@zzypt I'm a pensioner, I would like to pay less tax. However I would also like to live in a country with functioning public services and with infrastructure that isn't decaying. More importantly I would like to see societal results for paying so much tax. #NeverVoteConservative#GE2024
What are your thoughts on self-diagnosis being belittled by many in the autistic community?
For clarity, I’m not asking to start a debate, just a genuine discussion. I currently don’t have the option to get a diagnosis, but feel fairly confident that the research I’ve done over the past year and a half has been legitimate and credible.
I don’t feel comfortable saying that I am definitively autistic, but I am ok with saying I’m “self-suspecting.” #actuallyautistic@actuallyautistic
@chevalier26@actuallyautistic sounds to me like you are trying your best not to offend officially diagnosed people, by identifying as self-suspecting. Not sure where you are, but in the UK it is difficult to get diagnosed without money for a private assessment. Self-diagnosis or (parent diagnosis, for children) is all that can be done whilst waiting four years to get to the top of the NHS waiting list for assessment #NeverVoteConservative#NeverVoteTory#toriesout
“Those are the real dividing lines, but the more #ResourceDependent a given riding is, the more likely it is going to be susceptible to #Conservative messaging.”
Ford government uses new powers to sidestep Toronto’s say in Ontario Place plans
As a result of the zoning order, Toronto city council will no longer be able to weigh in on technical elements of the project as it does on other buildings that go through the local planning process.
This situation, to me, really showcases the #GOP/ #conservative mindset: they clearly don’t believe the rules should apply to them, and when the law actually does hold them accountable they look for loopholes and workarounds to allow them to keep doing the thing the law tells them they cannot do.
These folks should never be put in charge of anything.
The Tories have spent the last 14 years in Government perpetrating scam after scam to pour our taxes into the pockets of their cronies who've taken everything, delivered nothing & scarpered.
Even if a future Government tried to recover the money, many of the companies that received millions from the the public purse have been wound up, some owing HMRC vast sums in unpaid taxes.
As the number following this path increase, it might make you wonder if it's part of a plan... #NeverVoteConservative
@Crispius That quote is particularly ironic given that #Poilievre hasn't worked a day in his entire life. Which raises the obvious question — where did his $25 million in net worth come from? #cdnpoli#NeverVoteConservative
When a leader tells you he wants to be a dictator believe him.
"Love the idea or hate it, experts say federal use of notwithstanding clause would be a bombshell"
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"I will be the democratically elected prime minister, democratically accountable to the people," he said. "And👉 they can then make the judgments themselves on whether they think my laws are constitutional, because they will be."👈
[not the courts!!]
@Snowshadow@gemelliz The GOP operatives and corporate lobbyists running the Conservative Party in Canada are not even bothering to alter the American fascist playbook for Canadian purposes. A dictator is a dictator.