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It's hard not to take offense to your comment. Millennials did not spearhead shit. You were GIVEN the opportunity to be yourselves.

As a Millennial hard agree there. The old guard had to deal with mobs running the bars, institutions letting them die and in select places forming militia to prevent people from going out and beating queer people for fun. Millennials aren't the spearhead, we're like mid shaft of the spear at best.

That being said we're all gunna have to go back to the hardcore roots if we want to uphold the civil rights wins of the past. This all is gunna get messy.

Kind of a non-article. Disney is friend shaped but NOT a friend. They are union breaking bastards who change their tune to suit whichever way the wind blows.

Aww that's so sweet! I am the transmasc Non-binary half of a very devoted 16 year relationship and freely admit my fella's is the only safeguard the rest of y'all have stopping me from warcrimes.

I recognize your public service to humanity. Keep up the good work!

Elon Musk has a well documented track record of supporting far right causes that mirror Nazi ideology. At the Inauguration he performed two Nazi salutes (one to the crowd and one to the flag). He routinely promotes the methods of genocides of trans people and Palistinians through both verbal parlance and through direct funding and uses well known euphemisms in support of white supremacy causes. He has authoritarian leanings tasked with removing from government service entire administrative arms that previously were not electable or apointable positions (because they were staffed with experts whose task is to stick to their guns of scientific or proven best practice and not simply be yes men telling the administration what they want to hear).

He also has never denied making a Nazi salute in the days since it's happened instead deciding to make Holocaust and Nazi featured jokes.

At this point what evidence can be put forward that he is not a Nazi?

It is even wilder when one considers how challenging the Canadian Healthcare System actually is to run. They are on the hook to provide every citizen duty of care over a landmass 1.6% larger than the entire US. It regularly employs helicopter ambulances for access to remote communities and has exceedingly challenging terrain and despite this Canada has lower infant mortality, maternal mortality and longer life expectancy outcomes. On the Numbeo Health Care index which ranks quality of care, doctors and facilities it outpaces the US on that metric too. The Government run Medical Services Plan also covers partial on things like Massage Therapy visits, physio appointments and various services covering based on income so more people have access to those services at affordable prices.

It does all of this on an income tax base that charges 4% less than that of the US. It's a monumental effort keeping it afloat. The amount paid to insurers in the US, not even the system just insurance is just mind-boggling from a Canadian perspective.

Sorry, read too much and live with a programmer who uses me as a soundboard and forgot how to talk like a human. I'll simplify.

It was implied above being an "actual" Nazi is linked somehow to being brave. I suggested that being a Nazi isn't linked to being ballsy. A coward Nazi doesn't just exist it's just as deserving of being smacked in the face as a brave Nazi the only difference is their defense tactic is make you feel bad about doing so.

Maybe a downgrade from a punch to an open hand slap for legal retaliation reasons? Season to taste? Won't tell you how to live your life.

Framing being a Nazi as having a defining rubric of out and proud suggests a false spectrum linking being brave and cowardly to a range between Nazi and Not Nazi. It's more of a boolean function. A Nazi coward hiding in linen cupboard and an audacious Nazi in the streets willing to take a punch are still both just Nazis.

It's either a party brand name in which case it's meant to invoke a vibe of progressivism that it may or may not live up to because it's just part of political word salad...

Or its a political system that premiered back in the day of John Locke and Stuart Mill before fundamental rights were a widely accepted thing for the average joe that advocated for a series of basic human rights that from the start was very very focused on individual property rights and protection from government seizure because there was a habit monarchs had of doing that shit all the god damn time. Exceptions to these rights always existed but how the government interacts with those property rights particularly when it comes to "rights of corporations" is kind of up in the air. Socialism can optionally dovetail into liberalism by socializing different aspects of property and services but is not compatible with Communism because individual property rights are in direct conflict with allocation of resources based on government calculated need.

Technically Republicans and Liberals in the US are both liberals just Republicans are "neo-liberals" an ideology that became vogue with the likes of Regan and Thatcher where government regulatory bodies are looked at as an enemy and chunks of what were government are privatized... Which these parties sell as a cost cutting austerity measure but this has never been historically known to do anything but make things worse quality, not less expensive anf line the pockets of contractors and shareholders who are usually unsurprisingly ex politicians.

She should be given the biggest of side eyes. A lot of the laws Alberta has been passing are fairly direct challenges to Charter rights.

I feel for both you and your friend. Over the last while with trans stuff being in the news so much it does feel like being constantly under fire with a lot of hope for things getting better like they were even five years ago going by the wayside. I have a friend who has struggled with BPD on top of being trans and it has been kind of hard telling her that she actually is being a little too sensitive and assuming way more hostility than she's actually receiving from people in her life by "mind reading" intentions that are not there.

As one of the few other trans people in her life it's really hard being her reality check. When we queer folk have community we do a better job of keeping each other grounded and advocating for the general intentions of cis family, friends and romantic partners and give them grace to be imperfect allies. We can acknowledge when things suck because of a lack of understanding or because someone is still hurting us despite not wanting to... But that's not always based out of transphobia. The world is imperfect and sometimes that means we don't always have our cake and eat it too.

... But you still charge everybody into debt bondage for saving their lives. Here I do not pay for health insurance and have never walked out of the ER with a bill. I legitimately fear my American friends getting hurt in a way that simply does not apply to my domestic friends because I know that their lives won't be impacted financially long term. From what I have gathered from information about their wait times for surgery there isn't that much difference except for joint and mobility related stuff and even then it's not that far off.

The fact that employers are allowed to control what healthcare you receive and coerce you into staying with them or else you enter a dicey period where you have to cover you or your family yourself in any way just seems fucking exploitative and bonkers from a Canadian perspective.

It may seem like a pedantic difference but you are missing a key part of what's going on here. Nobody is challenging that gender dysphoria is a bad thing to experience... This policy is saying it's kosher to proclaim "transness is a mental illness" which means in effect that encompasses gender euphoria and all expressions of gender incongruity as symptoms of a mental illness. It's a subtle linguistic difference but one makes it possible to publicly derride trans people as being delusional or harmful to people around them or dangers to themselves and push for "curing" all transness by approaching being trans as a failure state.