Victor Villas

A: No

You can enjoy the art, and remember that the artist is a piece of shit, and that will affect the enjoyment of the art in various degrees, and that informs later decisions on supporting/platforming that art and/or artist - all on a case by case and very personal/individual basis. I don’t even see how there’s a debate to be had here.

I agree.

Letting Russia chew through Europe would mean EU has less influence in global politics, that’s not really a factor with Canada.

And this whole proxy war against Russia has been not that bad of a deal for the US, which is why it’s so regrettable that the US is now withdrawing its support.

But letting Russia encroach via Canada is basically the opposite situation of letting the US (through NATO) encroach via Ukraine. Their stupid golden dome is not as effective if Russia can just move underneath.

The classic old tale of measuring living standards as GDP per Capita.

This is the perfect metric for the US, since deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can create a fiction that somehow the country is working just fine. While billionaires put cars and penises in orbit and their workers are denied SNAP benefits, we can always celebrate their beautiful GDP per Capita graph. Congratulations.

It solves this problem of rich people having too much of a hard time getting ahead of poor people for medical treatment.

And it solves the issue in a way that the middle class thinks they’re on the winning side, but in fact they’re on the losing side, so it ends up solving a second problem: how to further deepen inequality in a way that the mass populace stays under a delusion of fairness.

And it solves the issue in yet another relevant way, in that the poorest segment of society gets to die off without care. What we call politics of extermination, where falling off to the edges of economic activity doesn’t merely make you marginalized, it actually erases you of the surface of the earth.

Triple win for the wealthy, double loss for the working class, and a final loss for the poor - death.

I too feel bad for the kids that are having to detransition.

But then what? What does that have to do with these laws?

You keep dancing around the issue instead of just saying it out loud: you think that, because some kids suffer with detransition, we should make it harder to get access to gender affirming care. Yes or no? If no, then cool. If yes, then you need to inform yourself on the already enormous hardship that is getting gender affirming care and the overwhelmingly positive outcomes it generates.

don’t you want nazis in the open?

No

The thing you’re quoting talks about current number of cases, but also talks about the large outbreak in Alberta. Maybe you forgot to remove that second sentence?

Or maybe you think that losing eradication status came from the current count of cases instead of the two outbreaks followed by endemic cases?