One of the reasons I'm so agitated by the response to the #FireGallant situation is that I'm currently engaged in what is best described as the "deprogramming" of a beloved niece who went to Alberta and fell into a @cherylgallant type rabbit hole.
The first week she just ranted and raved about Trudeau being a pedophile and communist agents taking over the Liberal party and the clear drive to turn Canada into a slave state. "You used to love Canada!" she screamed at me in frustration.
She's irrational and deeply frightened and claims the vaccine is simply a way to finish off what the virus started, turning us all into automotons.
She was a pretty normal teenager. More peace and love and hippie beads than the darkness she's in now.
And this happened not because she was listening to crazy friends, but because it was being endorsed and given sly winks from from official sources. Politicians. "News" sources. Because there was no official pushback.
So, @erinotoole, when you're deciding that this sort of person is okay to keep in your caucus, just remember that you have children who you seem to love, and that one of them could very well fall into the hole you're helping to dig.
And I do not wish this for you.
You must stand up here for the values you constantly tell us you have. You simply *must*.
For 🇨🇦. For the kids who are going to get lost in the crazy.
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It's just Twitter - but I've watched immense pressure on social media cause politicians to do things - just to shut us up.
So, let's be loud. And united. If we all raise our voices - even in simple, straightforward ways, they *will* hear us.
Let's *do* democracy.
This is the *one, single* advantage we have over the asshats: there are more of us.
They're just louder.
If we want to keep our democracy healthy, we need to get loud, too.
"It is clear that policy responses to disinformation – including decisions by some policymakers not to address the issue – may advantage or disadvantage different political factions."
"... domestic political candidates, journalists, and citizens played major roles in promoting disinformation, and often did so to advance partisan interests ... For this and other reasons, policymaking to address disinformation has increasingly been politicized.
I'm pretty relieved to know that @s_guilbeault and the rest of the @liberal_party folks in the federal government DO understand just how big a deal this is.
The @CPC_HQ push to call what's happening in China a "genocide", whose leader, @erinotoole, defended residential schools, called left leaning students the "dumbest" and did not support Canada's own self-declaration for much worse, sustained genocidal efforts, is peak 2021.
It bugs me on a cellular level that they believe the Uighurs deserve more from *Canada* than did the peoples from whom we wrested and then defaced this land upon which we stand, which was rightfully theirs, and then abused them, literally for centuries.
If you're not bothered by the fact that there's been no fist pounding or speech making or cries of inhumanity directed at the slow pace of reconciliation or clean water for our *own* genocide victims, and think they're being "tough", then frankly there's something wrong with you.