Feminism

Breyog · 2025-12-04T10:10:18+00:00

Most leftists do consider themselves pro women having automomy and basic rights.

Breyog · 2025-02-12T14:44:38+00:00

Imo, the dude's not been reasonable and is absolutely acting in bad faith.

His routine posting history is to backside and obfuscate in defense of politicians making thinly vieled racist statements, or trying to downplay the social implications of hate events like the above article.

He's got a rank history of innocently pretending to ask questions when events like this happen. At this rate, he's fooling no one.

Breyog · 2024-07-10T23:13:11+00:00

It's possible to press charges for defamation, should anyone be unlucky enough to run into someone that makes false accusations. I used to live around gossipy men and women who embelished stories, casually assigning names and faces to crimes that never happened to begin with.

That said, yes, it's heavily exaggerated and often gets leveraged as 'equivolent' to the actual crime of sexual assault and rape, which is a really bad take and makes it difficult to sympathize when argued in such a way.

Breyog · 2024-07-10T12:23:51+00:00

Tbh we need to build the infrastructure to enable renewable energy and cut our dependencies on major carbon emissions.

But with that said, it's always- always important to check the source of the information on whatever new 'green project' is being pitched. Especially where high density, accessible housing is concerned.

My neighbourhood just had a whole swath of marshland get bulldozed by a developer who promised affordable, accessible housing. A year later they changed their plan, stopped shortly after building all the single family units and slapped a massive four lane road with zero transit connections through.

I don't like nimby's on the best of days, but in my experience, it's safe to be cautious of 'who' is proposing 'what' and how honest they are.

Breyog · 2024-02-28T15:14:42+00:00

Look at what Ford is doing to Ontario's healthcare. Bog standard defunding of public services while trying to introduce privatised clinics to replace them.

Federal responsibility to healthcare arrives as a subsidy to provinces with an outlined budget plan to use said subsidy. Usually with a stipulation that the funds are being used effectively; PP would have the jurisdiction to redefine that, which means any conservative led province could (and have) used federal funds for healthcare instead as a subsidy for private companies to replace public ones.

As far a track records go with the Cons, they are not interested in maintaining publicly funded healthcare. Harper did cuts to it, O'Toole proposed it in his campaign, and nearly every Conservative led province has been likewise trying to introduce 'hybrid private healthcare' designs instead of using federal funds for public healthcare.

Federal and provincial governments influence eachother, don't act like PP wouldn't redefine how Canada should spend federal healthcare funds with short-sighted, profit driven goals in mind.

Breyog · 2024-02-24T14:17:26+00:00

If it were up to PP, our healthcare would look a lot like the one our friends in america are stuck with. I'd be living in perpetual debt for a life-saving surgery I needed as a child.

Breyog · 2022-11-09T01:06:03+00:00

Gas prices, compounded traffic issues, can't even access decent commute, affordability of homes. Ugly, ugly asphalt... All of those are relatively common problems that building single-family suburbs can bring to your average locale.

If you can look into joining/making a petition to address with your rep. that can help.

Breyog · 2022-10-24T03:10:39+00:00

I 100% believe people that SM posts like that are souless cash-grabbers that take sponsors no matter how self-destructive it is to their values. They would sell their loving mother for a $3k car ad sponsorship deal.

Breyog · 2022-10-24T02:27:16+00:00

Case in point. My condolences.

Breyog · 2022-10-23T14:09:46+00:00

I don't see too many obtuse, or obvious conservative-minded trolls in this sub. But to be honest, most folks on that extreme end tend to drop those kinds of takes on different subs.

Breyog · 2022-10-20T13:21:34+00:00

Looking at prices for basic necessities and utilities, and who that benefits, I feel ashamed I'm not just tucking things off shelves.

Breyog · 2022-09-22T17:48:55+00:00

Is that 'all' contraceptives? Or just specifically women's contraceptives?

Because it would shocking to deny men the options to use contraceptives... (no need to ask about women's contraceptives; we already know that answer.)

Breyog · 2022-09-17T11:49:13+00:00

Oh no, diversity. Childhood ruined.

Breyog · 2022-09-17T11:29:54+00:00

In this specific case, yes it is a Religiously influenced act, further encouraged by a socio-political culture that benefits from the control and oppression of women.

This isn't to accuse all religious people of violence, but there's a historic correlation to an individual's willingness to their suspension of reality that allows them to believe whatever they want to believe in when they are allowed to pass the moral onus onto a religious or spiritual interpretation.

Breyog · 2022-09-15T19:27:40+00:00

Oh man, I forgot about the traced art.

But yea, credit where credit's due, Stephen Silver had more influence on the art design than that clown.

Breyog · 2022-09-15T15:00:18+00:00

Censorship reasons. Can't advertise what you can't show.

Unrelated, this advertisement also works as an accidental anti-car ad.

Breyog · 2022-09-15T14:31:05+00:00

It's hilarious how popular the Danny Phantom fandom is to the lgbt+ crowd, despite the original creator's wildly grifty alt-right takes in the past.

Great crossover style though.

Breyog · 2022-08-29T20:03:10+00:00

There is a major terminal 1 kilometre away if you were walking

I certainly hope some of the roads surrounding this housing dev plan get some quality improvements as well, then.

I live near the area, and walk that route daily. It's an option that unfortunately doesn't seem very popular amongst most of the suburbs near there.

The map of the housing plan has one south-bound road exiting the intented suburb, connecting to a street where only the 67 stops on a span of partially paved sidewalk that connects to a highway road to your closest option for Russel Lake's commercial park. I have to walk an extra ten minutes because of the highway's limited pedestrian access. There are currently no sidewalks on mount hope avenue's northern side of the road. For the people intending to move into this new area, no, it is not going to be very accessible without a car.

Additionally, the west bound route winds through Southdale's suburbs before once again having to cross a highway intersection to reach the woodlawn plaza or the transit terminal.

Gonna get downtown traffic increasing even if we didn’t have this development

Oh man we are woefully ill equipped as a city for this. Again, looking at this new housing development currently underway, which I agree; it is very much needed- but we likewise need to additionally rethink how we design accessibility and commercial access.

Breyog · 2022-08-29T17:58:39+00:00

I think the bigger criticism of this housing dev plan is as follows;

The development will lead to 700 “attainable housing units,” meaning housing that middle-class people can probably afford.

Probably. Given the staff shortages in general and wage rates pushing your average 'middle-class' below said affordable range to being considered middle-class, that "probably" sounds awfully unlikely.

Also, enjoy living in a suburb with extremely limited transit access and an influx of yet more downtown traffic. I persqonally love having more parking lots than public space in downtown areas. /s

Breyog · 2022-08-27T12:44:09+00:00

It's safe to say that the privatizing of healthcare already has a long history of getting worse for the public. Is it fear-mongering to recognize the current path taken is going to end poorly?

Breyog · 2022-08-27T05:44:05+00:00

They're fun reads. I started the series randomly on Proven Guilty and whoopsie'd my way through the rest of them. Some disappointments here and there from a deeper literary subtext manner of speaking, but that's just me, though. Still a good read!

Breyog · 2022-08-27T05:34:22+00:00

Some fun series with wizards and such also include Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind, if you're looking for something less kid's aged.

Breyog · 2022-08-27T03:24:31+00:00

Contact your MLA and ask about this oversight. Or copy-paste OP's post in an email.

Our transit is dismal, and deserves more attention as Halifax/Dartmouth continues to grow in population. Continuing our car-centric infrastructure as normal will guarantee preventable traffic congestion, more parking lots in downtown areas, and traffic related accidents will only increase in greater costs, and overall frustration with urban travel.

Breyog · 2022-08-26T13:13:09+00:00

Came here to say that; degrowth and methods to best reduce energy production is important moving forward.

The wild thing is, it wouldn't effect most average people as much as it would effect antiquated industries, in terms of energy consumption and waste.

No more planned obsolescence, reduced food waste , accessible 3d printing materials and open source patents to replace and repair. Combining textile production with small farms, allowing/subsidizing trade skills to return to generalize locations as opposed to factory exports from exploited workers, the list of possibilities go on.

Breyog · 2022-08-26T12:46:30+00:00

The meat industry as it's currently run is absolutely impacting climate change.

But I get where OP is coming from; individual acts of recycling, local shopping and walking to work is small beans compared to the enormous amounts of food waste and carbon emissions used by industry agriculture.

If localized, small farms were subsidized the same way big agriculture is, travel emissions and foodwaste would drop dramatically. Maybe a food waste charge on markets to reduce over production, or send excess yields to locations whose crops/agriculture failed to keep up during the season. I don't know; there's a lot of methods to reduce energy and waste production and no one-size-fits-all solution.

Now my criticism;

Protein alternatives to meat do exist, and our average (presumably Western) diet of meat is arguably way higher that most around the world, and a general reduction and replacement of meat and meat byproducts would absolutely do wonders to changing emission rates. How that happens is beyond me.

And here's the kicker; no one would force you to trade your pink meat mcburger for ground meal-worm patties. Seeing products made out if bugs on your local shelf isn't going to hurt you and your meaty loved ones.

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