehicles made up the convoy
Online enthusiasm vs. real world participation. I just hope this trend holds to election day.
like when they stormed area 51
That Channel 5 interview was funny AF.
12 obese 70 year olds who are running low on insulin and self reflection is not a convoy.
OMFG I've organised bigger birthday parties, while at university, before the advent of smart phones. What a bunch of weak useless morons.
paywall
Just archive the page to bypass the paywall.
thank you
Glad to help!
you could just prepend 12ft.io to the URL and see if it works. In this case it does. https://12ft.io/https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas
If you are on mobile, the most convenient way to get rid of the paywall is to use Firefox's reader mode with just one click on the little symbol right side of the URL
Reader mode works on desktop as well.
ok nice, never tried it on desktop yet as I have a lot more options to circumvent the walls there
Now that's a trick I like! Thanks!
When it comes to keeping promises, those right-wingers were never any good. Losers stay losers. Anyone wondering why they support a loser president?
Just like the truck blockade, these morons engaged in. Let them come and waste resources and end up in jail. Win Win.