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The fascists in this case were spreading a targeted life-threatening disinformation campaign. Gender affirming care is a collection of lifesaving medical treatments. A ban on gender affirming care would deny trans people the fundamental right to exist. This in not a false concern, but a well researched fact. In this Canadian woman's case the integrity of the mail service in Canada was being threatened by the fascists. The fascists were the bad-faith actors. With her civil disobedience, she made the strategic decision to defend life and liberty. This Canadian woman was acting in a way that was consistent with our ideals here in the US.
We should change our institutions so that they reject intolerance. This will help us prevent the self-serving agendas of bad-faith actors. Our institutions do not need to collapse in order to accomplish this. In the US, we have the capability to amend the constitution. In fact it is much more difficult to build useful institutions from the ground up, as that historically has required significant military capabilities. The integrity of our institutions is preserved by preventing bad-faith actors from misusing our institutions. Not by blindly allowing fascists to spread disinformation campaigns.
Your argument repeatedly asserts a baseless concern about systemic change for our institutions. There is no utility in being arbitrarily impartial to fascists. Turning a blind eye to their disinformation campaign would not have preserved the integrity of the Canadian mail service. Allowing fascists to takeover our democracy in the US does not preserve the integrity of our democracy. Once bad-faith actors control our institutions the institutions are lost. No amount of arbitrary impartiality before a takeover of our democracy will tie the hands of bad-faith actors. Bad-faith actors will use this leeway to harm groups of people while they are out of power.
Society should not tolerant intolerance. We should not be complicit in our own destruction. If we want to keep our democracy then we must stand up to fascists who attempt to take it away. Even if this means engaging in civil disobedience. We should not want our institutions to be impartial between truths and falsehoods. We should want our institutions to be committed to the truth even if that means being biased against fascists.
Yes yes, big words and upset that you've been called out for wanting to undermine the institutions and lots of paragraphs bemoaning the big bad evil fascists.
and somehow instead of actually dealing with that, you want to undermine the mail service, which is totally not a thing that they want to do to interfere with elections or anything.
Weird how you decry fascists yet want the same damn thing as them, with the same damn tactics.
Ignoring my argument is not a refutation of my argument. However my argument is a refutation of your argument.
We should want to improve all of our institutions. Public institutions like the mail service are no exception.
Improving a thing is not the same as destroying a thing. We should improve our institutions by using our institutions. We should not replace democracy with a christo-fascist dictatorship. Falsely conflating these two different actions is not a compelling argument.
I'm ignoring your bloviating bullshit cause its already been refuted, despite it being a masquerade and irrelevant to the point of the topic at hand, all of which is nothing but an example of you desperately trying to distract from that topic.
And that topic is mail carriers not having the right to choose what gets delivered and what doesn't based on personal feels and opinions, and that doing such deserves to be punished to prevent others from doing the same.
Something that, when you deign to acknowledge the topic at all, have argued against, because you agree with them, and you want to let government employees do whatever undermining, institutional destroying bad behaviors they want as long as you agree with it... Which is the core component of most right wing arguments "I agree with it there for its right and moral"
People can confirm these are false statements by reading what we wrote. It is self-evident.
No where in my argument do I advocate for these positions. The decision should be based on empirical evidence.
I cite sources in my comment here:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16679003/10778009
Here is the link about gender affirming care:
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-gender-affirming-care