I have to confess that I have been paying a lot of attention to the disruptive convoys in Canada for over a week. In my post about the convoy, I mentioned that the theme song of the pushback, used to disrupt communications on convoy Zello channels, was Ram Ranch, a salacious song about gay cowboys at the eponymous estancia. Now, Rolling Stone has covered the 'porno-metal' anthem of the resistance, with a shout-out to Noellenarwhal, one of the principal chroniclers of the convoys. Today, the big reveal was that the chat-stream of the Windsor, Ontario bridge blockers was taken over by trolls:
"How does it feel to have the #RamRanchResistance controlling your communications?"
— Noelle - Reporting Live from The Ram Ranch🐓🍷 (@Noellenarwhal) February 11, 2022
Heck yeah!!!
Good job demoralizing and confusing these horrible people, all while monitoring their plans for further disruptions. You trolls worked hard, now it's time to hit the showers like eighteen naked cowboys.
This use of an outré gay alt-porn creation to troll and undermine a right-wing campaign of fuckery reminds me of the time that gay dinosaur/bigfoot/whatever porn author Chuck Tingle nuked the Gamergaters from orbit when they tried to game the Hugo awards in order to make fun of women and people of color writing science fiction. When Space Raptor Butt Invasion was nominated for a Hugo, Chuck Tingle made a public statement that Gamergate's primary victim Zoë Quinn would accept his award should he win. It was a masterstroke that made the right-wing trolls look ridiculous, much like the constant interruptions of Ram Ranch makes the Canadian Convoy Clan sound ridiculous.
We might not get the heroes we are expecting, but we get the heroes we deserve, and it looks like weirdos who write unconventional gay porn are the ones who are... heh... rising to the occasion.
I hope something gets the hangers on to stand down, because from what I've read from people on the ground, the core group is some very dangerous fascists who want to overthrow the government. Those guys would love to have their own Ruby Ridge, though of course the leaders will be far away and the dying will be done by the members who have always been cannon fodder. The headlines will be about the ordinary guys who got shot, not about the hard core who are no doubt funded by the usual sources
ReplyDeleteTry to get some sleep. Everything you say is true. But we can't be doing this all the time. Nobody mentions Ruby Ridge so now I understand where you are coming from.
ReplyDeleteDrop it. It is not worth the trouble. I tell you this as an ordinary old man. In this world.
It's good to know that the Canadian government has taken actions to freeze the crowdsourcing campaigns.
ReplyDeleteI believe this is what the righties refer to as a 'false fag' operation.
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