@Nerde

Charlie Kirk was most definitely *not* an expert on gun control.

@Deixis9 @dave

@CStamp

I’m also grateful that we dodged that disaster this time, but in a very provisional way: the results were close - far too close for comfort.

8 million Canadians voted CPC: that’s 42% of votes cast and nearly 20% of the population, proportions only marginally lower than the last American election (49% and 22%)

Until that basic dynamic shifts, every election here is a roll of the dice on putting the MapleMAGA party in charge.

@inthehands

Exactly. Violence is wrong, assassinations and killing are wrong, because life is not a thing you need to earn by being good enough somehow, because *that* position is exactly the position of the fascists: that life and liberty are only for those who measure up by their criteria.

@canadianglen

I’m not sure I agree … we are a reading house but I have been much more cautious with visual (especially AV) content compared to writing because I think visual (and somewhat less aural) content goes into your brain in ways than semantic (reading) content. When you read your mind constructs imagery out of your own previous experience, it can’t create new experience or imagery out of nothing. But visual imagery is itself a kind of experience that can be wholly novel, and can adversely affect young minds that aren’t ready, imho. Words that kids aren’t prepared for tend to just be confusing, obscure, or opaque to them.
Having said that, there is nothing in the ‘scare images the GovofAB is showing around that high school students aren’t prepared for, and they have never demonstrated that those images were available to younger students. Images don’t just jump out of books and attack kids.