Trudeau granted himself new powers to defeat peaceful truckers in Ottawa. Their crime? Demanding freedom from oppressive and ineffective Covid mandates, a fireworks violation, and a few grand in parking tickets. Their bank accounts were frozen, their trucks were seized and vandalized, they were trampled by mounted police, and they were held in solitary confinement like mass murderers. But Canadians have the backs of the truckers, and convoys are gathering steam all across the country! Here in BC we have a massive group of convoys all meeting to slow-roll South for a gigantic border-crossing bear hug!
I just received the above image via underground channels. They're asking everybody to get out and support tomorrow.
"This weekend's Convoy is going to be quite a bit larger because the Great Canadian Cruise has decided to change their schedule, and they will be joining us when we get to Penticton, as we roll through to the border!! Let's show up in droves and support these wonderful men and women that are making the long journey across Canada to fight for our freedoms!!"
The notice ends with "Make sure to grab your flags and decorate your cars! This is going to be a weekend to remember! There will be a food truck, bouncy castle, face painting, live band and entertainment."
Past slow rolls to Osoyoos have attracted dozens of big rigs and hundreds of other vehicles. This looks to be the largest yet.
It's amazing that we have to be doing this, but Trudeau continues to terrorize participants of Freedom Convoy simply for donating, or protesting, or supporting freedom! He was even called out by the international community for violently suppressing legitimate protest this week!
We now know there's little or no threat from Omicron 2, the next variant of non-concern. It spreads quickly but it's nearly harmless. And we now know the "vaccines" actually make it MORE likely you'll get infected and sick! So mandates make absolutely no sense. In this situation, mandates are pure evil.
Which is why it's REALLY disturbing that Canada has announced Covid mandates will never end!
Thank you to Freedom Convoy and millions of supporters for continuing to pressure Trudeau and the globalists for a return to freedom and peace!
Downvoting whale bullies
Dear readers, thank you for your attention on this unpleasant matter related to my posts.
I'm currently undergoing attack by blockchain bullies with large investments of Hive Power, who are downvoting my "Deep Dives" content, and more recently, pretty much everything I create. I have not provoked them, I don't know them or have any interaction with them. They've simply decided to silently pick away at my reputation and payouts. They don't comment, they don't interact, they just punish.
I'm very thankful to those curators who have decided my channel is worth following and supporting. It has taken me five years of full-time posting, commenting, and curating to slowly build up to my current reputation and audience. After investing 0.2 BTC and 5 years, my dream is finally coming into focus. The dream is being able to make a (partial) living by creating high-quality original content people want and need.
It's very discouraging to receive unwarranted downvotes (previously referred to as "flags"). These 2 or 3 individuals have taken it upon themselves to watch my posts, and drop huge downvotes after a couple days (to keep their dirty deeds out of the spotlight).
As you know, I don't do this primarily for financial reward, but there are plenty of other blogs and blockchains I can post to when I want to do it for free. What makes Hive different is that you can get rewarded in crypto for your participation, and I've been working hard to bring that about. Even knocking a few of dollars off my payouts sets me way back.
Also, each hit from these mega accounts drops my rep score. Again, not something I care about from an ego standpoint, but these attacks can drive a user's rep score down so low that their posts are sent to the bottom of the page, grayed out, and put behind a click-wall. It would take a while to get me down there, but they have a higher score than I do, so it would only be a matter of time. I have seen them do it time and time again to many other excellent content-creators here, so please don't tell me censorship can't happen on Hive. People get downvoted to oblivion and made nearly invisible, driving them from the platform. Sure, their account still exists, technically, but they can't make money or reach anyone.
Why do the bullies do this? A couple main reasons. One is they disagree with the political, ideological, philosophical, or other stances in my posts. For example, statists and pro-vaxxers hate a lot of what I talk about, but they can't argue with it, so they just remove some of my income instead. $30+ at a time, on several posts in a row. I lost about $200 yesterday. It's demoralizing, and that's part of why they do it.
Yes, the other main reason is personal competition. I recently broke into the top 1000 accounts for reputation on Hive, and I'm working my way into the top 900. The higher you get, the fewer accounts that can mess with you, so when people say "rep doesn't do anything" they're totally wrong. Rep is important - just not for bragging rights. So when these mega accounts (usually whales that got their start here early on, or are part of the in crowd) target an up-and-comer like myself, what they're doing is trying to protect their own score and situation. They see me as a threat. Instead of upping their own game, they're spending resources attacking mine. While that's within the platform rules, in the real world it's incredibly pathetic and cowardly. If only they would work on their own posts and other actions here, improving things for themselves and for others, this place would thrive. But not only do they neglect doing that, they put time and money into hurting others they disagree with or feel threatened by. Really weak.
But what can you do? The more you piss them off (including pointing out the truth and hurting their feelings), the more they target you. These people have plenty of time when it comes to venting their anger and frustrations out on innocent content-creators trying to feed their families.
I've never taken a cent from this platform. I've put in 5 years and a lot of money, but taken nothing. I've entertained, informed, motivated, and helped thousands here. I've built the place, almost from day 1. But I'm being blocked from entering the inner circle, by weak-minded low-quality participants with large stakes. They have a big hammer, but not much else, so everything to them looks like a nail. Bam! Bam! Bam! Oh, they have so much fun. And they cause so much damage to individuals and the blockchain. These people are the peak of the selfishness pyramid. They will hurt and risk and sacrifice everyone and everything else to maintain their position. There is little recourse for them.
I want to thank and congratulate the larger accounts that DON'T abuse others here, simply because they can. They're untouchable, and they know it, but they choose not to be corrupt. Commendable! Thank you very much. If only everyone was like you and I, but unfortunately there are some corrupt bullies in every crowd.
Those were each $40 posts which I put several hours of work into. Of course, I'm thankful that they're not at $0, but you can imagine how upsetting it is to refresh your screen and have all your content slash and burned like that.
To these people, I'd like to ask they email me (drutter at protonmail) if they have a problem to discuss like adults. If they have a valid complaint, I'd like to hear it. Of course, I know they're not going to take me up on that, but it's there anyway.
My hope is that they realize I'm not hurting them or anyone else with my content, and it doesn't violate any rules. Their downvotes are purely the result of their disagreement with me on some level, or because they feel threatened by my rising reputation and standing in the Hive community. Please, leave me and my family alone. Work on yourself and your own content. Generate upvotes for yourself, rather than dishing out downvotes for those you see as competition. Focus on your own strategy and plan, rather than forming vendettas with other members. Hive doesn't need more bullies, more wanna-be-policemen, more statist stooges.
I provide decentralized, original, quality content on important topics. I am what Hive was built for, and I am what it thrives upon. Whale accounts with little original thought and large punishing downvotes are not the way forward. Those people can dish out a lot of pain and sorrow, but they have little true power. They aren't the future of Hive, or blockchain, or crypto, or the internet. Their days are numbered and I think they are starting to realize it.
I ask they take their negativity elsewhere. Put me on mute. You don't like what I say, so please, focus yourself somewhere else.
Respect and gratitude to my supporters, and those curators who bravely upvote real content here.
See you tomorrow at the convoys and rallies! Mandate freedom!
DRutter
