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hahahahahaha I hate it here.
Danielle Smith: I don’t want young kids to permanently change their bodies!
Danielle Smith: So they won’t be allowed to use puberty blockers, the effects of which are basically entirely reversible, until they’re fifteen, which is well into puberty and often towards the end of puberty for AFAB kids!
Danielle Smith: this makes sense and I am so smart! This will not have the effect of making trans youth even more vulnerable than they already are and that definitely wasn’t my intention.
#I like that we think alienating young trans kids from supportive teachers#who have the potential to be life changing and life saving#is a good way of going about this#i never thought i would say this but fucking hell i miss jason kenney#at least that man didn’t spend every second of his day wondering how he could beat capter to the furthest right individuals in the province#which seems like what danielle smith is doing#imagine if she focused her energy on something useful like housing#or the opioid epidemic#instead she focuses 100% of her time and effort on two (2) things#1- catering to the far right usually by fucking with queer people#2- hating the federal government and calling the liberals mean names#abpoli#cdnpoli#alberta#trans rights problems
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[image description: the teacher resigned meme, but replaced with Kenney Resigned! End description]
#SUCKER#HE WON THE LEADERSHIP REVIEW BUT JUST RESIGNED ANYWAYS#HEAR IT NOW FUCK JASON KENNEY#abpoli#canpoli#catgirltxt
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LBTE: Jared (128-129)
The fucking Scouts, man. And we end the Jared on the move arc. Next up: Bryce on the move arc!
If you want to read along, series page is here.
128. Outclassed
Jared drives home half-asleep, finds a very sleepy Bryce on the couch waiting up for him.
“Go to bed,” Jared says, pokes him up to their room and then follows suit.
Bryce wanted to stay up and celebrate with him. In reality he just ended up getting poked into bed in the two minutes before they were both snoozing.
He wakes up at ten-forty five — the latest he’s gotten up since the postseason started — to a kiss to the forehead, a cup of coffee handed to him, the immediate awareness that the Nucks did it, they’ve got at least another round to battle through. As ways to wake up go, it’s pretty fucking great.
Bryce is so good at husbanding, especially now that it’s his offseason: full time husband and covert Canucks fan until training starts.
Bryce isn’t offended by Jared living hockey, and it’s actually helpful as hell to have him right there beside him. Bryce watches the earlier Avs games with him, arm slung over Jared’s shoulder, making smart observations, has advice for Jared before and after every game. It’s like having a game tape coach and a husband all in one, it’s terrific.
Full time husband. Hockey smarts included.
It’s a hard fought, ugly series that takes a few of the Canucks with it, Dmitry unfortunately one of them — Jared guesses the line’s still cursed, though he’s selfishly glad he’s not the latest to fall victim to that — but the Canucks scrape out a win in seven, and they’re going to the Western Conference Finals, which is an incredible fucking feeling.
Yay!
Jared can’t say he’s surprised by who they’re going to be facing.
He can’t say he’s particularly pleased about it either.
Such a quick fall from yay.
“Okay,” Bryce says. “Here’s the lowdown about the Scouts.”
“Fuck the Scouts?” Jared says.
“Fuck the Scouts,” Bryce says. “But seriously.”
I mean, basically.
And then Jared’s getting something that isn’t quite a rant but is basically an insider report on pretty much all of the Scouts, because Bryce is clearly still pissed about that series, and he’s got a MENSA level hockey IQ. He was up against the first line, which Jared isn’t going to be facing much if at all, but he was apparently paying very close attention on the bench as well, and at a certain point Jared starts taking literal notes on his phone, trying to keep up.
When holding grudges comes in handy.
“Hey!” Jared says, torn from strategy. “You talking about my new Premier?”
“Holy fuck,” Stephen says after a moment. “No offence but if you voted for him him I’m kicking you out of our house right now.”
Jared takes no offence. “Obviously I didn’t fucking vote for him,” Jared says. “Dude’s a corrupt megalomaniac with an oil rig where his heart should be.”
We now interrupt your story for political propaganda. But like — from a policy standpoint, every statement here is accurate, up to and including the oil rig heart (Jason Kenney resigned in disgrace only to be replaced by someone worse somehow -- the conservative way -- and is now on the board of directors of an energy company. No one could have possibly foreseen this.)
“Are we talking about Kenney?” Bryce complains. “Politics are boring.”
“Politics are how we were able to get married, B,” Jared says,
Of note that Jason Kenney was virulently homophobic.
(He still is, I'm sure, but now he isn’t making homophobic policy decisions -- that’s the job of his successor!)
“These kids,” Gabe says to Stephen. “Bet they don’t even remember when gay marriage was legalised.”
“I do,” Bryce protests. “Sort of.”
Jared shrugs. “I was a little kid?” he says. “I wasn’t really paying attention.”
Jared once again hurting Stephen with his youth. Gay marriage was legalized in Canada in July 2005. Jared was 6. Bryce 9. Gabe and Stephen 14.
“Get out of my house,” Stephen says, but he says that all the time, and Jared no longer listens to him. Well, he probably genuinely meant it if Jared was a UCP supporter, but obviously Jared isn’t — he was raised by hobgoblins, not actual monsters. “Now let’s do Ford.”
God, let’s not — I’ll be here all fucking week.
“While I enjoy trashing Doug Ford as much as the next Ontarian,” Gabe says.
Not so much that they didn’t vote for more! Not going to lie, I’m still coping pretty hard with the fact the majority of my fellow Ontarians either voted for this guy a second time, or didn’t bother to get off their asses because his opponents weren’t ‘inspiring’. Is that on the Ontario Libs and NDP too? Yep. On ‘Rae Days’ BS and Liberals always talking strategic voting, but only if that means NDP voters vote for them? Sure. But for fuck’s sakes, everyone who didn’t vote essentially cast a ballot for everything Ford has done since, including the multi-billion dollar racketeering he’s being investigated for by the RCMP. But Rae Days.
Okay. Off my soap box.
“Stephen’s a lot,” Bryce says, all blink-y about it. Stephen isn’t even being extra Stephen, he’s just normal level Stephen, but then, Jared probably has a higher tolerance for snide, since he so often is himself.
Inoculation!
Though you’d think Bryce would be used to it too, considering who he’s married to. Maybe he’s just got immunity to Jared’s particular brand of it after enough exposure.
Jared and Stephen are similarly snide but not identically, Bryce only has Jared immunity. He gets very blink-y around Julius too. I’d say he has Erin immunity too but Erin isn’t even a hobgoblin with Bryce unless he dares suggest she and Jared have any similarities whatsoever, in which case she proves his point for him by getting extremely huffy about it just like Jared does.
“I believed you,” Bryce protests. “But he’s so — mean. He told me my hair was stupid.”
The first time Stephen calls Bryce’s hair Disney Prince hair. Bryce hasn’t realised it’s a compliment, as Stephen says it in a mean voice.
“His hair’s stupid,” Bryce mutters. “And he called me a cradle robber! And kept calling me Coach Bryce!”
I mean…
Jared was there for that, but he thought it was more because Bryce was like, coaching them through strategy. In hindsight it is more likely Stephen pointing out that Bryce was, in fact, Jared’s coach when they met, albeit tenuously. Jared really never should have told Stephen that. He’s never going to let it go.
Jared also understands a little better why Bryce scowled at him when Jared joined Stephen in calling him Coach Bryce.
Still fucking dying that Jared accidentally joined Stephen in roasting Bryce.
“You make a very good coach though,” Jared says, putting a soothing hand on Bryce’s arm.
Bryce scowls.
He knows you’re about say something mean, Jared, he’s been inoculated!
“Just don’t sleep with any other prospects, I’d be super—” Jared breaks off to protect himself from a half-tackle from Bryce, laughing as Bryce gets a jab in to his side.
Jared’s true love language: play wrestling.
“No PDA on the Markson-Petersen property,” Stephen says.
Jared opens his mouth, considering Gabe kissed Stephen right in front of them like twenty minutes ago. Bryce went adorably pink about it.
Literally the first time Bryce has personally witnessed two guys kissing (I mean, not involving him, obvs), and it’s people he KNOWS. Low key a big moment for him.
“He’s so mean,” Bryce mumbles. “That wasn’t even PDA, I wrestle with Chaz all the time.”
Jared would raise an eyebrow, but he thinks he’d get tackled again. Plus he also used to wrestle with Chaz all the time. Chaz loves a good wrestling match. Jared’s wrestling matches with Chaz have a distinctly different tenor to them than his grappling with Bryce, particularly when Bryce decides he isn’t going to let Jared win. Stephen was maybe not off about the PDA part.
Chaz’s love language is also play wrestling, but not like that. Bro love. Bruv.
Jared hears a lock click, though he’s not too worried. Gabe will intercede if he has to.
Spoken like someone who has frequently locked doors on his little sister, who had to be let in by Don or Susan. Or been locked out by said sister. Or, you know, the time they were both locked out by their mother so they couldn’t eavesdrop on Bryce asking for their blessing. A family affair.
“I know,” Jared says. It’d be bad walking into a series thinking you didn’t.
“We didn’t,” Bryce says.
Another win for the brain to mouth filter!
The Scouts are a juggernaut, but the Canucks are no slouch either.
The Scouts are better.
Every fucking time. Dynasties, man. (They haven’t even won their first Cup at this point; they’re going to be so much more annoying when they’re winning their third.)
Jared hopes it’s the Caps and Raf scores the game winning goal and does a fly by giving the finger to Williams and Simcoe. That doesn’t sound like a particularly Raf move
Robbie, though…
…but Jared’s not exactly being reasonable right now, all raw scraped nerves and hurt and a fucked up shoulder from a hard hit by Angelopoulos that probably should have sidelined him, but didn’t because it was the playoffs.
The first injury of Jared by a main cast member from a different series. But not the last.
Jared does his stupid painful exercises for the stiffness, gets out of packing anything because, well, shoulder, so it’s Bryce who’s doing it while Jared supervises and occasionally insults his packing decisions just to get that huffy Bryce sigh.
Yet another love language: intentionally bugging Bryce.
Jared’s in his parents’ kitchen with Erin when he hears the whoop from the living room, Bryce and his dad, mom lost under how loud they are, and him and Erin shuffle out to watch the Caps surge over the boards to dogpile their goalie.
Bryce and Don bonding on Team Fuck the Scouts.
Grace is clutch, and the group chat has a number of pictures of the partying the next morning. There’s a picture of Raf and Chapman looking absolutely shitfaced and more than half-asleep that’s particularly good, and Jared makes sure to save it for the purpose of mockery. Another very unflattering one Raf and Kurmazov the Senior, and Jared saves that one to send to Dmitry so he may use it for the purposes of mockery.
Look, Jared’s putting aside his feelings for Dmitry to help him be an annoying little brother, bless. Also that picture of Raf and David is adorable.
the salve of falling asleep in the same bed, of Bryce hitting his alarm immediately and trying to sneak around in the mornings so he doesn’t wake Jared up, Jared pretending he’s still asleep so Bryce doesn’t feel guilty, Bryce probably pretending he actually thinks Jared’s asleep
The softest game of deception devised since peek-a-boo.
129. Sabbatical
Summer’s — summer’s summer.
Very eloquent, Jared. (He doesn’t know how to describe the bone deep relief he feels falling asleep with and waking up beside Bryce, mixed with the grunt work of training, tempered by the fact he’s doing it with some of his favourite people, and they all get to hang out together after(!), Jared has a friend group(!) but also he’s not playing hockey which low key makes everything feel kind of off. So. Summer’s summer.)
Grace has cut her hair really short, and Raf’s done the opposite, letting his grow out, and Ash got a tattoo — her and Bryce bitch about the pain for a bit — but they’re basically all the same as they were a year ago, all feel like home to him even though Calgary only gets to be home in the offseason.
Grace looks great, Raf looks low-key terrible (Cup. Parties. plus the whole road to the Cup in the first place, man is battered.) and Ashley’s tattoo is fire. Not literally, thank fuck; that’d definitely make Chaz getting traded more awkward.
Jared goes up to Edmonton to visit Julius when he pops in for a week for dumb media stuff
I like that it’s completely unclear whether that’s Jared editorializing with ‘dumb media stuff’, or if Julius has been referring to it that way himself.
while Bryce has a ridiculous staycation thing with Erin — that’s code for renting a hotel suite all of a couple blocks from Bryce and Jared’s place for no purpose other than splashing around the pool, and Erin dragging Bryce from store to store and Bryce not even looking at price tags before handing the cashier his credit card, but Bryce was insistent on Erin getting something for her high school graduation, so whatever. Jared and Julius do absolutely nothing while Jared’s there except eat and watch TV and bitch about media and tell each other when they find something funny on the internet. It’s great.
The First Time Erin Makes Twitter Incoming. And Julius and Jared entirely oblivious in Edmonton (this is before Erin and Julius get together, for the record)
It’s honestly such a sweet thing for Bryce to do for Erin’s graduation, and frankly it sucks that it blows up in his face. Bryce did nothing wrong! (For once, says Dave.)
After their anniversary — Bryce buys him too much as usual, Jared does too this year, most currently living in a box in their closet that Bryce goes slightly pink looking at, and he looks often
Jared’s stinginess once again not applying to sex toys, which Bryce appreciates.
— they fly back so Jared can sign the lease and move some stuff out of Elaine’s and and Bryce can visit with Elaine and Gordie and Gail for a bit, do some early birthday stuff with them.
This is the other half of the sex toy sentence, what a fucking segue, Jared. Sex toy reference right before wholesome times with the Marcuses.
Jared’s new apartment is in a good location, not far from Gabe and Stephen’s house, which is pretty much perfectly placed between the practice rink, arena, and airport.
It's in Shaughnessy. Canucks practice at the University of British Columbia (they don’t have their own practice facilities). Triangulation was not by distance, but average commute in traffic and not in traffic (yes, he made the drives, and yes, he bought a real life stop watch and Stephen made fun of him incessantly for this. Does he not have a stop watch on his phone? Come on Gabriel. Gabe would argue, correctly, that he should not be on his phone while driving).
Also he fudged his results and picked somewhere closer to UBC because Stephen was going there at the time, or he would have likely gone for Mt Pleasant or South Main. Stephen is aware. Gabe is aware Stephen is aware. It is not discussed. They like their house, no plans on moving.
Getting a house around there will run you a couple million bucks, because Vancouver, so Jared, known opposite of a big spender, has decided to rent an apartment.
Jared can absolutely see Gabe doing that. Appreciates that Gabe did that. Jared was just google mapping it, Gabe’s test seems like better data.
He FUDGED THE DATA FOR LOVE, JARED. IT IS ALL A LIE.
He likes his place, likes it better when Bryce is in it, helping him put together a dining room table he’ll probably never use,
I am not sure if this dining room table even appears in the story again, it is so underutilized. Generally they eat on the couch (or at the kitchen island, but that's just coffee and breakfast, mostly). If paperwork needs to be done it gets used. That's about it.
“You are literally going to spend the next two days with me,” Jared says when Bryce looks particularly kicked puppy as Jared packs his laptop, which was an anniversary present he did not actually need. At least Erin appreciated getting Jared’s barely even past warranty old one as a university present.
Bold of you to assume that wasn’t Bryce’s plan all along so you aren’t all ‘you can’t buy Erin a laptop, Bryce’, ‘you’ve given Erin more than enough already, Bryce’, ‘stop buying my horrible sister things, Bryce’.
“I can pout whenever I want to, you’re not the boss of me,” Bryce mutters.
“That’s not true,” Jared says. Jared is very much the boss of him and they both know it.
Bryce appreciated his anniversary gifts.
“Nope,” Jared says when Bryce’s hands start creeping under his shirt. “I need to get this done, I don’t want to get halfway to Vancouver before I realise I forgot something important.”
“Flames are going to be in Vancouver in two weeks,” Bryce says.
“No guarantee you’d be playing that game,” Jared says.
“If I’m not I could send it with Chaz,” Bryce says, and before Jared can protest that Chaz might not either, “Canucks are in Calgary right after too.”
Jared doesn’t know if it’s Bryce being stubbornly logical or the fact that Bryce said all of that while unbuttoning and unzipping Jared’s shorts that sways him. Obviously a combination.
‘Keep talking workarounds for possible setbacks, baby, that’s so hot’. But like. Unironically.
After the first leg of the trip they land up in the best hotel you can get in the dead land between Revelstoke and Kamloops, which is not saying much
It’s in Sicamous and it’s a Best Western.
Mere years ago he was lucky if it was a hotel instead of a motel and he was stuck with an asshole roommate who talked in his sleep, and now he’s turning his nose up at a three star hotel.
It’s technically a four star, Jared, you gigantic snob. Also it looks nice enough, honestly, so either it’s been renovated and upped a star since I checked, or I was being lazy in my Revelstoke to Kamloops accommodations due diligence.
“How hard will you judge me if I ask to get back in the car and keep driving?” Bryce asks. “Because Salmon Arm has a decent hotel.”
“How far’s Salmon Arm?” Jared asks.
“Twenty minutes, half an hour?” Bryce says.
Salmon Arm does NOT have a four star hotel. This is a downgrade from that Best Western in Sicamous. As it is now. Possibly not back when I was doing research.
Bryce waits in the car when Jared gets their room, which ends up being a really fucking good call because the front desk clerk is clearly a big Canucks fan, recognises Jared before he even hands her his credit card. Jared texts Bryce a frantic ‘shelter in place’, getting a bunch of question marks in reply, and then he has to go out and sneak him in a side entrance lest he have to explain why he’s sharing a room with one king bed with The Enemy, so that’s great. This is a great trip. Jared’s really enjoying this trip.
THIS is a non chain inn. It’s kind of dated, but like, fine.
“Quit grumbling and tell me what you want from room service,” Bryce yawns.
Jared quits grumbling long enough to order a club sandwich, then resumes grumbling.
I genuinely remember looking at a room service menu for accuracy but now there is no room service. So either I am making this all up or they’ve gone downhill. But then, this was written in 2020, when more places may have had room service for pandemic related reasons. It DOES have an in house restaurant, unlike all other Salmon Arm-y places, so it very possibly did offer room service.
This is bothering me now. I am bothered. Petty grudge against Salmon Arm unlocked.
“Summers gave me a few excuses if things were like, asked,” Bryce says. “Mutual friends with Chaz, met years ago at a camp and still hang out, stuff like that.”
“That’s all true, though,” Jared says.
“Yeah but isn’t like, ‘we’re super in love’,” Bryce says. “Which I think was the part Summers wants to avoid.”
Dave has very low expectations about Bryce’s ability to make up a story, and I think that is extremely fair, to be honest.
“Would you be cool with me coming out to my team?” Jared says. “Not like the level of what Gabe knows or anything, just like, not hiding the fact I married a dude.”
Bryce is quiet. “Can I think about it?” he asks finally.
“Yeah,” Jared says.
“I know you — you can come out to anyone you want to, that’s like, your right,” Bryce says.
“I know,” Jared says.
“I need to think about it,” Bryce says.
This is so much progress! Bryce not reflexively saying no! Bryce acknowledging that Jared has autonomy in how he represents himself to others! Actually thinking about it!
“Yeah but I’m a BC boy now,” Jared says.
“I’m a BC boy,” Bryce mutters.
“Nope,” Jared says. “We swapped.”
“You can’t just be a BC boy,” Bryce says, sounding genuinely agitated. “You have to earn it. And you can’t be a BC boy: you don’t even like sushi.”
I love you and the things that bother you, Bryce Marcus.
“Your teammates,” Bryce says, and Jared looks up from his phone. “If you want to tell them you can. Like. The husband thing not the—”
“Not the you being my husband bit,” Jared assures him.
“Okay,” Bryce says, blows out a breath, then another one.
“You sure?” Jared asks.
Bryce takes a hand off the steering wheel to give Jared a so-so.
PROGRESS!!!
“Can we take this exit?” he asks.
“Uh,” Jared says. “We’re like an hour away.”
Bryce gives him a glance.
“I told you to piss when we got lunch,” Jared mutters.
“And you were right and I was wrong,” Bryce mutters back.
Married. Also — end of yet another arc.
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a rant about family and dated beliefs, alternatively titled “I’m so tired of trying to explain why people should care about other people and maybe do a little research sometimes”
The holidays are weird because you see family you haven’t seen in months and there’s always a bit of reconciling the person you remember with the person in front of you.
I love my dad, but every time he expresses his opinions about certain things, I realize he’s not quiet as liberal as he insists he is. He’s not a bad person, but his opinions are definitely coloured by his age. It also doesn’t help that he starts each expression of his beliefs with “I haven’t dug too deep into BLANK, but--”.
This specifically came up when he bought a book about Harry Potter for white elephant and he was surprised no one wanted the book because, you know, JK Rowling is a huge transphobe. A few days later, we were out walking and he brought the book up and, when I explained why no one wanted it, his response was: “Now, I don’t know a lot about JK Rowling, but I respect how she stands by her convictions.” According to him, people are too easy to give in to pressure and apologize when they don’t actually mean it. To which I pointed out that people are upset with her not just because she’s a transphobe (which is shitty and an entirely valid reason not to support her) or that she won’t apologize (which is also shitty), but she’s now doing it unprompted and has apparently discarded her reputation of beloved children’s book author for aggressively transphobic woman who won’t shut up about her deeply upsetting and harmful opinions. There are plenty of shitty people in the public eye who haven’t apologized or who have done so disingenuously (Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Johnny Depp, etc). The difference is that I recognize their shittiness and they have, for the most part, faded into the background, oftentimes shamed into backing off at least enough to be easily ignorable. JK Rowling is not in the same camp. We all know she has awful opinions. People have told her as much. instead of keeping those opinions to herself, as most reasonable people do when they are told that said opinions are entirely out of line, insensitive, and have actively ruined millions of people’s relationship with an important piece of media that was a world wide cultural phenomenon (this is JK specific), she’s doubled down.
It’s disappointing. On multiple fronts.
1. I’m almost thirty (ugh) and haven’t read Harry Potter in at least a decade. I’m just not interested.
2. JK Rowling’s been very public in her hate and the blanket “people should stand by their convictions” is old fashioned and doesn’t take into account the impact certain people’s convictions/opinions can have and how damaging they can be. How crushing. It’s not that hard to look up.
3. When you’ve got two queer kids, you think you’d be a little more considerate. I’m admittedly not out in an official capacity, but it’s a pretty open secret in my family and this certainly doesn’t make me want to tell him any time soon.
He also doesn’t get why my sister and I are adamantly against Jordan Peterson and tends to makes light of it every time he brings it up (I’m never the one to do it because why the fuck would I?)
While I entirely believe people have a right to their opinions and can totally stand by them however much they want, not all opinions are created equal and I have every right not to listen to said opinions if I don’t want to. It’s when people’s opinions are harmful or damaging or outright wrong that I have an issue. I am not perfect, but I will always try to do better, and I am not a better person by simply ignoring transphobic or misogynistic or xenophobic etc. opinions, especially when voiced by people with influential and highly visible platforms such as JK Rowling or Jordan Peterson or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jason Kenney or whoever the fuck else. This is even more important now. The Overton Window has shifted dramatically to the right and people are becoming more and more comfortable saying things regardless of the impact they might have.
My mum is of the same mindset and even has some questionable opinions when it comes to trans people that are generally exhausting to listen to. The difference is I see her far more often and have gotten very good at steering the conversation away any of the above (she’s very much out of sight out of mind and feels my sister and I are overreacting to the JK stuff without making any effort to look into it). Unfortunately, they are both baby boomers and they’re go to move is to get angry whenever someone disagrees with them.
All of this is to say that everyone has the right to their opinions, but it doesn’t mean they are free from consequence. Things change, society changes. What used to be acceptable, might be looked at in a different light than it used to. If someone has a valid reason for not supporting someone, respect that. Cancel culture is not “that guy disagrees with me about my favourite book/movie/pair of pants”. If a person is getting cancelled (and I really hate using that term), it’s because they’ve done something considered socially/ethically/professionally etc. unacceptable. If a person hates a whole group of people simply for using gender neutral pronouns (Jordan Peterson), not is confused by, but actively hates, they are an asshole and deserve your anger. If a person refuses to acknowledge a person’s chosen gender identity and views them as less than human for it (JK Rowling), they are an asshole and deserve your anger. If a person takes over a company, allows people who were banned for hate speech to return and removes any safeguards that were put in place to make said company usable for as many people as possible while standing up against those who are actively trying to cause harm (Elon Musk), they are an asshole and deserve your anger.
You can love people even if you disagree with them. You can (should) even create boundaries for yourself to maintain your relationships in a way that keeps you safe and comfortable. I would encourage it! It’s up to you to decide what you’re willing to let go and when things have gone a step too far. But it is important, if not necessary, to stand up for what is right and protect those who need it, including yourself.
Boycott that book/movie/social media site. Punch that Nazi. Vote in your local, provincial, and federal elections. Just make sure to do good, be good, and always try to make the world a little bit of a better place.
Happy holidays.
#sorry this is so long#rant#not all opinions are created equal#my family's all left and i plan to do absolutely nothing until i return to work on wedesday#*wednesday#because i'm exhausted#i love my family#but they're a lot#my sisters also a dick when she's tired or hungry#but has never learned to manage her behaviour because she's the youngest and could do not wrong#i am obviously the oldest#and a virgo#and am constantly trying to fix things and follow arbitrary guidelines because it's the way my mind works#i'm working on it#family#family relationships#the holidays are hard
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I'm so sick of the right being fucking assholes all the time but also being to internally weak to change. Like oh wow you cant wear a mask or get a vaccine because they scare you, you need assault weapons because the world scares. Maybe grow the fuck up and stop being little bitchy bottle babies. I'm so glad the world is ending because I cant wait to not have a planet with people like ted Cruz or Jason Kenney or Claresholm conservatives anymore.
Justin Trudeau didnt commit treason but threatening to hang the prime minister is treason so I know who you should use that noose on you fucking inbread piece of shit
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Also not covered by our healthcare(Alberta specific:
• physio
•chiropractic care
• hearing aids are not 100% covered
• glasses, contacts
• most prescribtion medications
• orthodontics
• not all ambulance rides are covered
• mandatory travel to Edmonton or Calgary for treatments or tests only offered in the big cities
And Jason Kenney wants to make our healthcare even more privatized; meaning the rich can pay for care while the poor can't access care.
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I can’t even make this shit up. Fuck Alberta.
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earlier this week when i was trying to get my “card sized Vaccine record thats Not a Passport” i was complaining about how theres a big “are you seeking your card sized card?” and a button for YES and NO on albertavaccinerecord.ca
but they didn’t get the domain for albertavaccinerecords.ca
IT’S REAL
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@abpoli @allthecanadianpolitics
Holy shit... The UCP has just given themselves total power to do whatever they want...
Link to the article as well
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I'm going to fucking kill jason kenney
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Things I'd love to see in Canadian politics, an ongoing list:
Racist politicians leaving Ontario and popping up in Alberta to run to stop doing that. Stop making these assholes feel welcome and entitled to spout their shitty garbage in this province I swear to god.
#this obviously applies to recent news about slown but also to mayoral candidates#and of course our piece of shit premier#fuck jason kenney#fuck the ucp#honorary shout out to fucking maxime who thinks hes an honorary albertan by virtue of also being a piece of shit#stop letting these right wing idiots define who we are already alberta#idk how sloan autocorrected to slown but ok i can spell i swear lol#and like ideally we would make no place in the country safe for them to spout their shitty garbage#but can we stop wallowing in the shitty racist garbage pile as a province please
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Conservatives really go around telling us we have to worry about the National Debt because we don't want to burden our children. But then they have no problem burdening our children with covid or a dying planet! One third of the people testing positive for covid in my province are children! And yet we still keep opening schools back up. Vaccines aren't approved for children under 12 yet and still they're reopening schools. They keep saying children can't spread the disease but again ONE THIRD of people with covid are CHILDREN!
Children are dying but they don't care. People are dying they don't care.
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I’m so tired. I’m tired of having a provincial government who won’t step up and shut down. And I’m tired of having a federal leader who won’t demand more from each province or take control and shut down the entire country. How did we get from 120 cases a day in summer to barely under 500 a day. And now we are back at 1100. And nothing. No lock down no more restrictions and no consequences for those breaking the barely in place ones. I’m just so tired of it all...
#fuck covid#covid alberta#i’m so tired of this#our government fucking sucks#fuck the ucp#fuck jason kenney#and fuck Trudeau for not having the balls to do something with this mess
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I'm here to take a minute to rant about parenting. I'm not going to lie, I've been struggling to balance a newborn and a toddler. My fiance is back at work and I've been doing a lot on my own. No one told me how hard it was going to be, but I'm doing my best.
Nowadays mom's are pretty isolated in them while parenting thing. There's no more "village" to help you out with your kids/household responsibilities. That's one of the many things that died out after boomers finished raising their kids. Boomer parents depended heavily on their parents and other family members to get things done, and for free/affordable childcare so they could return to work, yet most of my generations parents don't offer the same assistance, so millennial parents are doing everything on their own.
It doesn't help that catches for one child averages at $1700 per month where I live. I have two kids who would need daycare if I was to return to work and is love to know how I'm supposed to afford that without making a buttload of money every month. It also doesn't help that (warning: swearing ahead) dumbfuck Jason Kenney turned down $10 a day childcare in Alberta. I fucking hate that man so much.
I guess my point here is that we need to bring back the village and yeet Kenney into the sun.
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It was zero degrees and windy but the climate strike went on. Huge turn out of young and old people alike. Hopefully this can start the discussion because climate change is the biggest challenge our generation and our children's generation will face.
I didn't get many pictures of the strike because my hands were frozen but it was amazing to see everyone and hear how many voices care about this planet.
#canadian news#climate crisis#biology#research#activism#climate strike#climate activism#fuck jason kenney#Science#climate science#protest#strike#enviromental activism#canada#alberta#allthecanadianpolitics#no planet b#no pipeline#green energy
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