• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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    Pierre Poilievre is borrowing John Rustad’s forced treatment euphemism of locking people up without supports and away from their community.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    Great gods! I expect this crap here in the US, but I thought you guys had more sense.

    Seriously, I’m so sorry to hear that you have to deal with the crazies too.

    • jerkface@lemmy.ca
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      The uninformed conservative public believes that curing addiction is simply a matter of forcing people not to take drugs until they are no longer addicted. They like the punitive aspect of it, because they see becoming addicted in the first place as a moral failing.

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      Conservatives the world over seem to share their worst ideas among themselves.

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    Okay. When are we going to get voluntary treatment for addiction and psychiatric issues?! I dunno if PP has tried being sick lately but there’s no fucking help.

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    Smells of them Indigenous peoples facilities Canadian state and pedo churches maintained schools…

    What can go wrong ?