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587 days. That's how long the Canadian healthcare system took to call me back about the spinal surgery I needed immediately or risk losing the use of my legs. In 2024, I broke my back in Singapore. The neurosurgeon there said surgery was urgent. After 3 weeks fighting my insurance from a hospital bed, I flew home with medical support. The Canadian hospital quoted an 8-month wait. I'm lucky I could afford to go private. The next day, I had the operation. Today, 587 DAYS LATER, the public hospital called to say they're ready for me. People say Canadian healthcare is free and great. It's neither. It's horrible!

@dreamtree444 @Mangini01 @TheEXECUTlONER_ Math is fun!

@Mangini01 @TheEXECUTlONER_ What utter nonsense. Millions of miles you say? I don't think so. Driving one million miles would take roughly 120 years. Adding 16 years before you can take a driver's licence exam, you'd have to be 136 years old and driving every minute of every day after that.

This guy is using the left hand lane , which is open. There is a mile long backup and everyone is over in the right hand lane. He drives all the way up until he has to merge. Some people are saying what a jerk he is for not getting in line like everyone else, but a great many people are saying that the cars in the right lane merged into one lane too soon and that if they had used the left lane, instead of being a mile backup it would have been a half a mile backup. What’s your take? Do you think he was correct in using the left lane and merging up at the front or should he have merged right and got in line way in the back like everyone else?

@Mangini01 @TheEXECUTlONER_ Why is the lane there then?

@TheEXECUTlONER_ He's a dick. If everyone were him you'd have the same problem only in left lane. I used to block those cock suckers when I drove truck

@TimeKillers @AnChiehYi @davidpattersonx What else should we charge % income for? A car? Groceries? Why is the government allowed to "charge" a rich person more for the same services?

"If everyone is equal, everyone should pay the same." Everyone is not equal. You can argue if someone benefits more from the system (more money) then their contribution should be higher than someone who is poorer. However, this should be balanced with incentives. This is why the progressive tax should be LOW. Joe Poor makes 60k a year should pay little to no tax. Joe Rich makes 600k a year, should pay more (never to exceed 22%)

If taxes were fair: You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax. Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax. Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you. If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.

@TimeKillers @davidpattersonx We are not talking about impact. We are talking about fairness.

@davidpattersonx $30,000 is far more impactful to someone making 100k vs someone making 10x that amount. Progressive tax is correct, but should be low. The poorest pay 0% The Richest pay 22% Never exceed 1/4 of someones income.

@simonmaechling Fear is not the opposite of trust.

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. It’s called chemophobia. And it’s turning scientifically illiterate panic into a personality trait. People are now terrified of: • “artificial chemicals” • molecules made in a lab • pesticides at parts-per-billion • ingredients they can’t pronounce Meanwhile they drink alcohol, inhale smoke, burn fuel, eat plant toxins and scroll on phones built entirely by chemistry. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Chemistry is not some dark force attacking humanity. Chemistry is: • medicine • fertilizers • vaccines • materials • electronics • clean water • food preservation • modern agriculture • literally your own body Without chemistry, modern civilization collapses frighteningly fast. And yet social media has convinced millions of people that “chemical-free” is a meaningful scientific concept. It isn’t. And when fear replaces chemistry, people stop trusting: • vaccines
• medicines
• food safety
• crop protection
• innovation itself A scientifically illiterate society becomes easy to manipulate. So yes - I will keep defending chemistry. Because chemistry is not the enemy. Chemistry is the reason most of us are alive long enough to complain about it.

@Dave_Eby @Josie_Osborne No surprise.

British Columbians are seeing women’s rights under attack in the US and they are worried about Trump’s copycats here at home. So let me be clear: our government is expanding the scope of practice for midwives — including the ability to prescribe mifegymiso, the abortion pill.

@Paul_provalone @WallStreetMav @simonmaechling That isn't how I work. Ad-hominem attacks and hasty generalizations take away from discussing the matters at hand.

@WallStreetMav @simonmaechling It is how science works. You collect evidence and trust the evidence. We have the evidence. You are still not trusting it. RFK Jr: “There is no vaccine that is safe and effective” Right wingers genuinely want you dead.

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

@WallStreetMav @simonmaechling Yes, I live when facts are constantly challenged.

@simonmaechling That is not how science works. It is not based on "trust". It is based on evidence. In recent years, many bad "scientists" let their political ideology get in the way of actual evidence.

@simonmaechling To trust me you must NOT trust what I helped you discover. The second you trust discoveries without question, I cease to be "Science" and become Dogma.

@JimmyGroot1 @_CryMiaRiver It is concerning that people would believe such falsehood just because someone claims that I said it! SMH!!

@_CryMiaRiver No studies required. This quackery never passed the smell test. Only progressives would ever consider this BS.

Every country or jurisdiction that has actually examined the evidence for paediatric gender medicine, seriously and rigorously, has changed course. Different healthcare systems. Different political landscapes. All reaching the same conclusion: this experiment cannot be allowed to continue. 17 systematic reviews have all concluded that the evidence for this treatment protocol is low to very low quality. And yet Canada’s federal and provincial governments — with the exception of Alberta — still fail to act. The time for looking the other way is over. Indeed, the very fact that Canada has looked away for so long is a national disgrace. My statement at the @May_Day_Canada press conference on Parliament Hill this morning

@AlbertaBound9 @_CryMiaRiver @KnightLegg They can deny me all they want. I am still here.

@_CryMiaRiver "Multiple European studies now show that trans activism calling itself ‘gender-affirming’ was extraordinarily science-denying, at a terrible cost to vulnerable children and their parents." From @KnightLegg

@TruthB0t_X @thehealthb0t Will you apply that logic to pro-v studies?

RFK Jr highlights a study done on the unvaccinated Amish Community by researcher Dan Olmstead. According to trends at the time there should have been 2000 cases of Autism. Yet only 3 cases were found. All 3 children adopted by the Amish after receiving their vaccines.

@VigilantFox Welcome to the Republican Party, Bill.

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

@JLazzy23 Not a goal.

There are going to be some crazyyyyy conversations about this tomorrow across hockey media. It’s easy to guess that it completely crossed the goal line, but there’s definitely no way you can tell for sure based on Jarry’s skate.

@JayGenXer Jay is just looking for new career ideas ;)

@UziCryptoo Would you trade income tax for property tax?

My home is paid off. My wife & I allegedly own it FREE & CLEAR. But today we got a bill for property taxes. If we don't pay it, ARMED MEN will come & take it from us & then cage me until I pay them MY MONEY. So do I own it? Am I really free? I already pay 35% income tax + easily another 15% taxes in: -Sales. -Gas & fuel. -Capital gains. -Plethora of other taxes. TAXATION IS THEFT. Property tax shouldn't exist.

@holisticgrenade Yeah, I didn't say any of that. Rumours work.

So according to the science: Aluminum in deodorant is bad, but aluminum in pharmaceutical products is good. Mercury in fish is bad, but mercury in pharmaceutical products is good. Formaldehyde in flooring is bad, but formaldehyde in pharmaceutical products is good. Glyphosate in food is bad, but glyphosate in pharmaceutical products is good. And most importantly, people who reject pharmaceutical products are bad, and people who gladly accept them are good. It almost seems like science will conclude just about anything as long as they profit from it.

@DrJoelGator It is logical if you assume individuals have no rights, and companies want to maximize profit.

Explain this to me because I’m trying to make sense of it… You can attend school with an active Hepatitis B infection… …but you can’t attend if you’re not vaccinated against Hep B. We’re told it’s not a meaningful risk in a classroom setting and casual contact.  So if that’s the case… why does opting out of the Hepatitis B vaccine become a barrier to school?  What’s the logic?

@hyperbornean @CristusVictor You've clearly never been there.

>go to ritualistic sacrifice pyramid >get ritually sacrificed In addition to the total lack of situational awareness, one should not tread lightly on a place so spiritually cursed without ever being reclaimed.