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19th May 2022, 15:35 | #5601 |
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Perhaps this is why their country is named as such. Bloody turkeys!
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20th May 2022, 14:36 | #5602 |
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Republican meltdowns when they lose are the best:
https://www.businessinsider.com/madi...rk-maga-2022-5
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20th May 2022, 15:03 | #5603 | |
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Entertaining but terrifying, those are familiar sentiments...
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20th May 2022, 15:52 | #5604 |
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Here comes the propaganda.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...2020-election/ |
21st May 2022, 00:19 | #5605 |
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FYI, this current "monkey pox pandemic" was wargamed in November 2021.
https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploa...-TTX_Final.pdf If you're dumb enough to fall for it this time, then oh my lord.
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21st May 2022, 00:25 | #5606 |
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Oh March 2021. The paper is from November 2021, as a result. Even better.
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24th May 2022, 10:39 | #5607 |
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This is an interesting one:
Seven years later, still no trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton Corruption in the US gets more and more bald-faced.
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25th May 2022, 13:45 | #5608 |
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Another school shooting in the USA, 18 dead so far.
Thoughts and prayers! |
25th May 2022, 13:54 | #5609 |
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"It needs to stop!" It won't.
"Enough is enough!" It's not. The violence hasn't come close to peaking.
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25th May 2022, 14:16 | #5610 |
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25th May 2022, 15:14 | #5611 |
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If Sandy Hook didn't change anything, this sure as heck won't.
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25th May 2022, 16:23 | #5612 |
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Auckland had 7 shootings last night.
Shall we repeal our right to .. no wait, let's make it a crime to... we need a register of... damn colonizers always spoiling it for people 150 years into the future!
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25th May 2022, 17:32 | #5613 | |
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25th May 2022, 17:49 | #5615 | |
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25th May 2022, 18:02 | #5616 | |
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Would it have taken minutes, hours or days for Labour to find all the people who missed out on care, all the clinicians who left the industry, once they entered power in 2017?
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25th May 2022, 18:04 | #5617 |
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If it takes an hour to burn a house down, it would only take an hour to rebuild it? And once the house is rebuilt, the consequences of being homeless would be wiped away?
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25th May 2022, 18:10 | #5618 |
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A growing emergency: Why are cops looking after mental health patients in crisis? (2017)
What an easy problem to solve, what have Labour been doing?!?11?
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25th May 2022, 19:18 | #5619 | |
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25th May 2022, 23:05 | #5620 |
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Cliff's Notes: The ellipsis indicates a pause in the statement, representing a thought process - a light bulb moment as the poster realises that the solution offered is redundant because it is already in place and has failed to prevent such an event from taking place. Finally the poster resorts to placing blame on an unrelated but often-used boogeyman, which serves as a "catch-all" for problems in society that seem too hard to solve. This is in contrast to America's seemingly "obvious" solution of either removing guns from society - which is a Constitutional cluster-fuck - or passing similar laws. The comparison is made to demonstrate that legal tweaks do not prevent unlawful actions. Laws are not commandments that are adhered to strictly, or restrictions on actions. They are only offences which are punishable once committed.
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26th May 2022, 10:22 | #5621 |
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The Texas governor is suggesting that mental health is behind the shootings, not guns (he is talking at the NRA conference on Friday.) He might well be right. But like in New Zealand, mental health resources in the US have been undermined in recent decades. In this case by the very same people who say guns aren't the problem and refuse the legislate background checks.
With the struggles with inequality and impunity that exist in the US I'm actually surprised we don't see more. But we will. Even if tomorrow the US government threw everything it had at resourcing mental health services, it would take decades for the results to fully manifest.
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26th May 2022, 15:24 | #5622 |
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I imagine that growing up in a place where you were at risk of violent bloody death even in your school classroom would have negative mental health outcomes.
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26th May 2022, 15:38 | #5623 |
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I've heard you can get prescribed opiates for that...
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26th May 2022, 18:42 | #5624 |
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So many new accounts on Reddit shilling for National right now.
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27th May 2022, 17:17 | #5625 |
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27th May 2022, 20:38 | #5626 |
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It's their job to protect and serve (the wealthy and their assets.)
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28th May 2022, 15:56 | #5627 |
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God bless America
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30th May 2022, 23:25 | #5628 |
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Child poverty at worst levels in 18 years - KidsCan
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/27/c...years-kidscan/ |
31st May 2022, 00:36 | #5629 |
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Choices have consequences.
Having kids is a choice. I won't let anyone forget this. People are a bunch of cunts, and I will use their arguments against them. Therefore, child poverty is a bad choice, that people need to live with.
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31st May 2022, 00:40 | #5630 | |
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Reproducing is a biological imperative. Sexual reproduction is a compulsion, not a choice. It takes insight and resources to avoid having children.
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31st May 2022, 01:12 | #5631 |
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The guy who is anti-rape is saying that sex is a compulsion.
Please be consistent. Either m0f0s have to control themselves, or it's just simple biology that we all do once we have white wees.
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31st May 2022, 12:36 | #5632 |
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Anyone here fuck?
I get it's real easy for some people to avoid pregnancy. The easiest thing in the world. Anyone here raise kids? Want to talk about the effort required instilling self-control in your children? Or do parents have no role to play in that regard? Either your kid is born with self-control or isn't?
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31st May 2022, 12:56 | #5634 |
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Yeah, we choose child poverty when we funnel resources into the hands of the few. And we need to live with the consequences of that. Indeed, we're seeing a lot of those consequences in the news lately.
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31st May 2022, 13:10 | #5635 | |
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31st May 2022, 13:14 | #5636 |
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It doesn't have to be so starkly delineated. Some people have only known hardship and will always be unconsciously aligning themselves with whatever they think might give them some relief. Fighting against what they can't align with.
And it's not like we don't know this. Those in the position to do so set things up to compel people to align with what serves and maintains that position best.
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31st May 2022, 13:51 | #5637 |
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Having kids should only be a privilege for the rich?!
Oh the Stockholm syndrome. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
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31st May 2022, 15:44 | #5638 | |
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"We" (as a country) choose /wealth inequality/ when we don't have leadership that prevents house prices from getting out of control. I will agree that this is a problem. We have provided incentives for people to treat housing as a "get rich slowly" scheme, and slowly the inequality grew. I will not dispute it's a shitty way to make money, and is causing problems. However, "we" (as a country) also provide the ability for people to have children they realistically can't afford if they CHOOSE to, with the "comfort" of knowing they will receive some support. There are approximately 350 000 families receiving WFF (based on income), and a further 66 000 parents on Sole Parent benefits (because they have to be the caregiver, and can't earn income). The Sole parents have an average of 2 children (bad decision? You already had no job or partner, although I accept the partner leaving can leave you a sole parent - bad decision to have children in a terrible relationship), and if we assume this 2 kids average to be true for the WFF families, which is fairly typical, we have roughly 800k children out of 1M in the country (a massive 80%) in a family receiving some sort of benefit because they don't earn enough INCOME (their spending is still their choice). There are also accommodation supplements to offset the "landlord effect". Yet 156k of children (~1 in 6) are classed as "in poverty" (below some fudged median of disposable income) BEFORE housing costs. That's not landlords. Including housing costs raises this to 237k. (~1 in 4). The difference can be blamed on landlords, granted. It is fair to assume that all of the children in poverty are in families with benefits, so [based on the average of 2 children] we can assume that 1 in 12 families/parents are in poverty BEFORE housing. Not landlords. 1 in 8 families/parents are in poverty AFTER housing. Terrible numbers - or are they? 4 out of 5 families receive money from the state to raise their children. Celebrate! We happily look after 4 out of 5 families, and the other family doesn't need it anyway. We've chosen, as a society, not to make having children a privilege of the rich, as fixed_truth alludes to, and something I never said or suggested. But that still means 1 in 8 families, or 12%, are making bad decisions (because there's an average of 2 children - what's wrong with one child? Or no children? Or spending less by making different decisions?). 1 in 12 (8%) are making TERRIBLE decisions that landlords have nothing to do with. 7 out of 8 families are doing "just fine" (for some definition of fine) in the same economy with the same cost of housing, being topped up to the same amount of minimum income (WFF). Obviously there is something different about the 1 in 8 families that are not fine. We've addressed it at a state/collective level as best we can - we're giving the same amount of money to every family that needs it. It's calculated per child, so the number of children is not necessarily a bad decision. If there's a cap on number of kids - it's obviously a bad decision to keep going. How they CHOOSE to spend their money is their RESPONSIBILITY. But, the fact that there is an average of TWO children per family receiving benefits implies they made at least one bad choice (to have children without sufficient means, but OK, we offer that as an option, and they took it), and then CONTINUE TO MAKE BAD CHOICES (spending) that keep them in poverty while others (7 out of 8, don't forget), in the same country with the same opportunities, same income, same cost of housing - are not. Sure, these families might not be living like the Kardashians - but they must have known children were expensive before they had them, otherwise bad decision. There's only so much we can blame on landlords, or on society not doing enough, before we have to admit that EVERY family is provided the same base safety net, and a minority (1 in 12) just can't fucking manage their lives. Some people are in poverty with the exact same resources in the same country. That's a spending problem, and not one that can be blamed on landlords. What more can we do if we don't even acknowledge the problem is individual choices?
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31st May 2022, 15:48 | #5639 |
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Of course, I realise I'm making an assumption. It's only people having hetero sex that would understand that getting pregnant isn't a simple choice. My bad.
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