#Conservative Party of BC

[duaneburnett]

‘I have lived and served on the incredible Sunshine Coast for 25 years and truly believe it’s the most beautiful place on earth. I will work tirelessly to ensure you can have an affordable life again, have a family doctor, feel safe on our streets, and build a bright future here.'

✅ Vote Chris Moore on October 19th. https://voteforchrismoore.ca

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“We Oughta Get These Unions Affiliated - Gosh Ding It!” Vancouver Sun. March 2, 1933. Page 1.

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

BC Conservative leader John Rustad assured anti-vaccine activists British Columbia would be open to joining other jurisdictions in legal proceedings inspired by the Nuremberg Trials that would be aimed at prosecuting those deemed responsible for COVID-19 public health measures and vaccines. “Nuremberg 2.0,” an idea popular among COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and the online far-right, is simultaneously inspired by the Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical principles on human experimentation, as well as the Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted Nazi leaders after the Second World War. Nuremberg 2.0 advocates typically call for those who created, justified or enforced public health measures — including politicians, doctors, academics, journalists and police — to be jailed and even executed for “crimes against humanity.”

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[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Why do you hate Alexander Hamilton so much? The guy lived and died before you were even born dude. He isn’t going to come alive and bite you XD

No, his actions just persist in the policies that my home nation was founded upon.

[deus-and-the-machina]

noah and mio are great because mio turns out to be the kid of previous protags, probably the beloved niece by proxy of the entire cast of 2, maybe royalty (I personally hc Nia's queen position as more of a politically elected one Ala Star Wars prequels so YMMV) and then Noah is just. some kiddo. and they become inexplicably intertwined for a thousand years in the time loop

[jimmyspades]

"When did you have your last abortion? Until you know everything that goes with it, don't you dare lecture me or anybody about–" "I know what goes with it! Obviously I haven't experienced the physical part, but I know the overwhelming emotion that goes with it. I know the sense of loss, I know the doubt, the guilt, so please, don't–" BOSTON LEGAL 5.08 "Roe"

[vulpixelates]

you know. i never thought i would miss my family at all but after the fourth christmas without seeing them bc of covid, i weirdly do today 😔

[quarterqueens]

anyway light would be vocal NDP voter and most of his views would line up pretty neatly with theirs but he’d confuse a nominal belief in such politics for an actual understanding of what they mean and what needs to be done to enact them. he says he supports prison abolition but if you talk to him you’ll discover he has so many exceptions for ‘actually bad’ criminals that he functionally wants more people punished than are currently and he wants them to be killed by the community once the revolution comes. he supports safe injection sites but he thinks they should be kept in ‘appropriate’ places and he’s got no answers as to where such a place might be. he really does support a UBI and universal healthcare because they are for people who ‘deserve’ help.

[snowfelledayah]

Absolutely not.

In case you didn't know, BC has an election soon! And the conservatives are in Prime form as always. I live in Surrey, BC, a city where one in 20 households identify as Muslim households, and yet... Surrey South Conservative Party candidate Brent Chapman's historical feelings on the subject leave much to be desired.

Brent Chapman Surrey South remarks from just under a decade ago are not going to be erased by his paltry apology for stating Palestinians are -- hold on let me get the quote -- "inbred walking, talking, breathing time bombs." He also shared an article on "Muslim inbreeding," along a sentiment that it was simply not possible to "coexist" with Islam.

But I guess don't worry, because he is, supposedly, 'sincerely' sorry.

Sorry Mr. Chapman, we cannot coexist with you either; good luck with that.

Not that I would have ever voted for a Conservative party member anyway, but if this is what they have to offer, that really just drives the point home that much harder.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad has condemned comments by one of his candidates who could still win a seat in the legislature and would be critical to his chances of forming government. Marina Sapozhnikov finished a very close second to the NDP candidate in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, triggering a recount. Sapozhnikov was recorded making racist comments about Indigenous Peoples during an election night interview with Vancouver Island University student Alyona Latsinnik, who shared the recording with Global News.

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[viralarcadian]

general election is coming up for my province and man

love hearing moe say he'll increase the budget for education or the medical sector and then w/in like a year when the budget report comes out it'll turn out all that extra money he promised just disappeared into a black hole but he PROMMYS it'll actually work next time

[coulsonlives]

Watching the projection polls for the BC election like

Are y'all okay out there

[an-ivy-covered-summer]

maybe i’m just too old and tired of lame extremists who want to make the world burn to prove a point on how they’re holier than everybody else and actually don’t get anything done, but the “both sides are the same” discourse really irks me and rubs me in the worst way possible. especially when you have gained such a wide platform from which you could do a lot of good, and even more so when you’re part of communities that are at the highest levels of risk if one specific party wins. both parties are NOT the same, and to say that is just… it’s just incendiary, and irresponsible and outright stupid.

[coldflasher]

extremely fucking stressed about who to vote for in the election ngl

[harpuiaa]

death to america and to the west bloc if im being honest