Victor Villas

mostly inactive, lemmy.ca is now too tainted with trolls from big instances we’re not willing to defederate

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  • I shouldn’t get to say what the nut jobs believe it what they tell their children

    Verbal abuse and other forms of damage parents can enact by just “saying what they believe” are a mental health hazards. We as a society came to an agreement that parents don’t have the “liberty” of aggravating health issues on their kids. No one is forbidding parents from teaching kids to be creationists, but a kid suffering with gender dysphoria needs care and parents don’t have the right to deny that care.

    So the “(to a point)” is the crucial bit here, and it’s exactly that point where this discussion is centered.






  • If the headline is to be believed, then completely abolishing the Toronto police would have 0 impact on crime rates in Toronto.

    Did you even try to read the study?

    data on municipal police service expenditures from 2010 to 2021 in 20 of the most populous urban municipalities in Canada

    In 2019, police services were the top operating expenditure in a majority of the municipalities. Real per capita spending on police services increased in 16 of 20 municipalities from 2010 to 2020. Marked differences are seen in spending between municipalities: in 2019, in 2020 dollars, Vancouver spent $495.84 per capita, whereas Quebec City spent $217.05 per capita.