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Gay Issues, Republicans, JP Morgan |
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I haven't done this for a while. In this post I will mostly rant about gay issues and republicans, so the usual topics.
It has been a big week for gay issues. North Carolina banned gay marriage (although you already couldn't do it so yay for productivity) and Obama has publicly supported gay marriage.
North Carolina, obviously full of complete assholes, let's move on. No, I'll make a few points: If you're opposing gay marriage on biblical grounds you should know that the bible also bans divorce, pre marrital sex and a whole bunch of other stuff that's perfectly legal. I think you can ignore the part saying marriage is between a man and a woman, just like you ignore the other stuff. Burnt any witches lately? That's also in the bible. Also if you god does not recognized gay marriages, all that means is that your god does not recognized gay marriages. Ask the gays if they care? Many will not give a flying fuck because they're atheists, me included. Let the gays get married, if your god doesn't recognize their marriages, so be it. They're not married in your god's eyes, whatever. Also part of the US constitution is the separation of church and state, not allowing gays to be married just because your religion says it's a no-no is surely inconsistent with the US constitution. What would your founding fathers say?
obama has now publicly supported gay marriage. Firstly I don't particularly like Obama, this does nothing to change that, but I will give him some points for this. I have serious issues with the Obama Administration like the killing of perhaps innocent people via drones, being weak on financial regulations and the health care bill, also the whole detainning American citizens indefinitely without a trial. My list goes on. Some question whether a republican would be better. My answer is fuck no! Half of the problems are due to the republicans. On gay marriage, I really don't give a flying fuck about why he recently publicly supported gay marriage. To me it's done, his motives are irrelevant. Some claim it's fund raising season, but gay rights organizations wouldn't support Romney, would they? NO! If he's appealing to gays and people who are passionate about equal rights, well good! I don't want Romney in the whitehouse so if they get out and vote for Obama, I don't give a flying fuck! Grand!
Rick Santorum is out of republican race, so is Newt Gingrich. I have no idea what happened to Ron Paul, he's as irrelevant as ever. Apparently some in Paul's camp are whining about voter fraud. (just because nobody votes for you does not equal voter fraud, it just means nobody wants you!) The Gingrich camp is millions of dollars in debt, which is certainly not a surprise when you look at Newt's past ventures. People were meant to trust Newt on the economy? Really? Newt has been involved with a string of bankrupted companies.
Anti gay therapy is now banned in california, I support this fully. It's been well proven that gayness cannot be cured, similarly straightness cannot be cured. It has been established that any attempt to "cure" homosexuality inflicts psychological harm which may lead to depression and suicide. This is cruel and unnecessary. While I try to support the right to do whatever whenever as long as it doesn't hurt others. Well this is hurting others, so I don't really need to justify myself further.
So we're left with Mitt Romney, famous for tying a dog on the roof of his car and now new revelations of him bullying effeminate guys when he was at school have come out. It was 40 years ago and the social climate was very different, so this is not terribly relevant. He claims to not remember anything of these incidents but says it was not because they were gay, which is at best an extremely, selective memory. Like I said these incidents are not terribly relevant, however in today's terms, he does not believe that gays should have the right to get married, so make up your own mind about it.
JP Morgan posted a 2 billion dollar trade lost recently, this isn't a surprise at all. Now I have heard they also made billions in profits so perhaps it's not that bad. I will point out that the Obama Administration have done a piss weak attempt at regulating the financial markets and there's over 44 trillion dollars in derivatives, the stuff that caused the 2008 collapse. So, good luck to everybody! |
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Attacks On Women, Trayvon Martin, Kony, Iran |
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Rush Limbaugh called a woman a slut and a prostitute for saying that women should get free birth control and if women want free birth control they should post porn on the internet. Uhhhhh why? Can't you find enough porn on the internet? If not, why not? And how much porn does one guy possibly need? It's funny how conservatives have a problem with solo mothers on benefits but don't want to pay for birth control, or let them have abortions. Funny how that works, isn't it? Rush later apologized, days later and only after sponsors were leaving his radio show, yeah I'm sure his apology was sincere.
There's a debate going on in America on weather a woman should be able to abort a fetus that has no brain. I am sorry, why are people debating this? What is the pro life angle? There is none, or if people claim there is, it's official they're just making crap up. How can it be a pro life issue? A fetus without a brain cannot be considered alive, because it has NO BRAIN. Anyone expecting a woman to carry a fetus to term that has no chance of being alive when it's out is either very stupid or a complete sadist. Why is this even an issue? Americans debate the stupidest things. Apparently women should give birth to babies with no brain because a farmer has to deliver farm animals that don't survive. Hmmmm small thing, we have ultrasounds for fetuses, I highly doubt that farmers ultrasound chickens. I mean really, this is what politics is like in the US.
Trayvon Martin was gunned down by the head of a neighbourhood watch group George Zimmerman. He wasn't armed; he was black. I am not saying that this was the reason for the killing but it sure as hell looks like it. It all started with a call to 911 reporting someone \'suspicious". What was suspicious about him? Who knows? The police told George not to approach him; George did, and George shot him. Further 911 calls by others suggest frightening screams which ended with gunshot. Doesn't sound like self defense to me. What's worse is the police haven't arrested the caller. Uh why? There is no evidence I can see for self defense; this man should be tried for murder. HE SHOT SOMEONE! Throw the book at him, throw several, in fact throw an entire library at him. Unless of course he can prove it was self defense. I don't like his chances considering the victim was unarmed and and probably screaming, but that's for a jury to decide.
Geraldo Rivera, a commentator on Fox News, (yeah this can't be good) suggests that he shouldn't have been wearing a hoodie, because people associate hoodies with robberies. This is a classic case of victim blaming. So if a person wears a hoodie; they should really consider the fact that people find people wearing hoodies dangerous because bank robbers wear hoodies on TV? Right, no FUCK FOX NEWS, they're horrible cunts.
So Kony 2012; do I support it? I support the cause, I do not specifically support Invisible Children. I have trouble supporting anything that has ties to a government that proposed a law to execute homosexuals. One thing that I will also note that a good portion of their funding is by anti gay groups. I don't have a problem with only 31% of their funding being used on the ground, as TheYoungTurks point out, their more of an awareness group, some of their funding goes to film production and the fact is charities have expenses. However charity rating agencies do not rate them highly. My problem is that this sort of thing in Africa has gone on for years, When was the concern then? This may be just a passing internet fad, people will probably forget the whole thing in a year or two.
IRAN IS DEVELOPING A NUCLEAR WEAPON LET'S BOMB THEM! Here's the thing, Iran IS NOT developing a nuclear weapon, it does have a nuclear power program. There's a massive war mongering campaign going on. They did the same thing in 2003. IRAQ HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, LET'S BOMB THEM! Sounds familiar, doesn't it? This is the exact same thing. The reality is that there is no reason to go into Iran. Iran is not the type to launch a nuclear weapon even if it was developing one, again it is doing no such thing. All these sanctions are doing is making matters worst. |
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Australian Politics, Costa Concordia, Republicans, Gay Marriage |
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Julia Gullard lost her shoe running away from an Australian Day protest. It wasn't planned Tony Abbot AKA "the shit happens guy" fucked people off when he basically said there was no need for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. This guy obviously enjoys putting his foot into his mouth. He does it often enough.
Another example of Tony Abbot putting his foot in his mouth is he made a joke about the Costa Concordia sinking. He said "Well that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn't it," HAHAHA funny Tony.
This flows on to my next topic; the Costa Concordia sinking. Now who was the first person on the lifeboat? A woman? A child? The sick? The disabled? No! The captain! Apparently he fell in. Oh right, so he's not a fucking coward that literally jumped ship, he just fell into a lifeboat, yeah completely believable.
Back to Australian politics for a minute. Kevin Rudd; former Prime Minister resigned as Foreign Minister and is going to challenge Julia Gullard for the role of Prime Minister. I don't think that he has a hope in hell in succeeding simply because he doesn't have the party support. That said; I really don't like Julia. She is an atheist but is against gay marriage, so fuck her! Kevin would be the preferably option.
To the republican race again: Basically it's now between rich fuckwit Mitt Romey and homophobic fuckwit Rick Santorum. Ron Paul didn't have a hope in hell and nobody the negative advertisements keeps getting Newt Gingrich. Newt says building a moon colony will be a priority for him if he is elected president. Yeah, how about we cure cancer and global warming first? Spending billions of dollars on space missions really isn't a good idea when so many Americans are living in poverty, just my opinion. Mit tied his dog to the roof of his car. Now there's a "dogs Against Romney" site, which I find hilarious! Oh Mitt also stated that he likes to fire people. Yeah, at the time that Americans are worried about the economy and JOB SECURITY, this is probably not the best statement, in fact it's fucking stupid! Finally homophobic fuckwit Rick Santorum keeps winning primaries. He is a very knowledgeable man, and by that I mean a fucking pinhead! He thinks that 10% of all deaths in Netherlands is from euthanasia and half of those are involuntary. As usual with republicans, what they say isn't true at all. In 2010 2.3% of all deaths were from euthanasia. They also have a very strict process to ensure they don't kill people against their will. Out of 2,667 deaths, only 9 had doctors that didn't follow the procedure. So congratulations Rick Santorum: You're an idiot. Oh his claim of residents having "Do Not Euthanize Me" bracelets, also not true, at all.
While Chris Christie vetoed a gay marriage bill in New Jersey, the supreme court in California struck down a gay marriage ban. Newt Gingrich abused the court. This coming from a guy with three marriages, and he doesn't want gays to get married, sounds a bit greedy me. ALL THE MARRIAGES ARE MINE! MINE I TELL YOU MWHAHAHA! Unlike Newt; I applaud the courts for upholding the rights of the people and making gay marriage one step closer. |
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Whitney Huston, Cher, Chris Brown and Rihanna |
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Whitney Huston died, from drugs, YEAH SHOCKING! I loved her music personally but remain fucked off at her for cancelling a concert in New Zealand. I was shocked to learned that she died however I was not surprised at all to learn how she died. When I saw her death announced on the TV I immediately said to my boyfriend OD. (As in overdose) I was not far off. 48 is too young to but with heavy drug use, what do you expect? She fucked her voice with drugs too, she sounded like absolute shit by the end. Once was greatness, slowly ended in tragedy, sad.
Bill O'Reilly used her death to explain why we need to keep the drug war going. Well Bill, I've got news for you. Whitney Huston died from LEGAL DRUGS not ILLEGAL DRUGS., Furthermore people can overdose on alcohol and even caffeine: a person died after having 17 energy drinking. Cigarettes; a completely legal and highly addictive product kills millions every year.
More proof that Kim Kardashian is an idiot, she tweeted about Cher's death, only problem was Cher wasn't dead. Stupid fucking bitch. Generally it's a good idea to verify deaths before tweeting them to millions of followers, just saying!
Chris Brown tweeted that winning a grammy was the ultimate FUCK YOU to his haters. I'm a hater, and can't really say I give a fuck about him winning a grammy. Objectively he has talent and if he wins awards, that is not really my concern.
Rihanna is releasing songs with Chris Brown; you know the guy who used to BEAT her. Obviously they are doing this for attention. As stated before, I HATE Chris Brown and love Rihanna's music, however after this move I do think less of Rihanna. Beat your women, make money by releasing songs with her. Yeah, great message there! I still love Rihanna's music but now not that keen on Rihanna herself. Doesn't really matter. I really don't give a flying fuck what celebrities do, they both can go fuck themselves as far as I am concerned. By the way; Birthday Cake is a shit song. It just sounds like generic dubstep, and if I wanted to hear that, I'll just listen to the awesome Nero. |
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Republicans, NDAA, Casey Anthony |
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I am loving the race for the republican presidential candidate, the people are just soooo easy to make fun of. This shit writes itself. Newt Gingrich thinks that the Palestinians are "invented people". They can be traced back to 500 BC, yeah over 2,500 years of existence just screams out "invented people". Another candidate reminded us that Newt introduced a bill in the nineties that would have sentenced some drug users/sellers to life in prison or death. Furthermore he has a genius idea for education, fire most of the janiters and pay the poor kids to clean their own school. Ummmmmmm just one small thing, the kids are there to LEARN, not work. This will probably draw attention and ridicule from the other students, not a good idea. Look if kids want to work and earn money it's really not up to me to say they can't, (paper deliveries etc) but doing it in this way is unacceptable. Replacing adults with kids when there's already few jobs is nonsense. I am really not convinced that anybody would willingly work at their school if they're not completely desperate or otherwise pressured, this is exploitive. There is a reason child labour laws exists. Children are not mentally fit to sign contracts or understand them.
The first round of the republican caucuses occurred (Iwoa) and that was enough for insane lunatic Michele Bachmann to go home. Here at News Pooze, we're just devastated! WE LOVE YOU MICHELE! You stupid fucking bitch! This woman must stay in the limelight. I beg you America; don't let this woman disappear!!! She is a comedian's wet dream. Too easy to make fun of. Missing you already baby!
It looked liked Rick Perry was out of the race but he's staying in. Um why? His campaign has been one disaster after another. Anyone with a brain would know he can't win, so naturally he thinks that he can win.
Good news for Americans; the new National Defense Authorization Act allows the US government to indefinitely lock up its citizens without trial if they suspect they are terrorists. What is a terrorist? Who knows? That is conveniently up to the US government. Oh but don't worry Obama has written a little note to say that his administration won't be using the powers to indefinitely detain its citizens. Yeah, that is not a lot of help if he loses to a republican this year, or he changes his mind. Why aren't there massive protests over this? Are Americans really that dense? Obviously the answer is yes...
Can Americans please shut up about Casey Anthony? I just don't care about this woman. Now media in this country has not covered Casey Anthony much, they cover other stupid shit. If I was in America I am sure that I would be pissed about media coverage of Casey Anthony months ago. So she neglected her baby and got off relatively easy. OK I understand, but bottom line the prosecution fucked up by not giving lesser charges an option. It's wrong but that's life, let's move on. She may or not have neglected her baby which may have resulted in its death. Yes sad, but there is no reason to be dwell on it. Americans have bigger problems than some woman roaming the street. Shut up and move the fuck on. |
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Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum |
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Rick Perry released an advertisement saying that he thinks that there's something wrong with America when gays can serve in the military. OK that's what's wrong with America; gays having equal abilities to get jobs in the military. Here's me thinking it was the economic collapse, high unemployment and the trillions of dollars of debt but no it's the gays, THE GAYS!!! The stupidly of the advertisement doesn't end there; he goes on to say that children can't celebrate Christmas, children can't pray in school and Obama has a war on religion. Who is preventing kids from celebrating Christmas? No fucking body, that's who! Children can't pray in school and this impacts on their religious freedom, only, this is not true at all! Children CAN pray, it is teacher lead prayer and compulsory prayer that is not allowed. Not everybody is a Christian you know. As for Obama's war on religion; are we really taking anything Perry says seriously at this point? Obama is a Christian! Who thought that this advertisement was a good idea? It is filled with absolute dribble! This sounds like it could have been written by Fox News with its "Liberals are waging a war on Christmas" crap. Why is this idiot even bothering to run after such an embarrassing performance at a debate a few weeks ago? He could not name one of the three branches of government he'd get rid of, pretty fucking important information don't you think?
Herman Cain has quit the republican race. Perry should follow in his footsteps. Cain had drama due to sexual harassment complaints against him or something, I don't know, I'm not interested. Cain is an idiot, no big loss there! He's famous for his 9-9-9 plan which basically raises taxes for the lower and middle classes while lowering taxes for the rich, so fuck him!
Rick Santorum; another idiotic republican presidential hopeful thinks the US should significantly cut its food stamp program because people are obese. No really, he said this. Aside from the obvious stupidity and insensitivity of the statement, the cost of the program is riising because of rising food prices and high unemployment. Why doesn't he propose to do something about those things? You know, help the poor instead of punishing them. |
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Anti bullying, Conrad Murray |
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So some dumbass fuckers in Michigan are working on a anti bullying bill but want to make an exception for religious speech. So it's OK to bully someone if it's part of your religion. No sorry, fuck this shit. Let's consider the fact that homophobic bullying comes from religion; how the fuck would this help a victim of gay bullying who might commit suicide? Is the purpose to protect kids or protect religious bigots? Doesn't this defeat the fucking purpose? Sounds like these politicians are part of the problem rather than the solution. Fuck these people.
I've looked up news on the bill again and the religious exceptions have been removed.
Conrad Murray was sent found guilty of manslaughter for giving Michael Jackson an overdose. Yawn. I don't really care. This story really doesn't interest me for some reason. One thing that is worth asking is: Why wasn't Michael Jackson given addiction treatment? Surely someone in his life would have noticed his problems. Is this a case of isolation or stubbornness? Perhaps both. Conrad Murray must shoulder some responsibility but I just don't think he is the be all and end all for this. Michael Jackson was under the influence of addiction, it takes over. Is he blameless though? Perhaps not entirely, although I could be wrong. It is a tragedy that his addiction was supported by other people and wasn't stopped. Is having money in this situation an advantage or disadvantage? Perhaps a disadvantage if you could pay people to do things that is not in your best interests. This death is more complicated than blaming just one person, maybe my disinterest in the conviction comes from this. Murray shouldn't have acted the way he did and I think that he took advantage, but if it wasn't him, I'm fairly sure that it would have been someone else. |
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Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, SOPA, Muammar Gaddafi, Rapture |
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Why do I know about Kim Kardashian's divorce? So she had a 72 day marriage. Shock! Horror! No, I don't care. SHUT THE FUCK UP! Why are some people upset about the supposed attack on the institution of marriage? Firstly the institution of marriage is pure bullshit anyway, it's all in your head. It doesn't really exist. Other people's marriages have fuck all to do with you, they can treat them how they like. Fuck up about it. There's bigger problems than a 72 day old marriage. This is exactly what's wrong with the world. People worrying about stupid shit that has nothing to do with them. Secondly FUCK KIM KARDASHIAN. I don't know much about her other than she's a talentless rich bitch whore off some reality TV show. I don't like her. I don't want to know about her. She has no relevance to me. Shut the fuck up about her. I'M TALKING TO YOU MEDIA! There was a interview on the news for fuck sake.
A woman is claiming that she has had Justin Bieber's baby. Obviously she is just attention seeking. I'm just jumping to the worst conclusion just because I can. Pifft I don't really care about this story. Weather JB had a baby is not really my concern. Good luck with child support bitch!
Finally something substantial to rant about; the online world is pissed about a copyright bill with good reason. This bill named the Stop Online Privacy Act makes it a crime to stream unauthorized content and creates an internet blacklist. I think I have ranted before about how blacklists are pointless and will be abused. Making streaming a crime, same thing, it will be abused by corporations. Unauthorized streaming of content is surely a civil matter anyway, just like any copyright infringement offense should be. A five year prison sentence for streaming is over the top. This ultimately means internet users will seriously have a think twice about what they put online as this effects many other things that I have not mentioned here such as YouTube videos. This has been conveniently packaged as saving and creating jobs however as always this is really about making more profits for the upper Hollywood executives. I am pretty sure that hindering creativity is not the best way to create jobs, in fact it will probably do the opposite. Enabling creativity is extremely productive economically especially at a time when routine jobs are being taken over by machines.
Muammar Gaddafi is dead, he was hunted down and murdered. Normally I would complain about the lack of a fair trial but I can't say I really care about it. I know I am supposed to be a liberal and caring and shit but for a guy who waged war against his own people. Yes ideally he should have been dragged through the courts as everybody she was otherwise it is a slippery slope. I could understand why a citizen would want to do that. Does it make it right? No. What's done is done. How unliberal of me!
Yay the earth didn't end or rapture on October 21. FUCK YOU HAROLD CAMPING! |
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More examples of why US politicians are fucked up |
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Ugh, I don't think I have ever been so horrified reading a story. Apparently to prevent an "economic crisis" Topeka, Kansas have stopped prosecuting domestic violence cases. So now people can legallly physically abuse their spouse! How do I possible continue writing about this? This is fucking horrible. I really don't need to get into why! What's next? Ignoring murder for economic convenience? Domestic violence does lead to murder on occasion. Who the fuck came up with this? Do they not care that this could lead to people being murdered? This is beyond fucked up.
Sticking with crazy US politics. Some politicians want to make discussing doing drugs in other countries that are illegal in the US illegal. Regardless of their legal status in the country you would do them in. So you could be arrested for planning to do illegal drugs. Interesting enough the actual doing the drugs on foreign soil wouldn't be the crime, the actual planning to do the drugs would be. This is an expansion of the war on drugs. This is just silly, I fail to see how someone doing drugs on foreign soil is the concern of the US government. Actually I fail to see how people doing drugs anywhere is the concern of any government but that's simply because I find drug laws counter productive, hypocritical and just plain moronic.
Alabama's over the top anti-immigration laws came into effect this week which has resulted in a mass flee of illegal immigrants including many many worker's. In some cases businesses have been left with only a third of their employees. Don't worry. I am sure that the private prisons would be more than happy to full employment spots, in fact that has already been suggested. These prison workers get less than $2 an hour, sometimes MUCH less. So the employers would effectively go from exploiting one set of workers to another, great. |
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Steve Jobs, Palin, Fat Tax, Speech, NZ Idiots |
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Well unless you have been living under a rock this past few days you would know that Steve Jobs died. Now I feel bad about abusing him on here a few weeks ago. Pifft, no I don't! I still hate Apple and not very fond of Steve Jobs either. I respect the fact that he's a technology pioneer and all but meh, I am already sick of hearing his name but I always feel the same way with any high profile death. Steve Jobs made a big impact on people's life. I used Apple/Macintosh computers for over a decade. Do I feel a connection with the Steve? No. Well I hated the products, but that's not the point.
Rupert Murdoch is touched by the messages left for Steve Jobs on the iPhone 5 prototype.
I realize that many people admire Steve Jobs, but I do like fucking people off in bulk.
Sarah Palin is not running for president, yawn! Who the fuck didn't know that apart from her delusional fan base? This is not news! I just assumed she forgotten about being president. I did not get the impression she was serious this past few months. Apart from her campaign bus what effort has she put into the role? Palin is a media whore, not a politician. Kind of like Donald Trump with breasts.
Denmark implemented a fat tax. Good! I personally think that this makes perfect sense. The worst food groups should be taxed just like alcohol and cigarettes. We could put the money into the health system to make it more efficient and cheaper. No it doesn't solve the problem, it's not about that. It's more of a contribution.
Italy is debating a law that will force contact creators to post corrections if they say bad things about other people. Meanwhile in the US; Democrates want to make laws to combat cyber bullying, trolling and general mean comments on the internet. Guess I'd be fucked then. Their proposals are all kind of crazy. They actually want to make free speech a privilege not a right. This is a bad idea, a free society requires free speech. There are already existing laws to tackle harassment and hate speech likely to cause violence. Cyber bullying would come under harassment. What would be useful is more resources, support and solutions for the victims. Regulating speech is not the answer and will only lead to massive abuses by the powerful and corporations, you're an idiot if you think otherwise.
It's time for another edition of why New Zealand is fucked and I have absolutely no faith in this country. 30% of people care more about the outcome of the rugby world cup than the outcome of the election. Let's see on one hand you have a sporting event. On the other you have an entity that has strong influence over health, education, laws, policing, the economy. Hmmmm I can see why that's a tough choice. I am not sure why people complain of being treated like morons, if they really are morons. STOP BEING FUCKING MORONS! Is it any wonder that the world is so fucked up when there is so much disconnection. |
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