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Hyperbole aside…the fascists have already taken strong steps to suppress, disqualify and gerrymander away Democratic votes to extend the large advantages they already had.

Before Trump Dems needed to be +3 to win, when he was elected they needed +5…just to overcome Republican cheating. We’re looking at as much as a 10% margin required going forward.

42%, if that’s even a real numberr, coupd more than enough to secure a victory. This isn’t even accounting for the fact that Trump and his cult will just change the numbers if they lose.

The only reason he hasn’t is Democrat capitulation. They should have forced a crisis long ago.

There’s about a 106% chance that Trump is going to use one “war” or another to try to avoid any future election.

Comparing the innate misogyny of most porn to being right handed isn’t appropriate. That sort of analogy, comparing something harmful to something benign, is the core of the problem - it serves to normalize misogyny.

We don’t need to go beyond the topic to illustrate misogyny and harm. For example, a porn store or site displaying simulated violence or underage scenarios to sell it products would be more appropriate. Prioritizing those categories is similar to prioritizing misogynistic lesbian porn over ethical lesbian porn, for example.

You don’t need to be dramatic and label an appropriate assessment of the misogyny of lesbian porn as “all men are evil”.

You must intentionally ignore how and why so-called “lesbian” porn is misogynistic. The baseline of the vast majority of lesbian porn doesn’t engage with how lesbians actually behave, for example, but rather it projects what male viewers want to see - typically with one or both actors behaving as a stereotypical man would.

They’re tripling down on Trumps “antifa terrorist” schtick: they’re stringing together anything they can that might make it appear (to the faithful) that these women are part of a terrorist network that targets ICE officers - and conservatives in general.

It’s bullshit. It pains loose associations and vibes as well organized groups and rigid ideologies.

The best fascist defence is a fascist offence.

Oh…the Canadian system is absolutely not funded as well as the Nordic countries, for example…and it’s getting worse as transfer payments continue to be cut, and as provinces don’t spend those payments on health.

The issue isn’t the aging population so much as what I said above: governments keep using healthcare to balance budgets because it’s such a big line item and it’s low hanging fruit they can use to show fiscal “success”. It would be easy to just fund our system…and that, in turn, would make our lives cheaper.

But fiscally “conservative” governments like to perpetuate the myth that our system has poor outcomes and paying out of pocket is preferable…so rich people can benefit from their wealth - health wise. It’s sad to watch it erode.

It absolutely depends on where you are…I allowed for that in my reply. I’m talking about the national average…including all people…not just rich ones.

I’m skeptical that in Quebec that you die of “cancer” before receiving treatment (without evidence)…because I’m familiar with the care here in Ontario, and that’s generally not the case. My guess is you’re talking about a specific type of more rare cancer treatment that’s not covered by your province.

But, I mean, yes…if you can afford to pay to skip the line…obviously you’re going to have better outcomes in the US system. I said that. But you have to count all the people that can’t afford it or forego care entirely…and in your anecdote you’re not doing that.

I’ll repeat that most people can not afford to skip the line.

Like…you can find sweet spots where US care is faster than Canadian care when you compare apples to apples…ie if you’re wealthier and your region doesn’t have poor people to care for. It should be obvious why that’s the case and how erosionary it is for our rich to lobby to pull their tax dollars out of our system so they can seek non-emergency care down there or in our increasing amount of private clinics.

When our media criticizes Canadian health care…it’s almost a single procedure criticism: hip replacements. But when they compare Canada to the US…they don’t mention that a giant chunk of Americans just don’t get hip replacements because they’re ineligible or they can’t afford them, so they’re not even counting those people in the queues. Up here a homeless junkie is on the same wait list as a billionaire (in theory…but not in practice because a homeless junkie isn’t very likely to be diagnosed).

Uh huh. You voted to fund it in the first place. This fight should have happened ages ago…not that they’ll stick to their guns, now.

Incompetent opposition.

People who say Canada has longer wait times ignore that the US doesn’t count the wait times poor or uninsured people have, or people that forgo care entirely. They compare well insured people in the US to the entire Canadian system.

The Canadian system definitely has its shortcomings, and is getting worse…ie if you live in an area with a concentration of poor or old people. But the reason it’s getting worse is because conservative government continue to force the profit motive on health systems as they cut funding and introduce private components.

I get the message. But this is incorrect. You don’t have shorter wait times in the US.

In Canada some wait times, for non-emergency procedures and in high traffic areas are publicized, usually by the forces who would benefit from privatization.

I can quickly counter those anecdotes with anecdotes of my own: I have never waited long for medical care because I live in a low traffic area and I don’t seek low priority medical care.

What you actually have in the US is a greater opportunity for shorter wait times as the result of paying a premium…but you also have longer wait times and people foregoing care entirely that they would receive in Canada.

Anyone still using twitter is either ok with Nazis or hopelessly addicted and coping…which means they’re ultimately ok with Nazis.

Why should these people be allowed to have employees again? Especially concurrent with their sentences? The message the court appears to be sending  here is “abuse your employees, and the the law says you should break even”.

The actual problem here is that the feds are complicit…they incentivize extracting financial gain from TFW.

Of course there isn’t. Posing the question is doing the work to help Trump normalize it.

There’s no major media left that will deal in reality.

I’m not sure what you’re saying…

…but the state is skipping the court part.

Right. Except the criteria Mr. Nazi over there has is “…because I say they were undocumented”.

…AND BC lumber, AND Ontario steel, AND maritime fish, AND everybodies’ water and minerals, etcetc

I call it “outsourcing profits”.

Great! Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.