Cracks_InTheWalls

Hey, there's dozens of guys pining for webrings.

If you're only playing one instrument at a time, you are not a band.

If you are indeed a one man band, I wanna hear your stuff. Edit: actually, even if you're not a one man band.

It is a weird as fuck feeling, particularly since I don't fly domestic very often these days and take probably paranoid levels of precaution when flying internationally (every piece of clothing that goes into the bag is coming straight out of the dryer, every single pocket on everything is checked and double-checked, every pocket that could conceivably have weed traces is vacuumed and inspected, etc.)

You see a mango shake, I see one of those tumeric-ginger concoctions that folks assign all sorts of health benefits to that I ignore in favour of its burny, astringent deliciousness.

Forget her, you did good and now know all the important stuff if someone else has a similar ask.

But fr sex tape is much easier, shibari's a skill that takes practice and knowledge to avoid injury, particularly if you want to start getting fancy.

I repeat, and will continue to repeat until it is no longer necessary: where. is. my. god damned. HOVERBOARD!?

Manhood, throbbing, pgs 1-320

(This is what I imagine indexes would look like in your trashier historical romance novels)

Tl;dr: Fair, and there's a decent chance I'm just losing my mind.

Absolutely - the vast majority weren't truckers at all. But in a lot of the discourse at the time, trucker kinda became a shorthand for those ass clowns. Terms like 'trucker convoy' and 'truckers' were used as shorthand for the situation and its participants. Many legit transport truck drivers (aka 'real truckers') who didn't participate were understandably pissed about it.

Seeing it in this context conjures up a lot of those associations - U.S. backed interests stirring up trouble in Canada, people executing or caught up in a transnational grift etc. - when this isn't all that related in this case. This is just another guy likely involved in organized crime making a buck selling illicit products over the border. Tale as old as time, and the convoy stuff isn't directly relevant. But it carries with it those broader associations in the minds of folks like me. And I wonder if that's purposeful, particularly given this moment in US-Canada relations - much as I harbour legitimate anti-US sentiments at this time in history, it just feels weird.

Then again, this could just be me. I have a tendency to overthink things, and I have direct personal experiences/gripes with the convoy that could be informing a bias that sends up a red flag. It's just a weird feeling, and I was curious if other folks a) had these feelings reading the lede, b) could articulate the phenomenon better than I can, and/or c) provide some evidence/comments that I'm waay otherthinking this.

I do too, now.

What bugs me is now whenever the term trucker is used, especially by Canadian news outlets, I pull in all of these associations that don't necessarily have any bearing on or relation to the facts at hand. And (the part where I might just be losing my mind/being paranoid) it sort of feels deliberate.

I recently encountered someone that really seemed like they were prodding for how easily I could be influenced to agree with or engage in some really wacky shit. It was a very similar feeling to when I see these terms. And I'm just trying to figure out when and if that feeling, when it pops up in a media context or just irl talking with your craftier brand of crazies, is justified or just paranoia.

Sorry - doesn't really have that much to do with the article, the word in this context just triggered that same feeling. And this whole "how to tell when you're being influenced and what to watch for, while not succumbing to paranoia or just taking comfort in your personal biases" thing has been something rolling around in my brain the past couple of weeks.

I also know that I'm part of a demographic (at the moment) that has some pretty wacky stuff targeted at them online (lot of manosphere stuff, for example, finds great targets in recently separated/divorced dudes in algorithmic media formats), which lends more personal interest to the topic. Idk, might just need to touch grass more.