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[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 year ago (13 children)

“Save the children is basically a generic statement obviously,” lead convoy organizer Gordon Berry told PressProgress. “There’s a multitude of things you could be saving them from.”

Berry says the convoy wants to save children from the “human trafficking industry,” but also from “mandating the shots to kids and kids getting sick and frigging education and all the stuff they’re teaching them in schools and the trans agenda and the math agenda, gender dysphoria – all of these things.”

Oh, so it's mostly about being an anti-LGTBQ and education hate parade, with some flat earth and anti vax thrown in.

"Trudeau’s paying LGBTQ a million dollars"

Does he think LGTBQ is like a company or secret society or something?!

“You got to save them from the whole system.”

I can understand where he's coming from here, the system clearly failed him.

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The math agenda? What are the conservatives worrying about this week?

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had a very strange conversation a couple of years ago. It seems that some people think that math is used only as a tool to control the population or something.

We were talking about something that most people would consider pretty innocuous, catch and release fishing. I mentioned that I had recently read an article that claimed that mortality among released fish was still high enough that approximately every second released fish should be counted against your limit because of the percentage of released fish that die of catch-related causes.

That lit the other guy's hair on fire. "That's math! You can't seriously think that math is real? It's all made up!" (Or words to that effect. Mouth frothing removed to protect the innocent.)

Over the course of the rest of the conversation, I "learned" that math was invented as a tool of oppression. Science uses math to create fake knowledge. Our senses are the only true sources of knowledge.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

How to control a population 101:

Make them only trust their emotions.

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