I mean, I watched the shutdown live. I watched Trudeau trying to make an address from some shitty undisclosed lake house and not from the Maple Throne or whatever he thinks he sits on. I watched him getting roundly heckled by crowds when he tried to appear last week. Did you really miss all of that?
I concede, you are obviously correct on all accounts.
Yes.
It was not forced by the government
So nothing bad would happen if people ignored the "recommendations," that pastor wasn't arrested for opening his church, and "health unit meddling" has nothing to do with government. Got it.
capital shut down, prime minister flees
Is this mass compliance??
had
That's what I'm saying. You even had a massive trucker protest that shut down the capital and caused your Prime Minister to flee. This was forced by your government, not a grassroots thing that everyone agreed with.
vax passports at McDonald's
Are no longer a thing anywhere, thanks to massive public pushback.
That's true. I forgot about that. And the damage it does cause in game has literally never actually happened. Though I've found the Flood Barriers annoyingly expensive to build -- gotta make it seem horrific, dontcha know.
I've played quite a few hours of Civ6 (my SO loves the series), and I'll say that it's pretty good. The devs, I believe, are pretty corporate and woke. The game tries very (very) hard to dig up wamen leaders absolutely every single time they can, but I do find the game fun.
As I said elsewhere: Basically all of our agreed-on targets are now literal dumpster fires. Gawker (and thus Kotaku) have declared bankruptcy and been sold multiple times, VICE and Buzzfeed News have declared bankruptcy, nobody has thought of GamaSutra in years, and both games journalism and mainstream journalism are widely acknowledged as dead.
but lots of things are still woke
Yes, but in forcing this, the enemy has revealed their hand. Major pushback is coalescing, and not only it is mainstream to believe the media is untrustworthy propaganda, it's mainstream to believe wealthy elites conspire to control it.
Fight on, boys. A second HP bar doesn't mean you're losing.
The fact that we are able to even consider this strategy speaks greatly to just how much influence these bastards have lost over the last decade.