The Conservative grassroots voted overwhelmingly to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth under the age of 18 on Saturday.

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pp’s answer to COL is not to increase minimum wage, not create affordable avenues for buying housing, but to lower the price of oil. To create more pipelines to get tar-sands “oil” to market, and subsidize the oil companies to produce greener options.

This hypocrite is a corporate stooge. A fascist pig, dolled up to appeal to the dim witted. A God’s man that will shove his religious shit down or throats.

Yeah, I’m triggered by this bullshit

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So the Conservative party, for the next election, offers: a) blowing up the economy to further enrich the 1%; and b) fucking over trans people. Wow, that is so appealing 🙄

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You forgot: c) neutering the healthcare system to make it more like the US.

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PP actually lucked out there and doesn’t need to plan to take action on it because the provinces are already doing a fine job of dismantling their respective healthcare systems

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because conservative provinces are already doing a fine job

FTFY

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I love how they are all about bodily autonomy, until someone wants to use it in a way they don’t like.

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Social issues are not a distraction, the idea that they are is exactly an example of normative privilege.

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He’s trying to increase privilege disparity.

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Of course he is, it’s right there in the name, what are Conservatives trying to conserve ? While modern society is by no means one of no or minimal disparity, I’d say we’ve made meaningful advances towards a less disparate society in many ways. Conservatism is about conserving the traditional social and economic systems, it is not about progress, slow progress, careful progress or anything else that folks have diluted themselves into believing. Where conservatism is unable to conserve the traditional systems, it will seek to restore them when they have the power to do so. Understanding that their political message is unappealing to many, they will of course deny this, but one only needs to look at countries where conservatism has consolidated power to see the truth. Historically marginalized people will never be safe from conservative political forces so long as those forces have a legitimate chance to gain power. They will work to restore privilege disparity and erase hard fought gains won over decades or even longer. No area of human rights is safe from prolonged conservative rule, not women’s rights to healthcare and civic participation, not LGBT rights to marriage, privacy, open participation in society and healthcare, not workers rights to safe workplaces, and certainly not any historically marginalized group hoping for a hand up in seeking employment or education.

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what are Conservatives trying to conserve ?

A party with the name Conservative. That is all. The Reform Party, as they were originally known, has never pretended to be conservative with respect to governance.

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IOW: Sorry voters but you can’t have affordable housing or livable wages until we get rid of all the LGBT people.

If this true, we have been infected by the MAGA virus

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We were infected shortly after 2016.

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