• @[email protected]
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    2 days ago

    They’re suppressing information about climate change, HIV and other diseases, the LGBTQ+ population, people’s genders, diversity and equality, workplace discrimination, women’s health, and so on. They’re already punishing people who try to talk about these suppressed matters. Who is being helped by this? Do these Republicans believe they are helping anyone, or are they clear that their goal is just to hurt people?

    • @[email protected]
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      82 days ago

      Cultural molding. Its very popular among facists. Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler, the Spanish inquisition. Stamp out any possibility of losing piwer to those who disagree with you.

  • @No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston
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    62 days ago

    You know who believes in global warming?

    Insurance companies, see how they price their products.

    If you don’t think is true, then don’t pay that premium.

    Thank you for coming to my red talk.

  • @StopTouchingYourPhone
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    I can’t wrap my head around being against figuring out how to feed people while the world’s climate drastically changes.

    And it’s all one project, north or south of the US-CA border.

    td;dr of the link - 2013 Harper government in Canada passed an omnibus bill that muzzled scientists studying the tar sands, fish farms, climate change… there were thousands of very sudden job cuts to fisheries and oceans, thousands of cuts to unionized support staff, he eliminated the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission, etc…

    As Maude Barlow and renowned freshwater scientist David Schindler wrote in The Star Phoenix, “The Harper government is systematically dismantling almost every law, regulation, program or research facility aimed at protecting freshwater in Canada and around the world.” Harper even killed the Global Environmental Monitoring System, an inexpensive project that monitored 3,000 freshwater sites around the world for a UN database.

    “This government has abandoned evidence-based policy-making to pursue its own brand of policy-based evidence-making.” - Megan Leslie (NDP).