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Centrist. Anti-fundamentalist. Contaminated site engineer (P.Eng. AB/SK). All tweets are personal. Married to @yeg_md . 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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This may be the best paragraph ever written about political activism ever.
Activism is not a social club. Activism is not about looking cool or morally righteous. Activism is not dunking on people. It's not when you ratio someone.
Activism is about real world change. The rest is worthless if it doesn't lead to that.
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This dog is protecting their owners from dolphins. 12/10, would give lead role in Spielberg-directed blockbuster.
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The internet is basically now controlled by a 20-something golf management student in a benevolent dictatorship (aka
@matt___nelson
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This is Canada for “we’re afraid America might break into a civil war after the election
Canada is preparing for possible ‘disruptions’ following U.S. election, Justin Trudeau says
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I think the worst version of this I’ve seen was the left spending a ton of political capital to try and pass gun laws, then complaining they shouldn’t be enforced because of “impacts to people of color”.
That’s not politics, its teenagers mad that dad enforces bedtime.
This, from
@mattyglesias
, which argues that contemporary trends on the far left have more spiritual DNA in common with anarchism than socialism, is one of the truest things I’ve read in a very long time
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Activism is not about “being right”, it’s about making a substantial difference out in the real world where billions of people live.
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Imagine actually defending a supposed “antitrust” bill that literally says “Amazon bad, but Walmart good”.
This is as bad as Florida’s “we hate tech companies except if they they own a theme park” bill.
Dianne Feinstein rightly points out that the Senate antitrust bills will force companies like Amazon to remove Amazon Basics listings, but companies like Walmart and Target will still be able to prioritize their in-store brands on their own websites
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Hey let's all point out that
@ezralevant
just got found guilty of libel *again* today.
#ableg
#abpoli
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Peterson unabashedly uses material from a neo-nazi who killed 77 people in Norway.
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The NDP needs to dump Singh. He’s hands down the worst major party leader of the past couple decades, and we’re including Stockwell Day in that list.
#cndpoli
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But seriously, dogs looking incredibly happy and joyful always makes my day.
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I dunk on urbanists, but NIMBYs are awful.
Sure an urbanists think that walkable distance to a bar is more important than it is, but NIMBYs think cities should be theme park frozen in time: neither the buildings nor people living there should ever change. It’s their Disneyland.
When you talk about Chinatown, the first thing you mention are the aesthetics of the buildings, not the people living in them.
As hard as you try, you are the very thing you’re running from.
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“If the starting point for your argument is that the very people you need to persuade must accept that core aspects of their identity should be a source of shame rather than pride, then no well-crafted agenda of utilitarian policies is likely to win them over.”
A very good article explaining why progressives need patriotism, from a former Obama speechwriter:
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I would like to personally congratulate
@maxfawcett
for being promoted to State Journalist. We know you worked hard for this 😂
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This has always been my view. The fact that there *could* have been a lab leak doesn’t match up with any actual evidence, and spillover events (or animal borne) have caused multiple pandemics in human history.
The "effort to convince them otherwise" here consists of qualified scientists and informed journalists explaining that there is no evidence for the lab leak theory and extremely strong evidence for the spillover/market theory
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Falwell lashing out at Russell Moore who criticized the concentration camps tells you all you need to know about Falwell.
#EmptyThePews
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I think one of the interesting takeaways from both Amazon and Starbucks unions is that they have been most successful with actual local union organizing rather than by one of the big national unions (Teamsters, UFCW, etc) trying to do it as an outsider.
one of the unintended consequences of Starbucks's vicious union-busting has been the rapid transformation of a class of intelligent, empathic young baristas from merely union-curious to militant organizers, many of whom have now said the labor movement will be their life's work
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People who are devoutly religious are more prone to conspiracy theories. I saw it *all the time* in right-wing catholic circles.
When you build your life on “faith in things unseen”, of course you’ll also accept bullshit like this. It’s a tautology almost.
Great work as always by
@sarahposner
, but the
@nytimes
' framing is misleading.
The heart of Sarah's story is why QAnon is taking off in evie circles, not that the occasional "respectable evangelical" is trying to stop it.
The bigger story? They have no chance of stopping it.
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This was really dumb and I can’t believe we missed this.
I paid my utility bills throughout the pandemic, including when I was laid off for almost a year. Why should I pay everyone else’s bill?
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Just absolute peak NIMBYism. Using eminent domain to stop a housing project for people who can’t even afford to live in the town they work.
This is a crazy one. Vail Resorts wants to spend $17 mil of its own money building housing for its employees on its own property. The town of Vail is using eminent domain to seize their land and stop the project, saying it threatens bighorn sheep habitat
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@C_Stroop
I don’t think there has ever been a clearer indication of the underlying racism of evangelicals.
#EmptyThePews
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OMG Anonymous is going after Rebel this is the best day ever in
#cndpoli
Hello
@JackPosobiec
we noticed you work for a Canadian outlet called
@TheRebelTV
. Can we have a moment of your time?
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@SwannMarcus89
I don’t actually care about that conversation, I just dislike that celebrities and influencers are causing a shortage for diabetics who actually need Ozempic to control a chronic condition.
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Oil and gas figured out over the past few years that they can make mega profits with less people.
They don’t exist to employ people. Oil boosters seem to have forgotten that. They exist to produce oil.
The Patch is literally gushing profit, yet the promised jobs from Kenney aren’t coming. At some point, those still unemployed in O&G have to ask him why.
#ableg
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Any college that does this, refuses to let people graduate due to non-academic morality policing, should be de-accredited by any affiliated bodies and loose all public funding.
This is beyond not acceptable.
#emptythepews
In an act of blatant discrimination,
@ClarksSummitU
is refusing to let Gary Campbell, a gay man, graduate--b/c he is gay. Many evangelical schools have Title IX exemptions. Public pressure is our only chance of getting justice:
#Exvangelical
#Resist
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This is godawful.
The US Catholic Church tried harder to fire a married gay teacher than speak our against child abuse. They have zero moral authority left.
#emptythepews
#uspoli
Chairman of U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration Statement in Response to Imminent Administration Deportation Plans
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I honestly can't understand how this ended in an acquittal. There was no excuse for such an action. It was murder.
He was polite
He complied
Yet they still murdered him in front of his girlfriend & let the killer walk
#PhilandoCastile
#stopkillingus
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I've wanted to say this for years: Fuck Don Cherry.
Canadian icon Don Cherry tells Black men in America to stop protesting their own genocide.
Y'all still fuck with him tho, right?
#please
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Hot take: Historical districts are just a new form of deed restrictions. The restriction is “only rich people allowed”.
Wealthy enclaves are abusing historic preservation to do an end run around state housing law.
On the left, a map of the proposed historic district. On the right, recent home sale prices in the neighborhood, (via Zillow).
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@DianeMariePosts
@calmecam
Conservatives are stuck in the 1990s. We don’t have 18% interest rates to worry about.
Companies take on debt all the time to finance projects. Debt is not bad, especially when the country has a fairly stable and guaranteed source of income.
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This really is a reason to live your non-Christian life out loud.
For example, I am so much more happy and my life is much more peaceful since I left religion. You don’t need it to live a happy, fulfilled life.
Many evangelicals literally pray for God to “break” their children whose life choices they disagree with, so they will be forced to “rededicate their lives to Jesus” and conform.
#Exvangelical
#EmptyThePews
#WednesdayWisdom
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@ConceptualJames
This was exactly how I felt when I left a conservative religion. That’s coincidental.
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I mean .... they’re not entirely wrong.
Exposure to other people’s and cultures tends to correlate with a more liberal worldview. And that’s a good thing.
The other day in the rural Upper Midwest I met a plumber in his 30s who told me his brother is a "screaming liberal" because he "went to college."
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@fakedansavage
Breaking: Most people, married and unmarried, don't care what old man in drag says.
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@salballis
@Halalcoholism
I’ve never seen a better example of an American thinking they know everything and failing to understand anyone outside America while pretending to.
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I think people have a lot of trouble understanding just how big the Canadian prairies are.
I’ve used to place the UK over Alberta. If London, UK in around Medicine Hat, then Edmonton if in *Carlisle*. Peace River is located in the Hebrides.
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“I didn’t get into politics to tell people what to do with their lives” says man who’s political activism has included telling women what to do with their body and telling gays they can’t get married because that might hurt some feelings.
#abpoli
Always interesting watching Kenney dance between "I don't want to tell people what to do with their lives" and the fact that he's told me what I can do with mine his whole career.
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Pro tip: this is what Christian fascism/Theocracy tools like.
#uspoli
Pat Buchanan urges Donald Trump to "break judicial power" and defy the courts to preserve his Muslim ban
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Absolutely devastating to the UCP government narrative - this expert report completely contradicts their claims and reveals the UCP to be nothing but NIMBYs and anti-renewable energy.
And if you're wondering why this report wasn't released on February 29th, when the GoA announced its gongshow policies, there are many -- many -- reasons. Here's a sample re: environmental & agricultural lands:
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@jessesingal
Neo-Calvinism, but without the redemption. Original sin, but minus the saviour.
How did political ideologies end up as quasi-religions?
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Trad Catholics are as dangerous to the world-at-large as any dominionists. They will happily underwrite fascist ideologies as long as it advances their goals.
Why do you think right-wing Catholics are behind Trump and other modern nationalists?
Tfw a trad Catholic in your mentions essentially admits to being a fascist
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Reminder that O’Rielly was continuously heralded as a role model by the catholic/Christian right.
#spiritualAbuseIs
#emptythepews
REVEALED: Disgraced Former Fox Host Bill O'Reilly Paid $32M Sexual Harassment Claim, Sent Gay Porn -
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Somehow only
@Dave_Khan
made it to
#Pride
in
@BrianJeanAB
's riding. Who really cares about
#ymm
?
#abpoli
Met
@Dave_Khan
today at the first
#ymm
pride. Only
#AbLeg
leader to attend. Good times and good people😊
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@AlecStapp
“Sure my work is scientifically sound, it just has 0% correspondence with the real world”
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when you let antisocial people take over public spaces, people with the means to do so retreat to private spaces (eg - public transit to cars).
The essence of urbanism is that you have shared public spaces — sidewalks, parks, libraries — that require rules and policing to maintain.
If you don’t do that, people retreat to a privatized domain of shopping malls and personal cars so they can have pleasant experiences.
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I think this shows how much of a following
@ryanjespersen
had. Strictly speaking he’s a local/regional radio host. Getting almost in the top 20 of podcasts when he hasn’t even started yet is impressive.
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@toastywoods
@sandyponYEG
@pbakhmut
Hi I’m a professional engineer. I have to pay yearly membership fees of almost $400 and have to do 80 hours a year of professional development.
Welcome to the real world
@pbakhmut
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Welcome to the religious right.
Women are expendable. But men have to be protected at all cost.
#ChristianAltFacts
No punishment on the table for the impregnators. Death for the living woman who has the nerve to decide what is right for her. Wouldn’t want to ruin a promising young man’s future
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I absolutely endorse these recommendations. I’ve previously suggested a gag rule on medical practitioners (no mentioning unless patient brings it up) is appropriate for MAID.
I wrote about why Canada's MAID policy bothers me so much.
It's not that people don't have the right to die. It's that providers and insurers have a perverse incentive to overuse MAID in order to save taxpayer money.
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Evangelicals saw something in Trump: a man who would "keep women in their place"
#uspoli
#spiritualabuseis
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@wanyeburkett
You know what’s funny? Progressives have spend years trying to tell people that non-physical aggression is real and bad and they were right! A women getting catcalled in public is bad and makes them feel uncomfortable.
But that principle apparently just doesn’t apply here?
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Remember when
@jkenney
cut gay rights from citizenship guide?
@KenneyFactCheck
won't answer this either.
#pcldr
#ableg
#abpoli
.
@jkenney
pulled gay rights from citizenship guide, documents show /via
@globeandmail
?
#ableg
#cdnpoli
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Christianity: You will have bad sex and you will thank us for it.
Also Christianity: Why does no one want to be Christian anymore?
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This is the reason why this “Alberta over-contributes” is dumb.
Everyone in Canada gets CPP based on what they contribute. There’s simply more younger people paying in right now than older people retired in Alberta.
Why are there such large positive net contributions from Alberta residents? Consider a simple fact: young people pay into pension plans, while old people collect. Here's an illustration of the data. 👇
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Churches really haven’t made any effort to try and understand youth to retain them. Youth don’t respond to “my way or the highway” threats.
Evangelicals: We’re losing the youth! Hit the panic button! What do we do?
Exvangelicals: We’ll gladly tell you how you lost us.
Evangelicals: Did you hear something? Oh well, let’s ask this panel of white pastors over 50; they’ll know what to do!
Exvangelicals: lol bye bitch
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I upgraded from an iPhone SE to a 13 Mini, and the battery has actually been excellent.
Like I felt like I had to charge my SE all the time. I get a full day typically on the 13 mini.
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Oh the Christian victim card. What a bunch of persecution complex bullshit
#spiritualabuseis
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My twitter challenge to people today (maybe even
@C_Stroop
) is to find me someone on twitter who has “father husband conservative Christian” (or even worse, pastor) in their bio who isn’t an asshole.
@sixpoint9sign
@kaclk
@Nikoskioussis
I understand what you’re saying, and there’s validity to your suspicion, but I’m just saying that not all husbands, Christians, conservatives or fathers are evil people.
It’s this kind of rhetoric that drives right and left further apart, unnecessarily.
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@GetOffMyLawnPod
@C_Stroop
Falwell and Graham are Christians. Full stop. That’s is not a debatable point.
If that makes you uncomfortable, maybe you should take care of the problems in your own circle before lashing out at others who are simply bringing the problem to light.
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This is a disgrace. These are being given for nothing more than political reasons to reward UCP areas.
There’s no reason for any bars to follow rules when AHS doesn’t seem to care about them.
#abpoli
UPDATE: Alberts Health now says it has granted exemptions to rodeos in Airdrie, Cochrane and Ponoka. "Exemptions are granted due to the event’s importance to the local economy and community. "
#ableg
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The US AG is outright advocating for theocracy - for a Gilead society. For Christian sharia.
#emptythepews
#TheocracyAlert
Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion & traditional values."
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Right-wing Catholics are the fucking worst and none of this is at all surprising. The equation of indigenous religions with devil-worship is very conservative Christianity in a nutshell.
#EmptyThePews
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This is the reason why fundamentalist religions are so dogmatic, cause once you question anything it all falls like a house of cards.
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You have your Chinese people in Chinatown, your Italians in Little Italy, and poor POCs in the slums just how it always was and always should be and how dare someone try and change your little urban theme park.
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The real ethical problem with Christians.
They can’t figure out how to act ethically if there’s no eternal punishment for things they don’t like.
#EmptyThePews
@SbethCaplin
@realrobbell
I thought it was telling when Hell was taken off the table, people’s reaction was “then why believe?” as if the only reason to follow Jesus is to avoid eternal punishment. How unimaginative.
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@xav_moss
@AlecStapp
The price people are willing to pay for Uber or Lyft is below the price it would cost in wages once you incorporate all the markups because Uber and Lyft are overhead heavy once they have to make a profit and not just set VC money on fire.
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If there’s literally anything you’d think socialists would understand, it’s the consequences of a landed gentry privatizing benefits for themselves and locking everyone else out.
Lots of socialists really mad at The Atlantic for pointing out that the housing crisis is a result of *checks notes* entrenched class interests influencing government and not a single firm with a scary name
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Cc:
@jkenney
, this is what leadership looks like.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will be marching in the Calgary Pride parade Sunday: release.
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Speaking as a gay person, I would say they have no fucking right to out someone against their will. It's plain homophobic is what is is.
Find a gay person.
Ask them what they would have done if their principal called home and outed them.
This is what
@jkenney
wants done.
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Reminder: conservative Christians consider it their "religious freedom" to dominate others and force them to live a certain way.
10. really do not consider themselves to be free unless their freedom is allowed to trump that of all other people.
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Considering these intrusions, we should really have a permanent RCAF base in northern Canada.
As of now, CF-18 are only permanently stationed at CRB Cold Lake and Bagotville. Neither of which helps us defend the North.
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@GetOffMyLawnPod
@C_Stroop
Oh yes the poor old persecuted Christians who have the ear of the president and have special opt-outs from equality laws like Title IX.
We will pray for a day when mega-preachers will be able to worship openly on cable television while asking for absurd donations.
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What really annoys fundamentalists is having a story that does not conform to their acceptable contextualizations.
For example, being gay and accepting of yourself and happy.
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It's funny that they never seemed to count it as a failure if a person killed themselves after.
Shows you their values
#spiritualabuseis
Gay Conversion Therapy works—if by "work" you mean it converts someone to a less authentic/less free/less joyful version of themselves.
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I was initially critical of James Martin, but I have to say he has gone all in on supporting the LGBT community. I would say he is genuine.
Thank you to the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, to the Franciscan community, the pastoral staff, the LGBTQ outreach ministry, and all the wonderful people, LGBT and straight, who joined us for the Pre-Pride Mass. I was so happy to share in the Eucharist with you!
#PrideMonth
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I think the one thing I’d add here is *timely* access to justice has disappeared across the Common Law world.
It should not take (eg) a year for landlord-tenant disputes to be resolved. We need a massive expansion of our judicial capacity (judges, crown prosecution, courtrooms).
What does it mean to have world-leading’ courts if they are increasingly giving up hearing ordinary cases involving ordinary people? My law column for
@TheCriticMag
.
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I used to joke on Reddit that anytime there was transit issues, “here comes the people saying we can’t be an inclusive city if we don’t let people do drugs on transit”.
It was meant to be a straw-man. But there seems to be legitimate defenders of it and I don’t understand.
People’s brains are so poisoned by identity that they seemingly forget that we police *behavior*. Drunk, mentally ill, pissed off, bored, or who knows what — you are an issue to the extent that your behavior is an issue. We police behavior.
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This is child abuse. There’s no other term for it.
Just another
#ChristianAltFacts
, teaching kids that child abuse is good for you and also god’s will. Because their religion is disgusting.
A Sunday school teacher told me my parents were adulterers bc they were getting divorced, and my best friend's dad was burning in hell bc he committed suicide. We were 12.
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And yes, this kind of small symbolism is important. It shows the fundamentalist religious right they do not get to control the narrative and that we do not bow down to them.
The religious right is authoritarian, the biggest fuck you to them is refusing them control.
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@C_Stroop
@Chris_SmithsJ
@DJMrAutomatic
@RDispatches
Hey look it’s “I think gay people are totally sinful but maybe we should be nice to them I guess”.
@Chris_SmithsJ
could have just stopped at “I think it’s sinful” because we don’t care what comes next.
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The PM is sometimes in Ottawa for Remembrance Day and sometimes not. It’s really not a big deal.
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