Offensive and Ridiculous

You can't stop cons from saying stupid things.

Conservative MP Mark Gerretsen’s statement made comments challenging the Morgentaler decision—the Supreme Court ruling that decriminalized abortion in Canada. Poilievre leads the increasing influence of christian reactionary conservative forces attempting to undermine fundamental rights.

When words cease to have meaning, the conversation itself loses relevance. What we are witnessing is a deliberate effort to distort discourse—weaponizing misinformation, cognitive violence, and outright fabrications to force oppressive ideology into policy.

1. Freedom of Speech vs. Manufactured Reality

Freedom of speech does not extend to the right to fabricate reality or to distort historical and legal truths to justify oppression. The conservative playbook is built on forcing ideological control through rhetorical deception, shifting discourse away from facts, and towards manufactured outrage.

This is not a debate. There is no legitimate question regarding the right to abortion in Canada, just as there is no legitimate question about whether human rights should be conditional. Allowing “both sides” to be entertained when one side’s argument is based on fabrications is an act of complicity.

The smug ignorance of christo-fascist conservatism is killing us all.

2. Weaponized Inoculation & Social Terrorism

• Weaponized Inoculation describes how reactionary forces co-opt the language of rights and freedoms to dismantle them. They inject just enough plausible deniability into their rhetoric that they can claim “reasonable disagreement,” while actively working to erode established rights.
• Social Terrorism explains how these actors rely on fear, misinformation, and relentless repetition to exhaust public resistance. If they repeat the lie often enough, people begin to entertain it simply to keep up with the conversation. This is how cognitive capture occurs—making the indefensible seem like a legitimate policy debate.

3. What Needs to Be Done

We must cut this cancer out of society before it metastasizes further. That means:

1. Rejecting false debates. Do not engage with fabricated premises. The right to bodily autonomy is not up for discussion. Speak in the language of reality.
2. Calling out cognitive violence. When rhetoric is designed to undermine reality, it is a form of psychological and social assault.
3. Building counter-narratives. We must reframe the conversation—not as a “debate” on values, but as a struggle against disinformation and authoritarianism. This starts by recognizing the funded, directed terror for what it is.
4. Imposing consequences. Institutions, media, and the public must refuse to platform those who engage in bad-faith discourse.

All members of government need to stop speaking to social media, and start speaking to policy.

The word "preborn", in particular, is one that should be debated - and determined if its use in policy discussion is acceptable.

It must defined, so that when it's used, we all know why, and to whom it's speaking. It's not speaking to policy. It's not speaking to me. It's not speaking to any rational capable person.

There are words we use to describe the scientific and social aspects of the conversation of abortion. Preborn is not one of them. Define it. Own it. So that we know exactly what you mean.

We need to stop allowing fascist ideology to hide behind co-opted, meaningless words. Those words only find leverage where we allow them to find a crack.

We are watching hundreds of years of effort, sacrifice, and suffering be made worthless in a week, as the foundations of the US turn to powder. It's the same plan here.

This is not about “stopping conservatives from saying stupid things.” This is about refusing to let lies shape governance. We don’t need a government that passively allows fabricated narratives to infect policy. We need one that prioritizes truth over manipulation, and recognizes that democracy cannot function in an environment of deliberate disinformation.

We can cut this out of our society—by making it politically and socially impossible for these tactics to succeed.

A real time fact check buzzer/alarm that goes off when there is deliberate misinformation, or imprecise language?

Demand clarification. Codify interpretation. Review. Test. Prove.

There is no parallel reality.

Stop letting them pretend we're living in theirs.

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Thanks!

B

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to fabricate reality. When lies shape governance, democracy dies. Stop entertaining bad-faith debates.

PS -

I'm curious what you think of JKerr's question.

Is there enough of an answer here to start the conversation?

ben@proconsul.ca