Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

ChatGPT might help with this.

No, no that’s what the MLA’s assistant will use for their response.

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

ChatGPT might help with this.

I tried that.
I put in what the ucp has been doing to health care, education, green line, ethics, coal mines, cpp, police force etc.
You know what i got back from ChatGPT... 'You've got to be kidding me...all that...well ****!'

[Cappy]

Street Is that the superintendent in charge of reviewing a no-fault insurance system in Alberta is recommending to the government to install a no-fault system that is privately run.

Nowhere in the world is there a no-fault system that is privately run. You’re just asking for a private for-profit monopoly insurance company to look after all bodily injuries from accidents.

I highly doubt this happens, but still, who the heck came up with this idea

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Street Is that the superintendent in charge of reviewing a no-fault insurance system in Alberta is recommending to the government to install a no-fault system that is privately run.

Nowhere in the world is there a no-fault system that is privately run. You’re just asking for a private for-profit monopoly insurance company to look after all bodily injuries from accidents.

I highly doubt this happens, but still, who the heck came up with this idea

Knowing how things operate in Alberta, the smart money would be on the superintendent put in charge of reviewing a no-fault insurance system having a stake in a private insurance company.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Cappy

I highly doubt this happens, but still, who the heck came up with this idea

Smith.

[SebC]

Let me get on my soapbox about puberty blockers for a moment, because while I'm sure a lot of you recognize that this is anti-trans ideology, I'm not sure it's well known how evil this is.

The pretext for banning them is that children shouldn't be able to make irreversible decisions about their bodies, but the entire point of puberty blockers is that they are reversible. When you stop them, you get puberty. And if you stop them when you go on hormones, you get the puberty of your choice. What's difficult to reverse is puberty! If the UCP really cared about what it says it cares about, it would be all in on puberty blockers.

My best friend is a trans woman. She grew up with divorced parents, had an abusive/alcoholic stepdad, went through university with spending levels that would qualify as extreme poverty, and do you know what her deepest trauma is? Male puberty. She wishes she had come out sooner and gone on blockers, because the permanent (or at least difficult to change) effects of male puberty on her body still cause her gender dysphoria.

F*** the UCP.

[Fuzz]

They want all Albertans to have the freedom to live how they tell us to live. That's what "freedom" actually means to them.

[Muta]

For self-proclaimed champions of small government and personal freedom, conservatives sure seem to spend extremely creepy amounts of time and energy pushing unnecessary legislation obsessing about what's under people's clothes, what's between their legs, what their crotches should look like, who kisses who, who needs to know, and what happens in people's bedrooms.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Muta

For self-proclaimed champions of small government and personal freedom, conservatives sure seem to spend extremely creepy amounts of time and energy pushing unnecessary legislation obsessing about what's under people's clothes, what's between their legs, what their crotches should look like, who kisses who, who needs to know, and what happens in people's bedrooms.

Gotta keep the people fighting amongst themselves so that no one is paying attention to the fact that they are selling us out to corporate interests and to make sure that we’re not united enough to do anything about it at the ballot box.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by SebC

Let me get on my soapbox about puberty blockers for a moment, because while I'm sure a lot of you recognize that this is anti-trans ideology, I'm not sure it's well known how evil this is.

The pretext for banning them is that children shouldn't be able to make irreversible decisions about their bodies, but the entire point of puberty blockers is that they are reversible. When you stop them, you get puberty. And if you stop them when you go on hormones, you get the puberty of your choice. What's difficult to reverse is puberty! If the UCP really cared about what it says it cares about, it would be all in on puberty blockers.

My best friend is a trans woman. She grew up with divorced parents, had an abusive/alcoholic stepdad, went through university with spending levels that would qualify as extreme poverty, and do you know what her deepest trauma is? Male puberty. She wishes she had come out sooner and gone on blockers, because the permanent (or at least difficult to change) effects of male puberty on her body still cause her gender dysphoria.

F*** the UCP.

I’m not 100% sold on puberty blockers. I think there needs to be more study of the small minority who go off them. Still, I can see how the positive outcomes outweigh any potential bad, and there’s no solid reason to ban them. It just plain bigotry.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

They want all Albertans to have the freedom to live how they tell us to live. That's what "freedom" actually means to them.

The only rights they care about are which ones they can restrict

[SebC]

As an addendum to my trans BF's story that she just told me today (which, by the way, I am sharing with her consent):

For medical reasons she's had to temporarily stop her estrogen. Having no hormones kind of sucks, effectively you go through menopause, so she stopped her testosterone blocker as well. She was also hoping that with testosterone some undesired hairs would go black so she can get them removed via laser. They didn't, and with just a few days of testosterone she's gotten some more fuzz that she's not happy about. She sees this experience as a warning of what might happen to her should she lose access to her treatments. Just a few days of testosterone is enough to negatively impact her.

[aaronck]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1839725137396150567

[GGG]

Bets on if this works better or worse than dynalife?

[Fuzz]

This is how AHS is getting dismantled. Piece by piece. Their won't be anything left but emergency departments by the end(and hell, even those could easily be sold to Covenant). She said she'd do this, and she's doing it. Hope you like the outcome. This is the end result of voting for the same stupid failure-bound #### for 40 years. Suck it, Albertans.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

This is how AHS is getting dismantled. Piece by piece. Their won't be anything left but emergency departments by the end(and hell, even those could easily be sold to Covenant). She said she'd do this, and she's doing it. Hope you like the outcome. This is the end result of voting for the same stupid failure-bound #### for 40 years. Suck it, Albertans.

Kyitty US style healthcare! Just what all Albertans deserve for electing the Wildrose.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

This is how AHS is getting dismantled. Piece by piece. Their won't be anything left but emergency departments by the end(and hell, even those could easily be sold to Covenant). She said she'd do this, and she's doing it. Hope you like the outcome. This is the end result of voting for the same stupid failure-bound #### for 40 years. Suck it, Albertans.

On the other hand when this fails miserably like the dynalife labs and the government has to buy back the clinics we actually decrease the private delivery of healthcare

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by GGG

On the other hand when this fails miserably like the dynalife labs and the government has to buy back the clinics we actually decrease the private delivery of healthcare

How many women are going to die in the meantime?

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Kyitty US style healthcare! Just what all Albertans deserve for electing the Wildrose.

Dude, ####ing stop it with the “kyit” god damn nonsense.

[puffnstuff]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5

A new peer-reviewed study found anti-trans policies increased suicide attempts among gender diverse teens by up to 72%.

This is what the ucp govt is ok with