Matisyahu's Blog

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Politics

  • No, things weren’t perfect before 2016.

    In the wake of recent events there appears to be a narrative doing the rounds by prominent liberal talking heads making out that they’re shocked as if this was the first and only case of politically motivated violence in the United States. This is the same sort of deliberate ignorance of history that far too…

  • Concentration of capital leads to political capture.

    For a long time I’ve considered myself centre left primarily because I would consider my position on social matters being that of a civil libertarian but my economic position was a mixture of moderate to centre left – basically a social democrat. Long story short, there is the old saying that you become more conservative…

  • Some random thoughts.

    I went for a short walk after work today because light rain started and I wanted to avoid getting stuck in a downpour like what happened a few months ago when I thought that some drizzle wouldn’t turn into heavy rain. I came back and had a small snack – a tuna, rice and beans…

  • A good start to the week.

    I woke up this morning just before midday and headed down to Awanui Labs which does the blood testing – the test was for liver function and blood sugar to see how things are progressing. I’ve continued losing weight since my last blood test so hopefully that should translate to better blood test results but…

  • Because they never really believed what they said.

    I was watching a video from David Pakman today regarding: Let’s face it, the people who used ‘don’t tread on me’ and ‘you take take it from my cold dead hands’ rhetoric along with the usual spiel about ‘big government’ were never sincere declarations of deeply held beliefs – how do we know that? these…

  • A chilly day today and even chillier night.

    I slept in today and when I woke up…it was chilly and it is really chilly at the moment with the temperature sitting at 3°C so I’ve decided that I’ll stay at home, keep myself warm rather than risking the cold weather but end up getting sick as a result. I really was hoping that…

  • I needed that walk after today.

    One of the things I hate about working in customer services are people who use us as an emotional sound board because god forbid taking responsibility for decisions they made. After dealing with a few of those I went for my usual 11.6km walk tonight to work it out of my system so then I…

  • Dealing with misinformation and disinformation.

    Over the last 15-20 years there has been cottage industry of people and/or organisations spreading disinformation and misinformation which is then amplified not only by a large network of bots but people whose first reaction is ‘like first, ask questions never’ because it happens to tickle lizard brain. Unfortunately such an environment has had catastrophic…

  • End of the week.

    Sunday is the end of the week for me and the beginning of my weekend. Tonight I went for a 14.2km walk because it stopped raining so I thought I may as well take advantage of the good weather given that these days the weather is unpredictable resulting in days of raining without any rest…

  • Relaxing at home.

    Finished the first season of Paradise and funny if there appears to be a good amount of overlap that I see with Silo and Fallout along with a few other dystopian films I’ve watched in the past. It’ll be interesting to see how it developers going into the second season how it develops particularly when…