Do not let this weasel anywhere near power. At best, he'll send Canada down the fascist drain like the USA, and at worst he'll hand Canada over to the USA.
It's a part of the wider right-wing war on empathy. They see it as a weakness, not as fundamental to what we are.
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Yes, Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.' Here's context
A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”
Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.
So they're not allowed to talk about reality, or how to make anything better. And the fascists in charge must know this is what they're doing, but they don't care.
I keep thinking of how the Buddha recognized three poisons of the mind: greed, hatred and ignorance. Right-wing politics is pure poison.
It's real Nazi science, this identification of criminals by skin colour, tattoos, and gestures. Perhaps they should study head shape too. Anyway, trigger their Nazi spidey sense and you'll be kidnapped and trafficked into permanent imprisonment and slavery in a foreign country where you have no legal rights. They don't have to prove you did anything. And half the US population will cheer because they can't imagine it will ever happen to them.
And when the police arrived they started questioning him about whether he agreed with Trump on deportations and Gaza. The police questioning people on their political views seems to be becoming standard in the USA.
“Why are they saying you pushed a priest?”
“They were trying to pull me away from the pulpit. I grabbed the pulpit and just held on. I didn’t push anyone. They had four guys grabbing me and dragging me off there.”
“What made you want to preach today?” “I’m worried about human beings, our brothers and sisters who live within our midst and are being targeted by the government.”
“What do you consider to be targeted by the government? What class of people are you …”
“Undocumented immigrants.”
“So you don’t agree with deportations and things like that?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Did you say anything like that?”
“I didn’t even get there.”
Looking at a copy of Gillcrist’s prepared remarks, the officer said, “So I see you mention Gaza and Ukraine in here. What’s your message with that?”
“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”
If you're in the USA don't you dare say abducting medics, handcuffing them, executing them and dumping their bodies in a mass grave is bad, or you'll be abducted, tortured and disappeared to permanent prison in a random country. This is called free speech.
"It is time to arrest those funding the attacks," he wrote. "Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence."
How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world's most publicly obnoxious Nazi?
Ah there goes another thing that distinguished the USA from China and Russia.
The Democrats seem to have come up with two strategies so far: either (1) wait and hope someone does something, or (2) play dead and hope someone does something.
This isn't a story about that. This is a story about someone being attacked because someone misidentified her as a Christian. It doesn't even say whether she was religious at all.
Efficiency is when the government abandons all its investments, lets everything fall apart, and drives all scientists to take jobs abroad before the next uncontrolled pandemic paralyzes the country.
It's at times like these I turn to my man Alexei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQGrq-Y7gg