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Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence (www.cbc.ca)

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How the fuck this guy will be able to be the next PM ? Claims like this are so stupid

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[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 69 points 4 weeks ago

This is nothing but Trumpian pandering.

[-] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago

Out of the pandering they do this is probably the most dangerous one.

Christians aren't inherently bad, but Christian who thinks the Bible says Trump is a good person is a real problem.

Christian nationalism is making a real strong comeback and somewhat overtly so culture wise like clothing and media.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

How? Cause bumble fuck morons in rural areas have the reading level of a 2nd grader and can't figure out when they are being lied to.

Edit: to be clear, im not saying all rural folks are dumb. Im saying the ones who happen to be dumb got us into this mess

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago

I know city raised folk that are just as dumb. It's all about being brainwashed to believe bullshit from the time they're hatched. By the time they can make decisions on their own they all think they're part of some magic christian hogwarts world.

[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 weeks ago

That’s the end goal of religion.

Religion is poison and poisons everything it touches.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

I've lived in rural Canada and the majority of the people I knew were as dumb as a bag of hammers.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 weeks ago

Two of my grandparents and both my parents are survivors of residential schools run by Catholics .... and I saw the last of Catholic run day schools when I was a kid ...

From my own and my family's experience .... CHRISTIANS are historically the perpetrators of hate-based violence in Canada.

Anyone who thinks they are gods children are mistaking them for a bunch of brain washed idiots.

Poilievre can get fucked.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Being born in to a white Christian household I'd like to offer my own family perspective on this... yeah, it's the same... we are the baddies. As a "christian" I have never once felt persecuted, only embarrassment of this new found Christian nationalism that seems to be rising all over. I'm done with the church entirely.

Why does Pollivre think people want to whitewash history? Yeah, it's not a good thing, but it's even worse to try and pretend a bunch of bad shit didn't happen. If you support this you are the problem.

Shame on Pollivre.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 weeks ago

What a fucking idiot.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago

Ok so journalists will Press him on this. Right? They'll press him right?

[-] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 weeks ago

Are they allowed to talk to him? He's probably too busy chewing his apples.

[-] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

His selectiveless in speaking to the media has seemingly made journalists go easy on him in interviews from what I've seen.

Not sure if they're screening the questions or the people know they're not getting another interview unless they feed him some softballs.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago

Can we put to bed the idea he'd have been harder on Trump when he's literally reciting their talking points.

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.social 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Persecution fetish

[-] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

he's pushing the conservatives to feel like the conservatives in the US so they'll act like them

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah every Easter I see so much terror being done to them. During December the country doesn’t go into Christmas stuff.

Just remember there is no more hate than Christian love.

[-] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 weeks ago

That's a hell of a magic trick. Pierre's lips move and Trump's voice come out.

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 weeks ago

Well, having been raised in a pseudo Christian home I did grow to really hate the religion. But somehow I don’t think that’s what he means.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

It concerns me how many Canadians I see on the normie web mock Americans for Trump when you got this MCGA threat looming.

Much of what's happening to America now is because too many people thought "that could never happen here". Don't repeat our mistakes, Canada.

[-] thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm a contractor that goes to tons of houses every week. The Maple MAGA crowd hasn't gone away, they're just quieter now with all this 51st state BS. I used to have to deflect a ton of MAGA propaganda when i went to customers houses, now people seem to just turn off FOX news when i walk through the living room, or test the waters with vague comments about Carney. I try to steer the conversation away from politics and towards literally anything else. Pro tip, people love talking about their pets.

[-] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It checks out when you recognize that he panders to people who believe being slightly inconvenienced or inclusive of others is to have violence done against them.

I don’t even think he believes this himself. He just knows the people who he wants to vote for him instead of Bernier believe it.

[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago

I listened to him saying that and the first thing I thought was it's an intentional dog whistle to all the Christian nationalists, white nationalists, and residential school deniers who hold onto the churches burned in the summer of the Kamloops residential school news as a point of grievance.

Talking about churches being attacked across Canada one day before NDTR just screams that he wants to play upon those grievances and feed into those narratives which are also closely tied to great replacement narratives and the superiority of white Christian civilization that Charlie Kirk and his movement were also all about.

It's really gross, disturbing, and dangerous. Not only is he spouting utter lies, but he's willingly feeding the flame of far-right white Christian nationalism.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, clearly he's still being pulled around by his right flank. So far that hasn't worked out so well in the actual elections.

[-] marcela 4 points 4 weeks ago

Somewhere I read that the concept of anti-christian bias can, and will, be used just like antisemitism is, as a broad moral justification for annihilating leftists. Didn't hold much water when Trump signed his "antichristian bias" EO, but after the most recent events (Catholic church, Kirk, Mormon church), they are bound to dial up this angle. Also queer people: christian nationalists consider gay rights as a direct attack to their faith.

This is why your comment is the only one here that is worth responding to. The rest indulge themselves in a self-righteous and false sense of superiority. They make the same mistake with Trump, failing to see through the fuckery, and realize the consistent strategy of the christian nationalists backing him.

[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

It is being used that way now. The danger is rising quickly, and it's not just south of the border. It's here, and there are groups working to advance it and trying to leverage it for their own benefit. The warning lights should be flashing for anyone paying attention.

[-] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 4 weeks ago

Perpetrators*.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Mini trump

[-] vinceman 5 points 4 weeks ago

Somehow with even less charisma

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

Must be a leadership review coming up. Pandering to base.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

Balderdash!

[-] OliveMoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Poilievre refuses to get security clearance. What is he hiding??? Poilievre refuses to get security clearance. What is he hiding??Poilievre refuses to get security clearance. What is he hiding??? Poilievre refuses to get security clearance. What is he hiding???

[-] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, that's why you never see any churches anywhere. Oh wait, you do - everywhere.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

What a weenie.

[-] OliveMoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

All political people that live off our tax dollars should have to get security clearance!!!

[-] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Dude talks about nothing except the the most mind-numbing culture war crap you find on the darkest pits of Facebook. He can't talk about his policies because the only thing he believes in is more corporate tax cuts and deregulation, which is the same shit Carney is doing. Very sad state of affairs for both parties! VOTE NDP!

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

Always the victim

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

Gaza is completely crushed to ruble, but Christians are recovery the biggest victims in the world.

This guy needs to fuck off, seriously. I hope he gets reincarnated as every one the people he's saying have it worse off than objectively the wealthiest and most powerful religions in the world.