You have a group of people whose core beliefs, morals and values are deeply rooted in an interpretation of an Abrahamic religion that basically tells it’s followers that suffering will absolve them of their sins and allow them into heaven in the afterlife.
The conservative agenda is to keep people poor and less educated so that they can’t understand that is happening and can’t fight back because they’re too busy working trying to earn enough money to survive.
Then add on top of it what I said before plus setting the system up so that people rely on charity to make the rich people feel good about making donations to “help the poor” because that’s the Christian thing to do.
Instead of implementing a proper social safety net and measures that would prevent people from becoming poor in the first place, like building social housing that would accommodate anyone who can’t pay a regular rent, universal basic income, legalizing all drugs to prevent people from going to jail and getting stuck in the loop of being poor from being in jail instead of getting proper care, etc.
A lot of transphobic people say things like “Trans people shouldn’t undergo surgeries and hormones to fix what they’re going through!” and what not, but I’ve come to a realization. They’re not saying this out of a genuine desire to help trans people, and I’ve used this “four point method” with every transphobe...
I’ve asked a similar question to one of my friends who came out at transphobic.
Basically, he thinks it’s a mental illness and they need therapy to convince themselves they are in fact the gender that they had at birth and to live their life with that original biological gender.
I tried to explain to him that biology and how the human brain works isn’t a perfect science yet, and that it’s possible for people to develop a brain with different wiring that ends up with someone having the opposite gender in their head.
I sought psychotherapy for depression and it did very little. Never tried meds though because our healthcare system here makes it impossible to get to a psychiatrist, which are the only ones who can prescribe these kinds of meds here.
Je suis retournée aux fils RSS depuis que j’ai abandonné Reddit, et je consulte FB rarement pour les nouvelles. Si vous cherchez de quoi de très simple pour desktop je vous suggère Feedbro, un addon dans Firefox. Mon dossier Nouvelles ressemble à ça
I just watched the congressional hearing today with witnesses of UFOs Je viens de regarder l’audience au congrès américain sur les témoins d’OVNIs et possiblement de vie intelligente extra-terreste. C’est vraiment excitant! Est-ce que vous y croyez? Oui/Non? Pouvez-vous élaborer pourquoi? Je veux connaître votre...
Certainement que si on découvrait une espèce comme des dauphins sur une autre planète de notre système solaire, on considèrerait ça comme une espèce intelligente. On trouverait un moyen de communiquer avec eux, comme certains l’ont fait avec différents animaux, comme avec les chiens.
Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....
As it says in the title, the BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. I think the CBC (and other news networks) should do similar. Particularly with the recent passing of Bill C-18 it seems like a world where the links we share are crossposts to news organization’s own content is the perfect resolution to that whole issue.
Earlier today I made a comment that someone must have found controversial, because I noticed that all of my posts and most of my comments made in the last month have received about a dozen downvotes each, all happening today. Has anyone experienced anything similar and is there anything that can be done to combat that sort of...
I’m looking at a live stream of the house hearing and I’m looking at all the politicians that are there and I can’t believe than these are the people that are going to overlook how we get in contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life. We’re so fucked.
Entrainement de l'armée Malienne - C dans l'air (Mali : en attendant la guerre) (www.youtube.com)
Toronto man sells ultra-rare 'One Ring' card to rapper Post Malone for $2.64M | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Despite Quebec's new Airbnb legislation, illegal listings continue to flood site | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Firefox is badly broken for me, and I've never been able to figure out why
I switched back to firefox last week because I wanted to get away from Chromium. I was previously using Brave....
After years of delays, Canada announces plan to adapt to climate change | Rabble.ca (rabble.ca)
Former Sims lead says men would lie about how they played during focus groups: 'Actually, what you did is you redecorated that bathroom' (www.pcgamer.com)
What’s Behind the Right-Wing Backlash Against Harm Reduction? | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
How to reveal a transphobe's true intentions when regarding medical transition
A lot of transphobic people say things like “Trans people shouldn’t undergo surgeries and hormones to fix what they’re going through!” and what not, but I’ve come to a realization. They’re not saying this out of a genuine desire to help trans people, and I’ve used this “four point method” with every transphobe...
Meta commence à bloquer les nouvelles canadiennes sur ses plateformes (ici.radio-canada.ca)
Je suis retournée aux fils RSS depuis que j’ai abandonné Reddit, et je consulte FB rarement pour les nouvelles. Si vous cherchez de quoi de très simple pour desktop je vous suggère Feedbro, un addon dans Firefox. Mon dossier Nouvelles ressemble à ça
Why do we not eat pig or cow?
When I eat chicken, I call it chicken. Chicken wing; chicken drumsticks etc....
Croyez-vous aux OVNIs? À la vie intelligente extra-terrestre? Oui/Non, expliquez pourquoi. French
I just watched the congressional hearing today with witnesses of UFOs Je viens de regarder l’audience au congrès américain sur les témoins d’OVNIs et possiblement de vie intelligente extra-terreste. C’est vraiment excitant! Est-ce que vous y croyez? Oui/Non? Pouvez-vous élaborer pourquoi? Je veux connaître votre...
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What’s the big deal about Olivia Chow biking to City Hall anyways? | Rabble.ca (rabble.ca)
Browsing the wider fediverse from kbin
Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it's own game - browsing toots....
BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. The CBC should do the same.
As it says in the title, the BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. I think the CBC (and other news networks) should do similar. Particularly with the recent passing of Bill C-18 it seems like a world where the links we share are crossposts to news organization’s own content is the perfect resolution to that whole issue.
Posts of pictures of underaged girls
I’ve seen a few posts lately in my feed coming from this community with links to pictures of underaged girls marked NSFW....
Anyone else had problems with downvoting bots?
Earlier today I made a comment that someone must have found controversial, because I noticed that all of my posts and most of my comments made in the last month have received about a dozen downvotes each, all happening today. Has anyone experienced anything similar and is there anything that can be done to combat that sort of...
UFOs Are a Common Sight, Former Military Official Tells Congress (Non Paywall in comments) (www.wsj.com)
Non Paywalledand… A replay of the hearing